Barack Obama

In introducing Fulton, National Urban League CEO Marc Morial said watching the trial of George Zimmerman left many "horrified." "The Urban League movement today wraps our arms around this family, wraps our arms around Ms. Fulton, send our prayers to her. She is the mother of all of our children today."

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"I think people also need to know that she is a mother, she's a mother in good standing. She's a black woman, she's a mother who is now trying to also reach out to everybody to make them aware of the fact that we're in a society that's supposed to be moving forward and we're moving backwards at a much more rapid pace than we are making progress." Dulan-Wilson attended Lincoln University and Temple University. Now retired, she is moving from New York to Philadelphia. She said the need for justice and equality in Florida and beyond "is more important now than ever."