Hands Up! Don’t Shoot! Death and Visibility in Black America
Black “innocence” always has to be proven and depends on attaining a “respectability” defined by white mores and the…
The Indypendent
Trayvon Martin
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is one of the most famous moments of the 20th…
I had been to Atlanta, Ga., before — running trainings with Occupy Our Homes Atlanta as part of the…
Anger and Fear about Zimmerman Verdict in Hunts Point, Bronx
Amidst the noise of cars rushing down the Bruckner Expressway on the evening of July 15, a civil rights…
Florida Task Force on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Gives the Controversial Law a Vote of Confidence
In the year since George Zimmerman followed, fought and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, Florida’s Stand Your Ground law…
We Are All Still Trayvon Martin
One year after the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by vigilante George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, it is worth…