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Throw a brick through a window or some form of civil disobedience. you see peaceful negotiations, people trying to go about it the right way. >> this point of disruption, jacquie feels critical to me. at every point movements that made a difference had to disrupt. >> that's right. i like to call it an ethical spectacle. and one of the things that i'm loving about the young people that are leading this movement, the young queer black people, the amazing activists, they're showing us prophetic grief, so they took their rage,hey took their disappointment, they took their anger, they went to the s...

Watts and new orleans. we were all back in selma marking the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act, so much of which changed the country. you look at selma itself a place of economic and racial disprivilege. after this nacent black lives matter movement begins in ferguson, whether or not ferguson has changed the rest of the country but not itself in the sense of being able to do it right there locally. >> right, right, so there have been a lot of municipalities and cities across the country that learned from the lessons of ferguson from last year, but unfortunately many ways ferguson and s...

Hundreds of years of exploitation on black bodies in this country, some people are waking up. the black lives matter movement, the new one, the last two years is waking people up in america and people are being confronted by racism that they have never been confronted with before in america, never, not this way. in your face all the time, on the tv, every tweet, everything goes out. we're forcing people to wrestle with it, to deal with it, to look at you in the eye. i think things are moving and i hate seeing pictures of people dying, sandra bland being pulled out of the car makes me sick. the...

In ferguson this morning. one year ago today ferguson took its place among the definitive spaces in the struggle for racial justice when the shooting death of michael brown prompted a movement to articulate and amplify a call for change. following the weeks of chaos, activists called for action and institutional reform, from both local and national government officials. over the last year, some of their agenda items have been realized, meaningful changes in ferguson. others remaybe unaddressed. last hour we talked about one of the biggest checkmarks on their list, the demand for the departme...

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...