‘Stand your ground’ has become a get-out-of-jail-free license to kill
After the most recent Florida incident, members of Congress demand answers on a law that leaves black America vulnerable.
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Trayvon Martin
Angela Davis: ‘There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back…
The activist, feminist and revolutionary explains how the ‘prison industrial complex’ profits from black people, that Barack Obama can’t be blamed for the lack of progress on race, and…
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From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, the racist state of America persists
Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, are only the most widely known of the countless numbers of black people killed by police or vigilantes during the…
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The perfect crime: Kill a black man
The case of Trayvon Martin is only the latest in a long series of facts that show that the United States is far from the color-blind society in which, according to the Supreme Court,…
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Justice
Check out Progreso Weekly's latest Graphite n' Ink entry which appears to question the Zimmerman decision in Florida.
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Walking while black
I will never forget my freshman year in college. University of Florida in Gainesville. Fletcher Hall in the Murphree area, where I lived. I think about the now completed not-guilty…
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