23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com

Whose Streets? Documents the Uprising That Birthed the Black Lives Matter Movement

Connecting Ferguson to Charlottesvilleby Steven Hsiehspan class="dropcap"> In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer fired six shots into Michael Brown, killing him. Locals swarmed the residential street where the 18-year-old's body lay for more than four hours. Brown's mother wailed at an officer who told her to settle down. A vigil became a protest, which became a battleground, which became history.In Whose Streets?, filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis offer a definitive ti
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