Anatomy of Nigerian Federalism: A Reflection of the Nagging Challenges and Prospects from A Cultural Relativist Perspective by Chioke, Stephen Chinedu

“…The results show that there are works of literature that wrongly conceptualized federalism. Police brutality, political godfatherism, corruption, secession, revenue allocation problem, sectionalism, and conflicts were among the predominant challenges facing Nigerian federalism. …”
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“Speak Up!” Investigating U.S. professional sports teams' #BlackLivesMatter statements by Dae Hee Kwak, Sean Pradhan, Zhjing Chen

“…George Floyd's death caused by police brutality fueled a wave of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement both nationally and globally. …”
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White Suicide, Black Genocide: The Psychic Life of Labor and Freedom in Anti-Masking Movements by Joshua Falek, Patrick Teed

“…We conclude by engaging the anti-police brutality protests that occurred concurrent to the lockdowns, querying how the libidinal drives animating anti-masking may also scaffold the popularity of those movements.…”
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Social Unrest Prediction Through Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Using Support Vector Machine: Experimental Study on Nigeria’s #EndSARS by Oladele Temidayo Michael, Ayetiran Eniafe Festus

“…In recent times, Nigeria has faced different forms of social unrest, including the popular #EndSARS, which began on Twitter with a demand that government disband the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit under the Nigerian Police Force for alleged brutality. Mining public opinions such as this on social media can assist the government and other concerned organizations by serving as an early warning system. …”
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Papua and the public: News framing of the 2019 Asrama Papua conflict by Annisa Nadia Putri Harsa, Lily El Ferawati Rofil

“…The 2019 Asrama Papua conflict in Surabaya initiated many discourses on racial discrimination and police brutality towards Papuan students in Indonesia. …”
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“We Need to be Better”: Race, Outdoor Recreation, and Corporate Social Advocacy by Carlos Anthony Tarin, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández

“…The summer 2020 protests following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other African-Americans sparked important conversations about race, police brutality, and institutionalized racism in the United States. …”
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Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe by Xine Yao

“…In my essay I use the dynamic anachronistic convergence of their writings as an occasion to consider questions of the racial politics of self and collective care in the face of crises of pandemic and police brutality that disproportionately impact Black people.…”
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Fear of Being Black in America by Adriana Barešić

“…The title of the book is a reference to James Baldwin's work The Fire Next Time, published about fifty years prior to this book, since it discusses the same themes of race and identity but in a more contemporary context and through voices of various authors.The authors wrote the book in relation to all the historical events that led to the current position of black people in America while also describing their own experiences and reactions to the more contemporary events of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. …”
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Critical World-Systems Analysis by Marilyn Grell-Brisk

“…isn’t just a call to attend to police brutality against Black people in America, it is a rallying call demanding that Black folx’s humanity be acknowledged and accorded without question—that we be seen. …”
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EXPLORING COVID-19 AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN AFRICA: NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY by DAVID O. ABRAHAM, KABIR ABDULKAREEM, SUNDAY I. OYEBAMIJI

“…Nigeria’s social issues, coupled with the shock of Covid-19, cumulated into protest actions, looting, and police brutality. The government’s inadequate response to the political crisis and state of unrest greatly influenced the public’s belief and outlook on social concerns. …”
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Matricide by Person with Borderline Personality Disorder by Bujar Obertinca, Florim Gallopeni, Nevzat Shemsedini, Arben Hysenaj, Besarta Taganovic, Shpend Haxhibeqiri

“…Murder has been associated with marked brutality. Until the moment of committing the act, he has not behaved aggressively towards his sibling or parents because family members have avoided confrontation by fulfilling his wishes. …”
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Forgotten pioneers in degrowth: John Africa and the MOVE Organization by Anthony T. Fiscella

“…They rejected fashion and cosmetics, demonstrated for animal liberation as well as against police brutality, militarism, prisons, and pollution of land, water, and air. …”
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#EndSARS Protest by Kelvin Inobemhe, Tsegyu Santas

“…Specifically, the paper expands on the meaning of social media activism, finds out ways digital media was deployed in mobilisation and management of the protest and also delves into how social media pose as challenge to activism within the context of series of anti-police brutality protests that took place in Nigeria. …”
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Comparative digital protest cultures in South Africa and Tamil Nadu: #feesmustfall, #Jallikattu, and Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) - a case of surveillance and diasporic potential by Jabulani Nkuna, Kameshwaran Envernathan Govender, Anusharani Sewchurran

“…Using Fuchs’s (2016) and Zuboff’s (2019) analyses of social media activism, we examine police brutality and surveillance in these three movements. …”
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Critical action to redress systemic oppression: a person-centered approach by Kristin Vierra, Aldo Barrita, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Rachael D. Robnett

“…IntroductionIn 2020, public outcry against police brutality prompted many social media users to post black squares and use the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter (BLM). …”
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Islam, Muslims and 2020 #EndSARS Protests in Nigeria by Khalidu Adewale Afolabi

“… The 2020 #EndSARS is a youth-enthusiastic social movement in Nigeria against brutality and inhuman excesses of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the Nigerian Police Force. …”
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Editorial by Tarik Sabry

“…Bloggers have reported incidents of police brutality in Egypt, or the recent appearance of a video clip showing a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family torturing an Afghan, which would never have been covered in the traditional state-owned media; now these reports find their way not only to Western media outlets and advocacy groups but were also reported on in mainstream media in the Arab world and resulted in discussions about misuse of power. …”
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Sounding the Alarm: Six Strategies for Medical Students to Champion Anti-Racism Advocacy by Fadoju D, Azap RA, Olayiwola JN

“…As the nation has struggled with a viral pandemic (COVID-19) and witnessed an uprising against anti-Black racism and police brutality, it became immediately apparent that activism that marries medicine to anti-racism advocacy was needed. …”
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Databases in the investigation of household armed robberies: Challenges and ways of improvement by O. Bryskovska, S. Matulienė

“…Amidst the full-scale war in Ukraine, an increase in the number of crimes against property involving weapons, characterised by suddenness, brutality, and aggressiveness, has occurred. Such crimes violate not only the inviolability of housing and property rights but also harm the health and lives of victims. …”
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Undoing the Mirage of Racism through Philosophy of Race by Myron Moses Jackson

“…Tracing the trajectory from chattel slavery, the trail of tears, Jim Crow laws and lynchings, the civil rights movements, police brutality and profiling, to Black Lives Matter should we be believers or skeptics of racial progress? …”
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