In a 99-cent AriZona Iced Tea can, echoes of childhood autonomy and fleeting freedoms AriZona Iced Tea has long been a symbol of childhood autonomy and simple pleasures The Independent UK · Oct 2
An HBCU has banned durags and bonnets. That reinforces anti-Blackness Tuskegee University’s dress code is a marker of a harmful politics of respectability. In my academic career, it’s become all too familiar The Guardian - US · Aug 11
The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – US courts often can’t deliver In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan citizens who spoke no English and very little Spanish. They spoke Mam, an Indigenous Mayan language. The Conversation · Jun 12
Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak The Guardian - US · May 13
Florida’s new open carry ruling combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.” The Conversation · Nov 17, 2025
‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police bodycam film The Perfect Neighbor Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2025
Black home schoolers push back against racist, unregulated curricula: ‘They called slavery immigration’ As more Black families opt out of public schools, they’re confronting the racist materials dominating the home education market and building alternatives The Guardian - US · Jul 17, 2025
Daniel Penny’s acquittal reveals ‘double standard’ about white vigilante crime In longstanding pattern in the US, white killers are celebrated and Black victims denigrated, experts say The Guardian - US · Dec 10, 2024
Brooke Schofield Addresses Resurfaced Racist Tweets With A Classic Influencer Apology Video Brooke Schofield has come under fire again after liking a post of Trump days after posting her apology for resurfaced racist tweets. Pedestrian.tv · Aug 8, 2024
TikTok star Brooke Schofield apologizes for ‘disgusting’ resurfaced racist tweets Internet personality apologizes after racially insensitive tweets, specifically regarding the death of Trayvon Martin, resurface The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2024
"Origin" makes injustice feel personal The director of "13th" connects Isabel Wilkerson's story to the vast thesis of her acclaimed 2020 non-fiction book Salon · Jan 26, 2024
‘License to kill’: How ‘Stand Your Ground’ gun laws are fuelling random shootings and racism across the US Josh Marcus reports on a growing body of laws making it easier to ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023
El Video Del Dniversario De Trayvon Martin Genera Controversia Sobre La Edición Engañosa El New York Times acusado de calumniar y provocar tensiones raciales con una edición engañosa en el video de Trayvon Martin. Zenger · Jul 27, 2023
Trayvon Martin Anniversary Video Sparks Controversy Over Misleading Editing New York Times accused of slandering and stirring racial tensions with deceptive editing in Trayvon Martin video. Zenger · Jul 27, 2023
The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2023 Black Lives Matter movement to mark 10 years of activism, renews call to defund the police The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death
Evening Standard · Jul 5, 2023 Black Lives Matter 10-year anniversary: Why was it founded and what has changed? The international movement took off after the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012
The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2023 White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor is arrested in Florida The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says a Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday
The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2023 Sheriff probes 'self defense' claim of white woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in front of kids A Florida sheriff says detectives must investigate self-defense claims before any criminal charges can be brought against a white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud
Reason · Apr 25, 2023 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Are Back in the News, but It's Not Clear Why The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.
Los Angeles Times · Apr 21, 2023 Wrong-place shootings put 'stand your ground' laws in the spotlight They were shot after pulling into the wrong driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car in a parking lot.
The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023 Distrust in America: Small mistakes, deep fear — and gunfire In suburban Detroit, it was a lost 14-year-old looking for directions
The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2023 Ralph Yarl shooting: Can a doorbell ring justify a ‘stand your ground’ shooting? A Missouri law allowing people to defend themselves in their homes could come into play in the shooting of a Black 16-year-old in Kansas City
The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2023 Can a doorbell ring justify a 'stand your ground' shooting? A Missouri law allowing people to defend themselves in their homes could come into play in the shooting of a Black 16-year-old in Kansas City
WEKU · Apr 18, 2023 2 shootings at mistaken addresses have renewed the focus on 'stand your ground' laws Stand your ground laws have proliferated in the years since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager killed in 2012. Research shows the laws have led to an increase in firearm homicides.
Salon · Apr 12, 2023 Greg Abbott's rush to pardon a murderer From Kyle Rittenhouse to George Zimmerman, Republicans reveal a lot with the accused killers they support