Trayvon Martin | Trayvon Martin
Feb.22.2013
For those who believe "forensics, not feelings" should be the basis of the U.S. legal system, Chicago Trib columnist Eric Zorn offers a look at a new book: "Intermediate Range," a 254-page paperback in which first-time author Michael Knox, a former detective with the Jacksonville (Fla.) sheriff'...
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Dec.23.2012
This is the longest I have ever been away. Almost a month now and I am a witness to how time flies. The last month has been exhausting to say the least. Every night when I crawl into bed my brain has thoughts of events of the day and what I should do. What I should do is to always write. I needed...
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Dec.20.2012
The nation has reacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School where children were killed by a young man walking around with a legal automatic weapon, procured from his mother's house.
I liked it better when I thought of towns called Newton and thought of Fig Newtons, named after Newton...
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Sep.21.2012
Mosaic poster of executed Savannah native Troy Anthony Davis. (Courtesy of NAACP)
From the time he was first placed on trial for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989 until his death by execution one year ago, September 21, 2011, more questions than answers...
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May.21.2012
Write this down if you need to.
Tweet it to yourself.
Put it on your Facebook wall, never to be deleted from your ever-growing and cluttered timeline.
Memorize it.
Trayvon Martin is not an inkblot, the meaning of which is yours to interpret.
He is not a walking Rorschach, whom one is free to see...
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May.10.2012
Eighteen. That’s how many black people are murdered per day in America.. If you don’t have the misfortune to live near one of those eighteen, you didn’t hear about any of them.
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Apr.15.2012
Tracy Martin, Jahvaris Fulton, and Sybrina Fulton, the family of slain teenager Trayvon Martin. (photo by Benjamin Myers/Reuters)
Florida State Attorney Angela Corey’s announcement April 11 that George Zimmerman had been arrested on charges of second-degree murder for the shooting of...
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Apr.01.2012
Ask anyone with a teenage son to imagine their 17-year old child running home from the store in the rain with a bag of snacks and being followed and and eventually chased by a stranger. Imagine the pursuer is 10 years older, 20 pounds heavier, armed with a weapon and deems your child a threat...
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Mar.29.2012
Here is my piece published by the Christian Science Monitor on the Trayvon Martin killing. The piece argues that before we rush to judgement in this case we should let due process play out. Even though Zimmerman has avoided arrest and indictment, the episode is far from over. The public outcry is...
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Mar.27.2012
For a while now we’ve known that there were significant numbers of white Americans who wanted to “take their country back” to some mythical period of the nation’s hagiographic past. We’ve known it because they’ve told us so, as often and endlessly as their lungs will allow.
Little did we realize...
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