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by Cynthia E. Griffin Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Feb. 26 will mark one year since then-17-year-old Travyon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator in a gated community of Sanford, Fla. Martin was visiting family in the area and was walking back from the store when, despite requests [...]
By George E. Curry, Editor-in-Chief, NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although the judge said he had been “manipulating the system to his own benefit,” George Zimmerman, the killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was released on bond in Sanford, FL on Friday for a second time and driven to an undisclosed [...]
Huffington Post: Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of the Florida man charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged Tuesday afternoon with one count of perjury, according to law enforcement officials. The charges stem from what prosecutors have described as a series of lies and distortions made by the couple during an [...]
By George E. Curry, Editor-in-Chief NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After having his bond revoked by a judge who wonders whether he was deliberately misled by George Zimmerman and his wife, the admitted killer of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin remains confined to his cell in the Polk County Correctional Facility in Sanford, [...]
By Joshunda Sanders Special to the NNPA News Service – News Analysis From Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Mainstream media often portray African-American youths, especially Black men and boys, as criminals, crime victims and predators. These stereotypes, according to social justice advocates, can create a racially-charged atmosphere that results in [...]
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was released from jail on bond shortly after midnight Monday morning and left for an undisclosed destination. Zimmerman, who wore a brown jacket and blue jeans, was fitted with an electronic monitoring device before being released. [...]
By Josh Katzenstein, The Detroit News A Pontiac, Michigan charter school teacher said she lost her job because of a fundraising idea to honor Trayvon Martin, the teen shot in Florida. The firing has generated national attention. The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center demanded Monday that Brooke Harris be reinstated and a petition at change.org [...]
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Two investigators working for Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have filed court documents saying George Zimmerman, who was arrested last week, “profiled” the Black youth in Sanford, FL. Zimmerman, who had been free since killing Martin on Feb. [...]
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman’s claim that he killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense during a scuffle in Sanford, FL has continued to unravel, even as the shooter’s relatives have gone on TV to justify the killing and the city’s police department has leaked information aimed at discrediting the Black high school [...]
Family attorney Benjamin Crump, left, and Rev. Al Sharpton, rear, listen as Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton, center, and Tracy Martin, right, speak to thousands at rally. In a press conference last week, President Barack Obama commented on the case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager in Sanford, Florida, who was killed by George [...]
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