The North Star with Shaun King

The North Star with Shaun King

Married to the Movement Ep. 2 – How #BlackLivesMatter Almost Destroyed Our Family

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Shaun King
Feb 26, 2020
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In the summer of 2014, when I learned of the brutal public lynching of Eric Garner on the streets of New York at the hands of the NYPD, it changed my life. I stopped everything I was doing to not just begin covering the injustice, but to organize and fight for justice.

That story has been told, but the story that has not been told for the past 6 years is…

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