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Eggs Are People Too! (Trayvon Martin, Healthcare Policy, Reproductive Rights, Law, The Constitution)

Today's “right to life” rhetoric is a bizarre cross between the theological imperative to be fruitful and multiply and the fetishism of microbiological cellular promise.

Patricia J. Williams
Trayvon Martin
Justice for Trayvon Martin (Trayvon Martin)

Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law puts the threshold for self-defense so low that major questions in this case will likely go unanswered.

Mychal Denzel Smith

Blogs

How Not to Talk to White Parents
Aura Bogado

What was a developing national conversation about race is fast vanishing. 

September 3, 2013
Introducing Zimmerman Drones
Tom Tomorrow

Standing your ground has never been so easy.

July 23, 2013
Obama Uses a Teaching Moment to Challenge 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
John Nichols

The president is right to encourage a rethink of laws that are not "contributing to the kind of peace and security and order that we’d like to see.”

July 20, 2013
Whose Right? Whose Ground?
Laura Flanders

Juror B37 told CNN that fear in the “heat of the moment” made the shooting of Martin an act of self-defense. But Ziimmerman’s heated moment was short. Trayvon Martin’s was very long.

July 18, 2013
Rewriting Black Manhood: A Conversation With 'Fruitvale Station' Director Ryan Coogler
Mychal Denzel Smith

The 27-year-old director of the film adaptation of Oscar Grant’s shooting talked to me about the obstacles facing young black men in America today.

July 18, 2013
Outrage Is Rising Against Stand Your Ground
John Nichols

Attorney General Holder, civil rights groups, legislators and newspapers seek a reconsideration of “shoot first” laws—and Stevie Wonder won't play "Stand Your Ground" states.

July 16, 2013
Patricia Williams: How Did Trayvon Martin Become the Defendant in the Zimmerman Case?
Nation in the News

This case was handled poorly from the second the police arrived at the scene of the murder.

July 15, 2013
Mychal Denzel Smith: Why George Zimmerman's Acquittal Has Everything to Do With Race
Nation in the News

After the decision, protesters took to the streets to demand justice for the killing of Trayvon Martin.

July 15, 2013
Trayvon Martin: From Lament to Rallying Cry
Mychal Denzel Smith

To everyone who says we must respect the verdict: How long are we supposed to remain calm when the laws we are called to respect exist in an open assault on our humanity?

July 15, 2013
Domestic Violence and George Zimmerman's Defense
Salamishah Tillet

George Zimmerman's prior violence against girls and women was an overlooked and unchecked predictor of his killing of Trayvon Martin.

July 15, 2013
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