Trayvon Martin shooting has parallels with new play 'Slip/Shot,' premiering in Philadelphia

Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger's new play Slip/Shot, which begins previews Tuesday night, tells the story of a black 17-year-old in Florida, Monroe, who leaves his girlfriend's house one night and, on his way home, is shot and killed by a white security guard. The local sheriff declines to charge the man and closes the case. Goldfinger set her play in 1962, a time of transition in Tallahassee, when Florida State Univer…

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