Hosts Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby discuss the media's treatment of recent events in Baltimore; why black women, Latinos, and Native Americans are being left out of the current debate on police brutality; and a new study on race, neighborhoods and social mobility.
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Policing Inequity
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Know How Movie
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
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Bastards of the Party
Link to documentary
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
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