#sybrina fulton

[angelstills]

Lemonade (2016)

#Lemonade Beyonce #2010s #2016 #water // #Beyonce #Kahlil Joseph #Sybrina Fulton #Gwen Carr #Wanda Johnson #Lesley McSpadden Head

[ademella]

currently reading

#books #trayvon martin #sybrina fulton #rest in power #memior #reading #book cover #non-fiction

[blackautmedia]

Today, 2/26 is the anniversary of when George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old Black boy in 2012.

Much love to Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, his parents and to the rest of his family. You all are hurting far more. Never forget this day.

This should always fill you with outrage knowing that Black children are viewed as inherently dangerous, that anyone can freely murder Black people as they see fit and will view Black children as adults.

It should be enraging that not only is this allowed of citizens it's expected and supported by the state. We've only had increased spending on policing since 2012.

It should be blood boiling that within that, police target Black trans and Black disabled people at even higher rates and both are routinely ignored or downplayed.

Black trans and disabled communities are consistently abandoned. Black trans people often get misgendered and deadnamed even in coverage discussing them.

It is so exhausting.

For Black Lives to Matter, that means all Black lives. It includes Black trans lives, Black disabled lives, Black unhoused lives, Black Sex Worker's lives, Black women, Black children, everyone.

#trayvon martin #black lives matter

[whenweallvote]

Trayvon Martin: the boy who sparked a movement. 

Twelve years ago today, Trayvon was killed at just 17 years old in Orlando, Florida. Coinciding with the rise of social media, the news of his death and his family’s search for justice crossed state and even country lines — reawakening a global civil rights movement under one name: #BlackLivesMatter.

Over a decade later, and we still unapologetically claim that Black lives matter. Black joy matters, Black art matters, Black stories matter, and Black votes matter. This country and this world would not be what it is today without the beauty and strength that Black people bring to it. 

Trayvon should still be here. Today and always, we remember him by the words of his mother, Sybrina Fulton: as a boy who was “a vessel that represents so many others;” a boy who sparked a movement; a boy who deserved to grow old.

#trayvon martin #trayvon #trayvonmartin #justicefortrayvon #blacklivesmatter #black lives matter #black history month #bhm #blackhistorymonth #protest

[morbidology]

On a scorching hot day in the deep south of Money, Mississippi, on August 24th, 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market. He had innocently gone there to purchase some candy, but what happened next would change the course of history. Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old white store clerk, accused Emmett of whistling at her and grabbing her. This accusation was a violation of the Jim Crow social code, which was a set of laws and customs that enforced segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

The tragic events that followed began in the early hours of August 28th, when Carolyn, her husband Roy, and his half-brother John Miliam, arrived at the home of Mose Wright, where Emmett had been staying. Emmett's great-aunt attempted to offer them money to avoid any trouble, but it was futile. They forcefully grabbed Emmett, shoved him into their truck, dropped Carolyn off at home, and then drove to an isolated barn. There, they brutally pistol-whipped and beat Emmett before shooting him dead and tossing his lifeless body into the Tallahatchie River.

Two days later, Emmett's body was found, and his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago. However, his face was so mutilated that it was unrecognizable. This brutal slaying sparked outrage and gave a sense of urgency to the civil rights movement. The murderers, Bryant and Miliam, were eventually indicted for murder, and during the trial, an African American man named Willie Louis testified against the two white men. Louis had witnessed Emmett walking home with Bryant and Miliam, and heard the beating taking place in the barn. His testimony was a “godsend” to Emmett's family, but it also put him in great danger in the segregated south. Amazingly, nothing untoward happened to him afterward.

The trial was anything but fair. The jury members were often drunk, and many male white spectators carried handguns. During the trial, Bryant and Miliam confessed that they had taken Emmett that night, but claimed that they had let him go. The defense even argued that the body could have been anyone's and not Emmett's. Shockingly, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted both men. Years later, some of the jury members would admit that they knew the two men were guilty but saw nothing wrong with white men killing African Americans.

At the 60 year anniversary of Emmett’s murder, his family and friends gathered at his grave. Also in attendance was Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown Sr., the father of Michael Brown Jr. “Black lives matter. Black lives mattered when Emmett was killed. Black lives mattered when Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed. Black lives matter even today,” said U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.

In 2017, Carolyn Bryant admitted that she had fabricated the story and that Emmett hadn't touched her or attempted to. Her admission came too late for Emmett, who tragically lost his life in the most brutal and horrific way. Carolyn Bryant passed away at the age of 88 on April 27th, 2023.

#Emmett Till #True Crime #Racism #Civil Rights

[lifebypoetry]

Going ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴀᴛ ғɪᴠᴇ 📢This Sunday, February 5 at 5 pm, there will be a Memphis Mama's Sunset Candlelight Vigil for Tyre Nichols and Rowvaughn Wells In solidarity, I will go ʟɪᴠᴇ at 5 pm to offer space to anyone who wants to be in community for a few minutes. ♡ Note. Seeing that it is Trayvon Martin's birthday, we will have a moment to remember Trayvon and his mother Sybrina Fulton. "All mothers were summoned when he called for his Mama." #tyrenichols #justicebloggers #dearmama #policebrutality #lynching #memphis #tennessee2michigan #itsmybirthday (at Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoKv_LOuW2d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tyrenichols #justicebloggers #dearmama #policebrutality #lynching #memphis #tennessee2michigan #itsmybirthday

[petervintonjr]

"That is, after all, how it works. We don't come here with hatred in our hearts. We have to be taught to feel that way. We have to want to be that way, to please the people who teach us to want to be like them. Strange, to think that people might learn to hate as a way of getting some approval, some acceptance, some love. I thought about all that."

Double biography today. And even a cursory glance at this weekend's headlines will make fairly obvious why I chose to talk about these two people.

Born in 1941 Chicago, Emmett Till was 14 years old when, on August 24, 1955, he was kidnapped and tortured to death by a white mob in Money, Mississippi for the never-proven "crime" of flirting with a white woman. His mutilated body was retrieved from the Tallahatchie River three days later. His mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, made the agonizing decision for her son's bloated, mutilated body to be displayed in an open casket funeral at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, in Chicago. Thousands of people lined up to view the body and more than 50,000 mourners attended the funeral service. The resultant media coverage threw a spotlight on extrajudicial lynchings in the U.S., and forced a greater public discourse on segregation, racial violence, and systemic inequality.

In September of that year Till's accused murderers were ultimately acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury after only 67 minutes' deliberation. Four months later the accused murderers openly admitted to the crime to journalist William Bradford Huie, in an article that would then appear in the Jan. 24, 1956 edition of Look magazine. This article's publication was in many respects a clarion call to justice for many grassroots and local activists, kickstarting the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

Mamie Till-Bradley continued to advocate for social and racial justice for the rest of her life, never passing up an opportunity to educate about the circumstances of her son's murder right on up until her death in 2003. While Till's story remains a part of the American public consciousness (even directly informing the underlying plot of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird), the details tend to become lost to time --glossed over, sanitized. Of late this has been notably mitigated, with 2022's airing of the miniseries Women of the Movement on ABC, featuring Adrienne Warren as Mamie Till-Bradley. In March of 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, and this past October the feature film Till premiered in theaters, directed by Chinonye Chukwu and starring Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Bradley. One attendee at the notorious 1955 trial was future State Sen. David Jordan (D-Greenwood), who successfully sponsored the commissioning of a bronze statue of Emmett Till, unveiled in October of 2022 at Rail Spike Park.

(Read "What Emmett Till's Mother Taught Me About Grief and Justice" by Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin.)

Bottom line here: Emmett Till's story has pointedly NOT vanished into invisibility and obscurity, unlike a great many other lynchings and massacres. But the larger issue is more primal: Emmett Till should still be alive, today --he should be comfortably just into his eighties, possibly enjoying the company of grandchildren. And to pull that very same thread, Amadou Diallo should still be alive; Trayvon Martin should still be alive; Breonna Taylor should still be alive --they should all be into their late-twenties, possibly settling into a career, perhaps starting families of their own.

Tyre Nichols should still be alive.

Incidentally, these biographies all now have a permanent home, rather than subject themselves to arbitrary throttling-down at the murky whims of various social media. Safer and more sensible that way, especially since so many states (mine included, unfortunately) have redoubled their efforts to ensure that this subject matter stays out of school curricula. New to this series? Go here to start the lessons: http://www.petervintonjr.com/blm/start.html

Black History Month kicking off in a few more days, my friends. More biographies and accompanying art, still to come. I feel as though I keep repeating this, but: we've a lot still to learn. So go study.

#emmett till #mamie till-bradley #blm #blacklivesmatter #teachtruth #dothework

[ablueboxfullofbooks]

BOOK REVIEW

Dark Testament : Blackout Poems Crystal Simone Smith Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) @macmillanusa

With Dark Testament : Blackout Poems, Crystal Simone Smith shares the mourning and pain of a community, deeply wounded by unlawful killings and racism : Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Michelle Kenney, Daunte Wright, Aiyana Jones, Laquan McDonald, Rodney King, Sandra Bland, George Floyd, Walter Scott, or Breonna Taylor ; to only name a few of a very long, too long list. It is to them, and many others, that Smith’ s poems are dedicated.

In her poems, Crystal Simone Smith shares the voices of the Black Community and Black Lives Matters Movement. She shares the voices of the dead, but also the ones of the living. I have never read Black out poems before. They give a very unique perspective on the text, a poem within the poem with a totally new meaning. This collection of poems is beautiful, deep, and sad. It is a tribute to justice, truth, equality and love. It is definitively a book needed to be read and shared with the Community.

#poetry #poem #poems #poemsofinstagram #bookreview #bookstagram #igbooks #readincolor #readincolorlittlefreelibrary #littletreelibrary #blacklivesmatter #blackauthors #blackcommunity #blackpoetry #blackpoets #bipoc #bookish #bookblr #book #book blog #book review #bookworm #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict

[trascapades]

🕊⚖️#ArtIsAWeapon #NeverForget #TrayvonMArtin Sending so much love to his parents @sybrinafulton #TracyMartin and to everyone his life touched. To honor Trayvon's life, please consider donating to the @thetrayvonmartinfoundation.

Reposted from @nmaahc “I want my son to rest in power. I want his name and his spirit to rise, to change the world.” - Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin

Today [2.5.2024] on what would have been Trayvon Martin’s 29th birthday, our museum shines light on his life and legacy. His mother Sybrina Fulton remembers him as an adventurous kid who loved planes and aspired towards a career in aviation.

"The airport also reminds me of Trayvon. I always think about if he was going to fix the plane, [or] fly the planes because he wasn't really sure." Fulton reflected on the 10th anniversary of his death in 2022.

She remembers Trayvon as a teenager who played football, enjoyed music, and loved his family deeply.

Trayvon Martin’s story reignited a nation’s fight for #socialjustice, a fight that continues today, and well into our future.

📸 Courtesy of The #TrayvonMartinFoundation

#TrayvoMartin #NeverForget

[sareideas]

How a Mother’s Love Transformed a Nation and Inspired a Movement | Features

How a Mother’s Love Transformed a Nation and Inspired a Movement | Features

The same could be said for the “Mothers of the Movement,” the mothers, daughters, and wives who have kept the memories of their loved one’s alive. These are women like Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of Medgar Evers; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; Lucy…

View On WordPress

[thegeekx]

How a Mother’s Love Transformed a Nation and Inspired a Movement | Features

How a Mother’s Love Transformed a Nation and Inspired a Movement | Features

The same could be said for the “Mothers of the Movement,” the mothers, daughters, and wives who have kept the memories of their loved one’s alive. These are women like Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of Medgar Evers; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; Lucy…

View On WordPress

[mysharona1987]

#trayvon martin #sybrina fulton #blm #black lives matter #florida #miami #woc #black tumblr #black women

[accras]

Sybrina Fulton announced that she’s officially qualified to appear on the ballot for Miami Dade County Commissioner, running on a platform that focuses on equity across transportation, housing and economic opportunity.

Fulton, whose son Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 by George Zimmerman, has spent the last several years traveling the U.S. to speak out against racial profiling and gun violence.[x]

#sybrina fulton #Trayvon Martin #black lives matter

[chris-evans]

#please signal boost #black lives matter #sybrina fulton #trayvon martin #justice for trayvon

[nowthisnews]

‘I want the good cops to say something about the bad cops’ — Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton on what she’s still hoping for 8 years later

follow @nowthisnews for daily news videos & more

#Sybrina Fulton #Black Lives Matter #Trayvon Martin #police brutality #police killings #police violence #news #nowthis

[thechanelmuse]

Thrust into the national spotlight and a life of activism after the murder of her teenage son, Sybrina Fulton has spent the better part of the last seven years advocating for an end to gun violence and promoting social justice.

She has appeared on network TV, co-written a book and helped form a non-profit organization — the Trayvon Martin Foundation — named in her son’s memory and based in his hometown of Miami Gardens.

Now she’s challenging the city’s mayor for a seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission.

“Since 2012, I have advocated tirelessly to empower our communities and make them safer,” she said in a statement Saturday. “But the work is not done. I am proud to announce that I will run to represent District 1 on the county commission.”

Fulton announced Saturday that she would launch her campaign for the District 1 seat, which will be relinquished in 2020 by the term-limited Commissioner Barbara Jordan. Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert is also running for the seat, one of five up for grabs after Miami-Dade voters approved a two-term limit for the 13-member board in 2012. Miami Gardens is the biggest city in District 1.

Read more

#sybrina fulton #trayvon martin #miami