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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.
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]
'We can't stop,' Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father said at the time. 'If we stop, the world will stop. We've got to keep fighting.'
Yancy has been interviewed on various radio stations throughout the U.S. He has also appeared in three documentaries, the six-episode series Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story (2018), [7] Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence (2019), [8] and interviewed for and appeared in the Netflix documentary, Power, by Oscar nominated American film producer, Yance Ford, on policing in America (2024).
Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old in Sanford, was stalked, confronted and then killed by George Zimmerman on his way home that Sunday in February 2012. Martin, robbed of a future, would be 27 years ...
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.
She became politically active in college after the killing of Trayvon Martin, and at the time advocated for police reform. [5] She also organized during the Ferguson Uprising after the death of Michael Brown. [5] Purnell began to study writers such as Rachel Herzing and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who argue for police abolition.
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]