In the past few years there has been an unimaginable number of cases of murdered black and brown bodies at the hands of those sworn to protect them. For my paper I am proposing to do an analysis on the way that news media sources cover these race-based controversies. Specifically, I want to discuss the impact mainstream media has in negatively framing the black victims of unmediated force. The continuation of mass produced misrepresentations of black communities has resulted in the formation of safe spaces for ethnic minorities to fight back against these prejudices. I plan to take a closer look at how these spaces form on social media and work to force mainstream media to correct how they report on race based issues. For my paper I plan to
