Rapper BKBpole, Jermaine Jones, also known as @Jermaine.j11 on Instagram, shared a recent encounter he had after leaving a friend’s house. The 16-year-old claims he was racially profiled while driving through a wealthy neighborhood in Sanford, Florida. On Thursday, June…
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Angry White Men Arrested For Violently Threatening Black Teen In Same Town Trayvon Martin Was Killed
Source: arrests.org / iOne Digital Two Florida white men were arrested on felony charges after they racially profiled a 16-year-old Black boy, then threw a rock through his car window. The incident happened in the same town where George Zimmerman…
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Trayvon Martin To Be Memorialized With Street Naming
The senseless murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin ignited a movement for racial justice that reverberated across the world and now 8 years after his harrowing death his hometown is ensuring his legacy is kept alive. According to the Miami Herald,…
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Black History from the Pages of EBONY: African-Americans in the Era of Black Lives Matter
The African-Americans of the 2010s The start of the 2010s found America in the throes of an economic recession as a result of the Housing Market Collapse of 2008. President Barack Obama was serving his first term in office, facing Republican majority in both the House and the Senate. Flash mobs…
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EBONY Magazine Sept 2013: Poor Trayvon
Legal scholar Charles J. Ogletree Jr. reflects on ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws, the gun laws gripping our nation and President Obama’s personal statement about race MANY YEARS AGO, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun filed a blistering dissent in DeShaney…
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