#BlackLivesMatter

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Thursday that a grand jury has returned indictments on all six officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray, 25, died in April a week after he was arrested, shackled, and placed in a van unrestrained by the officers. An autopsy revealed the Baltimore native died from a severe […]

Black women and girls matter too. Don’t forget. #sayhername #BlackWomenMatter #blackwomenslivesmatter pic.twitter.com/SoQde3dshr — satan with a fro (@delafro_) May 21, 2015 In an effort to stem the tide of violence being waged against African-American women in the criminal justice system, the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday began incorporating women and girls in its protests […]

I’m disturbed by the depictions of Toya Graham circulating in news and social media. Going upside her son’s head for throwing rocks into a crowd of Baltimore cops on Monday, she’s been depicted in at least three ways:  as Mom of the Year, as fulfilling stereotypes of the Black mammy, and as a welfare queen […]

  Wednesday evening protests inspired by those who marched for answers in the death of Freddie Gray spread from Baltimore to other cities. Some highlights: -In New York City (see the video above), protesters starting at Union Square in Manhattan marched throughout the city, at one point shutting down the West Side highway and Holland […]

UPDATED Thursday, April 30, 2015, 3:41 p.m. ET:  After going toe-to-toe with CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer earlier this week, activist Deray McKesson came on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show (broadcast by Radio One, also the parent company of NewsOne) to expound on the exchange. “We don’t call it a riot, I call this an uprising,” he […]

From the peaceful protests to the riots, to the homegoing services, see the city’s reaction to case of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man who died after his spine was severed while in police custody.

WERQ 92 QJams in Baltimore, which is owned by Radio One (also the parent company of NewsOne), gave us this special video report, above, from the scene of protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. Two people were arrested during the protests for disorderly conduct and destruction of property, which were otherwise peaceful, according […]

During a wide-ranging and candid discussion with the Daily Telegraph about the state of the nation’s race relations, author Toni Morrison says America’s issues will not be resolved until justice is meted out equally in the criminal justice system, according to the Raw Story. Further, the Nobel Prize-winning author says unarmed Blacks are not the ones […]

Black lives do, indeed, matter. And this Saturday, Black Lives Matter — an international movement fighting to end state-sanctioned violence against Black communities throughout the world — is partnering with The 24 Hour Project to document the every-day lives of Black people in multiple cities during one single day. This year’s theme is ‘The Human Condition’ […]

Hundreds took to the streets of Decatur, Georgia yesterday, stopping traffic, chanting and holding signs like “Demilitarize the police” to protest the officer-involved shooting death of Anthony Hill, an unarmed 27-year-old black man in DeKalb County, a suburb of Atlanta. RELATED: Unarmed Air Force Veteran Anthony Hill Shot And Killed By Police Protesters, using hashtags […]

UPDATE: Thursday, March 12, 1:55 PM EST  Two men and one woman were questioned in connection to the shooting of two veteran officers in Ferguson, Mo. Wednesday night. A police spokesman has confirmed that the group was seen making a hole in the roof of their Ferguson home. After being questioned last night, they were […]

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 […]