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ATLANTA (AP) — One week after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, people gathered for nationwide rallies to press for change…
OPINION – The first thing I wanted to do when I heard that George Zimmerman was going to walk free and clear in the killing of Trayvon Martin (besides scream, weep, and curl in a ball) was talk to my father…
theGRIO VIDEO – Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old friend of Trayvon Martin, and the last person to talk to him in the minutes before he was shot and killed last year, sat down with theGrio.com Tuesday…
OPINION – The mood following the verdict in the case of Florida v. George Zimmerman is not politics as usual…
theGRIO VIDEO – Following her two days of testimony, Jeantel was subjected to ridicule online, including by Olympic athlete Lolo Jones, who compared her to the Tyler Perry character Madea…
OPINION – ‘Not guilty.’ For just a moment the very words hung in the air of the courtroom, stunning everyone into silence…
theGRIO REPORT – When news like the recent Zimmerman verdict is handed down, it’s not uncommon that disheartened African-Americans consider packing up and leaving the United States altogether…
OPINION – The outrage over the killing of an unarmed black teenager who was doing nothing wrong must continue until some semblance of justice is achieved…
OPINION – George Zimmerman followed the unarmed Trayvon Martin, ignored an emergency dispatcher’s warning not to follow him and shot the teen dead. Yet, Zimmerman walked free…
SANFORD, Fla. — Police Chief Cecil Smith drew a mix of high-fives and heckles as he walked down the main thoroughfare of Goldsboro, a historic black neighborhood at the heart of this Florida town…
OPINION – There are five likely scenarios that still could unfold as this trial draws to a conclusion, even if the prosecution fails to meet the burden for second degree murder…
theGRIO REPORT – Following the controversial Supreme Court decision to overturn a core provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, some state legislatures are welcoming the opportunity to enact changes to their voter identification laws…
theGRIO REPORT – The photo, by Zimmerman attorney Don West on Tuesday, using his daughter’s cellphone, was posted to 23-year-old Molly West’s Instagram account on Wednesday, including the caption: ‘We beat stupidity celebration cones’…
OPINION – What makes people racist is their unwillingness to acknowledge it in the first place combined with an unwillingness to take action to change—exactly what you keep doing…
theGRIO REPORT – The daughter of one of the attorneys representing George Zimmerman in his second degree murder trial has closed her Twitter account after posting a photo and caption some are calling inappropriate…
OPINION – It’s ironic that musicians themselves – including those that performed ‘Dancing in the Street’ – have silently suffered a decades-long economic injustice: that terrestrial AM/FM radio stations don’t pay them a penny to use their music…
theGRIO REPORT – The media, the New Black Panthers, Eric Holder and Rev. Al Sharpton — even the Florida governor and its attorney general, few are spared in a newly released e-book by Robert Zimmerman Sr…