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Since Saturday, many images have sprung up over the Internet in support of Trayvon Martin’s family. However, there’s one image that centers on a deeper message, and it’s having a big impact on social media. According to the Huffington Post, a powerful image of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing a hoodie has gone viral. Believed…

On Sunday, fashion heads were finally able to get their hands on the highly anticipated collaboration between Kanye West and French fashion brand A.P.C. in stores around the country and online, causing the label’s U.S. website to crash. Considering one of the prized items in the collection was a short-sleeve, heather-gray hoodie (pictured above), the…

Fruitvale Station will not be one of the top 10 titles listed in this past weekend’s box office, but when looked at on its own, the independent film, which debuted in seven theaters nationwide, had a remarkable opening. Deadline reports that the film, about the 2009 killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III by a transit…

Arguing that the state failed to prove a charge of second-degree murder against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin or that he acted recklessly beyond a reasonable doubt, the Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates says the jury got it right in his acquittal. But, he said, “the message of this episode is unfortunate.” 1.)…

(The Root) — I am in a deep, deep well of sadness and loss. And anger, too. When my husband woke me up to tell me that George Zimmerman was found not guilty, I felt like I was still sleeping, like I was lost inside a nightmare. Ghosts swirled around me. So many children. And…

(The Root) — At 4 a.m. Sunday, when some of the nation’s major news organizations and conservative blogs remained on vigilant lookout for riots in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, a group of almost 200 people gathered in public spaces and private homes all over the country. Civil rights and social-justice activists down…

Gawker‘s Cord Jefferson, who relates a personal encounter with racial profiling by police as a college student, says George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin represents the gaps that plague our criminal-justice system.  Tonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy…

Jelani Cobb writes at the New Yorker that that the most damning component of George Zimmerman’s acquittal is the painful knowledge that Trayvon Martin was essentially found guilty of being a young black male.  The not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial came down moments after I left a screening of “Fruitvale Station,” a film…

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…