trayvon martin
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...
We Spoke to Defence Attorneys about Racial Profiling and Trayvon Martin
The acquittal of George Zimmerman has left millions in North America with an uneasy feeling about the state of criminal justice, and an uncertainty about who our courts are really working for. We spoke to some defence attorneys in Canada and the US...
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.
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...
The Internet Trolled the Skype Testimony of a Witness in the Zimmerman Trial
And the whole thing could've been easily avoided if Zimmerman's attorneys simply limited incoming calls to the witness' contact list.
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...