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Just before Friday night’s peaceful protest turned violent, residents in Ferguson expressed frustration over police withholding important information for nearly one week. That’s how long…

#YourLifeMatters

Being from Birmingham, Ala., I know all too well the civil rights struggle. As a young child, I was taught about the marches, protests, dogs,…

#YourLifeMatters

Hard to know where to begin on this, but it’s also hard not to say something, either. Perhaps I should refer to history. Should I start…

Whatever perverse view the Ferguson police officer had of Michael Brown — and all Black men like him — before taking his life and leaving him…

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The parents of Michael Brown appeared at a news conference in tears, demanding justice in the wake of the deadly shooting that took the life…

  FERGUSON, Mo. — A candlelight vigil for an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer was followed…

FERGUSON, Mo. — A local NAACP chapter has called for a federal investigation into the death of a Black teenager who was shot by police…

NewsOne Now

Friday on “NewsOne Now,” host Roland Martin talked with criminal defense attorney Glenn Ivey, about former District of Columbia Councilman Michael A. Brown and other black politicians…

April 3rd marks 15 years since his father’s untimely death in a plane crash in Croatia.  Ron Brown is  the country’s first African-American Secretary of Commerce and first to serve as Chairman of the Democratic National Party.  His son,  at-large D.C. councilman Michael Brown pushed into legislation the historical dedication of a popular street named […]