Remembering Michael Brown: Why black youth are branded as criminals
- Written by Carl Suddler, Visiting Assistant Professor of Black American Studies, University of Delaware
Two years ago, on Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African-American teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Two years have passed since the recent high school graduate was denied the opportunity to begin his next stage of life: college.
Brown was often described as a “gentle giant.&rdqu...
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