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June Vass (she/her) is the editor-in-chief of the Red Phoenix, the Director of the Information Bureau of the American Party of Labor, and a member of the National Writers Union. She is based in Orlando, FL.

• New Account: Zimmerman Told Cops Trayvon’s Last Words Were ‘Okay, You Got It’

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the court’s decision on Friday, Apr. 20, to release Zimmerman on $150,000 bail. Last December, George Zimmerman hosted a small gathering at a clubhouse in Lake Mary, Fla. He invited family members… Read More ›

• Are Guns the Problem?

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another tragedy taking innocent life. Like clockwork, whenever a high-profile shooting takes place in America, two… Read More ›

• New Jersey dad unveils a culture of teacher abuse in autistic son’s elementary school

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NJ dad bugs son over suspicion of school mistreatment (CNN) — A New Jersey man has launched a website to publicize what he calls “a culture of bullying” by teachers in his son’s Cherry Hill classroom after sending the boy… Read More ›

• Youth of Color: Watched and Shot

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  For Trayvon, Mumia & the Many More by Mark Louis Taylor Trayvon Martin and Mumia Abu-Jamal. One is dead. One languished on death row for thirty years. They are separated in age by a generation, separated by different locations and… Read More ›

• Florida fire captain: Trayvon died because of ‘sh*tbag… welfare dependent’ parents

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A Miami-Dade fire captain is under investigation after he asserted that the death of an unarmed Florida teen was the fault of “failed, shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents.” According to the Grio, Miami-Dade fire captain Brian Beckmann… Read More ›

• N.C. man no longer faces death after judge invokes ‘Racial Justice Act’

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (CNN) — A North Carolina judge set aside the death sentence of a convicted killer after concluding Friday that race played a role in the case, a landmark ruling that may call into question a number of death row cases… Read More ›

• Obama Under Fire For Refusing To Sign Gay Protections Order

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  President Barack Obama is coming under heavy criticism for deciding against signing an executive order protecting LGBT workers. Senior Obama administration officials on Wednesday said the order which would ban federal contractors from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and… Read More ›

• The liberal betrayal of Bradley Manning

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Charles Davis More than three years into the presidency of Barack Obama, it’s almost a cliché now to ask: What if George W. Bush did it? From dramatically escalating the war in Afghanistan to institutionalizing the practice of indefinite… Read More ›

• George Zimmerman’s MySpace Name: “DatNiggyTB”

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Newsone Staff George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with murder in the second degree for the February 26 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has been called many names in the past weeks, but “DatNiggy” wasn’t one of them…. Read More ›

• Castro, Baseball and the Thought Police

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by JOHN ESKOW “You are Free, America, to Do as We Tell You!” What a pitiful spectacle. Ozzie Guillen, the hard-partying eccentric who manages the Florida Marlins, sits weeping in the harsh glare of TV lights, forced by his bosses… Read More ›

• Trayvon Martin shooting: Debate over photos escalates

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline First it was the hoodie. Now photographs used in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing are the subject of widespread debate, as supporters of both the slain 17-year-old African-American and the shooter,… Read More ›

• MDOT road sign changed to Trayvon Martin racial slur overnight

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press Staff Writer A racial slur appeared on a portable road sign along westbound I-94 in Detroit early today after the sign was hacked, officials said. Motorists began calling police shortly before 1 a.m. to… Read More ›

• Mississippi on way to becoming ‘abortion-free’ state

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A bill passed by Mississippi lawmakers putting new restrictions on doctors performing abortions moves the state one step closer to becoming “abortion free.” There is only one abortion clinic in the state, and the owner, Diane Derzis, has said the… Read More ›

• 7 Right-Wing Bomb-Making Militia Members Acquitted

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  George Zimmerman and these people walk free, but the state executed Troy Davis. The reasons why should be obvious – nationalism and racism. — Red Phoenix Editorial Staff By Robert Snell and Christine Ferrett Detroit— A federal judge acquitted seven members… Read More ›

• New Black Liberation Militia group to attempt citizen’s arrest in Fla. shooting of Trayvon Martin

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Crimesider Staff (CBS/AP) SANFORD, Fla. – The leader of a self-described black militia group says members will go to Sanford next week to attempt a citizen’s arrest on George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who admitted to fatally shooting… Read More ›