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New evidence shows the DCCC's support of the Black Lives Matter movement is actually a farce.

During Friday evening’s broadcast of the 47th annual NAACP Image Awards on TV One, Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the National Board of Directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will present NAACP Chairman’s Awards to several individuals and groups for their work on social justice. One of the groups being honored with a […]

This week, activist group Justice League NYC is fighting for the family of Eric Garner by demanding the officer who placed him in a chokehold be stripped of his duties.

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Roland Martin and NewsOne Now bring you highlights from this year's Justice Ball from the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY.

NewsOne discussed Black Lives Matter with Sen. Cory Booker, lawyer Ben Crump, and more at CBC's Annual Legislative Conference.

FBI Director James B. Comey described the information as vital in the ongoing debate over policing in the United States.

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In an edition of the "No Lie Zone," Martin debunked the notion that Black Lives Matter Movement is devoid of an agenda.

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Pastor Jamal Bryant and a group of activists from around the country protested outside of the offices of the Department of Justice on Monday, demanding direct intervention in the Sandra Bland case. “We’re asking Loretta Lynch take over the case,” Bryant told Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now. “Over the last two weeks, six African-American […]

When 22-year-old Kalief Browder took his life, New York City heaved. Browder spent three years on Rikers Island, the infamous jail where he suffered documented torture, including brutal attacks, constant confinement to a 6 foot by 8 foot cell and reported starvation. On June 7, the 22-year-old hung himself with an air conditioning cord in his mother’s house, gifting critics […]

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Reading about the suicide of Kalief Browder is heartbreaking. His story is one of many tragedies that moved me to drive to Albany last week, to stand with legislators like Assemblyman Michael Blake in demanding that New York ‘Raise the Age’ at which youth are charged as adults in our courts. In New York State, […]

Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old who was horrendously abused by police officers on Rikers Island as a teen, was facing new charges shortly before his suicide on Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. Browder’s lawyer calls the charges against Kalief and his brother Kamal, 22, “baseless.” Both brothers were facing disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges on Wednesday […]