Jamie Foxx made a powerful fashion statement at the 2013 BET Awards last night, honoring the memory of slain teenager Trayvon Martin.
The “White House Down” actor, who won the evening’s Best Actor accolade for his role in “Django Unchained,” hit the annual awards ceremony in white pants and a white shirt with a black-and-white image of the young man in his now symbolic hooded sweatshirt. Foxx made no mention of the shirt during his acceptance speech.
Foxx has long supported the Martin family and participated in a candlelight vigil in New York in February to mark the one-year anniversary of Martin’s death.
“We want you (to) know we love you and we won’t leave you,” Foxx told Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, at the time.
It’s not the first time Foxx donned a shirt with Martin’s image. At the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, Foxx wore a tee featuring Martin and the Sandy Hook massacre victims with the words “KNOW JUSTICE, KNOW PEACE.” At last year’s BET Awards, the actor also wore a red T-shirt of Martin.
The second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who claims to have shot and killed the 17-year-old last February in self-defense, is in its second week of testimony.