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George Zimmerman
August 31, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Far-Right Militias Are Learning Impunity From the Cops
Trump’s supporters in law enforcement and government play Kenosha as both a threat of what’s to come and an invitation to join in.
June 22, 2017
Magazine
Mychal Denzel Smith
A Grief Observed
From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning.
February 27, 2015
Cristian Farias
Eric Holder Wants to Lower the Bar for Civil Rights Prosecutions. That's Trickier Than It Sounds.
February 25, 2015
Cristian Farias
Why Is It So Hard to Prove a Civil Rights Crime?
The Zimmerman case reveals the limits of the law—and foreshadows the Ferguson outcome
August 18, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Right-Wing Response to Ferguson Is Depressingly Predictable
July 22, 2013
Steven Hahn
How Obama's Trayvon Comments Compare to Kennedy and Johnson's Race Speeches
July 20, 2013
John McWhorter
No More "Conversations"
We don't need to talk about race. We need to end racial profiling.
July 17, 2013
John McWhorter
The End of Racial Demagoguery
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are so over
July 16, 2013
Richard Thompson Ford
The Law that Acquitted Zimmerman Isn't Racist
But that doesn't mean the outcome wasn't
July 16, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Why There's Hope in the Zimmerman Verdict's Aftermath
July 15, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Michael Steele: Zimmerman Trial Was Not the Place for a Race Debate
July 15, 2013
Adam Kirsch
What Would James Agee Say About the George Zimmerman Trial?
July 25, 2012
Molly Redden
Meet Mark Pocan, the Original ALEC Spy
April 20, 2012
Timothy Noah
“I Did Not Know If He Was Armed Or Not”
April 17, 2012
John McWhorter
The Case for Televising the Trayvon Martin Trial: America Needs a Re-Do of the O.J. Case
April 15, 2012
Mark Schmitt
A Surprisingly Effective New Path to Neutralizing the Political Influence of Big Business
April 3, 2012
John McWhorter
The Haunting Ordinariness of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman
March 29, 2012
Thomas Stackpole
Did Zimmerman’s Own Gun Make Him Think Trayvon Was Dangerous?
March 22, 2012
Timothy Noah
Trayvon Martin's Imaginary Weapon
March 20, 2012
John McWhorter
What a Florida Teenager’s Death Tells Us About Being Black in America
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