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With the Rev. Al Sharpton leading the way, celebrities, civil rights activists and relatives of Trayvon Martin got together at a church in Los Angeles, Calif., recently to mark the two-month anniversary of the Florida black teen’s killing by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

“There are Trayvons all over this country,” The Associated Press quoted the Rev. Al Sharpton as telling the cheering crowd at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ Thursday evening. “What kind of world are we living in that we can put a black man in the White House, but a black man can’t walk through a gated community?” he asked.

The Rev. Jessie Jackson and some celebrities, including Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Magic Johnson and Paul Rodriguez, were among those who attended the rally to bring attention to cases similar to that of 17-year-old Martin, who was killed by George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida on Feb. 26.

The rally was organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, to “advocate for crime victims and their families of senseless crimes; educate young people on conflict resolution techniques; increase public awareness against all forms of profiling; and enact the Trayvon Martin legislation to prevent the inappropriate application of the stand your ground principles.”

Courtesy of www.thebellereport.net    www.twitter.com/thebellereport