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FILE - Protesters hold signs during a march and rally for slain teenager Trayvon Martin, March 31, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, July 13, 2023, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot Martin. Gunned down in a Florida gated community where his father lived in 2012, Martin was one of the earliest symbols of a movement that now wields influence in politics, law enforcement and broader conversations about racial progress. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher, File)

Black Lives Matter movement marks 10 years of activism and renews its call to defund the police

The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death.
July 13, 2023
Rev. Al Sharpton, third from left, president of the National Action Network (NAN), and Mayor Eric Adams, far right, stand next to Sybrina Fulton, center, the mother of Trayvon Martin, as she address a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of her son's killing, Saturday Feb. 26, 2022, at NAN's Harlem headquarters in New York. "Today is a bittersweet day," said Fulton, who with her family created the Trayvon Martin Foundation to raise awareness of gun violence. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Trayvon Martin’s mother: ‘Don’t give up’ fight for justice

February 26, 2022
Attorney Benjamin Crump speaks to the media Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022 outside the federal courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The three men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting have been found guilty of federal hate crimes. A jury delivered its verdict Tuesday after several hours of deliberations. (AP Photo/Lewis Levine)

After Trayvon Martin, Crump became civil rights go-to lawyer

February 26, 2022
FILE - Demonstrators hold signs in support of Trayvon Martin in Union Square Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in New York. Ten years ago when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot, Florida was one of the few states with “stand your ground” laws that eased use of deadly force in the face of danger. Now, upwards of 30 states have some form of the law and recent research indicates they're associated with more deaths _ as many as 700 additional gun killings each year, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

‘Stand your ground’ laws proliferate after Trayvon spotlight

February 26, 2022
FILE - Sybrina Fulton, left, mother of Trayvon Martin and attorney Benjamin Crump, arrive at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center for a bond hearing for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin, on April 20, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. Fulton, a former county government worker, was thrust into the spotlight following her son's death, becoming an activist against gun violence and over the years becoming a leader in the racial justice movement and a candidate for public office. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Trayvon Martin 10th anniversary: A look at the players

February 24, 2022

Black Lives Matter marking 10 years of activism

The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone this year, marking 10 years to the day of its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. BLM activists and organizations plan to mark a decade of the movement with in-person and virtual events. (July 13)

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In this March 22, 2012 file photo, protestors, Lakesha Hall, of Sanford, center, and her son, Calvin Simms, right, participate in a rally for Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Fla. The killing of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a stranger still reverberates 10 years later -- in protest, in partisanship, in racial reckoning and reactionary response, in social justice and social media. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher, File)

Trayvon Martin, 10 years later: Teen’s death changes nation

February 24, 2022
George Zimmerman looks at information on a laptop during jury selection in his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., June 20, 2013. A judge in Florida has dismissed a defamation and conspiracy lawsuit former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman had filed against the parents of Trayvon Martin, the teen he fatally shot almost a decade ago in a case that drew international attention about race and gun violence. (Gary Green/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Judge tosses Zimmerman’s lawsuit against Trayvon’s parents

February 14, 2022
This combination of photos shows promotional art for the series "Everything's Gonna Be All White," premiering Feb. 11 on Showtime, left, "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches," premiering Feb. 23 on HBO center, and "Profiled: The Black Man," premiering Feb. 12 on Discovery+. (Showtime via AP, left, HBO Max via AP, center, and Discovery+ via AP)

TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare

February 4, 2022
FILE - From left, attorney Ben Crump, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Brandon Williams, nephew of George Floyd, take a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in Minneapolis, Minn., in this March 29, 2021 file photo. The Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, housed at the St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami Gardens, Fla., will announce on Thursday, Dec. 2, the creation of a social justice center named after Ben Crump, the Black civil rights attorney who has gained national notoriety representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Florida law school creates Ben Crump social justice center

December 3, 2021

Lawyer who represented George Zimmerman arrested in Florida

October 19, 2021

Henrietta Lacks’ family hires prominent civil rights lawyer

July 30, 2021
Family members of Byron Williams, from left, niece Teena Acree, brother Ellis Magee, niece Marcia Wells, sister Robyn Williams, and sister Tina Lewis-Stevenson hold up a picture of Byron Williams during a news conference, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Las Vegas. The family of 50-year-old Byron Williams, whose death in Las Vegas police custody after a bicycle chase in 2019 was ruled a homicide, is suing the city and four officers they accuse of wrongful death and civil rights violations. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Vegas death after 2019 arrest draws Floyd family, lawyer

July 15, 2021
Artist Dennis Owes, 31, from Ghana gives the last touch to his portrait of George Floyd during a rally on Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Brooklyn borough of New York. George Floyd, whose May 25, 2020 death in Minneapolis was captured on video, plead for air as he was pinned under the knee of former officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder and manslaughter in April 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Families urge legal changes to prevent more police killings

May 25, 2021
FILE - In this Monday, March 29, 2021 file photo, from left, Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd; attorney Ben Crump and Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, hold a news conference at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on the first day of the Derek Chauvin murder trial. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP)

‘Black America’s attorney general’ seems to be everywhere

May 2, 2021

City where Trayvon Martin died seeks racial injustice reform

February 26, 2021

Civil rights attorney hired by family of body-slammed teen

January 29, 2021
Sybrina Fulton, center and Tracy Martin, parents of Trayvon Martin, hold street signs with their son's name, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The street on the way to Martin's former school was renamed in his honor, eight years after he was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Officials name new road in Florida after Trayvon Martin

November 5, 2020
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2020, file photo, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to HBCU students during a campaign event in Atlanta. Following an unprecedented surge of protests against racial injustice and the killing of Black people by law enforcement, partisan and nonpartisan organizations have poured significant resources into increasing Black men’s participation in the election. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Black men’s votes courted as some search for political home

October 28, 2020

Miami road to be named after Trayvon Martin

October 10, 2020

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ on National Book Awards longlist

September 17, 2020
FILE - In this June 4, 2020, file photo, civil rights attorney Ben Crump listens as Rev. Al Sharpton delivers the eulogy at the funeral George Floyd in Minneapolis. For more than three decades, Sharpton, 65, has been a go-to advocate for Black American families seeking justice and peace in the wake of violence and countless incidents that highlight systemic racism. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Decades later, Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

August 26, 2020
Student activists march in East Orange, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, to protest the death of Maurice Gordon, a 28-year-old black man who was shot by New Jersey State Police during a traffic stop on May 23, 2020. (AP Photo/David Porter)

Student-led group seeks justice for man shot by police

August 19, 2020

Today in History

July 13, 2020
Angela Rose, center, marches with gay activists and suppoters on the Great Highway at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, Sunday, June 14, 2020, at a protest over the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The Latest: Interfaith group holds vigil outside St. John’s

June 14, 2020
Houston police chief Art Acevedo and Charlene Davis embrace after Davis prayed for him as she stood in line at a public visitation for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Houston.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Thousands mourn George Floyd in Texas amid calls for reform

June 9, 2020
Kelly Bundy walks during a protest over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Bundy of Louisville says most protesters are like her, peaceful people called to duty by experiences of racism and police aggression. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

One face in the crowd: A protester haunted by the dead

June 3, 2020
FILE - In this April 3, 2019 photo, Sybrina Fulton participates in a panel at the National Action Network Convention in New York. Fulton, a mother who turned to activism after the slaying of her black teen son Trayvon Martin, has announced she is running for office in Miami. The Miami Herald reports Fulton will be entering the race to join the 13-member board of Miami-Dade County commissioners. Fulton said in a Saturday, May 18 statement that she would continue working to end gun violence. She will challenge Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert for the seat that is up for grabs in 2020 because of term limits. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trayvon Martin’s mom announces run for office in Miami

May 19, 2019
Former President Barack Obama, left, gestures as Golden State Warriors basketball player Stephen Curry laughs while speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Obama joined by Curry to tell minority boys ‘you matter’

February 20, 2019

$150,000 bail set for city commissioner in shooting case

October 25, 2018

Correction: All-Star Game story

July 18, 2018

Zimmerman charged with stalking Trayvon film investigator

May 7, 2018
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2015, file photo, Illinois State Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, in Springfield, Ill. Lawmakers and police still can't agree on the results of an Illinois racial profiling measure first pushed by then-state Sen. Barack Obama. The discussion comes as Democrats now push to make the temporary program permanent. Raoul is the sponsor of the plan. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois debates effectiveness of racial profile data

April 28, 2018

Black Lives Matter founder urges Australians to fight racism

November 1, 2017

Black Lives Matter founder urges Australians to fight racism

November 1, 2017

Michigan’s top court looking at porch shooting trial

October 12, 2017
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