President Obama broke his silence on the Trayvon Martin shooting case Friday, speaking publicly for the first time since a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman. Obama didn't question the jury's not ...

Yesterday’s protests in Los Angeles brought crowds to South LA expressing anger and frustration over the not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. Here are some of the voices from the protest. “I ...

An all-female jury has found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The verdict comes two days after the jury went into intense deliberations over one of ...

Thousands around the country rallied for justice over the weekend after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin. http://storify.com ...

In their first public appearances since the weekend's verdict, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, parents of Trayvon Martin, appeared this morning for interviews on both CBS News' This Morning and ABC ...

Trayvon Martin's death in February of last year became, as so many things do these days, a front in America's political wars. A young black man shot and killed by an armed, non-black man was distilled ...

George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin. The panel of six women acquitted him of charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Martin, who was killed by ...

Nearly one year ago an all-female, nearly all-white jury returned a “not guilty” verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial. Zimmerman had been charged in the February 2012 shooting death of unarmed ...

Historically, federal civil rights laws go back to the Civil War when states were not enforcing the rights of African Americans under the 13th Amendment. Over the years, more statutes were passed, ...

In addition to that call for federal civil rights charges, protesters pushed for an economic boycott of Florida because of the state's Stand Your Ground self-defense law. Amidst a sea of people there ...

Comparing and contrasting the varied ways in which gun violence could escalate in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Jelani Cobb at the New Yorker ...