Can Florida stick to its guns?
In 2010, Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three, fired a warning shot to scare off her abusive husband during a row at her home, in Florida, hitting a wall. After deliberating for 12 minutes,...
View ArticleFidlar: Fidlar – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 FIDLAR FIDLAR Wichita Recordings 2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album Their name derives from a skater acronym – fuck it dog, life's a risk....
View ArticleThe 'frickin'' Wolf of Wall Street: swearing and the art of overdubbing
Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, which features the F-word (and its derivatives) 506 times. Photograph: Moviestore/REX Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street contains...
View ArticleJusticeForTrayvon: Twitter’s Most Poignant Zimmerman Verdict Tweets
As the hashtag #JusticeForTrayvon trends on Twitter and rallies are organized across the nation in response to the George Zimmerman verdict, it seems fitting that social media is the litmus test for...
View ArticleJay-Z Didn’t Sleep For Two Days After Trayvon Martin Verdict [Video]
Rapper Jay-Z says the Trayvon Martin case and the subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman hit him hard — and that he didn’t sleep for two days after the shock “not guilty” verdict rattled many...
View ArticleZIMMERMAN TRIAL Jurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate...
View ArticleObama urges calm after trial of George Zimmerman for death of Trayvon Martin
US President Barack Obama has appealed to Americans for restraint, after protests and outrage from civil rights activists over the acquittal of a man who gunned down an unarmed black teenager. A...
View ArticleJurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder
Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate across the U.S. over...
View ArticleZimmerman case requires clear-eyed reflection
In the wake of murder defendant George Zimmerman's acquittal, President Barack Obama rightly sought to cool the reaction, which boiled over violently in too many places, including in Oakland. "We are a...
View ArticleFlorida verdict re-opens debate over Oklahoma law
It's been seven years since the Oklahoma Legislature overwhelmingly passed a measure that expanded a person's right to defend themselves with deadly force when threatened or attacked. But a state...
View ArticleThe US supreme court thinks racism is dead. It isn't
Voting activists at the US supreme court. ‘Quashing racist laws does not eliminate racism, only its explicit and codified enforcement.’ Photograph: MCT /Landov/Barcroft In 1999 apartheid's last leader,...
View ArticleJurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder
Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate across the U.S. over...
View ArticleTrial for killing of unarmed Florida teenager echoes Trayvon Martin case
The Florida state attorney Angela Corey, who prosecuted George Zimmerman, is also handling the Michael Dunn case. Photograph: Rick Wilson/AP Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman begins round of TV interviews on Univision
George Zimmerman at a legal hearing. Photograph: Joe Burbank/AP George Zimmerman, the Florida neighbourhood watch leader who last year was acquitted of murdering the teenager Trayvon Martin in a case...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman not guilty: Jurors had to sort out clashing testimony from...
SANFORD, Fla. — Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate...
View ArticleJurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder
Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate across the U.S. over...
View ArticleZimmerman verdict reaffirms the special burden of black men
Nobody else was there. Confusion and ignorance about what exactly happened in the final seconds before George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, are so great that nobody can...
View ArticleThe US supreme court thinks racism is dead. It isn't
Voting activists at the US supreme court. ‘Quashing racist laws does not eliminate racism, only its explicit and codified enforcement.’ Photograph: MCT /Landov/Barcroft In 1999 apartheid's last leader,...
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