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"Facing Our Truth: 10-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege," a free showcase of plays and a folk opera addressing the subject of race in the United States, will be featured at the City University of New York Graduate Center Dec. 6, according to the New York Times. The showcase comes from the New Black Fest and will be presented at 6:30 PM in the Graduate Center's Martin E. Segal Theater. A post-show discussion will follow the performance. The evening will feature Some Other Kid by A. Rey Pamatmat, Night Vision by Dominique Morisseau, Colored by Winter Miller, The Ballad...

When police officers locked the doors to the state Capitol at the end of business Thursday more than 100 protesters remained inside. Among the group were about 30 high school students and young adults from Philadelphia and at least six pastors from across the state, all planning to spend the night with the Dream Defenders. “We’re writing the story of our generation right now,” Gabriel Pendes, a Dream Defender organizer, told the group as it gathered around the Great Seal of the State of Florida for a pep talk and prayer, and to hear the rules of engagement. “We want...

Here's video of Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, at the National Action Network headquarters this weekend right before a series of nationwide rallies protesting the acquittal of her son's killer, George Zimmerman. "I am still the proud mother of Trayvon Martin," she told the crowd. "Today it was my son, tomorrow it might be yours." Fulton said she believed her 17-year-old son had been "afraid" when he was approached by Zimmerman. "He had no clue who this guy was that was following him in a car, and then got out of his vehicle and then followed him on...