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Joining me now, staff writer of the new yorker, history writer at university of connecticut. and dave zyer host of the edge of sports podcast. dave, you've been doing a lot of reporting on this story before it kind of exploded onto national consciousness. give us a little bit of context of how this got to this point. >> how it got to the point at missouri, it goes back years. years of racial tension, years of students and faculty members of color feeling marginalized, feeling like they weren't being heard. and it really came to a head with the killing of michael brown in ferguson just two hour...

Video that went viral last month showing oklahoma students chanting racial slurs and making references to lynching. joining me to discuss the investigation and the current climate at duke university is karla holloway author of "legal fictions." and henry washington president of the black student alliance. henry, let me start with you. how are students particularly students of color feeling on campus right now. >> you know i think students are feeling exhausted. i think the thing that sometimes people forget is that these huge events like a noose being hung from a tree are not things that happe...

Prominent black man or black women and women of color feeling -- i feel o.j. had become white and then became black again in some ways. i remember my mother and all the anger of the black women around me towards o.j. for so many years until that trial, where he became black again and needed protection again, and any of nicole's pain and identity was totally ignored in that moment. >> he reclaimed his blackness, black against the wall, back against the wall. that's the truly. >> stick with me. i want to talk more about that. we will continue our discussion on the o.j. simpson case. i can't beli...

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