This week’s Friday Five is dedicated to the tweets about the protests and related events in Baltimore and around the US.
Another Black Life As a Hashtag
I felt the sting of threatening tears as I read tweet after tweet, largely authored by black faces. Individual, collective virtual protests over the acquittal of the police officer who killed Rekia Boyd. Rekia, a 22-year old, black Chicago resident was unarmed when off-duty officer, Dante Servin, shot her in the back of the head, killing her.
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