Mike Brown Jr’s murder and the uprising it inspired cracked open a period of organizing and protest that boldly aimed to end the reign of police terror in black poor and working-class communities around the country.
But in the years since Mike Brown was murdered and the streets of Ferguson, Missouri erupted, police across the United States have killed more than four thousand people, a quarter of them African American.
Five years later, do Black Lives Matter? Confronted by an array of internal and external obstacles, the movement has stalled even as a white supremacist rules from the White House.
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