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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 […]

Like many people living in New York, I saw Rev. Al Sharpton’s (pictured) face plastered over copies of the New York Post and the New York Daily News, roasting him for being a “rat” and a “mob snitch.” Apparently, Sharpton served a role as an FBI informant against mob bosses in the 1980s. That was around the […]

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 […]

Legendary activist, scholar, author and former political prisoner Angela Davis (pictured left), who is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is still speaking truth to power, specifically as it pertains to revolutionary freedom  fighter, Assata Shakur (pictured right). In an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan González, Davis said that […]

George Zimmerman, 28, who has been charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, in Sanford, Florida, may soon be facing a hate crime charge from the FBI, reports WFTV. WFTV reports: Zimmerman admitted to killing Martin in February during a confrontation. However, he claims the shooting was […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An ex-CIA officer who helped track down and capture a top al-Qaida figure was charged Monday with disclosing classified secrets, including the role of one of his associates on that covert mission, in the latest of a series of prosecutions by the Obama administration against suspected leakers. SEE ALSO: Romney Faces […]

The FBI has shut down popular share filing site, MegaUpload and charged seven people affiliated with the site for online piracy. The Department Of Justice claims the MegaUpload was responsible for $500 million in losses for various copyright owners, while making a $175 million profit. Recently MegaUpload named hip-hop producer Swizz Beats as CEO and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents “neither sought nor obtained any information” […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first time, released a hostage video they received from his unidentified captors. SEE ALSO: DSK Maid Acts Out Assault On Tape The video message released on the Levinson […]

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have shut down 150 websites accused of selling knock-off or pirated merchandise to unsuspecting online bargain hunters.

An African-American author from Maryland claims that former Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, was a Black man who was passing for white.

African Americans are the group most likely to be targeted by hate crimes, according to a new federal report. The report, released by the FBI’s civil rights division, found the majority of hate crimes were motivated by anti-Black bias. See also: 6th Annual Top 25 Women of Houston Latinos were the targets of 66 percent of […]