Time Magazine’s annual Person of the Year has been revealed. So have the runners up.
Calling it “A New Civil Rights Movement,” Time awarded second-place to The Ferguson Protestors.Â
The streets of Ferguson are mostly quiet now. The movement has migrated. #Blacklivesmatter has been joined by #icantbreathe—Garner’s final words before he died on that Staten Island street. Protesters chant both while marching through Times Square in New York City and Public Square in Cleveland. These are the sounds, activists say, of a new civil rights movement—a battle to reshape the relationship between the police and the people they are paid to protect. What started in a Missouri suburb may end with change that can be measured in lives saved.
And Time awarded its Person of the Year to The Ebola Fighters.
The choice is always controversial. Third place went to Vladimir Putin, who won first place in 2012.Â
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