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Trayvon
Lawyer For Trayvon’s Parents Says He Fears For ‘Black And Brown’ Children
Tells Why ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Must Be Amended
(Trice Edney Wire) - Benjamin Crump, the passionate Tallahassee, Florida lawyer, who represents the...
From Conversation To Action: After Trayvon
(Trice Edney Wire) - President Barack Obama eloquently described the agony experienced among African-Americans from the slaying of Trayvon Martin. He called for a...
Congressional Black Caucus Takes A Stand Against ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Instead of waiting for the Justice Department to decide whether it will bring federal charges against George Zimmerman trial, a neighborhood...
Boycott Florida: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By Ron Daniels
NNPA Guest Columnist
In a recent article I called for economic sanctions against Florida to compel business and political leaders in that state...
Morial Calls For New Civil Rights Movement
PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – National Urban League President Marc H. Morial has called for “a new civil rights movement,” one that will focus on economic ...
Conservatives Blast Obama As A Race-Baiter For Trayvon Comments
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Blacks lauded President Obama for speaking so frankly about what it’s like to be Black in America, conservatives used the...
Trayvon’s Mother: ‘Use My Broken Heart’ To Prevent Future Tragedies
PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – With her voice laced with emotion, Sybrina Fulton, the soft-spoken mother of Trayvon Martin, urged delegates to the National Urban League’s...
Black Clergy Stand Their Ground Against Zimmerman Verdict
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Just as they did during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, last Saturday’s demonstrations in more than 100 cities around...
Jesse Jackson: ‘There Is A Trayvon In Every Town’
By James Harper
Special to the NNPA from the Florida Courier
ORLANDO, Fla. – The shadow of the George Zimmerman trial still was hovering over the...
Blacks Are The ‘Other’ Americans
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
NNPA Columnist
I was told a story the other night. Apparently on the evening of the Zimmerman acquittal, in a bar in...