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America has no monopoly on racism, it's just 'more lethal'

The journalist Gary Younge tells us how his exposure to racism in the US changed his view on the world. Then we hear why activists for India's Dalits are taking cues from the Black Lives Matter movement. And the essayist Deepak Singh recalls the excruciating moments watching TV with his family in India when a condom ad would come on the screen.

Also: how a Latina with red hair and a Jewish last name challenges ideas about identity. We ask whether Orthodox Jewish women can become rabbis. And we meet a rising star on the Mexican music scene— El Compa Negro.

(Photo: Protesters gather at Union Square in New York City on April 2015. Credit: Getty Images)

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Sat 14 Nov 2015 19:32GMT

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