More on the Zimmerman verdict (some of these we looked at in class, some we didn’t):
- Gary Younge – “Open season on black boys after a verdict like this”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates – “Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice”
- Rasha Hamid – “You Have My Permission to Wear a Hoodie Every Day”
- Cord Jefferson – “The Zimmerman Jury Told Young Black Men What We Already Knew”
- Bring Me the African Guy – “We Don’t Die, We Multiply (Again)”
- Adam Kotsko – “What if Zimmerman had been a cop?”
- Dave Zirin – “Trayvon Martin’s Death, LeBron James and the Miami Heat”
- Andrew Springer – “NFL Stars Feel Heat After Zimmerman Tweets”
And here’s Molly Crabapple’s portrait of Trayvon Martin, which we looked at briefly in class:
