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Mychal Denzel Smith March 19, 2012 Here’s what we know: Trayvon Martin is dead. On February 26, during halftime of the NBA All-Star game, the 17-year-old high school junior went to a nearby store in the Orlando suburb where he was visiting his father and stepmother in order to buy some candy for his younger…

Trayvon Martin’s murder has inspired a call for a ‘Million Hoody March’ in New York City on Wednesday, March 21st in Union Square from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — An unarmed black teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain told his girlfriend he was being followed shortly before the confrontation that killed him, a lawyer said Tuesday as federal and state prosecutors announced they would investigate. “‘Oh he’s right behind me, he’s right behind me again,’” 17-year-old Trayvon…

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com. Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation’s “triumph over race.”  Obama’s election has been touted as the final nail in the coffin…

aColorLines’ Thoai Lu is reporting that the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that as of 2008, there were more than  846,000 black men in prison, making up 40.2 percent of all inmates in  the system. The article highlights a recent talk given by author Michelle Alexander, who puts those numbers in context. Alexander, author…

As we prepare to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day, a new research study has served as a wake up call for a community that might have gone too far. The Center for Disease Control now estimates that 1 out of every 32 black women will be infected with HIV during her lifetime.…