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Last week I got a call from my mentor and friend Paradise Gray about my song, “Trayvon”(video below). He asked me what made me write the line, “George Zimmerman didn’t take his Ritalin”.  I told him other than the fact that it rhymed, a person that would profile, stalk, and kill a young unarmed man […]

22 year-old UNARMED Rekia Boyd was shot and killed by off-duty Chicago police officer Dante Servin near Douglas Park. Almost two months later, her killer still has not been charged with a crime. Boyd’s family wants JUSTICE!

George Zimmerman was released from jail last night on $150,000 bond. Zimmerman only had to put up 10 percent of that amount; thus it cost him $15,000 to get himself bailed out of jail while awaiting trial for the murder of an unarmed African American teenager.

20 year-old unarmed Bo Morrison was shot in the chest after being mistaken for an intruder. His shooter has not been charged; protected under a law called the ‘Castle Doctrine.’ Should his shooter be jailed, or was Bo in the wrong place at the wrong time?

By now, you’ve all heard of George Zimmerman’s problematic website. But seriously…who are his advisors? Everything about the website is odd. From the domain name to the choice of quotes: First this one, included on each page of the website: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do […]

Poor George Zimmerman? Some in the media actually want us to feel sorry for George Zimmerman. Yes, the self appointed neighborhood watch captain, habitual 911 caller, police officer assaulter, domestic abuser, black child stalker, 911 operator ignorer, racial slur user, and unarmed black teenager killer. The same George Zimmerman who still hasn’t been arrested after […]

The circumstances surrounding Wisconsin youth Bo Morrison’s tragic death has drawn comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case, and outrage from community members. Morrison was shot by Adam Kind, whose actions are protected under Wisconsin’s controversial “Castle Doctrine.”

The support for Trayvon Martin has been rather remarkable. The public has gone into their protest toolkit and hashtagged, blogged, marched, sent Skittles, and updated Facebook pictures accordingly. Even the POTUS, notoriously mum and/or known to toe borders on issues that concern race, went as far as to suggest that his male offspring would have […]

When Sybrina Fulton, proclaimed, “our son is your son,” to the crowd of protestors in Manhattan’s Union Square, she was speaking to the parents in the audience, she was speaking to humanity. Fulton and her ex-husband Travis Martin traveled to New York City from Sanford, Florida where their son, Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot dead […]

This period of time is very telling for the future trajectory of America. In the last decade, we’ve seen the murder of countless unarmed, innocent Black men and women in cities all over the United States. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit. We’ve lost the precious lives of Sean Bell, Oscar […]

Jasiri X tells the heartbreaking story of Trayvon Martin, a unarmed 17 yr old boy, who was shot and killed by Neighborhood Block Captain George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. George Zimmerman has to this date never been arrested or charged for the Murder of Trayvon. “Trayvon” was directed by Paradise Gray and co directed […]

According to the Huffington Post, the family of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin were lied to by police regarding the violent past of 28 year-old neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Martin last month “in self-defense,” after calling 911 to report the young man as “suspicious.”