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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]
It is used for a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College podcast, [ 21 ] the 2020 Know Justice Know Peace Resolution by the Denver Public Schools Board to better include persons of color in district school curriculums, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and a U.S. Jesuit anti-racism retreat.
Ohio was a destination for escaped African Americans slaves before the Civil War. In the early 1870s, the Society of Friends members actively helped former black slaves in their search of freedom. The state was important in the operation of the Underground Railroad .
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 ...
Trayvon Martin’s final night began with a convenience store run, a quick trip for candy and something to drink. “It was the thing that broke everybody, all at the same time,” said Nailah ...
Ben Crump, the Rev. Al Sharpton says, is “Black America’s attorney general.” In less than a decade, the Florida-based attorney has become the voice for the families of Trayvon Martin ...
On February 26, 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who said that he had acted in self-defense. A month later National Action Network and other civil rights organizations came to Sanford, FL for a series of protests and marches to call for Zimmerman's arrest. [21]
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]