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• Baton Rouge Police publicly confront social media image amid blackface controversy

  February 11, 2019 6:58 PM

  BATON ROUGE – In a rare attempt to confront potential controversy head-on, the Baton Rouge Police Department clarified a social media post that circulated over the weekend showing officers dressed in plain clothes and wearing dark face paint 26 years ago. The image was taken of undercover officers conducting... more »

• Social media uproar caused by 4/20 Bob Marley Snapchat filter

  April 20, 2016 5:33 PM

  Snapchat has contributed what most of the web seems to consider the most “tone-deaf” celebration of the informal hippie holiday known as 4/20 with a photo filter that attempts to make users look like reggae legend Bob Marley. Apr. 20 has been associated with the use of marijuana for... more »