Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both of whom immediately polarized the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, are being criticized for their silence about a vicious school bus beating in which three black teens mercilessly brutalized a white classmate last month.
For some reason, we’re back to having a debate over whether it was immoral to drop the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (I know the anniversary dates are what prompt the annual hand-wringing session. I just don’t get why
Rapper Ja Rule is free after spending two years in jail for tax evasion and possessing an illegal weapon. He quickly joined the national conversation on the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin as well as the problem of crime
Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade, who tweeted photos of himself in a hoodie after the death of Trayvon Martin, posed on the cover of the September issue of Ebony Magazine with his two sons in hoodies. The cover reads, “We Are
The torture and death of black teen Emmitt Till in 1955 stands as one of the most gruesome examples of racism in America. Here’s how History.com describes Till’s last hours on earth for the “crime” of flirting with a white
On Friday, Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling released a poll of Alaskans asking them whom they preferred for the presidency: Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, or George Zimmerman?
Comedian W. Kamau Bell told a pack of television reporters what the role of white people should be in cases like the George Zimmerman trial. The liberal host of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, who once announced that
Seventy-six percent not only tuned out the Zimmerman story, they didn’t even come close to buying the media’s phony racial narrative. A new poll now proves the media have lost the battle to smear “Stand Your Ground Laws.” By a
On Friday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced a national initiative it titles “Trayvon’s Law,” designed to “end racial profiling, repeal stand your ground laws, form effective civil complaint review boards to provide oversight of
The Dream Defenders have entered their sixteenth day of occupying the Florida Capitol building with support from Rev. Jesse Jackson. Gov. Rick Scott asked for an apology after Jackson made incendiary remarks. The group also began conducting their own mock
A New Orleans resident, MerrittLandry, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder for shooting a teenager, Marshal Coulter. Thefourteen-year-old victim reportedly had a history of thefts, according to his own motherand brother, and was seen casing Landry’s home, according to
Florida Governor Rick Scott wants an apology from race-focused activist Jesse Jackson for comments he made during a visit to the state in protest of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin. Jackson likened Florida
(AP) Police dashcam video released Wednesday shows George Zimmerman being pulled over and given a warning for speeding outside Dallas. A Florida jury acquitted him in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
The emotional and psychological toll that comes from being demonized by the media is often ignored by society as a whole. Having every detail of your life looked at and twisted into the most unfavorable spin possible places a heavy
Florida Gov. Rick Scott launched a broadside at Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday over Jackson’s inflammatory attacks on the state in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman acquittal for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Jackson said on Tuesday that Florida
On Wednesday, after international reports that George Zimmerman, acquitted over the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, was pulled over in Texas for speeding, the Zimmerman family released a statement excoriating the media for its attempts to trace Zimmerman’s whereabouts:
TMZ reports that on Sunday George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted earlier this month for the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, was stopped for speeding in Forney, Texas. The stop lasted about five minutes and Zimmerman was let go
Students in San Diego middle schools and high schools will soon be asked to participate in discussion of the George Zimmerman case. The school board voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow such discussions to take place. According to ABC 10,
When it comes to the sins committed by the mainstream media in their 18-month crusade to accomplish a media-lynching of George Zimmerman, we have seen countless new lows in an ocean of lows (including ABC News — more on that
The media’s misleading edits of statements connected to the Zimmerman trial continues. Now it seems to have extended to one of the jurors in the case. Yesterday Breitbart News noted the ABC interview with Juror B29. The big news was
Entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte blamed the Tea Party for increasing “racial animus” in the United States in an appearance with the Dream Defenders at the Florida State Capitol. In a response to a question from Breitbart News
High school basketball players from an AAU team from Atlanta called the Game Elite’s 17U squad decided that they wanted to make a statement after the George Zimmerman acquittal: they arrived in Las Vegas for a tournament and wore shirts
In an effort to explain away how criminal defense attorneys can do what they do, an op-ed in the Washington Post outlandishly sought to equate the acquitted Robert Zimmerman to accused serial rapist Ariel Castro and Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar
The U.K.’s Daily Mail has finally removed an article proven false by an exclusive interview with Breitbart News from their website, although no statement was provided to readers to inform them that the story had been based on a falsehood. The Daily Mail had
Those who showed up to evaluate basketball prospects at the Las Vegas Fab 48 also saw shirts featuring the words “I AM TRAYVON” on players just 11 days after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in his shooting death. Game Elite’s 17-year-old
The anger being directed at George Zimmerman has spilled over into death threats against a man with a similar name in Florida. George Zimmermann (two n’s) is a retired pastor living in Florida’s Volusia county. He is 78 years old.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has scheduled a Congressional hearing on July 30 to discuss “race and justice” issues in the context of the George Zimmerman trial. The hearing, otherwise known as “A Conversation on Race and Justice, will reportedly
Based on history, most media watchers would probably expect NBC News to win the award for the most shameful coverage of George Zimmerman, the 29 year-old Florida man recently acquitted for the tragic shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin. But an
According to Politico’s Roger Simon, when Barack Obama proclaimed to the world that “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” he did so to prevent riots in the streets across America: (The) speech came at a time of
Trayvon Martin’s father Tracy Martin, speaking at the first-ever Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys hearing, told the caucus that his continuing fight was to “stop someone else’s child from being killed.” He added, “My message to the world
The now infamous “We’re Racist & Proud!” sign hoax to discredit demonstrators supporting George Zimmerman was thoroughly debunkedby an exclusive video interview Breitbart News released yesterday. Thehoax began with vague and ambiguous reporting from the Houston Chroniclein regards to a picture
The Orlando Sentinel has published 911 calls which came in after a car crash in Sanford, Florida on July 17th. George Zimmerman was identified by one of the victims as one of two people who helped pull his family from
My headline is a little deceiving because it makes it sound as though there is something in George Zimmerman’s past, or in the events that led to the tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin, that indicates that he is in any
Not only are George Zimmerman and his family in hiding because of death threats from the “Justice 4 Trayvon” mob, but now they’re going after a 78-year-old preacher from Deland, Florida, who just happens to be named George Zimmerman. The
The bad news keeps piling up for our besieged president. A stagnant, jobless recovery; a collection of growing scandals (despite with the media tells you), the increasing unpopularity of ObamaCare, and his sowing seeds of racial division with the George
Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old who was Trayvon Martin’s friend, who was the prosecution’s star witness in the George Zimmerman trial, and who has now made numerous TV appearances, has revealed her plans for the future: she wants to be a
During his exchange with Andy Serwer at a Fortune magazine sponsored event, new CNN chief Jeff Zucker had an interesting perspective on his network’s coverage of the George Zimmerman trial: he thought that CNN did a perfect job covering the
How many Americans remember learning about the Boston Massacre when they were schoolchildren? I wonder: does anyone truly understand why we are required to learn about incidents like this in our school’s curriculum? In the aftermath of the Boston Massacre,
It’s been a week since singer Stevie Wonder announced he was boycotting the state of Florida to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin along with the “Stand Your Ground” law. No other major musicians
Do the Right Thing made director Spike Lee a star. Now, he’s asking his fans to fund his next project. Lee’s entrance into the film world, the one-two punch of She’s Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing, declared
