Trayvon Martin’s 21st Birthday: A Timeline Of Racial Issues That Have Plagued Black America was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
1. Trayvon Martin’s Life Wasn’t In Vain
2. 1995: The OJ Simpson Verdict
3. 1996: Texaco Pays Over $170 Million In A Racial Discrimination Case
4. 1997: Stephen Lawrence’s Alleged Murderers Exposed
5. 1998: The Death Of James Bryd, Jr.
6. 1999: Amadou Diallo & 41 Bullets
7. 2000: Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Is Accused of Murder
8. 2001:The Cincinnati Riots
9. 2002: Donovan Jackson Chavis & Inglewood Cops
10. 2003: Scranton, Pennslyvania’s Skinhead Epidemic & Ousmane Zongo
11. 2005: Hurricane Katrina
12. 2006: Sean Bell
13. 2006: The Jena 6
14. 2007: Don Imus Calls Female Basketball Team “Nappy Headed Hoes”
15. 2008: LeBron James’ King Kong Cover For VOGUE
16. 2009: Oscar Grant
17. 2010: Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Dead at 7-Years-Old
18. 2010: Omar Thornton, Employee Turned Gunman
19. 2011: The Capital Punishment of Troy Davis
20. 2012: Jordan Davis & Trayvon Martin
21. 2014: #BlackLivesMatter: Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Renisha McBride, Antonio Martin, John Crawford, Tamir Rice & More
22. 2015: We Shall Overcome
