“The reporters who covered the civil-rights struggle in America in the 1950s and ’60s were said to be working the race beat. A new generation of reporters has risen to cover a grim and new-seeming iteration of that beat: police shootings of unarmed black men.
“In his new book, ‘They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement,’ the Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery describes traveling from shooting to shooting during 2014 and 2015. He’d see the same reporters in each city, and about this cohort he says: ‘We’d become a morbid fraternal order.’”