Community center in Ferguson already paid for

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(AP) – The new Ferguson Community Empowerment Center is now open
for its first day, and it’s already paid for.Several hundred people turned out Wednesday for a ceremony marking the opening
of the $3 million center that will house offices for the Urban League, Salvation
Army and other services. It was built at the site where a QuikTrip store was
burned during rioting in August 2014 after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown,
a black, unarmed 18-year-old, by white Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.

Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing and later resigned, but the shooting led to
scrutiny that revealed racial bias in Ferguson’s criminal justice system.

National Urban League President Marc Morial calls the new center a “powerful
first step” in helping the St. Louis suburb that’s still mending from unrest
over Brown’s death. The center was built with donations from several businesses
and organizations, including $1.4 million from the Salvation Army.

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