From the Angry Black Woman: Mind you, the Red Summer came after the East St. Louis Riots, the Atlanta Race Riots, some 2400 documented lynchings and countless other acts of violence that didn’t receive much (if any) official attention. The Rosewood Massacre, & the destruction of Black Wall Street in…
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Unearthed: George Zimmerman’s MySpace Page In a long, rambling “About Me” section of the site, Zimmerman, who would have been in his early 20s when the site was active, wrote that he missed his friends in Manassas, Va., where he grew up and went to high school. But there were…
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From BlackStarNews: In State v. Zimmerman, George Zimmerman’s bail application — his motion for bail is returnable on April 20, 2012 — should be denied. It would be unthinkable for a Black person in Florida to seek bail after being charged with murder in the second degree for causing the…
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From In These Times: According to the report, there is a clear method to the way the restrictions have been imposed. They’ve become law primarily in states “with large communities of color where political participations has surged.” To put it bluntly, they’re aimed at suppressing the black vote. The good…
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From The Nation: The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis wrote that the piece was “indefensible,” yet the same site has been attempting to disparage Trayvon Martin’s character by peddling in race-based victim blaming for weeks. Before firing Derbyshire, Lowry came out against the piece in a one-sentence disclaimer and other writers…
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Wow. This guy’s got a helluva lot of nerve…. From ABC News: After weeks of silence and seclusion, George Zimmerman has released a public statement about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, referring to incident as a “life altering event,” on his website, therealgeorgezimmerman.com. In a statement on the site,…
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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. Criminalizing President Obama by Kay Whitlock The 2012 presidential…
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