Who knew? As it turns out, Trayvon Martin had a stepmother, Alicia Stanley, a woman with whom he apparently lived from the age of three and was raised by her along with her daughters. No, this is not the lady to whom father Tracy Martin is now engaged (Brandy Green), to whose home Trayvon was returning the night of the incident.
Alicia Stanley's interview on CNN by Anderson Cooper follows below. In it, she says she is doing the interview to "let people know that I exist, that I'm the one who raised him."
Ms. Stanley's two-part interview, conducted within the past 48 hours, is here.
In the interview, "she became emotional when talking about losing a child she raised for most of his life, and described how painful it was to not be able to sit in the front row at Martin’s funeral." She also has apparently been excluded from the courtroom.
Why is the public just now learning about this? Obviously, being shunted to the background has hurt her tremendously. Those responsible should be ashamed of themselves.