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Dylann Roof, Michael Slager on trial: Five essential reads on Charleston

  • Written by Danielle Douez, Associate Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to race and violence.

Two white men are going on trial this month for shootings that happened in Charleston, South Carolina during 2015.

Michael Slager, a white former police officer, faces a murder charge for killing 50-year-old Walter Scott, a black man who was unarmed....

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