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Neil deGrasse Tyson Stopped 'a Dozen' Times for 'Just Being Black'
Renowned astrophysicist recounts “a dozen” incidents with police. Neil deGrasse Tyson may be one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, but that doesn’t make him immune to racial profiling. On Tuesday, Tyson posted an excerpt from his 2004 book “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist” on Facebook, in which he and several colleagues at a 1991 National Society of Black Physicists conference recounted times they had been detained by police without reason.
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