A year since Ferguson, what has really changed?

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Marches, prayers and a moment of silence are planned on Sunday in Ferguson, Missouri, to mark a year since an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer, sparking large protests and a national debate on race and justice.

Protests began Saturday, when one group barbecued a pig onto which they had placed a police hat before offering its roasted head to officers at police headquarters.

The shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014, thrust Ferguson, a mostly black St. Louis suburb, into the national spotlight and sparked months of protests, including incidents of rioting and arson. It also gave life to a new movement under the "Black Lives Matter" banner, and spawned demonstrators determined to push for better treatment of minorities by police.

Some changes have been made in the year since Police Officer Darren Wilson shot Brown: President Barack Obama proposed a plan to spend $263 million on improving community policing nationwide, the city of Ferguson drastically overhauled its municipal court system, and the media redefined the way they cover police brutality.

Not all changes have been positive. So far this year, 24 unarmed black men have been shot and killed by police — one every nine days, according to a Washington Post database of fatal police shootings. 

Michael Brown's father, also called Michael, said nothing much has changed for him over the last year. "Nothing, for me. Some families got justice through Michael Brown's legacy, and that helped them. But I'm still trying to get through." 

Huffington Post takes you down Twitter memory lane, as news of Ferguson started sweeping the internet one year ago.

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Ferguson isn't the only anniversary this weekend. Seventy years ago this Sunday, on Aug. 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, obliterating much of it and killing 74,000 people, mostly civilians. The attack on Nagasaki came three days after US bomber Enola Gay dropped a bomb on Hiroshima — history's first atomic bombing. The twin bombings dealt the final blows to imperial Japan, which surrendered on Aug, 15, 1945, effectively ending World War II.

Perhaps the most lasting impact from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been to deter other countries from using the atomic bomb during warfare. Seventy years since Nagasaki also marks 70 years since the atomic bomb was used in warfare — though the US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea have collectively conducted around 2,000 nuclear weapons tests since 1945.

Even Japan, which has essentially based its economy and military on a pacifist constitution since the end of WWII may now expand its military. Abe has faced criticism for recent attempts to allow his country's so-called Self-Defense Forces to engage in combat — in defense of an ally which comes under attack — for the first time since the war.

At a memorial for those killed as a result of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Abe took pains to prove he was still on point with the spirit of the memorial. He promised that Japan would continue to abide by its long-held principles: not producing, possessing or allowing nuclear weapons on Japanese territory. "As the only country attacked with an atomic bomb in war, I am renewing our determination to lead the global effort for nuclear disarmament, to create a world without such weapons," he said in his speech.

Strange but true:

What's Sunday without your daily dose of Trump? Don't answer that. 

Embattled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is under fire for criticizing Fox anchor Megyn Kelly during and after a debate on Thursday night for candidates seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Asked about Kelly on a CNN interview Friday, Trump said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."

What does that even mean? Your guess is as good as ours. Trump says his comments were misconstrued as a reference to menstrual blood or hormonal activity and called that interpretation "deviant." He said he meant to say "nose, ears" and was implying that she was angry. "She asked me a very, very nasty question," he said on ABC's "This Week."

In the ABC interview, Trump insisted that no apology was necessary and defended his relations with women. "I've had such an amazing relationship with women in business. They are amazing executives. They are killers. They are phenomenal."

Nevermind his history of flippant misogyny, courtesy of the Washington Post.