#BlackLivesMatter - BBC Newsnight
Last year, the slogan "Black Lives Matter" was tweeted 8 million times; those three words came to be used as a protest against police killings of black people in the US. The phrase gained so much traction, many have wondered if it can't transform itself into a broader civil rights movement. This year of course sees a presidential election; politics has taken some surprising turns, and rage is in the air; so could Black Lives Matter shift the American debate on race? Mukul Devichand, the editor of BBC Trending, has been to the US to find out.
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