Actress Chooses Howard University Over USC After Racial Profiling

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“The “Empire” actress described her son’s experience with officers, telling Uptown magazine in an interview she wouldn’t have felt comfortable with him attending the school. Henson said 20-year-old Marcel was stopped by police on the USC campus for ‘having his hands in his pockets.’

The encounter made up her mind that he wouldn’t transfer to the California school; instead she sent him to the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C.” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/taraji-p-henson-says-her-son-was-racially-profiled-while-vis#.hxy7r3kr6

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