watts and new orleans. we were all back in selma marking the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act, so much of which changed the country. you look at selma itself a place of economic and racial disprivilege. after this nacent black lives matter movement begins in ferguson, whether or not ferguson has changed the rest of the country but not itself in the sense of being able to do it right there locally. right, right, so there have been a lot of municipalities and cities across the country that learned from the lessons of ferguson from last year, but unfortunately many ways ferguson and surrounding mun pass have not yet. these things never happen quickly. those of us out here last year knew we were signing up for the long haul and the year s long battle and movement here and so i m excited about some of the
and anger and used it in a creative manner, we need to find a creative way of solutions for these problems. exactly. protesting and all that is cool but we need to start finding solutions. my favorite idea of the week if you end up watching this film together with all of the candidates on the left and the right, democratic and republican party, i will man, that would be some kind of excitement. gentlemen, these guys have been a riot. thank you. coming up we ll go live to ferguson, missouri, one year after the death of michael brown. there s more mhp show at the top of the hour. love loud. live loud. polident. number 1 dentist recommended.
in ferguson this morning. one year ago today ferguson took its place among the definitive spaces in the struggle for racial justice when the shooting death of michael brown prompted a movement to articulate and amplify a call for change. following the weeks of chaos, activists called for action and institutional reform, from both local and national government officials. over the last year, some of their agenda items have been realized, meaningful changes in ferguson. others remaybe unaddressed. last hour we talked about one of the biggest checkmarks on their list, the demand for the department of justice to investigate the shooting and broader claims of police civil rights violations. the report effectively ended hopes of one of the movement s most immediate demands for the prosecution of officer darren wilson. after a grand jury decided against dpimt the doj concluded
progress that has been made, most excited about the activityism which gives me hope that we ll push through and better our community because of it. mark, let me come out to you. the last time you were here we were talking about baltimore. your beloved city exploded talk to me how ferguson and the black lives movement formed what happened in baltimore since the death of freddy gray. as we speak there are 15 people from baltimore city now in ferguson. the family of tyrone west or freddy gray, activists working to meet the folks from ferguson. what spawned is an organizing movement. black lives matter is only two
planned. we ve also heard there are some direct action protests over the course of the next couple of days that we should be expecting? they are keeping a tight lid on what they want to to. we expect acts of civil diso disobedien disobedience, meshing the two movements together with black lives matter and many members of the clergy leading the actions. we expect dr. cornell west to be in town speaking to many of the issues. we see members of the clergy also leading training courses for folks here, learning how to de s skrat any situations if they get in any tense clashes with police. they emphasize they want folks to deescalate any type of situation so that they keep the movement and the message forward without anything cluttering that message. thank you to msnbc s amanda