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DeRay McKesson will meet you On the Other Side of Freedom

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DeRay McKesson.
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The noted activist's new book makes the case for hope.

Of activism and imagining.

DeRay McKesson, September 20th 2018

After police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson Missouri erupted into ground zero for Black Lives Matter protests. One of the figures of that movement was DeRay McKesson, whose blue vest and Twitter documentation became touchstones of the Ferguson story. Now Deray has written a book called On the Other Side of Freedom.

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