StoryCorps recently released a short animated film highlighting Alex Landau’s first major encounter with the police. As an adopted child of white parents, Landau did not think that skin color was an important factor in his life. His colorblind attitude changed after he was pulled over by a racist cop.

“I was just another black face in the streets and I was almost another dead black male,”

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