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What Black Lives Matter means beyond policing reform

  • Written by Garrett Felber, Ph.D. Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan
imageRiots in Harlem, 1964Wikimedia Commons

After the killing of five police officers in Dallas last week by a lone gunman, where does the Black Lives Matter movement go?

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza answered this question, saying she anticipated that the Dallas shooting would “create the conditions for increased security,...

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