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The death of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot dead by a police officer, reverberated from the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to the White House, igniting two weeks of protests and stirring a national discussion on race and policing in America.
Thousands are expected to pay their respects to Brown on Monday at a Baptist church in St. Louis, with the assemblage anticipated to include everyone from Trayvon Martin's parents and Martin Luther King Jr.'s son and daughter to Snoop Dogg and Sean "P Diddy" Combs.
For his parents, the service at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church will be both very public and intensely personal — their chance to say goodbye to a son whose death made him household name.
Read more http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...owns-parents-brace-funeral-call-peace-n187951
Thousands are expected to pay their respects to Brown on Monday at a Baptist church in St. Louis, with the assemblage anticipated to include everyone from Trayvon Martin's parents and Martin Luther King Jr.'s son and daughter to Snoop Dogg and Sean "P Diddy" Combs.
For his parents, the service at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church will be both very public and intensely personal — their chance to say goodbye to a son whose death made him household name.
Read more http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...owns-parents-brace-funeral-call-peace-n187951
