08/09/2026
Twelve years ago, on August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr. was killed in the street in front of his own neighbors. He was 18. He had just finished high school and was two days from starting college.
What followed in Ferguson wasn't just protest, it was testimony. Neighbors, mothers, clergy, and young people stood up and told the truth about what policing and disinvestment had done to their community for generations. That truth-telling is where this organization began.
Twelve years later, the work hasn't changed: witness what happened, name what's still happening, and build the repair. Not charity. Not a moment of silence and moving on. Repair, restitution, accountability, and a real accounting of harm, carried forward by the people closest to it.
We hold Michael Brown Jr.'s name today. We hold his family, who have carried this for twelve years. And we hold everyone still doing the work of turning grief into organizing.
Rest in power, Mike Brown. The truth continues.