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Live-Tweeting the Zimmerman Trial
Join us here or on Twitter for a live discussion of the opening statements in the second-degree-murder trial of George Zimmerman, who is accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Use the hashtag #GZtrial to weigh in with your tweets. Columbus Ohio News, Weather Tweets about “#GZtrial” !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”); Corey Dade, an award-winning journalist based in…
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Zimmerman's Jury: What Will They See?
(The Root) — Meet the jury of George Zimmerman’s peers: no men and just one person who shares his Latino ethnicity. After nine days of painstaking screenings from a jury pool of 500, six women have been seated to hear the second-degree murder trial against Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon…
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Zimmerman's Dad: Blacks Are the Racists
(The Root) — With his son on trial for murder in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, the father of George Zimmerman has published an e-book criticizing the case and calling some African-American leaders who called for his son’s arrest racists. Robert Zimmerman Sr.’s book, Florida v. Zimmerman: Uncovering the Malicious Prosecution of My…
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Who Will Be on Zimmerman's Jury?
(The Root) — At long last, the second-degree-murder trial of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year, began on Monday with jury selection. Legal experts had predicted that attorneys for the prosecution and defense would probe potential jurors for their attitudes about African Americans (Trayvon), Hispanics (Zimmerman) and guns, as well as…
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Medgar Evers: Legacy Challenged
(The Root) — Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and the timing couldn’t be more significant: Any day now, the Supreme Court could strike down a pair of landmark remedies owed in part to Evers’ activism. Uncertainty hovers over observances that began at Evers’ grave site…
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Can Trayvon's Killer Win With Social Media?
(The Root) — Today I’m putting aside Washington politics to talk about political methods of another kind, in the upcoming second-degree-murder trial of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. Instead of voters, Zimmerman’s attorneys are trying to sway potential jurors, and the extraordinary campaign could well succeed. For the past year, the Zimmerman defense team has…
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The Man Who Blew the Whistle on the IRS
(The Root) — If you have followed any of the Internal Revenue Service scandal (hopefully here at The Root), you may have noticed two things: Three congressional hearings have uncovered exactly nothing relevant; and the wearer of the white hat, for once, is a black man. J. Russell George, a graduate of Howard University, is…
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IRS's Lois Lerner Does Obama No Favors
(The Root) — It seems that Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS Exempt Organizations division who is at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, can’t get out of her own way. First her apology for her division’s targeted scrutiny of conservative groups — to neutralize fallout over a forthcoming audit (pdf) —…
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How the IRS Scandal May Hurt Obamacare
(The Root) — So what if Senate Democrats foiled House Republicans’ repeal of Obamacare — for the 37th time? GOP lawmakers are drawing renewed hope of blocking the law’s enactment from, of all things, the IRS scandal. What does the Internal Revenue Service have to do with the Affordable Care Act? Everything. Since the government…
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The IRS Scandal: A Reality Check
(The Root) — For the Obama administration’s critics, Steven T. Miller, the ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service, might now serve as the face of the overreaching, politically intimidating and criminal behavior of big government under this president. That message is filtering from Republicans amid Miller’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee…
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