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"Out for Presidents to Represent Me": The Breakfast Club, Hip Hop, and the 2020 Elections

Submitted by Tabia Shawel on September 9, 2020 - 11:48pm

With the rise of digital technology, images of Black people murdered at the hands of law enforcement have inundated various media outlets and influenced a surge in social activism. Recent protests, spearheaded by Black Lives Matter (BLM), have pressured America and its lawmakers to reckon with its “peculiar institutions” rooted in white supremacy and systemic racism (Wacquant 2010).

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