Calls for a boycott in the wake of a Florida jury’s acquittal of the man who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have raised questions about whether Black America’s financial divestment from the tourist state would produce a strong enough economic chokehold to forge meaningful changes in its gun laws, given one juror’s claim law forced the […]
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Innocent Man Freed After 17 Years in Prison for Nothing
LOS ANGELES – After serving 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Obie Anthony walked out of a Los Angeles County Jail Oct. 4 and joined the ranks of many men and women across the U.S., who were incarcerated on the basis of flawed or false eyewitness testimony. “It’s really overwhelming […]