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Much of the nation was paralyzed by the George Zimmerman trial during the summer of 2013. And for good reason, a young boy lost his life; a teenager with a bright future saw his dreams extinguished because someone thought he looked suspicious, because he appeared to “not belong”.
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Leonard, D.J. (2014). Rotten to its Core. In: Evans-Winters, V.E., Bethune, M.C. (eds) (Re)Teaching Trayvon. Youth, Media, & Culture Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-785-8_14
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