Amid increasing reports of police shootings and racial injustice, Black Lives Matter versus All Lives Matter, police versus people of color, we take a look at what racial divides exist in the west. Is growing up black in the West different from the experience elsewhere in the country? How does the unwillingness of West Coast progressives to admit to white privilege or acknowledge racial biases affect the experience of African Americans in the West? We dig into all of that and more with our colleague, young black journalist Marcus Lavergne. 

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