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http://thefilmarchive.org/ March 23, 2012 Jim Yong Kim (born December 8, 1959) is a Korean-American physician and 17th President of Dartmouth College. He was formerly the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and was a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health. On March 2, 2009, Kim was named as the president of Dartmouth College, a position he formally assumed on July 1, 2009. Kim is the first Asian-American to assume the post of president at an Ivy League institution. On March 23, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would nominate Kim as the next president of the World Bank. The shooting of Trayvon Martin took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was an unarmed, 17-year-old African American male who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old community watch coordinator of mixed ethnic descent (Latin American mother, white American father) with some of his relatives being black. Martin was walking from a convenience store to the home of his father's fiancée when Zimmerman, while contacting the Sanford Police Department to report Martin's allegedly suspicious behavior, began following him. Soon afterward, they engaged in a confrontation that ended with George Zimmerman fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman told police who arrived on the scene that the shooting was self-defense. Responding officers handcuffed Zimmerman and took him into custody but they did not formally arrest him, saying they did not find evidence to contradict his assertion of self-defense. The lead homicide investigator reportedly said he did not believe it was self-defense and he wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter, but the state attorney's office said there was insufficient evidence for a conviction. The circumstances around Martin's death received national and international attention, particularly regarding Florida's Stand Your Ground law and allegations of racial motivations and police misconduct, triggering public demands for Zimmerman's arrest. A number of high-profile citizens have made public comments or released statements calling for a full investigation, including Al Sharpton, President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_kim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin