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When police stop Black men, the effects reach into their homes and families

  • Written by Deadric T. Williams, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee
imageBlack men are stopped by police in disproportionate numbers. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images

While much of the world was sheltering in place in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans’ undivided attention was focused squarely on Minneapolis, Minnesota, where George Floyd was killed at the hands – and knees – of...

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