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How Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter taught us not to look away

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imageKen Kendricks Jr puts his hands together in prayer at a makeshift memorial to Michael Brown on August 22 2014. Adrees Latif/REUTERS

One year ago, on August 9 2014, then-police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Wilson estimated during the grand jury hearings that the entire incident...

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