Micheal Brown unmuted himself, looked into his laptop camera, and began to speak to the 3,000 classmates, staff, and faculty who had joined Stanford University’s ‘Campus Community Vigil for Black Lives’ live stream on June 5. A virtual ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner provided his background as he challenged the gathered community, his deep voice wavering with emotion:
“Acknowledging and engaging with Black pain is difficult but necessary for us all to move…