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#BLM: Social media has streamed reality. Can we now breathe?

Protesters hold up signs reading gather for a demonstration outside the US embassy in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on June 12, 2020 in support of US protesters over the death of George Floyd. PHOTO | JACK GUEZ | AFP

By  Elsie Eyakuze

Columnist

The arc of African-American history is as gruesome as it gets, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement was inevitable because of it.

In spite of World Health Organisation advisories on mental health, I did a bit of immersion in the news to prepare for this article.

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