Leid Stories - The Quest for Justice: Economic, Political and Judicial - 04/12/13

Dr. Algernon Austin, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, outlines how President Obama can correct entrenched, race-based economic disparity. Harold Washington’s election on April 12, 1983 as the first African American mayor of the City of Chicago remains a template for high-stakes Black power within the framework of coalition politics. Benjamin Crump, attorney representing Trayvon Martin’s family, responds to assertions by the parents of George Zimmerman, Martin’s killer, of pretrial preferential treatment.