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Jun 01 2020
News
Trauma and gaffes crash Biden's VP selection process
Real-life events — from the grave to the mundane — have recast his choice of potential running mates.
Joe Biden’s choice of a running mate is getting more treacherous with each news cycle.
Real-life events — from the outcry over the killing of black men in Minnesota and Georgia, to a mundane request for boating privileges in Michigan — are crashing into his already fraught
PoliticoJun 02 2021
Analysis
One year after #BlackoutTuesday, what have companies really done for racial justice?
Checking in on black square-posting brands, from Starbucks to Glossier.
On May 25, 2020, footage of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis set the internet ablaze, igniting a fervor for justice among the attentive and then-quarantined online masses. In the now widely circulated video, George Floyd can be heard pleading, “I can’t breathe” — the same three words Eric Garner had
VoxJun 25 2020
Analysis
Instagram used to be where people escaped the news. The Black Lives Matter protests changed that.
For most people, Instagram has long been the social media platform where they escape from the real world — and politics — to share a curated highlight reel of their lives. But recently, that’s changed. It’s become an increasingly political platform amid Black Lives Matter protests across the country. In fact, Instagram has become the platform for widespread conversations in the United States
VoxNov 11 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: How Left and Right Media are Covering the Rittenhouse Trial
From the CenterThe high-profile trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an 18-year old accused of murder amid protests and violence in Kenosha, WI last summer, took over the national media this week — and led to clear examples of media bias in the process.
In August 2020, three months after the murder of George Floyd, a black man named Jacob Blake was shot several times by a white police officer
Henry A. BrechterAug 13 2020
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias by Omission: 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant Shot and Killed in His Front Yard
Numerous conservative commentators took to Twitter this week accusing the national press of media bias by omission when it comes to the death of Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a man in North Carolina. The boy is white, the alleged killer is black.
Local news outlets reported that Darius Nathaniel Sessoms, 25, allegedly shot the 5-year-old at point blank
Julie Mastrine