Singer Angie Stone was arrested in DeKalb County today after police say she got into a physical confrontation with her adult daughter, and knocked her teeth out with a metal stand. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the dispute started when Angie Stone, 53, entered her daughter’s room, and demanded that she clean it up […]
Looks like Ferguson continues to clean house. In the latest fallout from the Department of Justice report that shone a blinding light on racially biased justice system that is Ferguson, Mo, the Ferguson City Council announced tonight that City Manager John Shaw and the city had reached a “mutual separation agreement.” Shaw, 39, had been […]
A Los Angeles jury “hates these blurred lines” too. It decided that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke owe the estate of singer/songwriter Marvin Gaye $7.3 million in damages for portions of their 2013 mega-hit “Blurred Lines” that were too similar to Gaye’s 1977 song “Got To Give It Up.” Reports CBS News: Gaye’s daughter Nona Gaye wept […]
#BlackLivesMatter On ABC’s ‘Scandal’: Actor Courtney B. Vance Talks Racism, Police Brutality [VIDEO]
Last week, ABC’s “Scandal,” starring Kerry Washington as the formidable Olivia Pope, struck a nerve all across the country. It did so not with a new outrageous plot twist or a blistering monologue by “Papa Pope,” played by Joe Morton, but through the simple act of art imitating life. The episode causing the stir was titled […]
One gunshot got Marissa Alexander sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison even though she said she was defending herself from estranged abusive husband. Even though the state of Florida recognized the Stand Your Ground Law for George Zimmerman who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, the same law did not protect […]
Because it is a social construct, race can often be a complicated matter. However, racism – notably, as it works in America – is a much easier issue to comprehend. If you don’t appear White, you are classified as “other,” making you susceptible to every form of prejudice associated with otherness. If you do not […]
A judge in Sandy Springs, Ga. last week sentenced a sanitation worker to 30 days behind bars for, well, starting work too early, according to Atlanta’s WSB-TV. The worker, Kevin McGill, told the news station last week that he was fresh on the job when he was cited recently for picking up trash just after […]
On Tuesday Johnny C. Taylor, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, stopped by “NewsOne Now” to make a major announcement that could literally change the lives of thousands of HBCU students across the country. Fresh off the heels of its Apple Watch announcement, Apple released a statement through Fortune Magazine stating that […]
Nearly 2,000 students marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday—many of them high schoolers—in remembrance of 19-year-old Tony Robinson, the unarmed biracial teen shot and killed by police last week. Robinson’s family spoke at the march, and gave us deeper glimpses into the young man who died on Friday. Known to the family as “Terrell” (so as […]
UPDATED, 9:55 a.m. EST, 3-11-15: Two students expelled from the University of Oklahoma for playing a “leadership role” in a fraternity’s racist chant video that went viral have issued apologies, according to The Dallas Morning News. One of the students, Parker Rice, 19, of Dallas, apologized in a statement released Tuesday by his father, Bob, […]
President Barack Obama’s plans to allow some undocumented immigrants to reside in the U.S. have come to a halt. Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas said he won’t make any rulings on the policy until after March 19. Last month, Judge Hanen stopped President Obama’s deportation relief policies in light of a lawsuit […]
Aurora, Colorado police confirmed that the man killed by police last Friday in an officer involved shooting was, in fact, unarmed, reports CBS4 Denver. The victim is Naeschylus Vinzant, 37, who police say absconded parole on March 2 by removing his ankle bracelet. Vinzant was also wanted in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident, which included charges of […]
