Annissa McCaskill remembers exactly where she was when she heard about Michael Brown. “I was home on a Saturday folding laundry and I opened up Facebook and I saw an image of a body laying,” she says.

An international human rights commission is investigating the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., the Black teen whose 2014 death became a catalyst for the racial justice movement. Brown’s ...

Dorian Johnson was shot in a domestic incident, 11 years after Mr. Brown’s death in a confrontation with a police officer led to nationwide protests. By Christine Hauser Dorian Johnson, who was with ...