Conservative radio host Larry Elder criticized Rachel Jeantel’s speech impediment Wednesday night during a heated exchange on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, the Raw Story reports. Jeantel’s speech became a big topic of conversation during George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial. Elder said that the way she speaks suggests that she’s unintelligent and uneducated. She suffers from a…

Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh drew strong criticism from black journalists on Wednesday after he announced on the air that it’s acceptable for him to use the n-word because some African Americans use it as slang, according to Media Matters. Gregory Lee Jr., president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said Limbaugh should know…

Following a vociferous backlash in response to her interview earlier this week with Anderson Cooper on CNN, alongside news of a possible book deal, now apparently quashed, the woman known as juror B37 on Wednesday released a statement pushing for new laws that she says would have helped avoid George Zimmerman’s not-guilty verdict, CNN reports. “My…

Speaking in fairly definitive terms, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Tuesday that he will not run for president in 2016, and he also suggested that he had no plans to become the next attorney general, the Washington Post reports. “I am not running for president in 2016,” Patrick told reporters at UMass Boston, according…

While speaking to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C., former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the “heartache” of the Trayvon Martin case, Politico reports. “My prayers are with the Martin family and with every family who loves someone who is lost to violence,” she said in an almost 30-minute…

A day after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of the unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, MSNBC‘s Melissa Harris-Perry turned to W.E.B. Du Bois, who poignantly asked in The Souls of Black Folk, “How does it feel to be a problem?” She said the question in the turn-of-the-century treatise is still relevant today. Everyone…

President Barack Obama released a statement Sunday afternoon calling for “calm reflection” in the aftermath of a Florida jury’s acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy.  Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America.  I know this case…

Beyoncé called for a moment of silence for Trayvon Martin while performing in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday during her Mrs. Carter tour, after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of the unarmed 17-year-old teenager, the Washington Post reports. It was among a range of reactions by celebrities across the nation after an…

Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, took to Twitter to express their profound grief after a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of their son, the Daily Mail reports. They were not present in the courtroom as the verdict was read.  Trayvon Martin’s heartbroken mother has poured her heart out onto…

Demonstrators gathered peacefully around the nation early Sunday to express disappointment over George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of the unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin nearly a year ago in Sanford, Fla., according to various media outlets. In Florida, there were pockets of small peaceful gatherings throughout the state. The Washington Post reports that marchers took…