The #GeorgeZimmerman Trial: A Reader

The February 26, 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin sparked world wide interest. We collected many of the articles and posts on the tragedy here in one of our first “R3 Readers.” Now George Zimmerman stands trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. Starting with the jury selection, we here at Rhetoric Race and Religion thought we would collect some of the editorials and essays associated with the trial. We ask that if you come across some articles please share them with us on our Facebook page or you can tweet us @examinereligion. Enjoy.


1. Trayvon Martin Case: ‘Trial of the Century’?
2. Trayvon Martin Is Still ‘Our Son,’ But What About Our Daughters?
3. George Zimmerman Trial: Advocacy and Action Brought Us Here
4. Dan Abrams: Zimmerman Defense Will Look For ‘Typical White Male NRA Supporter’ In Jury Selection
5. Fox Guest: Trayvon Martin ‘Could Have Killed’ George Zimmerman With Iced Tea And Skittles
6. What’s Really on Trial in George Zimmerman’s Case?
7. George Zimmerman trial: Trayvon Martin portrayed as ‘scary black man’
8. What’s Really on Trial in George Zimmerman’s Case? 
9. In Trayvon Martin case, history’s ghosts linger
10. Erik Rush blames liberals for Trayvon Martin’s murder
11. Drum-Majors For Justice
12. US Trial to Focus on Race, Guns, Self-Defense
13. Al Sharpton and the Lynching of George Zimmerman
14.The New York Times Admits Its Reporting on the Trayvon Martin Case Has Been Fundamentally Wrong
15. A jury of our peers: George Zimmerman on trial for Trayvon Martin’s death
16. Study Examines Trayvon Martin Shooting
17. On eve of Trayvon Martin shooting trial, present of Sanford, Fla., is shadowed by past
18. The Heartless Demonization of A Murdered Child Named Trayvon
19. I Am No Sybrina Fulton: On Single Mothers, Loss, and Hope.
20. Even With No Blacks, Zimmerman Jury May Be Prosecutor’s Dream
21. The Quote That Should End the Trayvon Trial
22. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN’S TRIAL BEGINS, WITH A KNOCK-KNOCK JOKE
23. Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman: Whose Ground to Stand?
24. Timeline of the George Zimmerman Murder Trial
25. My opening statement: Trayvon and the fight for justice
26. A Few Really Dumb Things about the Zimmerman/Tra

yvon Martin Trial
27. Why Does It Matter When and Why George Zimmerman Followed Trayvon Martin?
28. What White People Don’t Understand About Rachel Jeantel
29. Thank You, Rachel Jeantel
30. Dark-skinned and plus-sized: The real Rachel Jeantel story
31. Crackers, please…
32. Why Is Rachel Jeantel Being Treated Like She’s the One on Trial?
33. Why Black People Understand Rachel Jeantel by Christina Coleman
34. Yvette Carnell: On Rachel Jeantel’s Testimony, Criticism Is Not Cruelty
35. Rhetoric, Race, and Rachel Jeantel
36. George Zimmerman trial: No one can agree on Rachel Jeantel
37. RACHEL JEANTEL ON TRIAL
38. Key Witness Against George Zimmerman Is Hard to Understand, Harder to Believe
39. Rachel Jeantel Testifies in George Zimmerman Trial & Gets Attacked Online
40. I Don’t Feel Your Pain
41. Is George Zimmerman Black Enough To Be “Not Guilty?”
42. Day 8 of the Zimmerman Trial: The Blundering Prosecution
43. Rachel Jeantel’s Phone Conversations: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, and the NSA
44. Brother Ali talks Trayvon Martin, Racism, White Privilege, Speaking in Codes
45. George Zimmerman, Prosecution Red Flag Up in Trayvon Martin Case
46. Five myths about the killing of Trayvon Martin
47. If George Zimmerman Is Found Not Guilty, Can The American People Handle It?
48. Obama’s Trayvon Problem
49. Trayvon Martin and Black Manhood On Trial
50. Did George Zimmerman Gain 100 Pounds To Look Less Intimidating?
51. Is Trayvon Martin’s Stepmother Out-of-Line?
52. Everything About The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin Trial Is Awful
53. Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin’s Friend, May Have Helped And Hurt George Zimmerman’s Defense
54. To Rachel Jeantel, With Love
55. RACHEL JEANTEL
56. Dick and Trayvon … Connect the Dots
57. Rachel
58. Zimmerman Defense And Media Need To Stop Making Trayvon Martin A ‘Hypothetical’ Murderer
59. What Americans won’t understand even after Zimmerman’s trial
60. The George Zimmerman trial is the worst fear of every black family
61. Analysis: George Zimmerman Probably Won’t Be Convicted of Murder or Manslaughter — Here’s Why
62. Trayvon Martin Case Salts Old Wounds And Racial Tension
63. The Trayvon Martin case… we all have skin in this…
64. George Zimmerman presumed innocent, Trayvon Martin was not
65. George Mason University offers course called “Race and Politics, Trayvon Martin”
66. George Zimmerman, Did Marijuana Use Make Trayvon Martin Violent?
67. Race Reversal: A Hypothetical Scenario Of What Would Happen If Trayvon Martin Were White And George Zimmerman Were Black, And Why Race Has Everything To Do With The Case
68. THE ZIMMERMAN TRIAL, DAY TEN: STAND WHOSE GROUND?
69. #JusticeforTrayvon (My closing statement)
70. Vigorous Defense or Racial Appeal? But what about justice for Trayvon?
71. Who is Zimmerman defense team’s mystery intern?
72. Trayvon Martin and the shadow of racism
73. WHAT THE ZIMMERMAN TRIAL WAS ABOUT
74. Race and Reasonable Doubt
75. Rhetoric, Race, and Rachel Jeantel