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Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson: “Protest is speaking the truth out loud.” S02EP20
DeRay Mckesson and his instantly recognizable blue down vest have become synonymous with advocacy for victims of police violence and an end to mass incarceration.
A civil rights activist, community organizer and former middle school teacher, DeRay came to national prominence as a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter Movement when he documented – and participated in – protests following the deaths of unarmed black men by police or in police custody in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.
With his one million twitter followers, a best-selling book (“On the Other Side of Freedom: The…
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