Trayvon Martin suffered two deaths that rainy evening of February 26th. The first death came from the barrel of George Zimmerman’s gun. The second from the Sanford Police department who failed to arrest Zimmerman. There’s a name for the second death: it’s called institutional racism, and in many ways it is far more deadly than […]
“It began in Tunisia, where the dictator’s power grabbing and high living crossed a line of shamelessness, and a commonplace bit of government callousness against an ordinary citizen — a 26-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi — became the final straw.” – Time Magazine, The Protester January 14th, 2011 – Tunisian President Toppled January 25th […]