The fatal police shooting of a Black 17-year-old boy outside Paris this week has fueled social divisions along racial lines. Host Marco Werman speaks with Maboula Soumahoro, a professor at the University of Tours and the founder of French Black History Month, about problems associated with racism in France, and how they play out in a society that prides itself on “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”
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