
Above: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street after a demonstration in Ferguson on August 17.
Above: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street after a demonstration in Ferguson on August 17.
Americans are so accustomed to speaking about civil rights as an historical era
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The protests in Ferguson, Missouri mirrored images from the Civil Rights Movement 50 years earlier. But that’s where the similarities ended.
I recently returned from Ferguson MO. as a participant with the Black Life Matters Coalition representing the Black Workers Center and the Black Community Clergy and Labor Alliance.