--- title: Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January description: The publication comes just a month before the five year anniversary of his death canonical: https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-28T14:31:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:53:05.395Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January og:description: The publication comes just a month before the five year anniversary of his death og:url: https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3001 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Trayvon Martin's parents speak at NABJ convention og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January twitter:description: The publication comes just a month before the five year anniversary of his death twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January > Sponsored content. 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The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, left, and Tracy Martin, listen to their attorneys, during a news conference at the National Association of Black Journalists national convention, in Orlando, Florida, Friday, August 2, 2013. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel—MCT/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Sep 28, 2016 2:31 PM UTC Trayvon Martin’s parents will release [a book about their son](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/trayvon-martins-parents-sign-book-933270) in January, just a month before the five-year anniversary of his death. Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton have reportedly been working on the book for several years; in [2013](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/business/media/trayvon-martins-parents-are-planning-a-book.html), they met with several publishers to discuss the idea. The book ended up at Random House’s multicultural One World imprint, which is being rebooted by editor [Chris Jackson](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/penguin-random-house-editor-interview-932606) (known for editing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ _Between the World_ _and Me,_ Eddie Huang’s _Fresh Off the Boat_ and other touchstone books about race in America). Jackson describes this book as bringing Trayvon “back to life as the full, three-dimensional, complex kid he was, through his parents’ eyes, and then to the dark and confusing days following his death, which slowly transform into the blossoming of a powerful, historic movement for change and healing that we’re still watching unfold five years later,” he tells the _Hollywood Reporter_. “Everyone who’s been reading the manuscript is in tears by the second chapter.” [_Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812997239/?tag=timecom-20)will debut Jan. 31, 2017. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/trayvon-martins-parents-sign-book-933270)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/"},"headline":"Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January","datePublished":"2016-09-28T14:31:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:53:05.395Z","description":"The publication comes just a month before the five year anniversary of his death","url":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trayvon Martin's parents speak at NABJ convention","caption":"Trayvon Martin's parents speak at NABJ convention","creditText":"Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel—MCT/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/","name":"Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January"}}]}] ```