20-year-old Ferguson activist Rasheen Aldridge Jr. was invited to the White House by President Obama, along with a few other young activists from Ferguson Commission–a…
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) â A week after their “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” show of solidarity, several St. Louis Rams players made another societal statement Sunday with the message: “I Can’t Breathe.” The slogan refers to Eric Garner, who died after a New York police officer placed him in a chokehold during an arrest for selling […]
NEW YORK (AP) â From the White House to the streets of some of America’s biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and investigations out of South Carolina and Cleveland to stir a national conversation Thursday about racial justice and police use of force. A day after a grand jury […]
Thousands of people rallied late Monday in U.S. cities including Los Angeles and New York to passionately â but initially peacefully â protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri. They led marches, waved signs and shouted chants of “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot,” […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) â The grainy mobile phone video shows a mob of Kenyan men surround a woman and grab, grasp and yank her clothes until she is naked. Several such videos have emerged recently of attacks by males who deem a woman to be provocatively dressed. The attacks have created a groundswell of anger […]
WASHINGTON (AP) â The parents of Michael Brown told The Associated Press on Saturday they were unmoved by the apology given by the Ferguson, Missouri, police chief weeks after their unarmed 18-year-old son was killed by a police officer. Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said, “yes,” when asked if Chief Tom Jackson should be fired, and […]
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) â Protesters seeking the immediate arrest of the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old loudly disrupted another government meeting Tuesday, renewing calls to remove the county prosecutor investigating the case and vowing political retaliation against an elected official tied to the prosecutor. The demand for Darren Wilson’s arrest and […]
As Ferguson protesters anxiously await for justice in the shooting death of Michael Brown, our radio stations that serve their community have become a platform…
Jesse Williams is one of few entertainers lending their voice to speak about Michael Brown’s shooting by police and the aftermath of the teen’s brutal…
NEW YORK (AP) â Workers at McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s restaurants across New York walked out Monday in a one-day strike to demand better pay and the right to unionize, calling for minimum wage to more than double from $7.25 to $15 an hour and the end to what activists called “abusive labor practices.” […]
Our collective outrage after the Trayvon Martin verdict has a welcome upside – a galvanized protest movement sweeping the country hoping to persuade the Justice Department to bring federal charges against Trayvon’s killer George Zimmerman. To that end, Al Sharpton and the National Action Network are organizing a 100 city vigil on Saturday, July 20, […]
Roland Martin talks with Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, the President of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP about the weekly civil rights protests that are occurring in North Carolina.
