Amy Goodman
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Black Father in Letter to His Son: "I Thought of You When I Saw the Son of Alton Sterling Weeping"
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9:57Now PlayingAfter the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, Princeton professor Eddie Glaude sat down and wrote a letter to his son. It began"Dear Langston, I thought of you when I saw the son of Alton Sterling weeping at a press conference. It was the latest of a string of haunting public rituals of grief. The police had killed another black person. His cries made me think of you." His son later wrote back, and the two went on to publish their exchange publicly in Time magazine. We speak with both father and sonPrinceton professor Eddie Glaude and Langston Glaude, a Brown University undergraduate student.
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