Comedian Kathy Griffin took part in a virtual march on Washington Saturday, the kind a celebrity can partake in without leaving their comfy abode. Griffin donned a hoodie to honor the late Florida teen as part of the Aug. 24 protest
The cousin of Emmett Till said Saturday that it was “crying time again” in America, because George Zimmerman “stalked another American” who was shot and “died like a dog,” but a jury found him not guilty. Speaking at the “Realize
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Secretary of State Colin Powell reflects on the verdict from George Zimmerman’s trial in the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin: “I think that it will be seen as a questionable judgment on the part
In response to The Racial Tit-for-Tat of Crime Reporting: I would agree that pointlessly dwelling on the race of the perpetrators in the recent spate of black-on-white crimes would be wrong, Joel, but I don’t think it’s “pointless” at all.
Back when the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin story first exploded onto the national scene, with false accounts of a “white” shooter and edited 911 calls, we at Breitbart News made an editorial decision not to become involved in the racial tit-for-tat
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case in which George Zimmerman was found not guilty on all charges was “questionable.” Powell reportedly made his comments on CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday. According
On Saturday, Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights icon, used a rally that honored the 50th anniversary of the Reverend Doctor’s “I Have a Dream” to politicize and inject race into the tragic death of Trayvon Martin,
The District Attorney prosecuting the three teens for their alleged ‘thrill’ killing of college baseball player Christopher Lane has announced that the murder will not be pursued as a hate crime. Overtly racist statements made by one of the teens
After the outcry following the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman, most of the loudest voices among the so-called leaders of the black community remain silent on the subject of black-on-black crime. I tackle this issue today in the Atlanta
Allahpundit posted this Tuesday at Hot Air: This ad uses George Zimmerman’s voice from the 911 call he made to police and shows a man in a red jacket like the one he wore the night of the shooting. But
There’s an interesting article at Salon from writer Brian Beutler, who recounts at great length his harrowing experience after getting shot in D.C. several years ago, by a couple of thugs who wanted his cell phone. Movie action heroes shrug
If what he said on August 16 is any indication, Joe Scarborough feels that only politicians, not talk show hosts, should apologize when they call someone a name or give others a false impression of someone in the news. Scarborough’s
A Swiss sales assistant caught in the middle of Oprah Winfrey’s media racial firestorm claims that she’s tired of being bullied and lied about by the powerful billionaire and cable network owner. Speaking anonymously, the sales clerk Oprah has publicly
Many are asking questions about the silence from civil right “leaders” such as Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton about the recent beating of a white student by three black classmates on a Florida school bus, given their role
Earlier this week, Florida’s Sheriffs Association voted to support the state’s Stand Your Ground law in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman Trial. The association’s new president, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, announced it agreed to support the law without
A mural of a man who looks like George Zimmerman shooting a likeness of Trayvon Martin was unveiled Friday at the state Capitol of Florida. A mirror sits in the spot under a hoodie where Trayvon Martin’s face would be,
Film director Spike Lee says he has resolved the situation caused by his retweet of a Florida family’s address thought to belong to George Zimmerman, the man since acquitted in the self-defense shooting of teen Trayvon Martin. In a Reddit
Actor Samuel L. Jackson reacted like many of his Hollywood peers to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. An injustice had been done, essentially, via the acquittal. Now, Jackson is drawing attention
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both of whom immediately polarized the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, are being criticized for their silence about a vicious school bus beating in which three black teens mercilessly brutalized a white classmate last month.
For some reason, we’re back to having a debate over whether it was immoral to drop the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (I know the anniversary dates are what prompt the annual hand-wringing session. I just don’t get why
Rapper Ja Rule is free after spending two years in jail for tax evasion and possessing an illegal weapon. He quickly joined the national conversation on the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin as well as the problem of crime
Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade, who tweeted photos of himself in a hoodie after the death of Trayvon Martin, posed on the cover of the September issue of Ebony Magazine with his two sons in hoodies. The cover reads, “We Are
The torture and death of black teen Emmitt Till in 1955 stands as one of the most gruesome examples of racism in America. Here’s how History.com describes Till’s last hours on earth for the “crime” of flirting with a white
On Friday, Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling released a poll of Alaskans asking them whom they preferred for the presidency: Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, or George Zimmerman?
Comedian W. Kamau Bell told a pack of television reporters what the role of white people should be in cases like the George Zimmerman trial. The liberal host of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, who once announced that
