George Zimmerman

Few tourist ships dock at Havana’s famous esplanade. The United States government prohibits American businesses in Cuba. American travel to Cuba is restricted to relatives, journalists, students, and researchers. On a recent trip to Havana conducting research on the American Civil Rights Movement, this writer discovered the Martin Luther King Jr. Center as well as the color line.

The battle continues. In 1969, a klansman said “n-ggers will have to fight for every inch he gets from now on.”

And here were stand. On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. Trayvon’s crime may simply have been being Black, alone, and thus vulnerable to racially motivated attacks.