As MTV gears up for the 2013 Video Music Awards this weekend, street posters in Brooklyn featuring lyrics of scheduled act Kanye West, with images of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman have appeared.
The Game has a thing for body art. The Compton rapper’s latest tattoo is the hoodied face of murdered teen Trayvon Martin on the back of his lower right leg, which has led to at least some controversy. Also, the “Hate It Or Love It” rapper got a tattoo of late rapper/singer Nate Dogg (on the back […]
Trayvon Martin‘s shooting death last year in Florida sparked a number of nationwide debates surrounding racial profiling. Over the weekend, the NYPD’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” tactic was challenged by Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, who stated the practice unfairly targets people of color.
George Zimmerman was pulled over by police in Texas last Sunday morning (July 28), and told authorities he had a gun. Zimmerman lawfully owned the firearm used to shoot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year. After his acquittal on second-degree murder, the gun was ordered returned to the former neighborhood watch captain.
Rick Ross does not approve of you taking all those selfies. The Bawse drops a new single called “I Wonder Why.”
Racial tensions since the end of the George Zimmerman trial have been building nationwide. In Washington, D.C. over the weekend, a white man was beaten and robbed by a trio of Black men who allegedly used slain teen Trayvon Martin‘s death as the justification for the crime.
You knew “Black Twitter” wasn’t going to let Don Lemon’s “support” of Bill O’Reilly just slide. The #DonLemonLogic hashtag highlights what is at the heart of many’s issue with the CNN anchor’s recent comments–the oversimplification of the issue of race in America.
An interesting war of words has been brewing between veteran entertainer Harry Belafonte and Jay Z. Looking to diffuse the situation, Belafonte has asked for a private chat with Jay and his wife, Beyoncé , in order mend the rift.
George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin in a court of law. However, the sole non-white juror in the case, juror B29 aka Maddy, has come forward to say that Zimmerman “got away with murder.”
An interview between opinionated sports columnist Jason Whitlock and The Last Poets member Dahveed Nelson resulted in the gentlemen concluding that Trayvon Martin‘s death was the result of the current Hip-Hop landscape. Nelson’s group countered the considerable logic leap of Nelson and Whitlock in a timely written statement.
Just as he predicted upon shooting 13-year-old Darius Simmons last year, a judge has “thrown the book” at John Henry Spooner.
UPDATE: Zimmerman saved an entire family, versus one person, the Washington Post reports. George Zimmerman is out of hiding. Sort of. The formerly accused murderer was acquitted in the shooting of Trayvon Martin two weeks ago, and fell off the radar only to come back with a news headline of a different kind.
