Sarah Childress, for Frontline: “The Florida killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen earlier this year, has brought national attention to the laws that allow people to use lethal force to defend themselves.
At least 20 states have laws with p…
Jamila Aisha Brown writes for The Guardian: “Trayvon Martin’s murder and subsequent profiling have been likened by some to the lynchings of black men that stained American history during the 19th and 20th centuries, casting him as a latter-day Emmett Til…
Eva Paterson writes for the Equal Justice Society blog: “The twelve members of my Black women’s reading group had just sat down to dinner outside at the end of a beautiful day. We were on a weekend retreat in Mendocino County, and a feast had been prepar…
Salamishah Tillet writes for The Nation: “The New York Times’s Charles Blow was right when he said this comparison was a ‘bit loaded because the cases are miles apart in the details and circumstances.’ But I do think there was one crucial link between Si…
Sherrilyn A. Ifill writes in an opinion piece for The New York Times: “Whatever the court decides, students, parents, universities and leaders will continue to fight for diversity, because they recognize, as a majority of the court did in 2003, that the…