A Look Back At Trayvon Martin's Death, And The Movement It Inspired
A new television series explores the 2012 killing of the 17-year-old in Sanford, Fla., and the subsequent trial that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.
Most of us remember the broad outlines of the story: 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was followed, shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., on the night of Feb. 26, 2012.
More than six weeks later, Zimmerman was arrested and, eventually, tried for second-degree murder in a case that would be as racially polarizing as the O.J. Simpson trial had been nearly 20 years earlier.
Filmmakers Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst (the duo also did ) thought it was important to revisit Martin's death, Zimmerman's trial and the law had on both. The result is a six-episode series, , which airs on the Paramount Network through early September.
