Trayvon Martin
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Black Agenda Report for 14 August 2013: Holder & Obama Playing Us on Drug War, Massive Resistance to Stop & Frisk Ruling, Fukushima
14 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Holder & Obama Are Playing Us On Mandatory Minimums, the Drug War and Mass Incarceration by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Once or twice a year Eric Holder and/or the president discover police brutality, racial profiling, or the injustice of the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 July 2013: Racial Surveillance, Mass Hynosis & Trayvon Martin, TFA a Scab Temp Nonprofit
24 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama Supports the Racial Surveillance That Killed Trayvon by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In his effort to “put the angry Black genie back in the bottle” following George Zimmerman’s acquittal, President Obama once again claimed to oppose racial profiling. He’s lying. Continue reading
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Key Mistakes Sway Jury in Zimmerman Trial: Jury Prevented from Considering Race and “First Aggressor” By Marjorie Cohn
A Southern jury of six women – none of them black – found 28-year-old George Zimmerman’s shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to be justifiable homicide because he acted in self-defense. The jurors were prohibited from considering race. They were instructed only on the parts of self-defense law that helped Zimmerman, and the chief police… Continue reading
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Video: Ford: Zimmerman’s Acquittal Exposes the American Psyches’ Racist Reasoning
Glen Ford: Prosecution was unable to prove Zimmerman’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt because it’s thought to be “reasonable” to profile young black men as criminals (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Ford: Zimmerman's Acquittal Exposes the American Psyches' Racist Reasoning
Glen Ford: Prosecution was unable to prove Zimmerman’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt because it’s thought to be “reasonable” to profile young black men as criminals (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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