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Daily Video August 12 2014

Why we still need Freedom Schools, 50 years later

Half a century ago, students and local organizers banded together to fight to end segregation and discrimination against African-Americans in the United States.

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Daily Video August 12 2014

Anger and unrest in Missouri after police kill unarmed teenager

Witnesses say that Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old from a suburb of St. Louis, did not resist officers and put his hands over his head even as he was shot repeatedly.

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