Martin Trayvon

Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington yesterday commemorating the 50th anniversary of his “I Have a Dre(...)

Tens of thousands of marchers converged on Washington DC on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr’s “I ha(...)

Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling this week that New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy is tantamount to racial profiling has whipped up much debate. But(...)

Trayvon Martin’s parents were due to lead demonstrations in New York and Miami today, as protesters across the country rallied to express anger over (...)

US president Barack Obama made the most extensive comments on race of his presidential years as he responded yesterday to the fury of African-American(...)

In 2010, Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three, fired a warning shot to scare off her abusive husband during a row at her home, in Florida,(...)

President Barack Obama jumped into the debate over the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, declaring that Martin “c(...)

The acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer, for the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17 year-old African-American,(...)

George Zimmerman’s acquittal of the murder of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin and the responding protests in major US cities have reheated the d(...)

Political pressure has grown on the Obama administration to bring a federal prosecution against George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murdering the u(...)