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Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, speaks to attendees during her speech Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in the Lory Student Center Ballroom on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins.
Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, speaks to attendees during her speech Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in the Lory Student Center Ballroom on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins.
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FORT COLLINS — Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, says it’s not a hard decision for her to make when she’s invited to speak at a college or university.

“It was the universities that actually took to social media,” Fulton said of the reaction after her 17- year- old son was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012.

Those students, she said, are the ones who rallied in hoodies, posted pictures and advocated “before all the networks got involved.”

Fulton spoke Thursday night at Colorado State University’s Lory Student Center to an audience of more than 850 people as part of Black History Month, hosted by the university’s Black/African American Cultural Events Center and RamEvents.

Read more of the article at ReporterHerald.com.

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