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Ferguson, Missouri Two Years Later

We look back at the shooting that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

Aired 08/11/2016 | Rating NR

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Ferguson, Missouri Two Years Later

Clip: 8/11/2016 | 1m 54s

We look back at the shooting that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

In Ferguson, Missouri hundreds of people gathered this week to mark the two-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer. Brown’s death sparked protests all over the country. It also fueled the movement known as Black Lives Matter. We talk with Pastor Traci Blackmon of Christ the King United Church of Christ in suburban St. Louis.

Aired 08/11/2016 | Rating NR

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