As the women left the stage, the arena erupted in a "Black Lives Matter!" chant.
Google.org's decision comes after the Mountain View, California tech giant announced plans this spring to recruit more women and people of color into one of the best paid growth industries in the nation.
It’s been nearly three years since a neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot a Florida teenager walking home after picking up a bag of Skittles and an Arizona canned drink from a convenience store. And on Feb. 5, 2015, that teenager would have celebrated a birthday. His name is Trayvon Martin. And as the date of his […]
FROM NEWSONE.COM: Michael Dunn was sentenced to life without parole Friday in the shooting 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, CNN reports. “This case demonstrates that our justice system does work,” Duval County Judge Russell Healey said before the sentencing, the news site says. CNN reports the following: Dunn, 47, was convicted of […]
UPDATED October 1, 2014 at 4:50 p.m. ET: CNN is reporting a first-degree murder guilty verdict in the so-called “loud music” trial of Michael Dunn,…
UPDATED 10/1/14, 5:16 P.M.: The Rev. Al Sharpton has released the following statement on Michael Dunn’s guilty verdict: “The conviction of Michael Dunn of…
CNN is reporting a first-degree murder guilty verdict in the so-called “loud music” trial of Michael Dunn, who was charged with killing Florida teen Jordan Davis. We will bring you updates on this story is it develops. SOURCE: NewsOne.com Article and Picture Courtesy of News One
Black community leaders are taking a stand against the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law. On March 10, 2014 in Tallahassee, Florida, leaders across the country…
The second juror from the Michael Dunn murder trial has broken her silence, saying that the shocking verdict had nothing to do with race, reports CNN. Juror No. 8, Creshuna Miles, 21, was one of two Black women on a jury which voted 9-3 to convict Dunn, 47, of 3 counts of attempted second degree murder […]
During an emotional Good Morning America interview, Jordan Davis‘ parents, Lucia McBath and Ron Davis, spoke about their son’s character and insisted that God has “the ultimate justice,” reports ABC. Angela Corey: We Are Retrying Michael Dunn For 1st-Degree Murder As previously reported by NewsOne, Michael Dunn, 47, gunned down Davis at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida on November […]