The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak in Philadelphia at the National Urban League’s annual conference, which will focus on civil rights, voting rights and job creation.

The four-day event, which begins Wednesday, comes less than a month after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and not long after the man who shot Martin was acquitted in the racially charged case.
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Holder will talk Thursday about the high court’s controversial ruling, which threw out a provision requiring all or parts of 15 states with histories of voting discrimination — mainly in the South— to get federal approval before changing the way they hold elections.
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Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, will speak Friday. She supports Holder’s decision to investigate whether her son’s killer, George Zimmerman, could be charged under federal civil rights laws. A jury acquitted Zimmerman in Martin’s death, finding that he acted in self-defense.

In both discussions, “what we’re hoping they will produce is certainly more knowledge, more information and more mobilization around the issues of voting rights and also justice,” said Philadelphia Urban League President Patricia Coulter.

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Oh, good grief! Sybrina Fulton didn't even raise her son. She gave him up to a step-mom when he was just a baby. I'm sick of her sniveling and pretending how much she loved her son. On top of that, what kind of credentials does she have that she can debate the voting rights act?

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Oh, good grief! Sybrina Fulton didn't even raise her son. She gave him up to a step-mom when he was just a baby. I'm sick of her sniveling and pretending how much she loved her son. On top of that, what kind of credentials does she have that she can debate the voting rights act?

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Oh, good grief! Sybrina Fulton didn't even raise her son. She gave him up to a step-mom when he was just a baby. I'm sick of her sniveling and pretending how much she loved her son. On top of that, what kind of credentials does she have that she can debate the voting rights act?

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She's not been invited to educate anyone. She's a temporary symbol.

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