george zimmerman
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you are white in America, the idea that black equals danger is a familiar thing. - For much of white America, the idea that Trayvon Martin was innocent is a threat, because it means they aren't, says Leonard Pitts.
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- George Zimmerman's sale of the gun that killed Trayvon Martin debases African-American lives, Leonard Pitts writes.
- This week: George Zimmerman auctions gun he used in shooting death of Trayvon Martin, users reimagine young adult books and #BlackDerbyHorseNames.
- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Thursday declined to say whether she hoped to see the trials of the officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray moved outside the city, adding "I have no dog in that fight."
- As a black child growing up in America, receiving "the talk" is inevitable. Not the talk about where babies really come from, but the talk that brings you to reality—and that talk comes in stages. I remember walking home with my mother as a young child. She came to pick me up from my grandmother's house right off Harford Road and 25th Street and we walked down 25th, under the train tracks and to our house on Aisquith Street in East Baltimore. We began to talk on the way there. I can't
- Baltimore police shot and tased a man Sunday afternoon on the city's west side after police attempted to stop the vehicle the suspect was traveling in.
- If black lives matter, why are so many black men killing each other?
- Blacks and whites need to wake up to racial injustice, says Leonard Pitts.
- With the parents of Michael Brown in his congregation, the pastor of a North Baltimore AME church announced an initiative Sunday aimed at educating people on what they should and should not do when stopped by police
- I am African-American. Each time a cab zooms past to pick up a white passenger instead of me, each time I walk into a company dressed for a meeting and reception directs me to the messenger entrance I am reminded. We have a problem. It's a problem that is not just about race, but also about social and economic class. It is about automatic assumptions made on first sight, with little or no rational thought.
- Benjamin Jealous' legacy at the NAACP is hardly laudable, nor is his successor a universally admired pick.
- I feel like my husband and I are in the midst of this never-ending war, the same war that my parents and my grandparents fought. It is the same war that black people have been fighting in this country since American slavery was first legalized. This war is simply to keep our boys safe in a society that devalues them, suspects them, fears them and often dismisses them. It is a war that I now fear I am losing.
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- Tens of thousands of marchers, including many from Baltimore, converged on Washington Saturday to celebrate the upcoming anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and to urge action on jobs, voting rights and gun violence.
- McDonough to propose 'stand your ground' law
- Sherrilyn Ifill writes that 50 years after the seminal event of the civil rights era, the work is still unfinished
- Musician's conservative views have made more headlines than music in recent years
- This episode was about trying to give some depth to the characters, from Will's relationship with his father to Jim and Maggie
- If Councilman Nick Mosby has his way, Baltimore government would boycott Florida-based businesses in protest to the state's stand-your-ground law after George Zimmerman's acquittal.
- 'National Night Out' and similar efforts to unite neighbors against crime are not only helpful, they are essential
- Zimmerman verdict shows dangers of 'Stand Your Ground' for African-Americans
- Jonah Goldberg says national media didn't get the verdict they wanted, so they're going after 'stand your ground' as a consolation prize
- The Sun continues to fan the flames of racial tension from the Trayvon Martin case.
- Reforming the criminal system to protect black youths is best way to honor Trayvon Martin's memory
- "Americanah" spent a week on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover fiction
- When peace activists face prison and killers walk, something is wrong in America
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- The state had no case against George Zimmerman, and that's why he was acquitted.
