After Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s historic and heroic 1967 Beyond Vietnam speech, where he opposed the U.S. war in Southeast Asia, he received a barrage of criticism from editorial boards, donors and even other civil rights leaders. Ralph Bunche (who in 1950 became the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize) told the New York Times,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama kept his own counsel after the six women deciding whether George Zimmerman deserved prison time for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin delivered their verdict, releasing just a written statement appealing for calm the day after the ex-neighborhood watchman had been cleared of all charges. But the president ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- One week after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, rallies are scheduled in 100 cities to press for civil rights charges against the former neighborhood watch leader. Zimmerman claimed self-defense after shooting Martin during an altercation. The case has become a flashpoint ...

As protests in US cities continue against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of African-American Trayvon Martin, a jury in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, started a similar case earlier in the week. The defendant, who is a 76-year-old white man, shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in May 2012. John Spooner acknowledged that he shot Darius ...

Police arrested 17 people Wednesday night in the US state of California who were protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman by a court in Florida. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida last year, after a nighttime confrontation. The Los Angeles Times reported that the protesters ...

Iran has dismissed the recent court verdict exonerating the US security guard who killed unarmed African American teenager Trayvon Martin as a blatant example of racial discrimination. The acquittal of the murderer of the teenage African American once again clearly demonstrated the unwritten but systematic racial discrimination against racial, religious ...

While the nation was fixated on the trial of George Zimmerman, who Saturday was acquitted in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, many were left wondering when the media would tell their similarly tragic stories of lives lost to gun violence. Over the duration of the trial, over 50 people's lives came to an end in shootings in Chicago ...

Americans are expected to hold rallies in 100 cities across the United States to press the government over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed unarmed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin last year. "People all across the country will gather to show that we are not having a two- or three-day anger fit. This is a social movement ...

Every criminal jury trial Ive ever attended began with the prosecutor, the defense attorney, the judge, or all three of them telling the jury that what is about to unfold is a search for the truth, and it is the jurys job to decide whether the prosecutor or the defense is telling the true story. That is, of course, not the least bit true, and everyone ...

U.S. President Barack Obama released a statement Sunday on the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin, urging Americansto respect the court verdictand act to stem the tide of gun violence in America. Here is Obamas full statement as reported by the Huffington Post: The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy....

[caption id="attachment_39068" align="alignright" width="210"] A trash fire burns in the middle of Telegraph Avenue near 17th Street during a protest march in Oakland, Calif., early Sunday July 14, 2013.[/caption] The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin is symptomatic of a very racist society that the United ...