. >>> this week, trayvon martin would have been 25 years old.ed by a wanna be policeman security guard in 2012 in sanford, florida. i'm here with the family, as they have their annual gala for the trayvon martin foundation. and i promised them, as i have had the same commitment to other families, that when i get involved and national action network gets involved, i'm there until we get justice. and we become family. so long after cameras are gone, long after reporters have put away their laptops, these families have to live with the memory that someone they loved and cherished never got to see their lives because of something like what happened to trayvon. many of the mothers of the movement come because they bond, and that's why i continue to speak about criminal justice. it's not enough just with first step, though that was a good beginning, but what about gun control, what about stop and frisk that this president wants to do nationally? what about stand your ground laws that are still on the books here in florida eight years later? what about

it was the young people social media who got trayvon martin to mainstream media.hat has been duplicated dozens and dozens of times since then. frequently people will say well you did so much in the civil rights movement. i never did see you out there marching. i said that's correct. i only marched for ceremonial reasons. my goal was not to march. my role was to get the law and have the law protect the individuals so they could march. ♪ the civil rights marchon assisted of people doing a lot of things. some made speeches. some marched. some did legal work. but it took all of it but it was because we worked together. we all marvel at what dr. king said when he said we all have a role to play in this struggle. >> i got goose bumps watching that piece. every time i see trayvon martin's face looking at the camera it makes my heart skip a beat. i took that story so hard at the time and i got meet his parent and it just didn't make any sense. we know the role that benjamin crump played and fred gray talking about rosa parks. >> fred gray still around to tell us those sto

is not the first suit that zimmerman has filed recently in december last year zimmerman sued trayvon martin's parents for billion. player's head coach steve kerr was one of the speakers at a forum tonight about gun violence prevention occurs known for being outspoken supporter of gun control his father. >>was assassinated during an attack by gunmen in lebanon where he was the president of a university there that happened in the 1980's kerr spoke about the program for gun safety called and family fire. >>you know terrorism or a you know family fire. spousal abuse and doesn't doesn't make any difference how it happens it's it's. >>but it's somebody losing their based on who somebody firing a gun up and so and family fire is all imploring gun owners to the safety habits a of to keep their families safe to keep the visitors to their home safe. >>coach kerr was joined by a panel of guests at the commonwealth club in san francisco. and family fire launched in 2018 and is designed to educate gun owners about safe gun storage. >>clear skies around the bay area temperatures well above the average coul

million defamation lawsuit against elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg over their tributes to trayvon martin his 25th birthday warren tweeted, we need to end gun violence and racism. and buttigieg referenced white supremacy, prejudice and fear in his post about martin. in 2013, zimmerman was acquitted of killing the teenager. he says he shot martin in self-defense this lawsuit alleges the candidates defamed him for political gain the campaigns did not immediately respond to the requests for comment >> cleveland browns offensive tackle greg robinson is in trouble with the law after being arrested at a checkpoint near the u.s./mexico border according to the department of justice, the 27-year-old and two associates were traveling through the federal border when authorities found 157 pounds of marijuana in their possession. robinson and the driver of the car free agent wide receiver jakwan gray were charged and could face 23 years in prison. a third unnamed person was charged. >> a small town in colorado has sworn in a big furry new leader. parker, the snow dog, was officially sworn in as the ho

had several people such as a mixed bag in the mother of mike brown sabrina fulton the mother of trayvon martin and they run for positions of power they run for political office do you think that there is something about this climate that has led them to do that coming off of the tragic situations that they they've both endured but we're seeing more and more particularly african-american women stepping up and taking that role in terms of running for office they're moving beyond advocacy to actually move towards legislative change and what do you think about that. well as fate would have at this year's black history thing that is one of the jobs of this is to set that theme is african-americans in the vote and so in our communities we start by recognize the power in just being able to have your voice heard and so we go to the next level where it is makes perfectly good sense that these women in particular and others would step forward and recognize that in order to really make the change you have got to be in a position to make that change you have got to run for office and you've got to build y

>>it's been a year since trayvon martin was shoand killed in florida while he was walking homefrom a convenience store george mmerman was a security guard for a gated communit who confronted martin as he waed back to his father's house the 2 got into some sort of alter cation when zimmerman shot and killehim claiming se-defense he was tried for murder and acuitted. hard to believe 8 years just call him one of his final public engagements before stepping back as. >>senior member of the royal family, the duke in. the duke of sussex sued a moniker change according to the event's host prince harry asked attendeeto simply refer to him as harry. he was in edinrgh otland for a conference related to his sustainable tourism initiative called travel say it and travel list travel list. harry and his wife meghan markle are taking steps back from representing the family. bill officially transition the end of march until then he is stl allowed to use his royal titles but apparently harry wants to transition a little bit more quickly he and male are expected to attend several events in engld over th

. ♪ [music break] amy: yesterday would have beeeen trayvon martin's 25th birthday.s is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: last month, the national archives and records administration apologized for doctoring a photo of the 2017 women's march to remove criticisms of president trump. "the washington post" first revealed the agency, which calls itself the country's record keeper, had altered the image. as part of an exhibit called "rightfully hers: american women and the vovote," the national archives displayed a large image of the first women's march. but signs referencing trump had been blurred to remove his name, including a poster reading "god hates trump." the national archives originally stood behind his decision, saying the changes were made "so as not to engage in current political controversy." but last month, the national andives reversed course apologized. amy: we turn now to a historian who says this was only the latest example of "a great and growing threat to our nation's capacity to protect and learn from history." matthew conn

accountability, we hlice shootings or shooting by civilians such as the one that happened to trayvon martin. there's parallels to that system, there's parallel systems as far as slavery in the prison system, we went seamlessly from one system to other system. i dione time lapse that show the growth of the u.s. prison system over a couple hundred of years. since 1976, we've built on average one new prison a week in the united states. we currently have 2.3 million people incarcerated right now, my work is not really aboutle. black history, it's not white histor this is american history. you have a visceral understanding of history when you hold something that was once used on humans. this is a ship's branding iron, it was used to brand africans, humans, before they were put on the boat. the branding is "s" for slave. i want to keep these pieces and show these pieces and i allow people to hold them so because they tell a story. these objects hold power over all of uright now, and until we as a society admit andsy confront that emic racism is sewn into the ve fabric of who we are as a country,

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working in the area of dealing with the stand your ground law and other areas in florida with the trayvon martinople across the spectrum has supported them in saying we need a fair justice system. one that respects police. it is outrageous someone shot two police in new york saying he hates cops and outrageous to have people on the other side who don't want to hold people accountable and i was honored by them last night, and the biggest applause line i got is when i said, and joe scarborough told me to tell y'all he sends his prayers. so i don't know if they were clapping for the prayers or for joe, but that clapped. >> let me tell you something, i don't believe that, rev, but i'm going to go with it. >> check the tampe! >> talk about what's going on on the ground right now. we've talked first hour about an awful lot about sort of this chaos of iowa leading to possible chaos here. we've got, of course, bernie up top, but amy's got a late charge. and then you've got joe biden. stumbling possibly to fourth place. again what are your thoughts? >> well, the folks behind you and throughout the state