Cross Post Now, Nation, Police Brutality

On August 9, 2014, seeing the lifeless body of Michael Brown Jr. laid out in the blistering heat for four and half hours on Twitter shook my world but little did I know it would change my world forever. Michael Brown changed my life. I know a lot of people say this but it’s the […]

Politics

President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union Address Tuesday night.

Cross Post Now, NewsOne Now

Hours after Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now, challenged national women’s organizations to speak out on the McKinney pool party incident where a 14-year-old Dajerria Becton was brutally forced to the ground, the National Organization for Women responded to the injustice. From the National Organization for Women: Washington, D.C. – We can only look with revulsion on […]

As details regarding the Charleston, SC church shooting continue to unfold, the nation is grappling yet again with what appears to be a violent hate crime aimed against people of color. What occurred Wednesday night at the Emanuel AME Church is another in a long history of terrorism against the Black Church, a cowardly tactic […]

NewsOne’s Politicker blog tackles some of the most important topics in politics: Election 2016, moves by the Obama administration, voting rights, lawmaking, and the way that elected officials represent our communities. Three times a week, we will go beyond the mainstream media’s “pack” coverage of politics to highlight the underreported aspects of how politics and policy […]

Political leaders, athletes, and musicians headed to the city of Baltimore this past week, making headlines for their kind words, ideas, and inspiration after peaceful demonstrations turned violent following the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday. Gray, 25, died from a spinal injury while in police custody. While the chaos of arson and looting took over […]

Nation

In an apparent dismissal of the history of slavery in the United States and countless crimes enacted on Blacks by Whites in its reverberating aftermath, Fox News host Andrea Tantaros (pictured) said Monday that President Barack Obama has contributed to making race relations worse than any time in U.S. history, Raw Story reports. But she expressed […]

NewsOne Original, Politics

The push-back against President Obama over remarks made at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast boil down to “How dare POTUS remind us that Christianity has been used to justify evil acts like every other religion?” In the wake of increasing anxiety over extremists citing their Islamic beliefs to commit acts of terror, Obama offered some […]

In response to the nationwide protests over the grand jury’s decision not to indict white New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold death of African-American Eric Garner, the city’s “finest” is holding their own #ThankyouNYPD Pro Cop Rally on December 19 at New York’s City Hall. SEE ALSO: Man Receives $50K From The NYPD […]

One of the Civil Rights Movement‘s most notable figures has come forward blasting recent claims that then-President Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the idea behind the marches in Selma. In fact, SNCC co-founder Diane Nash suggests that LBJ’s signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was nothing more than a delayed reaction to the deaths of […]

Nation

In light of the nearing grand jury decision, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will be announcing the formation of a special Commission on Ferguson, according to a local St. Louis TV station.  Nixon will announce the members at the Missouri History Museum this afternoon, ostensibly in the hopes that it will help to calm tensions in the wake of the grand jury decision in the […]

Nation

Let’s have a flashback: In the 1988 presidential race, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush ran an attack ad against Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, pointing out that he authorized weekend passes to Willie Horton, a Black male convicted of first-degree murder. During one of those weekends, Horton raped a woman and attacked her companion. SEE ALSO: Omaha’s Nikko […]