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          Lezley McSpadden recounts what happened that fateful day two summers ago in her autobiography, "Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil".

        1. Lezley McSpadden recounts what happened that fateful day two summers ago in her autobiography, "Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil".
        2. The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden—the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson.
        3. Lesley McSpadden is the mother of Michael Brown, the slain Missouri teenager who was killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
        4. Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown, helps lead the "Justice For All".
        5. When he was twelve, his parents had split up.

          6. Lesley McSpadden is the mother of Michael Brown, the slain Missouri teenager who was killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.!

          On the day her son Mike Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson police officer, Lezley McSpadden was filmed by a swarm of TV cameras, distraught in her husband’s arms.

          Stories and analyses about the family’slifesaturated the news. Now McSpadden has published a memoir, Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life and Legacy of My Son Michael Brown, sharing the story of her son and her own upbringing (both painful and joyous).

          The books traces the course of her pregnancy at the age of 16, two abusive relationships with the fathers of her four children, struggles with poverty and low-wage service work, but also finding fulfillment in her family and solace in therapy surrounded by the company of other mothers who have tragically lost their children to police and vigilante violence.

          Broadly spoke with McSpadden about her new book, her deceased son (whom she calls Mike Mike), her relationship with the police and her raw cameo in Beyonce’s Lemonade.

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