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It only took three and a half minutes for Jordan Davis to lose his life. The 17-year-old was murdered in cold blood after Michael Dunn shot him in Jacksonville, Florida three years ago. During the coverage of the trial, Dunn was often viewed as a man who simply became agitated because Davis and his friends…

HBO and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hosted a private screening of the film 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets. The powerful documentary provides an engaging look at the November 2012 shooting that took the life of Jordan Davis at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. The film examines the initial interaction and repercussions of…

Lucia McBath, the mother of slain Black teen Jordan Davis, spoke recently about her grief, pain and forgiveness in the wake of the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina. Her son was murdered by Michael Dunn for playing his music too loud at a gas station in Florida in 2012.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, president of National Action Network and host of his own MSNBC show “PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton” released a statement on Wednesday following the guilty verdict in the Michael Dunn trial for the shooting death of a Georgia teen, Jordan Davis, who was visiting his father in Jacksonville, Florida, in November 2012.…

A Florida jury today, found Michael Dunn guilty in the shooting death of Jordan Davis. After five hours of deliberation, the jury deemed Dunn guilty of first-degree murder for shooting the teen in November 2012 for playing loud music in an SUV where he was a passenger while parked in front of a Jacksonville convenience…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — To further illustrate the infuriating incompetency and lunacy coming out of the state prosecutor’s office in Florida, Marissa Alexander is now staring at 60 years in prison for firing the warning shot from her handgun at her abusive husband that injured no one. As you recall, Alexander, 33, was convicted in 2012 on three counts…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida lawmakers have forged ahead with plans to pass a bill designed to make it unequivocally clear that people can show a gun, or even fire a warning shot, without being penalized with a ridiculously long prison sentence. The legislation, of course, was inspired mostly by the grave injustice the state prosecutors…

Rallies and remembrances have broken out across the country in homage of slain black teens Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, both from Florida, on the 2nd anniversary of Martin’s “murder” in Sanford, Fla. There are also a host of plays with Trayvon Martin as the theme in multiple metropolises. The rallies are being organized…

TV One host Roland Martin is quite happy with his switch from CNN to TV One. “I spent five years at CNN and always ‘did me.’ I didn’t change who I was. I spoke truth to power. [With] my morning show on TV One I talk about what I want to talk about and who I…

Music legend and social activist Stevie Wonder attended the NAACP Image Awards this past weekend accompanied by his sons. Wonder stood proudly, holding the shoulders of one of his sons. “I’m excited to have them here. Obviously when I touch my little children, I think of the lives of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis and I…

Michael Dunn is innocent of murdering an unarmed black teenager. That’s what some of the jurors honestly believe. Some also believe that Dunn’s killing of Jordan Davis was not race-based. But in a taped conversation with his former fiancée, Rhonda Rouer, Michael Dunn complained about being in a cell by himself, but added: “But I…

Florida state prosecutors released audio Monday of several jailhouse calls placed by Michael Dunn, the man at the center of another controversial Florida trial — shedding new light on his mindset in the initial days after he fatally shot 17-year-old Jordan Davis during a confrontation over loud music, ABC News reports. “I’m the [expletive deleted]…

Rolling out spoke with Rev. Al Sharpton regarding Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey. Rev. Sharpton was asked “Does Angela Corey and her prosecutorial team need to be replaced?”: “As far as Angela Corey is concerned I absolutely feel that I have no confidence in the ability of that office. They blew the Zimmerman case which…

Rolling Out spoke briefly with Rev. Al Sharpton on his nationally syndicated radio show “Hour of Power” this morning. He was asked about Stand Your Ground and the jury verdict in the Michael Dunn murder trial: “Stand Your Ground was brought up in the court during the summation by the defense team in terms of…

Americans were once again filled with mixed emotions following the verdict in the case of Michael Dunn, who was on trial for murdering unarmed teen Jordan Davis, 17, the day after Thanksgiving in November 2012, giving a new meaning to Black Friday. To add insult to injury, the day after Valentine’s Day and on the…

It is open season on young, black men in America. At least that’s how millions of blacks at home, along with several black legal analysts on CNN, felt after yet another grown white man avoids being convicted of murder for the cold-blooded killing of yet another unarmed black teen male. But the real question is…

Failure to Convict Michael Dunn of First Degree Murder a Travesty That Must be Rectified in Second Trial Washington – Today a jury found Michael Dunn guilty of three counts of attempted murder and one count of firing a deadly weapon in a November 2012 shooting which left 17-year-old Jordan Davis dead. The judge declared a…

On Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, as Jordan Davis’ parents sat in the Duval County, Fla. courtroom awaiting the verdict in the trial of Michael Dunn, the man accused of murdering their teenaged son in broad daylight for playing loud music, the parents of Trayvon Martin offered words of blessing and prayers. They confirmed no matter…