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Black lives matter rest in power castro6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The six-part series ends audaciously hopeful. Could it offer me something in the way of inspiration or a sense of validated identity from seeing this story told well? At first, all I thought it did was stir up the same feelings that haven’t left me since Trayvon’s killing: an angry fatigue, a charged boredom, a shockingly broad and fierce weariness at how much time we must spend convincing this country that our lives matter. Nonetheless, it remains the only legitimate documentary about Trayvon. ![]() I skipped it then for the same reason a person who has survived a shark attack might skip Shark Week. Whatever the reason, I found it very hard to recently watch for the first time Rest in Power, the 2018 Jay-Z-produced documentary about the death of Trayvon Martin, the trial of George Zimmerman, and the aftermath. Maybe I’m too old, been Black in America for too long. The poster for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, executive-produced by Jay-Z. ![]()
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