By: Teddy Grant The father of Mike Brown Jr. is asking the Black Lives Matter organization for $20 million to help fund work he and other activists do in Ferguson, Missouri, according to Yahoo. Michael Brown Sr. and Tony Russell, a local community organizer who co-founded the International Black Freedom Alliance, said that they’re holding Black Lives Matter “accountable,” after reports that the organization received $90 million in donations following last summer’s social justice uprising in response to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. “The movement that has catapulted into the limelight has forgotten about Ferguson and the freedom fighters” Russell said in a video posted to […]
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