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Sybrina Fulton on Verdict: 'My Darkest Hour'
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…
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Zimmerman Trial: State Lost From the Start
(The Root) — By the time George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin, the state of Florida had long since lost its case against him. Possibly several times over. Maybe it was June 28, the fourth day of testimony, when the prosecution made the risky decision to call to the stand the…
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Protesters March Over Zimmerman Verdict
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…
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Why the Zimmerman Jury Failed Us
(The Root) — America is racist at its core. I used to doubt this simplistic claim. Today I cannot. The murder of Trayvon Martin demands total, simple, honesty. A jury in Florida failed us. We have not seen a moral failure this grave since a similarly all-white jury in Simi Valley, Calif., in 1992 acquitted…
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What If Trayvon Martin Had Been a Black Woman?
Contending that female victims are “so often omitted from the narratives of violence” in the African-American community, the Guardian‘s Jamila Aisha Brown suggests that if Trayvon Martin had been a young black woman, her name would be unknown. What if Trayvon Martin had been a black woman? CNN host Piers Morgan posed this hypothetical question to Marc Lamont Hill on Tuesday night:…
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Sadness Over Trayvon Martin's Death Still Lingers
During an interview last year, George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that shooting Trayvon Martin was “God’s plan.” Having sat through his second-degree-murder trial in the presence of the dead teen’s parents, writes Charles Blow in the New York Times, perhaps Zimmerman would answer differently now. One thing still hanging in the air when the lawyers…
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Educating Black Boys Takes Everything We're Not Doing
Critical supports in childhood help mold young black boys into successful men, Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, argues at the Huffington Post. She says families, schools, churches, communities and government agencies need to do more to help them achieve greater academic success. “You don’t have to be a Black male educator…
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NAACP to Justice Department: Charge Zimmerman
(The Root) — The NAACP is asking supporters to sign a petition urging the Department of Justice to open a civil rights case against George Zimmerman. The call to action is in a letter signed by President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, distributed in the first hours after a jury announced its acquittal of the…
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Quote of the Day: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. on Ideas
Read more about Adam Clayton Powell Jr. here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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