trayvon martin
"Paula Deen" Is Going to Kill "Trayvon Martin" on TV
Worlds collide when Law & Order: SVU brings the world's most famous racist chef and the world's most famous dead black kid together for what is guaranteed to be the least tasteful episode of television since the last episode of Extreme Cougar...
Here’s What’s Happening on the Internet’s Most Racist Forums
Michelle Lhooq takes another stroll down the ass crack of the internet to find out what's happening on some of the web's most racist forums. Some of what she uncovers is so ignorant, it's almost as funny as it is sad. The glut of hate and negativity...
We Spoke to Wilsonman About the Night NYPD Officers Attacked Him
Recently, I caught up with my friend Wilsonman. A member of the rap group the Stone Rollers Stone Gang, he’s spending his golden years laying down smooth rhymes and frequenting the New York City party scene. Unfortunately, NYPD officers recently beat...
California Has Its Own Version of Stand Your Ground
A California activist named Tiffany Hobbs is trying to educate and channel the anger about Trayvon Martin's death into action and is working to amend two state laws, the Provocative Act Murder Doctrine and the Castle Doctrine, which allow for the sort...
How to Cash in on Trayvon Martin
If you wear a “George Zimmerman: Wanted Dead or Alive” shirt or turn Zimmerman into some kind of vigilante folk hero through a sticker, you reinforce the idea that violence is acceptable in American society, and that justice only comes from a loaded...
The LAPD Doesn't Want You Protesting the Trayvon Martin Verdict After Last Night
Last night, protests in Los Angeles against the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial—which had been mostly nonviolent, though there were...
The Hangover News
George Zimmerman was acquitted this weekend, but you were probably too outraged to believe it. Spontaneous protest marches against the verdict staged in a number of US cities were mostly peaceful, apart from pockets of violence in Oakland, California...
Live Streaming the Trayvon Martin Protests in New York
On Sunday evening thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of New York City in protest of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder case. Zimmerman shot and killed the unarmed black 17-year-old on February 26, 2012, in...
George Zimmerman Isn't White
After being found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman is the focus of intense criticism, especially from groups who have painted him as a "white oppressor." Of course, Zimmerman's mother is Peruvian, which isn't exactly "white" by...
A Pork-Laced Bullet Designed to Kill Muslims
Idaho-based company/racist joke Jihawg Ammo sells bullets coated with pork to protect God-fearing 'Mericans from the Islamist suicide bombers—the idea is that the pork will prevent the evil Muslims from going to Muslim heaven. I'm not sure it'll work.
Who Protects New Yorkers from the NYPD?
Nicholas Heyward is a haunted man. He is one of many New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to the police. The tragedy Heyward suffered has turned him into an activist. These days he spends much of his time calling for the Justice Department to review...
The Underachievers Talk About Stop-and-Frisk and Kimani Gray
The Underachievers have managed to rise up out of their Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. But it wasn't long ago that they were getting stopped and frisked by the cops, just like the other hundreds of thousands of black and Latino male New Yorkers. I...