A new poll released by USA Today and the Pew Research Center shows 57% of Americans polled believe NYPDÂ officer, Daniel Pantaleo, should have been indicted for the murder of Eric Garner. From USA Today: Americans by nearly 3-1 say the white police officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man being […]
Podcast: Download Does a celebrity/athlete wearing a t-shirt to show solidarity with people in a movement make a difference or would it be better for them to donate funds to support the movement? NewsOne Now guest host, Mo Ivory takes your calls during the radio portion of “NewsOne Now.” The Department of Justice has announced […]
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary,  a grand jury is a jury that examines accusations against persons charged with crimes and, if evidence warrants, makes formal charges on which the accused person is later tried. Important facts to know about the grand jury process: No judge is present during a grand jury Prosecutor is the only lawyer that […]
The Department of Justice has announced a new set of rules to help curb racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials. These guidelines instruct federal law enforcement agencies to no longer consider: gender national origin religion sexual orientation gender identification While this is good at the federal level, these new practices do not apply to the […]
The federal government is taking broad new steps to ban profiling by law enforcement agencies, bolstering a 2003 policy that previously only addressed the consideration of race and ethnicity in conducting federal investigations, according to a statement released Monday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured). RELATED STORIES: UPDATED: Cleveland Cops Release Video In Shooting […]
It’s been a week since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to convict the cop who killed Eric Garner, and racial tensions in the country still remain high. In a recent interview with BET, President Obama discussed race relations in America and what we need to do to move forward. The one-on-one with Jeff […]
Amidst all of the protests over the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson that have been happening across the country, Hollywood joined in on the action this past weekend. According to KTLA, hundreds of protestors took to the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue, the area where a man allegedly […]
(photo credit: FaceBook) In the wake of the refusal to indict Officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo for the murders of 18-year-old Michael Brown and 43-year-old Eric Garner, respectively, Kings County, Brooklyn district attorney Kenneth Thompson began to impanel a grand jury to decide the fate of Officer Peter Liang, the man who shot and killed 28-year-old Akai Gurley. Thompson, who is African American, and whose single mother […]
The movement #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime, and the slain 17-year old was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder. Today the battlefield in the fight for justice has expanded across the nation. We’ve seen protesters marching through the streets changing “Black lives matter,” disrupting […]
Former military police officer and now funny man, Gary Owen, joined Roland Martin Thursday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the Mike Brown and Eric Garner cases, as well as police encounters with African Americans in general. Owen, often referred to as “Black America’s favorite White comic” by Martin, is married to an African American woman […]
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of New York City after a Staten Island grand jury on Wednesday decided not to indict New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, the unarmed Black man whose untimely demise was captured on video while in a chokehold, igniting outrage across the country. Local news […]
An unidentified St. Louis man must have “lost it” when he reportedly barreled his minivan through a crowd of activists and then waved a handgun at them.  The gatherers were preparing a die-in demonstration that involves laying in the streets in protest of the Eric Garner decision to not charge a New York City police officer for using an illegal chokehold that wound […]
