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The Black Lives Matter: The New Civil Rights Movement

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In the recent year we have seen a resurgence of racism and violence against the African American community that was prevalent in the 60’s. Police brutality against innocent African Americans, more often than not with fatal outcomes, has sparked a new civil rights movement called “Black Lives Matter.” In an op-ed piece written by the editorial board they talk about the issue at hand saying, “The ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of police, and is a piece with this history […] They are underlining an indisputable fact – that the lives of black citizens in this country historically have not mattered, and have been discounted and devalued,” (NY Times,
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