A year after the death of Michael Brown,Ferguson, Missouri was thrust back into the national spotlight, and filtered through a lens of déjà vu: state of emergency,police aggression, arrests. But this spike in media serves as murky reminder, and for residents of Ferguson and Saint Louis,that attention is not only transient, but often misguided. Brooke speaks with Saint Louis-based writer Sarah Kenzidor about how this week was "a rerun of a nightmare, and " and what the media consistently miss.
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