Michael Brown

Two men who witnessed the Michael Brown shooting are coming forward with their accounts, backing up other witness accounts. One of the men anonymously spoke with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. RELATED: Post-Michael Brown Murder, We Cannot Afford To Go Back To Sleep Both men were reportedly working at an apartment complex near the shooting when they say they […]

      News related to the killing of Michael Brown is still keeping people engaged on the issues of excessive force and police brutality. For so many people, Ferguson took the nation by storm, with the images that were almost a throwback to days gone by or similar to a box-office thriller where some […]

Attorney General Eric Holder will launch a civil rights investigation into the Ferguson Police Department following the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel, featuring Maya Rockeymoore, Jeff Johnson and Elroy Sailor discuss the Department of Justice’s wide-ranging investigation into the practices of the St. Louis suburb’s police department. […]

The family of Michael Brown is turning the focus in Ferguson to voting in an attempt to change the political power structure in the St. Louis suburb. Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” panel discuss the impact daily protests and an increase in the number of minority voters can have in changing Ferguson. Listen to […]

If you asked the average Black person about the state of racism in America, you’ll likely be greeted with boos, hisses, eye rolls, and four-letter words due to the disproportionate number of Black men and women in jail, attacks on our right to vote, widening economic disparities between the races, and rampant police brutality. All […]

It’s been nearly one month since Darren Wilson, a White Ferguson, Mo., police officer, brutally gunned down Michael Brown (pictured), a Black 18-year-old youth. Since the shooting, Ferguson law enforcement are now reportedly being made to wear body cameras, according to Fox News. SEE ALSO: The UN Calls United States Out On Its Racism [VIDEO] A reported 50 officers […]

The death of Michael Brown (pictured), an African-American 18-year-old unarmed youth who was senselessly executed on August 9th by Darren Wilson, a White cop, was not in vain. The Brown incident, which struck a chord in countless folks across the country, has a stirred the rap community to come to arms with their microphones against the strong-arm […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s government said Wednesday that the police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, is evidence that the United States is a “graveyard of human rights.” The comments by a Foreign Ministry spokesman fit a pattern by North Korea of seizing any opportunity to turn the table […]

I’m as excited over the prospects of casting a vote for Hillary Clinton for president as I am being given a pedicure with a butcher’s knife. Clinton is certainly qualified to be president. This country clearly is lagging in electing a woman to the highest office in the land. Should she finally break the glass ceiling she spoke […]

On Tuesday, Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared on “NewsOne Now” to explain how the people of Ferguson should move forward in their fight for justice, social, economic and political change. Listen to excerpts of his conversation with Roland Martin below. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, weekdays at 7 a.m. EST and watch at 9 a.m. EST on TV One.   

Tuesday on “NewsOne Now,” Roland Martin challenged the African American community to take this moment of sadness and outrage over the murder of Michael Brown and turn it into a movement. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, weekdays at 7 a.m. EST and watch at 9 a.m. EST on TV One.   

More than five thousand people gathered at Friendly Temple Baptist Church in St. Louis for the funeral of Michael Brown. Among the mourners: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop T.D. Jakes, actor Hill Harper, director Spike Lee, rapper MC Hammer, and the Rev. Al Sharpton who delivered the eulogy. The unarmed teenager was shot dead by a Ferguson police officer just […]