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Al Bell Co-Owner of Stax Records, Frayser Boy and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell joined Roland Martin Wednesday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the new documentary “Take Me…

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed nearly 46 years ago. Friday will mark the anniversary of his death. But Thursday, April 3 marks another…

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A kindergarten teacher in Memphis, Tenn., has been suspended without pay for posting indecent comments about her students on her Facebook page, WCM-TV reports. SEE…

Lakeshia Richmond has been charged with aggravated assault for beating her two sons’ little league football coach with a baseball bat after accusing the man…

Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr.,Baptist minister and civil rights activist, was assassinated in Memphis, TN, on this date in 1968. James Earl Ray was convicted of his murder.  

MEMPHIS — A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with threatening a school official after police claimed he made death threats against students and teachers at a high school he previously attended. Jamal Smith was arrested at Millington High School. The school was placed on lockdown after Smith posted the death threats on Facebook. See […]

A 37-year-old Memphis, Tenn. man is in police custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted his 57-year-old mother. According to court documents, the suspect asked his mother for help changing a lightbulb, but instead he grabbed his mother from behind and raped her. Friends who didn’t want to  talk on camera said the victim in this […]

MEMPHIS — A high school counselor named Cinnamon Davis was charged with having sex with a high school student after there were reports that she spent a weekend with a 17-year-old male student. After the student’s mother became concerned that she had not seen him for a weekend and he hadn’t called, he told her […]

MEMPHIS–A Memphis mother is angered with Galilee Memorial Gardens, for failing to identify her deceased newborn child’s grave site in a desired time. The Grio Reports: The men at the cemetery could not identify the grave site since they were out of town until 6 pm on Thursday. They marked the grave early the next […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Rewarded with the president of the United States as their commencement speaker, the graduating seniors at Booker T. Washington High School got the same advice a young Barack Obama once got himself: Keep pushing. “You’ve always been underdogs,” the president told the cheering students, clad in green and yellow gowns, from a […]