Law

When I was a kid, “The Talk” meant something different. It meant a father telling his son or a mother telling a daughter about the birds and the bees, a necessary education that all parents should give their children about human sexuality when they reached a certain age. But now, “The Talk” has come to […]

It’s time President Obama step in to protect protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. As long as Black Americans have had United States citizenship, we have needed the federal government to enforce and protect our rights on the local level. Such was the case in the years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, when Union troops went […]

Friday on “NewsOne Now,” legal and marriage expert Michelle Thomas joined guest host Angela Rye to to discuss the stickier points of marriage: divorce, prenups and all thing legal. Thomas also fielded questions from radio callers. You’ll want to hear what she has to say! Listen below. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, weekdays at 7 […]

The National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair is held every year to help aspiring lawyers make decisions on what steps they should take to getting into law. Each attendee will be able to go to panel discussions and workshops with lawyers and judges from all across the country. Key information on how to take […]

Zimbabwe may be struggling with extreme poverty and high unemployment rates. But according to one of the country’s top government officials, that’s no reason for its residents to participate in the sale or purchase of secondhand underwear. SEE ALSO: Yoga Gurus Fight Back Against Negative Press Tendai Biti, the southern African country’s finance minister, is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it is expanding the FBI’s more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to reflect a better understanding of the crime and to broaden protections. SEE ALSO: Man Sues Wiz Khalifa Over Hit Song The new definition counts men as victims for the first time and drops the requirement that […]

Certain words mean different things to different people. Depending on where you are from calling someone “boy” can get you in a ton of trouble. That’s what happened to a supervisor at Tyson Chicken. The New York Times reports: Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that there were […]

JACKSON, Miss. – A Mississippi judge jailed a lawyer for several hours for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, ordering the attorney to “purge himself” of contempt by standing and repeating the oath like the rest of the courtroom. After Oxford attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours in the county jail Wednesday, Chancery […]

Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed “Chicago 8” activists who protested the Vietnam War.

From The Root: To his credit, the nation’s first black U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, has not shied away from discussing race and its impact on our criminal justice system. Shortly after he was confirmed, he famously said that ”in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially […]