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What happened to Black Lives Matter?

Devon W. Carbado (UCLA): Predatory Policing. Jake Monaghan (SUNY-Buffalo): The Special Moral Obligations of Law Enforcement. What happened to Black Lives Matter? Three years after BLM launched a nationwide uprising against police violence, what’s next for the movement? Reframing “Black Lives Matter”: Marc Parry interviews Christopher J. Lebron, author of The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Nathalie Etoke on video evidence, police brutality, and the denial of black humanity. An excerpt from Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie. Adam Shatz reviews Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman. Forty percent of black Americans distrust the criminal justice system.