Zimmerman Not Guilty in Killing of Trayvon Martin What Does #Justice4Trayvon Look Like? George Zimmerman, Not Guilty: Blood on the Leaves From the outset— throughout the forty-four days it took for there to be an arrest, and then in the sixteen months it took to for this case to come…
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The Film THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. Directed and produced by Burns, David McMahon…
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. After Trayvon Martin by Kay Whitlock with Nancy A.…
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