Opinion

How Obama’s Trayvon Martin remarks fit into fabric of presidential history

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‘We Are Not Trayvon Martin’ Tumblr springs up as space for whites to share sympathy with Martin supporters

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The surprising success of Obama’s Travyon speech

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Salon columnist asks if Holder is Obama’s ‘inner ni**er’

OPINION - The president made history Friday, in a nearly 18 minute address, delivered off-prompter, and from the gut...
/ July 21, 2013

White America, the George Zimmerman trial, and the power of denial

OPINION - Black America is still grieving the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, and the sense that racial profiling…
/ July 21, 2013

Op-ed: A 16-year-old asks, ‘What is a kid’s life worth?’

OPINION - Trayvon Martin was an ordinary 17-year-old boy, living an ordinary life. He was not a criminal. The only…
/ July 20, 2013

Coping with the Zimmerman verdict, through letters from my incarcerated father

OPINION - The first thing I wanted to do when I heard that George Zimmerman was going to walk free…
/ July 20, 2013

The roots of Detroit’s bankruptcy

OPINION - Detroit may be the first major U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, but it may not be the…
/ July 20, 2013

I could have been Trayvon Martin

ESSAY - At the end of the George Zimmerman trial, those long suppressed memories made an unwelcomed hello...
/ July 18, 2013

What if Zimmerman were black? ‘Stand Your Ground’ double standards exposed

OPINION - What if the races of the defendant and the victim were reversed in the George Zimmerman murder trial?...
/ July 18, 2013

Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till and the shadow of Jim Crow justice

OPINION - The mood following the verdict in the case of Florida v. George Zimmerman is not politics as usual...
/ July 17, 2013

Twerk, Miley Cyrus, twerk: Rap’s tired infatuation with white girls

OPINION - As mainstream rap music and white women fade color lines with mutual exploitation, who is really winning?...
/ July 17, 2013

How race and racial stereotypes swayed the Zimmerman trial jury

OPINION - I hope that someday race will not be a factor in how we arrest, prosecute and ultimately judge…
/ July 17, 2013

On Trayvon Martin and other racial issues, Holder speaks out in ways Obama does not

ANALYSIS - Holder, the first-ever black attorney general, has not made racial issues the sole focus of his often-embattled five…
/ July 16, 2013

‘Not guilty’ verdict is a moral injustice to Trayvon Martin

OPINION - 'Not guilty.' For just a moment the very words hung in the air of the courtroom, stunning everyone…
/ July 16, 2013