Year after death, Michael Brown lies in relative obscurity

Monday, November 30, 2015

NORMANDY, Mo. -- Michael Brown once told an uncle the world would know his name one day, and he was right. Fifteen months after the black 18-year-old's killing by a white Ferguson police officer made him a key figure in the debate over the treatment of blacks by U.S. law enforcement, however, Brown lies buried in relative obscurity.

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