Rachel and her husband adopted Marcus out of Guatemalan foster care as a 7-month-old infant and brought him home to Lansing, Michigan. With a round face framed by a full head of dark hair, Marcus was giggly and verbal learning names of sea animals off flashcards, impressing other adults. But in preschool, Marcus began
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The Black Lives Matter movement gained mainstream acceptance last year, but it has struggled to channel that visibility and funding into meaningful change. Dueling police reform bills are still stuck in the U.S. House and Senate, some veteran civil-rights figures are wary of the movement s call to defund the police, and it was left out of a post-election civil-rights roundtable with the new administration. Meanwhile, critics sympathetic to its goals worry that the group s leaders are too focused on Washington, arguing that state and local officials have more power to change police departments and funding