![]() ![]() They also ask why it took a live video portraying deadly violence to elicit the kind of sympathy and outrage that would shift our national conversation on race. In assessing the history of George Floyd, for example, Hill and Brewster weigh the downward trajectory of his life against a discussion on the nation’s history of slavery and the advent of Black separatism and social reform movements. The authors look at our current culture of citizen surveillance and the “ubiquity of video evidence of racism,” scrutinizing a series of timely examples of racial confrontation captured on camera. Hill, the host of BET News and Black News Tonight, joins forces with historian Brewster, the founding director of the West Point Center for Oral History, in this intellectual examination of how racial injustices are viewed and enhanced through the use of social media. ![]() How the fight for racial justice has evolved in the era of “the rapid democratization of technology.” ![]()
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