Is the Influence of Social Media Amplifying America’s Murder Surge?

In the autumn of 2020, tragedy struck when Jarell Jackson and Shahjahan McCaskill, childhood friends, were shot and killed in Jackson’s car. These two 26-year-old men had just returned from a thrilling vacation in Puerto Rico. The motive behind their murders seemed senseless to McCaskill’s mother. Both men had defied the odds for young Black …

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