Instead, President Obama’s second… Eight years ago the election of the first African-American president raised hopes that the country would finally shake off the burden of a painful history that began with slavery, traversed the disappointments of the Civil Rights era and the militant Black Panther period, and burst back to the surface with the Los Angeles riots and the OJ Simpson trial of the 1990s. The death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 prompted protests such as the Million Hoodie March and the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement Mary Altaffer/APThe mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, and the deaths of two black men at the hands of police that preceded it, have dragged America into its worst race crisis in a generation.

Source: The Times July 08, 2016 22:53 UTC