Charlottesville invokes racist legacy in the present day

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Scenes from Charlottesville invoke racist legacy in the present day.

The violent events in Charlottesville, where white supremacist groups came out of the shadows, seem to have brought rising American tensions over race and racism to a head. Hari Sreenivasan gets perspectives from Leonard Pitts Jr. of The Miami Herald, Carol Anderson of Emory University and Mark Potok, a former senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

AIR DATE 8/15/17

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