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Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story focuses on the killing of Trayvon Martin that became a huge American talking point and helped spur the "Black Lives Matter" movement. The docuseries delves into the tragic event which the network describes as "a story about race, politics, power, money and the U.S. criminal justice system." [1]
Rest in Power was written nearly five years after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, says the book is intended as a means to heal, to share with the world the Trayvon Martin his parents knew and loved, and to describe the impact Martin's death and surrounding events had on their lives. [1]
Property is a 2003 novel by American writer Valerie Martin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2003, it won the Orange Prize , [ 3 ] and in 2012, The Observer named Property as one of "The 10 best historical novels". [ 4 ]
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Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton at an event in 2012. Martin was born in 1995 in Miami, Florida, to Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, who divorced in 1999.At the time of the shooting, Fulton was a program coordinator for the Miami Dade Housing Authority, and Tracy Martin was a truck driver; they lived near each other in Miami Gardens.
Two 9-1-1 telephone calls are released that were placed by Tracy Martin, Martin's father, on the morning after the shooting. [56] Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's attorney, releases a round of discovery evidence on his client's web site. It includes audio, video and written statements that Zimmerman gave to police. [57] [58] [59]
The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Gunned ...
The film opens up with sharing the voice recording of the night that Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman. [5] The documentary shows how the #blacklivesmatter hashtag came into effect on social media and how the movement rose up. [5] In the documentary, other incidents where injustice was shown is displayed throughout the film. [5]