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Another Black Lives Matter Activist Dies In Apparent Suicide

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Edward Crawford, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, died earlier this month in what police are calling an apparent suicide. The 27-year-old was the subject of an iconic photo from the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Trymaine Lee (@trymainelee), national reporter with NBC News, about the string of deaths among Black Lives Matter activists.

This segment aired on May 18, 2017.

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