Trayvon Martin's death in February of last year became, as so many things do these days, a front in America's political wars. A young black man shot and killed by an armed, non-black man was distilled ...

Hate Crime Charges a Hard Sell? March 21, 2012: The Washington Post reported that the decision by the Department of Justice and the FBI to open an investigation into the slaying of the unarmed black ...

Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, ...