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Zimmerman's Lawyer: Donations Surged After Arrest

Lawyers say they will wait to request a new bond.
06/05/2012
George Zimmerman’s Bond Revoked - A judge revoked George Zimmerman’s bond on Friday after it was revealed he misled the court about his family’s finances and about having a second passport. Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police custody Sunday afternoon. (Photo: Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)

Zimmerman to Request New Bond Hearing

His lawyers are now trying to re-establish credibility.
06/04/2012
James Byrd Jr.

This Day in Black History: June 7, 1998

James Byrd Jr. was murdered in Jasper, Texas.
06/03/2012
Black Doctor Sues UCLA for Racist Treatment - A Black surgeon and professor at the University of California Los Angeles who was depicted in a slideshow as a gorilla being sodomized by his white supervisor recently filed a lawsuit against the medical school. Dr. Christian Head, the only Black tenured professor in UCLA's department of head and neck surgery, said the offensive slideshow, which was originally shown at a UCLA School of Medicine graduation "roast" on his behalf and has since gone viral on YouTube, was just one in a string of racist and demeaning encounters he had during his time with the medical school. (Photo: Courtesy theroot.com)

Black Doc Sues UCLA, Cites Racist Treatment

Dr. Christian Head endured blatant racism from colleagues.
05/31/2012
Report Finds More Than Half of Falsely Convicted Prisoners Are Black - Confirming years of criticism from the African-American community that Blacks are disproportionately imprisoned and wrongly convicted, groundbreaking data compiled by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law reported that half the 873 exonerated defendants in their study were African-American, and nine out of 10 were men. Researchers estimated the defendants spent more than 11 years each in prison for crimes they did not commit.  (Photo: LUCY NICHOLSON/Landov)

Half of All Falsely Convicted Prisoners Are Black

DNA evidence is helping to get Blacks out of the system.
05/21/2012

Herman Cain Says Rev. Jeremiah Wright–Obama Connection Is "Fair Game"

Cain says resurrecting Wright is not racist.
05/18/2012
George Zimmerman - George Zimmerman, 28, said he shot Trayvon in self-defense on Feb. 26. Zimmerman told police Trayvon looked like “he was up to no good” while walking home in the gated community. Forty-five days after the shooting, Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder.(Photo: Gary Green/The Orlando Sentinel-Pool/Getty Images)

Witness Claims George Zimmerman Bullied Him, Made Racist Jokes

Zimmerman allegedly taunted the Middle Eastern man.
05/18/2012
Uganda Captures LRA Senior Commander - The Ugandan army claims to have arrested Caesar Achellam, a senior commander in Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army.Achellam told reporters, "My coming out will have a big impact for the people still in the bush to come out and end this war soon,” according to the BBC. (Photo: REUTERS/James Akena)

World Lens — Week in Review: May 15

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Million Hoodies Takes Trayvon to London - Organizers for the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice and Trayvon’s parents visited London last week to hold a town hall and vigil honoring their son and England’s own tragic case of racial profiling, Stephen Lawrence. Lawrence was beaten and stabbed to death by a group of white teens while waiting at a bus stop in 1993. He was 18 years old. (Photo: Facebook)

Million Hoodies Takes Trayvon to London

The U.K. vigil raised awareness about racial profiling.
05/11/2012

Taking Trayvon Martin's Name in Vain

Student uses Trayvon's name like the new N-word.
05/08/2012
“I’m a Business, Man”

Commentary: New York Post Columnist Suggests Racist Name for Jay-Z's Nets

Columnist goes too far in criticizing Jay-Z.
05/04/2012