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The Root: The Untimely Deaths of Unarmed Black Men (audio)
This week on the Confab: Join staff writer Jenée Desmond-Harris as she chats with assistant editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor E.R. Shipp about how Florida's "Stand your ground" law is playing out in the Trayvon Martin case, the smear campaign against the slain teen, and 17 other unarmed black men and boys who have met similar fates.
http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/trayvon-and-deaths-unarmed-black-men
