PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trayvon Martin has often been in the thoughts of
playwright and activist Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj in the four years since
the 17-year-old unarmed black boy was shot and killed after a
confrontation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.
He has wondered about Martin's dreams, his life and the moments before he died.
Maharaj has channeled those thoughts into a
two-hour play debuting Thursday at Philadelphia's New Freedom Theater.
"The Ballad of Trayvon Martin," co-written with Thomas Soto, explores
the idea of the dangerous consequences of being perceived as a threat
for young, black boys and men through the lens of Martin, whose death in
Sanford, Florida, on Feb. 26, 2012, was a galvanizing event for many
black Americans and seen by some as the nascent origins of the Black
Lives Matter movement underway across the country.
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