Metrotown, Where Students Talk Openly About Race, Diversity
Like at other summer camps, the young people who spent a week at MetroTown last month put on skits and competed in sports. But the purpose of MetroTown , unlike a typical recreational summer camp, is...
View ArticleBroward Senator Files Legislation To Stop George Zimmerman Wannabes
The Stand Your Ground law will get hearings when the Florida Legislature convenes for regular business next month. But no significant changes in the law are expected. Lawmakers voted against holding a...
View ArticleFlorida Asked To Reimburse George Zimmerman For Court Costs
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than a month after he was acquitted on murder charges, George Zimmerman - or at least his lawyers - are headed back to court. Zimmerman is the Neighborhood Watch...
View ArticleProbation For George Zimmerman's Wife On Perjury Charge
"Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of acquitted murder suspect George Zimmerman, today pleaded guilty to a less serious form of perjury in a plea deal that requires her to serve one year of probation," the...
View ArticleAfter The Zimmerman Verdict: How Juries Are Chosen In Florida
The makeup of the George Zimmerman jury – six women, five of them white – got the attention of Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Miami when the jury acquitted Zimmerman in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin...
View ArticleWhy Changing Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law Remains Elusive
Prompted by a national outcry over George Zimmermans acquittal this summer in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Florida Senate committee gave approval Tuesday to minor changes in the states stand...
View ArticleNo More Guns For Neighborhood Watch In Sanford, Fla.
The police chief in Sanford, Fla., where neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012, will unveil rules next week that stress "volunteers are...
View ArticleFlorida House Dems Back Senate Tweaks of Stand Your Ground
Florida House Democrats met with reporters Wednesday to say they don't want to turn Thursday’s Stand Your Ground hearing into a publicity stunt. The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee will take up a...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin Foundation Plans Events To Honor Teenager
It’s been nearly two years since Trayvon Martin of Miami Gardens was fatally shot while walking home in Sanford, Fla. This weekend a peace walk and a remembrance dinner are planned to celebrate the...
View ArticleWhat To Make Of The Michael Dunn Case And Stand Your Ground
"The Daily Show" on Comedy Central takes note of the irony of the Michael Dunn verdict occurring during Black History Month. The Michael Dunn case has been compared to George Zimmerman's: Both involved...
View ArticleStand Your Ground Law Under Fire, But Likely To Remain
Civil-rights leader Al Sharpton led a crowd of about 1,000 people to the Florida Capitol on Monday, demanding that Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature fix or repeal the "stand your ground" self-defense...
View ArticleRemembering Fallen Young Men With "RIP T-shirts"
They come to put their dead relatives and friends on a T-shirt. A young woman clutches a photo of her murdered 16-year-old brother. He grins at the camera, his right hand clutching a gun. Three young...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin Foundation Finds Home At Florida Memorial University
The Trayvon Martin Foundation now has a home at Florida Memorial University. The foundation was started by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of the Miami Gardens teen who was shot and killed...
View ArticleDream Defenders Get Attention With Bulletproof Vest Campaign
The activist group Dream Defenders was founded in Florida two and a half years ago after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford. The group has taken on causes largely related to gun violence,...
View Article#ShutItDown, #BlackLivesMatter Protest Of Police Killings Blocks Art Basel...
Protests in Miami and Fort Lauderdale shared the spotlight with Art Basel this weekend. During Friday rush hour, around 400 people gathered in Midtown Miami, eventually moving to completely block...
View ArticleFebruary 26, 2015: Travyon Martin's Parents Vow To Keep His Memory Alive
Today on WLRN-Miami Herald News, you heard...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman Supporting Gun Shop That Bans Muslims
George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, has picked up a paintbrush to help a Florida gun shop owner who has banned...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman Auctioning Off Gun He Used To Kill Trayvon Martin
Updated 6:15 p.m. ET George Zimmerman, who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and was acquitted of all charges in the case, said Thursday that he was auctioning off the gun that...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin's Parents Pen A New Book About Their Son's Life And Legacy
Trayvon Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, emerged as activists after their son’s death--saying that justice was not served.
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Finds 'Renewed Focus' 5 Years After Trayvon Martin
It's been five years since the death of Trayvon Martin — and the outrage that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. Martin — 17 years old, black and unarmed — was shot by George Zimmerman, a...
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