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Sen. Kenny Wayne Jones (D), chairman of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, received backlash from caucus members after defending controversial comments made by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown are urging restraint by both protesters and police once a grand jury decides whether the suburban St. Louis officer who shot him should face charges. Attorneys Anthony Gray and Benjamin Crump held a press conference Thursday outside the St. Louis County Justice Center, where […]
A guy on the F Train subway in NYC was accosted by a woman not only talking total smack, but laid her hands on him and that was it as an all out brawl ensued. The woman, Danay Howard, was charged with felony assault and disorderly conduct. The guy who did the slapping, which most people […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The fiancee of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has a book deal. Louise Troh’s memoir is scheduled for April 28, to be published jointly by The Weinstein Company and The Perseus Book Group. Weinstein tells The Associated Press the book currently is untitled. Duncan died Oct. 8 and remains the only […]
I believe Klansman John Abarr (pictured) when he says he’s “evolved” from his White supremacist views, after meeting with members of the NAACP in Casper, Wy.,…
Duncanville, Texas, English high school teacher Vinita Hegwood (pictured) was placed on leave without pay pending discharge for going on a racist and profanity-ridden rant via…
Defense Attorney Robbin Shipp joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book “Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the…
President Barack Obama outlined his suggestions to maintain an open internet. Roland Martin and “NewsOne Now” take a look at how creating fast lanes on…
The Federal Bureau of Prisons hosted their first-ever daddy-daughter dance at the Miami Federal Detention Center. This dance allowed incarcerated fathers two hours to dance…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man accused of abducting a Philadelphia woman and a Virginia teenager just weeks apart is making a federal court appearance in Pennsylvania. Federal prosecutors will try Delvin Barnes in the Philadelphia case before he is turned over to Virginia authorities. He is set to appear before a federal magistrate in Philadelphia […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A private forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on Michael Brown will testify before the grand jury deciding whether to charge the Ferguson police officer who shot him, the attorney for Brown’s parents said Wednesday. Attorney Benjamin Crump confirmed that former New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Baden is […]
DALLAS (AP) — The hospital that treated the only Ebola patient to die in the United States will pay his relatives an undisclosed sum and create a charitable foundation in his name, the family’s attorney said Wednesday. The agreement heads off a potential lawsuit from relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 at […]
