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Black is Back was formed in the aftermath of Barrack Obama's election, when many liberal "peace" groups abandoned antiwar protest because there was no longer a white GOP President. This year, the Back is Black march on the White House explicitly demanded "Peace through Revolution" in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and so many other police murders.

On August 9 in Ferguson, a small suburb of St. Louis, a cop killed Michael Brown firing 6 bullets into him: this young black man, unarmed, with his arms raised in the air, had made the mistake of not responding to his order to walk on the sidewalk. Michael Brown was left like a dog in the street for several hours without even his parents allowed to come close to his body.There was generalized outrage at this crime among the population and successive violent protests for ten days.