Trayvon Martin was a normal 17-year-old boy in Sanford, Florida walking down the street with a hoodie, Skittles and and some iced tea. His murder by a neighborhood watchman has aroused outrage and calls for justice.

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Today, U.S. schools are more segregated than they were four decades ago.

The case of Troy Anthony Davis, who was executed in September 2011 by the state of Georgia, attracted international attention and renewed efforts to abolish the death penalty in the United States.

Since late July 2010, over 1,000 Gypsies, or Roma, have been forced to leave France and return to the Eastern European countries of Romania and Bulgaria, where they face economic hardship.

“Sylvia’s experiences of racism are based on true events, which makes the book very emotional.”

Thousands of people across the United States are protesting a new immigration law in Arizona. The law forces police officers to stop anyone who they think might be an undocumented immigrant.

Guess who these four Black students were and find out what they did to help end segregation between Black and white people.

Protesters express their anger over a cartoon that depicts two police officers shooting a monkey, while one of them comments about President Obama’s stimulus package.