Students from Tolman High School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island were pepper sprayed and arrested by police during a protest that were sparked after an officer body slammed a teenager to the ground earlier this week.
Peggy Hubbard, a black grandmother who grew up near Ferguson, Missouri, went on a rant against the Black Lives Matter movement that has now been seen by at least 7 million people. Hubbard was apparently set off by events in Ferguson in which Mansur Ball-Bey, a young black man, was killed by police and, in a […]
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush abruptly ended a town hall meeting Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, after a Black Lives Matter protester raised a poignant question “about the disproportionate number of minorities killed by police,” according to the Los Angeles Times. While Bush acknowledged that racism still exists in America, he quickly turned the subject […]
Walter Palmer Is The “Most Hated Man” On Social Media After Killing Zimbabwe’s Prized Cecil The Lion
https://twitter.com/dom_zamprogna/status/626074655166611456 Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer became “the most hated man” on social media Tuesday after The Telegraph named him as the hunter who paid $50,000 to kill one of Africa’s most famous and prized lions earlier this month, according to BuzzFeed. https://twitter.com/Pamelatte14/status/626044184030523392 Palmer’s dental practice was completely shuttered Tuesday in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, according to Fox […]
Ku Klux Klan Clashes With New Black Panther Party During Confederate Flag Protests In South Carolina
The confederate flag has been removed from the South Carolina statehouse and, as to be expected, the Ku Klux Klan is not happy about it.…
NYC #ShutItDown for Eric Garner! This Friday we show our resistance This Friday we show our power #NOJUSTICENOPEACE pic.twitter.com/Pn2kZacv1X — Millions March NYC (@MillionsMarch) July 11, 2015 One year after Eric Garner was brought to his knees by a New York Police Department officer and placed in a violent and deadly chokehold for allegedly selling loose cigarettes, marchers […]
CLEVELAND – The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against the city of Cleveland on behalf of four people arrested at a protest after the Brelo verdict . According to the Associated Press, the protesters claim they were trapped in an ally and weren’t given a chance to leave. They also […]
CLEVELAND — Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to appear at a local church in Cleveland next week. According to Reverend Jawanza Colvin, he is scheduled to speak at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church. Later this week, members of local churches plan to march to the Justice Center to call for comprehensive reform of […]
Dozens of protesters were arrested after a Cleveland, Ohio judge found Officer Michael Brelo, 31, not guilty of felony involuntary manslaughter in the November 2012 shooting deaths of Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, CNN reports. RELATED: Cleveland Cop Who Fired 49 of 137 Shot Barrage Killing Two Unarmed African Americans: Not Guilty As previously reported by NewsOne, […]
An amateur photographer from Baltimore is being celebrated for his photos taken during the recent demonstrations in the name of Freddie Gray. His images are so touching,…
Hours after she was sworn in as the first African-American woman to hold the office of Attorney General, Loretta Lynch released a statement about the…
Thousands of people came together in Baltimore this weekend, all fed up after 25-year-old Freddie Gray‘s life was cut short due to injuries he sustained…