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Where the Flames of Righteous Anger Burned
Ferguson
Empowerment
Center rises
M arc h. M orial
Three years ago this
month, a police officer
in Ferguson, Missou-
ri, fatally shot an un-
armed, black 18-year-
old named Michael
Brown. The anger and unrest
sparked by that shooting came
to be symbolized by the image
of a burning convenience store
on West Florissant Avenue. And
it presented one of the greatest
challenges of his career for Mi-
chael McMillan, who’d been
appointed President and chief
executive officer of the Urban
League of Metropolitan St.
Louis just a year before.
Last month, hope rose from
the ashes as Michael McMil-
lan and I opened the National
Urban League Conference with
the dedication of the Ferguson
Community
Empowerment
Center, built upon the founda-
by
tion of that convenience store.
I could not have imagined a
more appropriate way to mark
the opening of the National Ur-
ban League Conference, or an
event more representa-
tive of the work of the
Urban League Move-
ment.
After
Michael
Brown’s tragic death,
activists and advocates
from across the nation,
activists and advocates con-
verged upon Ferguson, rightly
and justly bringing the eyes
and ears of America to focus
on a violent injustice. When
the marchers and the protestors
had moved on, it was the Ur-
ban League of Metropolitan St.
Louis, under McMillan’s out-
standing leadership, who went
to work, literally building upon
that foundation.
Where once the flames of
righteous anger burned, lives
will be transformed.
The building is shared by
the Salvation Army and the
Urban League of Metropolitan
St. Louis, and will house the
Urban League’s Save Our Sons
program, is one of the most suc-
cessful job placement initiatives
anywhere in the nation. While
in St. Louis, I had the pleasure
to meet Willard Donlow Jr.
A little over a year ago, the
35-year-old found himself in a
deep depression. A single fa-
ther, newly divorced, he had
lost his job. He was praying
for a way out. And his prayer
was answered. Through Save
Our Sons, he learned how to
find a job and keep a job. He
learned new computer skills,
how to craft a resume, how to
network, and how to present
yourself in the right manner at
an interview.
Just three days after com-
pleting the program, he was
offers a job, and he’s hard at
work redeveloping abandoned
buildings here in St Louis. Join
me in congratulating Willard
Dunlow.
Lives are being transformed.
As part of the opening cere-
monies, we dedicated a memo-
rial to Michael Brown. The con-
crete slab into which a bench
and plaque are set is flecked
with pink, orange and yellow.
These colors are the shreds
of 100 stuffed animals, left as
part of a makeshift memorial in
the middle of the street where
Brown died. The Urban League
of Metropolitan St. Louis kept
the offerings in storage when
the street had to be cleared.
The plaque reads, “This
bench and decorative concrete
base commemorate the social
justice, change and movement
towards a more just society that
came about after his death. This
base contains pieces of his me-
morial in the Canfield Green
Apartments complex brought
by people from all over the
world.”
The Ferguson Empowerment
Center stands as a tribute to the
Urban League Movement’s
mission to create a more just
society, and the young men
whose lives will be transformed
there will be a testament to that
mission.
Marc H. Morial is president
and chief executive officer of
the National Urban League.