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Remember His Name: Trayvon Martin 1995-2012
The following video is one African American intellectual’s take on the murder of seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin of Miami, Florida. Reports of his February 26, 2012 murder, while completely unarmed, is making headlines around the world. His confessed shooter has not been charged or arrested due to a technicality in the law called “stand your ground”. ( Read more about the so-called “stand your ground law” in a future post.)
Video from Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s program, which aired Saturday, March 17, 2012 on MSNBC.
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Melissa V. Harris-Perry is author of the well received new book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale 2011), which argues that persistent harmful stereotypes-invisible to many but painfully familiar to black women-profoundly shape black women’s politics, contribute to policies that treat them unfairly, and make it difficult for black women to assert their rights in the political arena.
Harris-Perry is the host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” The program can be seen on Saturdays and Sundays from 10AM to noon ET. (Check your local listing to be sure.)
Harris-Perry is a professor at Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she teaches political science.
Professor Harris-Perry received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. And she studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, James Perry, and daughter, Parker.
Remember The Name: Trayvon Martin
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