Stand Your Ground

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- The highly controversial "Stand Your Ground" law seems to work in America, unless you are African American. Jesse Murray claims he...

A Miami appeals court has thrown out a double-murder conviction against Gabriel Mobley (pictured center) who fatally shot two men and then invoked the Stand...

(CNN) -- She's won a new trial. And now, Marissa Alexander may learn Wednesday whether she can get out of prison while...

Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who fired a warning shot at her husband and was sentenced to 20 years in prison as a result, will appear at a bail hearing this Friday to learn if she will be set free, The Florida Times-Union reports. Alexander made her first court ...

WASHINGTON -- The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a chilling new online ad reenacting the night Travyon Martin was killed, in...

UPDATE — 08/02/13:  Folding to revolutionary pressure, Florida lawmakers announced Friday that they will hold hearings this fall on the state’s controversial and...

On Saturday, July 13, 2013, Trayvon Benjamin Martin was found guilty of being a young, Black man in America. In a...

What has become our mantra in this post-George Zimmerman are U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder’s words to the NAACP last week; “We must...

Civil Rights leaders are reflecting on the recent trials of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s killer, and the ongoing attempts to re-indict Richard Haste (pictured), the NYPD officer who murdered Ramarley Graham in the Bronx last year. In a press ...

(AP) -- Despite an outcry from civil rights groups, a call for close examination by President Barack Obama, and even a 1960s-style sit-in at the Florida governor’s office, the jury’s verdict that George Zimmerman was justified in shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin is unlikely to spur change to any of the nation’s stand-your-ground s ...