Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2015

The New Civil Rights Movement


February winds down and the end of another black history month is upon us. This last week of this month also marks the third anniversary of the still controversial, still discussed and very unjust death of Trayvon Martin. Three years later and the United States are still talking about the death of an unarmed 17 years old and the verdict that cleared his murderer and still allows him to walk free in the nation that holds as creed that all men are created equal. The two are very connected with the new civil rights movement.

Friday, November 28, 2014

The Ferguson Essays Part I: The Prosecution and Race


Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, the linking of the two incidents was bound to happen. For many people, many of them African-Americans, it was inevitable. The events that happened on August 9th 2014, were going to be examined through the lens of Trayvon Martin's murder by George Zimmerman. How the prosecution in setting the entire grand jury process and witnesses could ignore that is shocking and puzzling.