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Social media has never been more important to black Americans than this week

July 10 2016

In the wake of the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, social media seems to be the only real, useful form of 911, suggest Josh Horwitz and Marta Cooper in Quartz. “The videos that have circulated on social media of police brutality make these horrific events at distant places feel real for everyone.”

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