Ferguson in Context

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 19, 2014

Ryan Reilly, Huffington Post justice reporter, reports from Ferguson (where he was arrested last Wednesday) on the latest street protests and police response. Then, Peniel Joseph, professor of history and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University, and author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama and Stokely: A Life, discusses the parallels between protests in Ferguson and other demonstrations throughout history -- including ones from the height of the Civil Rights movement, and what he describes as the "generational divide" in leadership between past and present.

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