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'Southern hospitality' doesn't always apply to Black people, as revealed in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery

  • Written by Barbara Harris Combs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Clark Atlanta University
imageWanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery, listens as attorneys speak outside the Glynn County Courthouse on July 17, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia. Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images

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