tonight, how the killing of breonna taylor, ahmad aubrey and george floyd led us to a moment of reckoning. the journey of four film makers, documenting history, as protests erupt across the country, demanding change. >> black lives matter! re the injustice us ishifillamics >> ah, is there a certain way pmy hair or look should look? i don't know. >> is that max? okay, yeah, i can hear you. >> are we rollin' this? >> george dploifloyd, well, i t like everybody, we saw the footage on television, and it was, i don't know, harrowing, it was just devastating to see. >> did really was striking that this could still happen in a global pandemic, like folks are still being killed by, by police. >> as george floyd said "i can't breathe", there was only what i depicted to be hatred, what i depicted to be racism. >> and i flew thknew that this going to be shattering. at that point, all i knew to do was to pick up my camera. i'm mike shum, i'm 35 years old, i live in st. paul, minnesota u a and i'm a documentary film maker. >> in the final georgefls life. le.>> hey, hey,. >> how many times have we watc

tonight, how the killing of breonna taylor, ahmad aubrey and george floyd led us to a moment of reckoningocumenting history, as protests erupt across the country, demanding change. >> black lives matter! re the injustice us ishifillamics

particularly figure out how do you use social media algorithm so what happened with george floyd and ahmad aubrey and breonna taylor and others is that when people were using hashtags on twitter, instagram, snapchat or tiktok, whatever people are using is that the algorithm now has loaded up additional videos and that shows that what happens to george floyd is not isolated and that instead it's part of a broader pattern of systemic racism and police brutality trade not only that the video also showed why people behaving in similar ways and getting treated significantly different than black people. i think that is one of the biggest things that led to this racial awakening and of course, covid has contributed to that because people for a time and for the most part in a lot of places around the country have been at home or at least working from home giving them capacity and ability to look at things during the day to watch news and pay attention in ways that their former lives would not have allowed. social media played a big role in what is going on in one of the biggest findings i can share from

been a victim of police brutality unarmed, sandra blair, all those people that have done that, ahmad aubrey, even the fact that we saw it is dramatic but that trauma that we are experiencing as we talk about the use of modern-day technology to help us do exactly what kristin has said that has a history. and they talked about the civil rights movement that they wanted to turn off what was happening and speak to us about the history in terms of media policy and eliminating our ability to be authentic and if you have questions, event at brookings .edu and continue the conversation on the # pursue justice. >> thank you, nicol. some people suspected but may not know that especially across the south in the 50s, 40s, 50s and early 60s there was something real and a thing called a news blackout. governors got together with broadcasters, police officials got together with a newspaper publishers and when things were happening across this nation that would under any other circumstance, you know was newsworthy and deserve to be covered they were not and if particularly we were sensitive about it in sou

>> well, for it to come out now is really interesting because i wrote the book before ahmad aubrey and before breonna taylor and overall and shows how timeless brutality against black people is in this country. it's historic and it's an american tradition at this opinion. and so the fact i detail the historic murders dating back to the last century, even the last presidential election cycle, i create this wrinkle in time and the fact that is timeless shows how black people have always had to die in spectacular fashion to pierce the white narrative what happens. at we sis this time a racial wakening, centuries in the making. i'm very excited but the cultural shift. i'm cheering that on for sure but i won't be satisfied until a power shift accompanies the cultural shift. as long as the narrative is that white people should allow black people freedom and white owners should allow players to neil and white nascar owners should allow drivers to wear the "black lives matter." the narratives is the power rests solely with white decisionmaker and i don't support that. we have to disrupt power