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In 2014 following the guilty verdict of Michael Dunn in the murder of Jordan Davis, I wrote the essay “There is no white boogeyman.” In it, I chided Black intellectuals on their paranoia: “Writers are now expressing the kind of trepidation and angst that would have us believe that Black children are not safe because…

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…

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]…

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…

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…

Jurors have decided on on four of the five charges against Michael Dunn in the “loud music” murder trial in Jacksonville, Fla., but cannot all agree on the most important charge — first-degree murder — in the shooting death of teen Jordan Davis in 2012. Law pundits have said that one or more of the…

Defense attorney Cory Strolla said his detestable and reviled client Michael Dunn, tried for the November 2012 shooting death of Jordan Davis in Jacksonville, Fla, was “overcharged” with first-degree murder due to escalated political pressure and heightened media attention from last year’s George Zimmerman trial after shooting and killing another black teen, Trayvon Martin. “I…

Micheal Dunn’s explosive testimony and cross examination in the loud music murder case in Florida has set Twitter afire. Most of the respondents thus far find it hard to believe that a man who claims self defense in the shooting death of Jordan Davis in Jacksonville, Fla., failed to call the police — but instead…

Michael Dunn, the white Florida man who reportedly shot and killed a black teen over loud music, testified today that he felt he was in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death when he opened fire on the SUV with black youth, killing one teen. Dunn testified on his own behalf in court in Jacksonville,…

During testimony at the trial over the killing of unarmed teen Jordan Davis, accused killer Michael Dunn’s words came back to haunt him. His fiancée, Rhonda Rouer, testified that she and Dunn had been drinking before the shooting. They went to a gas station for more alcohol when Dunn said to Rouer, “I hate that…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The trial of a white Floridian charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a black teen is eerily similar to 2013’s sensationalized case involving the cold-blooded killing of Trayvon Martin by Sanford, Fla. “neighborhood watch captain” George Zimmerman. Jury selection has begun today (Feb. 3, 2014) in the trial of…