In the wake of the high-profile cases involving white police officers and their deadly encounters with black men, multiple Twitter hashtag campaigns have been started.

#CrimingWhileWhite captures white people’s reported encounters with police, and how benign those interactions were. #AliveWhileBlack documents the daily racism that African-Americans deal with on a daily basis, from law enforcement and others.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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