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Viewers across the country, and around the world, are watching the protests sweeping the U.S. – on the TV news, on their social media feeds, and on video streams from grassroots media outlets like Unicorn Riot, which despite its name is a peaceful documentary-making nonprofit.
Journalism scholar Errol Salamon explains the decades-old roots of today’s on-the-street unfiltered footage, and how independent media groups have for years expanded the public’s view beyond mainstream news.
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Jeff Inglis
Politics + Society Editor
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A Unicorn Riot videographer films an interview on the streets of Minneapolis on May 29, 2020.
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
Errol Salamon, University of Minnesota
Livestreamed video coverage of protests across the country is the modern heir to decades of grassroots documentary filmmaking.
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Politics + Society
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Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan
Protests over police violence and white supremacy have erupted in almost 600 US cities. A historian of black social movements says what's happened after George Floyd's death is unprecedented.
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Dianne Bystrom, Iowa State University; Karen M. Kedrowski, Iowa State University
On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, women's historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how.
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Ethics + Religion
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Laura R. Olson, Clemson University
In appearing with Bible in hand at the time of crisis, Trump is signaling his position as defender of traditional values, while 'othering' detractors. Russia's Putin and India's Modi have done similar.
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Education
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F. Chris Curran, University of Florida; Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware; Benjamin W. Fisher, University of Louisville
Some school districts are starting to remove police. A team of researchers explains why that could be a welcome trend.
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Jasmine Harris, Ursinus College
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Health
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Amy Baxter, Augusta University
What happens when we have a COVID-19 vaccine – and millions are afraid of a needle?
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Science + Technology
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Kim Adams, New York University
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Kacey Ernst, University of Arizona; Paloma Beamer, University of Arizona
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