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Social Media Buzz: New Trial For Adnan Syed, And A Controversial Red Cross Poster

A judge in Baltimore this week ordered a new trial for Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit podcast “Serial.”

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Danielle Belton, managing editor of The Root, about that story and a Red Cross poster about pool safety that stirred controversy over its depiction of African Americans.

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Danielle Belton, managing editor at The Root. She tweets @blacksnob.

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