Dream Defenders

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February 25, 2022
The killing of this baby-faced, hoodie-wearing, unarmed Florida youth at the hands of a stranger still reverberates after a decade.
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January 22, 2019
A group of Miami youths participating in a demonstration were exposed to a racist n-word tirade when a woman confronted…
February 7, 2016
Jay Z's streaming music platform Tidal is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter, as well as other social justice…
October 17, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - An activist group in Florida recently launched video ads and a billboard promoting a so-called new clothing…
February 3, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Agnew established the Dream Defenders after he led a many-man 40-mile march from Daytona Beach to Sanford,…
January 5, 2014
MSNBC - Dream Defenders executive director Phillip Agnew told host Melissa Harris-Perry on Saturday that the organization plans to focus…
December 9, 2013
OPINION - In the coming days, as we begin to chronicle his life in various news stories and opinion columns,…
December 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In April 2012, ALEC saw defections by several major corporate donors as it attracted scrutiny over the…
August 29, 2013
MSNBC - As Wednesday’s 'Let Freedom Ring' ceremony commenced, the Dream Defenders’ executive director, Phillip Agnew, was cut from the…
August 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Actor/singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte talks about President Obama's current foreign policies and says 'Dr.…
August 25, 2013
For the next 16 hours the group rumbled up I-95 and the eastern seaboard toward Washington and a date with…
August 16, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Protesters angered by the acquittal of George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin's killing are leaving the Florida…
August 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Florida Representative tasked with chairing the 'Stand Your Ground' hearings, Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach), said…
August 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Talib Kweli, who is known for being a politically conscious rapper, will travel to Tallahassee to spend…
August 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - What may have begun as a local crime story or something that governor may have hoped would…
August 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In wake of the Trayvon Martin murder trial, movements led by young people who embrace hoodies, tattoos,…
July 31, 2013
OPINION - if anyone knows if Jay-Z’s quote “my presence is charity” has any truth to it, it is Harry…
July 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - After drafting Trayvon’s Law, the Dream Defenders plan to register Florida voters in support of their proposals…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Over 100 young adults rallied outside of the Florida state capitol urging Gov. Rick Scott to address…