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Activists protest in Times Square in response to the recent fatal shootings of two black men by police, July 7, 2016 in New York, NY. Protests and public outcry have grown in the days following the deaths of Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile on July 6, 2016, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (For Getty Images)

Activists protest in Times Square in response to the recent fatal shootings of two black men by police, July 7, 2016 in New York, NY. Protests and public outcry have grown in the days following the deaths of Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile on July 6, 2016, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.  

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