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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Corbin Spencer, right, field director of New Georgia Project and volunteer Rodney King, left, help Rueke Uyunwa register to vote. The influential group is shutting down after more than a decade. (Hyosub Shin/AJC 2017)

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