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Shaun King Raises Awareness About Issues Marginalized Communities Face

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Shaun King first rose to prominence alongside the Black Lives Matter movement after utilizing Twitter to share details about the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. At the time, King, a former pastor turned journalist and activist, had 100,000 followers, but now he counts more than a million.

King’s mission is to raise awareness about the issues within marginalized communities face. In the past year, King has amplified stories about racism at Starbucks and the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, along with one about a police officer’s sexually assaulting a Texas woman during a traffic stop that proved to be false.