Concertgoers attending Hot 97’s annual Summer Jam concert at New Jersey’s Met Life Stadium Sunday were pepper-sprayed and maced by police in riot gear as they tried to make their way into the venue to watch acts like Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, and Kendrick Lamar. According to NBC New York, the incidents occurred shortly after 9 p.m. […]

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Police are willing to use lethal force in a library but won’t say why? NOW is not the time for silence. #KevinAllen pic.twitter.com/PedG0KxEc5 — Alex Blank Millard (@Hippoinatutu) May 30, 2015 Yet another black man became a hashtag yesterday as Kevin Allen died at the hands of Lyndhurst, NJ police, who said they had not […]

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There is a reason President Barack Obama picked Camden, New Jersey as the city to announce a bold police initiative on Monday in an effort to address ongoing problems with policing in minority and poor communities. The once bustling industrial hub for shipping and consumer goods is now a ghost of its former self like […]

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In a recent interview, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vowed to “crack down on and not permit” legalized marijuana if elected president, he told an Iowa news station last week, according to CNN. SEE ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: NJ Teacher Suspended For Having Students Write Get Well Letters To Mumia Abu-Jamal In Jail Christie, who has not officially declared […]

Amid outcry from the state police union, a New Jersey university has decided to cancel a commencement speech from rapper Common over a song he wrote a fifteen years ago in honor of Black activist Assata Shakur. Kean University students expressed interest in hearing Common speak at graduation in large part due to his powerful and emotional […]

UPDATE: Saturday, April 4, 2015 @ 12pm:  After yet another video surfaced recording police interaction with 32-year-old Phillip White, who died in Vineland, NJ police custody on Wednesday, White’s family is opening an investigation, reports a local NBC affiliate. According to NBC10, the latest footage provides a clearer view of the final moments of Phillip White’s […]

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]

  In New Jersey, a 26-year-old Black man Tysean Fitzpatrick was shot by a White off-duty police officer Basil Warren, after he allegedly attempted to steal the cop’s truck and run him over with it. The incident took place early Tuesday morning in the Delanco Township and an investigation is still ongoing. SEE ALSO: La. Deputy […]

An unnamed substitute teacher is being accused of taping the mouths shut of five of her young students at Winfield Scott Elementary School in Elizabeth, New Jersey.  Now the parents of the children involved in the bizarre method of punishment want the woman fired, according to NBC News 4. SEE ALSO: Woman Booted From Hair […]

Arthur Morgan III (pictured), a New Jersey native who threw his daughter in to a creek while she was strapped in her car seat, received a life sentence last week, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Dispatcher Suspended For Oprah Winfrey Comments Made During Maya Angelou 911 Call Morgan committed the appalling act in November […]

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Young people have always been leaders of change within the movement.  Despite being thought of as the unengaged generation, there are millennials who are changing that perception as they attempt to change laws and policies.  Last year after the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial, a group of Florida students called The Dream Defenders […]

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  After his first meeting with Newark mayor-elect Ras Baraka, New Jersey governor Chris Christie referred to him as “a hostile guy,” reports  NJ.com. RELATED: It’s A New Day: Ras Baraka Wins Newark Mayoral Race Overall, Christie said they had a “really friendly meeting,” but also described Baraka as a “kind of hostile guy.” “I think he expressed hostility […]