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How the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter

  • Written by Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
imageA still image captured from a video from the Tulsa Police Department shows Terence Crutcher with his hands in the air. Tulsa Police Department Handout via REUTERS

Police killings of African-Americans on social media have become the visual hallmark of our time. This decade will be recalled through blurry cellphone and dash-cam videos of shootings....

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