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Mississippi Man Sentenced for His Role in a Conspiracy to Commit Racially Motivated Assaults, Culminating in the Killing of an African-American Man Run Over by Truck

United States Department of Justice Mississippi Man Sentenced for His Role in a Conspiracy to Commit Racially Motivated Assaults, Culminating in the Killing of an African-American Man Run Over by Truck The Justice Department announced today that John Louis Blalack, … Continue reading

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NYC’s Unsolved Murder Victims Are Disproportionately Minorities

By Molly Redden Justice comes slower for homicide victims killed in New York’s poorer outer boroughs than it does for the denizens of rich, relatively homicide-free Manhattan. That’s according to a New York Daily News investigation analyzing the number of … Continue reading

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Sanford police deliver George Zimmerman evidence to FBI office in Orlando

By Arelis R. Hernandez Sanford police confirmed that within the last hour they had delivered boxes of evidence from their investigation into George Zimmerman to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Orlando office. Capt. Jim McAuliffe said the delivery — which … Continue reading

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Bruce Springsteen – American Skin (41 Shots)

Bruce Springsteen originally wrote this song in response to the Amadou Diallo murder in 1999. He rededicated the song to Trayvon Martin Tuesday night at his concert in Ireland.

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Outrage Is Rising Against Stand Your Ground

By John Nichols When Florida Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson issued the jury instructions in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, those instructions declared, If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place … Continue reading

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‘Not guilty’ verdict is a moral injustice to Trayvon Martin

By Michael Steele “Not guilty.” For just a moment the very words hung in the air of the courtroom, stunning everyone into silence. Across the country, people scrambled to their televisions or iPhones to hear or see the words for … Continue reading

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Bernhard Goetz on George Zimmerman: ‘The Same Thing Is Happening’

By Harry Siegel and Filipa Ioannou “I’m surprised,” said Bernhard Goetz, outside of his 20-story apartment building on Manhattan’s 14th Street, the same street he lived on back in 1984, when he shot four black teenagers on a downtown No. 2 … Continue reading

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Zimmerman Case Has Race as a Backdrop, but You Won’t Hear It in Court

By Lizette Alvarez From the very beginning, there was no more powerful theme in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin than the issue of race. But in the courtroom where George Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder, race lingers … Continue reading

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Woman Says George Zimmerman Molested Her For More Than A Decade

By Trymaine Lee A woman with close ties to George Zimmerman and his family told investigators that members of Zimmerman’s family were boastfully proud racists and that for more than a decade Zimmerman sexually molested her. “It started when I … Continue reading

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The 7 Most Important Things That Happened In The George Zimmerman Murder Trial This Week

By Rachel Samara It was an interesting first week in the George Zimmerman second degree murder trial. The prosecution brought out a number of witnesses including law enforcement officers, residents of the neighborhood, and a number of eye and ear … Continue reading

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