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Being young, black and male in America

When a white police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th 2014, it sparked a wave of protest across America and became emblematic in the Black Lives Matter movement. Black American playwright Dennis A. Allen II digs deep into what it's like being young, black and male today in an America of institutionalised profiling in his play How I Feel.

First broadcast on Black and Blue, 27 July 2016.

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4 minutes

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