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In a four-part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young

boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's island for three years

without trial.

This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.

Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We all know what the National Anthem sounds like, or at least what it used to sound like

at sports events, because for many, many years, it almost always sounded the same.

Oh, can you see?

Why would one's ever leave?

What so proudly we hailed as a son in a very straightforward way, very by the book,

because that's what artists were expected to do.

Every once in a while, a singer would get creative and maybe even infuse some of their own

musical culture into the song.

But when they did, they risked facing serious consequences.

Like when the Puerto Rican folk singer Jose Feliciano sang the National Anthem at the 1968

World Series like this.

Oh, can you see why the dawn's early light was so bright?

It picks me for a while.

My records were stopped at radio stations, stopped playing my records.

They wanted to deport me, but you can't deport a citizen of the United States.

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