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Black Lives and the First African American President

RSA Journal, 2018
Focusing on #BlackLivesMatter, this article examines African Americans’ campaigns against police brutality and for racial justice during Barack Obama’s second term.
Stefano Luconi
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Black and Blue: Black Women, ‘Law and Order,’ and the Church’s Silence on Police Violence

Religions, 2021
During the mid-twentieth century, many southern White religious leaders proudly championed police brutality and other forms of state-sanctioned violence against Black citizens.
AnneMarie Mingo
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T. J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Panorama, 2019
in my view, the most compelling cultural work is that which explores and develops modes of ecology-as-intersectionality, wherein political ecology links with Indigenous and/or queer rights activism and/or movements against police brutality, media ...
T. J. Demos
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND NONVIOLENT PROTEST MOVEMENTS: A CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF THE ENDSARS MOVEMENT

International Studies Journal, 2023
The use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were pivotal in the EndSARS protest against police brutality. It is a strongly held view that what is aired by the media during conflict often serves as one of the instruments of ...
Olaoluwa Babatunde OYINLOYE, Adeshina Iyanuoluwa OMOTAYO   +1 more
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Patterns, Costs, and Implications of Police Abuse to Citizens’ Rights in the Republic of Zimbabwe

Social Sciences, 2018
The Police play a key role in maintaining law and order and safeguarding the security of the nation and its citizens. To enable them to discharge their constitutional mandate, they are entrusted with powers such as the power to arrest, detain, search ...
Ishmael Mugari, Emeka E. Obioha
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Race and Police Brutality: The Importance of Media Framing

International Journal of Communication, 2017
This article explores how the framing of a violent confrontation between a White police officer and an African American woman affects people’s perceptions of the incident.
Kim Fridkin, Amanda Wintersieck, Jillian Courey, Joshua Thompson   +3 more
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A Convergence of Crises: Sudden Employment Loss and Black Lives Matter Protest Attendance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Socius
The Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s murder during the summer of 2020 demonstrated an unprecedented scale of mobilization against police violence.
Katy Habr, Hannah Pullen-Blasnik
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  Police Response to Uncivil Anti-Police Protests

Political Philosophy
Recent literature in political philosophy has argued that protesting against police brutality can permissibly involve uncivil conduct, including damage to property and confrontation with police officers.
Avia Pasternak
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Teaching in Grief: Critical Reflections, Redefining Justice, and a Reorientation to Teaching

Radical Teacher, 2016
Since the creation of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, many scholars from historically underrepresented communities have revisited discourse on social movements.
Heather Cherie Moore
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Creating Racial Structural Solidarity

Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric
This article draws on recent transnational protests against police brutality to advance an understanding of anti-racist solidarity that aims to improve over Mara Marin’s ‘structural solidarity’ view.
Antoine Louette
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