Trayvon Martin
Jay Z and the Weinstein Co. are partnering to make a Trayvon Martin film and TV documentary series.
George Zimmerman, who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was kicked out of a Sanford, Florida, cigar bar after reportedly using racial slurs and yelling at a waitress, police said.
“Jumped out of the second floor of a record store/ With a Treacherous Four cassette and a cassette recorder,” Eminem rhymes at the start of his brand-new track. “In Ecuador with Edward Norton/ Witness the metamorphosis of a legend growing/ Like an expert swordsman from the Hessian war and/ Hence the origin of the Headless Horseman/ Born with the endorphins […]
Ken Bone, who attained semi-celebrity status after the second debate, claimed on an “Ask Me Anything” Reddit thread that Trayvon Martin’s shooting death “was justified."
George Zimmerman was punched in the face. Witnesses said he was bragging about shooting Trayvon Martin.
George Zimmerman has reportedly sustained injuries to the face after a shooting during a traffic incident in Florida today. Immediately following the shooting, while details of the extent to which Zimmerman was injured remained unclear, Twitter users across the country reacted with a kind of hostile humor indicative of the level of animus that exists toward the man […]
Following the deaths of Black men, women, and children at the hands of police this past year, many athletes and celebrities used their platforms to…
In a newly released video, George Zimmerman — the former neighborhood watchman acquitted of murder in 2013 — blames President Obama for stirring racial tensions…
It’s been nearly three years since a neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot a Florida teenager walking home after picking up a bag of Skittles and an Arizona canned drink from a convenience store. And on Feb. 5, 2015, that teenager would have celebrated a birthday. His name is Trayvon Martin. And as the date of his […]
We have much to remember and be thankful for during Black History Month, but there’s also much to mourn. Today would’ve been Trayvon Martin‘s 20th birthday. The 17-year-old Fla. teen was gunned down by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012. The senseless deaths of unarmed Black men haven’t stopped: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice were all killed in 2014 […]
According to Huffington Post, rapper (former police officer) Rick Ross has a controversial new song out called “Black & White” in which the rapper evokes the name of Trayvon Martin. Says Ross, “Too close to a n***a as a motherf**king bomb/ Trayvon Martin, I’m never missing my target/ B***h n***as hating, tell me it’s what […]
