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Really, really important for activists all over the country to really reflect over the times that we have right now, and also remain strong because it's going to be a long, long time before we get the freedom that we want. >> mark, you've been engaging about as long as lewis in the moments, we love having you here because of the stories you tell and i keep thinking we could this without saying when someone abuses you, when you're in fear for your life, these are real traumas and lasting ones. >> they are real traumas. anybody who went through the civil rights movement, i was arrested, beaten b...

All of which tells us that if the past year provided proof that this movement is effective, the present reminds us that it is also still essential. joining me now is mark steiner, host of "the mark steiner show" and founder of the center for emerging media. philip goff, professor of social sigh kohl at ucla and president of the center for policing equity and reverend dr. jackie lewis, and in ferguson i'm joined by antonio french alderman, 21st ward. alderman french can you help me, if you had to say in ferguson one year later how would you characterize it? >> i'd say the main difference is tha...

Progress that has been made, most excited about the activityism which gives me hope that we'll push through and better our community because of it. >> mark, let me come out to you. the last time you were here we were talking about baltimore. your beloved city exploded talk to me how ferguson and the black lives movement formed what happened in baltimore since the death of freddy gray. >> as we speak there are 15 people from baltimore city now in ferguson. the family of tyrone west or freddy gray, activists working to meet the folks from ferguson. what spawned is an organizing movement. black l...

>> so just, again, we have about 20 seconds, tell me how this movement is different. >> i mean, it walks different. i'm on national tv with a bunch of tattoos on my hands and my ball cap backwards. the voiceless would still be voiceless. we would not have any space or capacity to be heard whatsoever. and i think in the wake of this anniversary, we should remember that. >> thank you so much for joining us. and here in new york, thank you to mark steiner and dante and the reverend dr. jacquie lewis. up next, remembering michael brown.

Brown, community organizer, mark steiner and lester expense, associate professor of political science at johns hopkins university and author of "stare into the darkness the limits of hip-hop and black politics." so you've been on the ground organizing. i'm certainly not trying to incite more calls for a riot but i'm trying to complication this idea that only sort of peaceful marching in line is the only thing that ever brings social change. >> right. i think that this question of nonviolence versus violence the analysis is often a false framing, right? i think it's sometimes to die cot omize p...