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Journal Sports Writer
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PROVIDENCE — To review the Twitter timeline of Providence College basketball star David Duke is to relive this turbulent period in American history.

The ongoing movement for social justice and racial equality plays out through the eyes of a city native and junior guard. Duke’s platform as an athlete of certain prominence lends him a voice, and he’s using it.

“Thinking of those victims of racial injustice and police brutality who never had a hashtag/protest in their name because no one recorded their incidents,” Duke posted on June 2.