I wanna share with you my favorite quote in the world, my life quote, 8 words that have guided me, inspired me, grounded me, and shaped me in so many different ways. It’s a quote from Dr. King, you’ve probably heard it before, but sometimes, something happens in your life, an aha moment, a […]
Let me tell you about a woman. An elderly woman. A mentally ill elderly woman. A mentally ill elderly woman who was home alone, in her bedroom, naked, in the middle of a severe mental health crisis. Her name is Deborah Danner – a beautifully complicated soul, a project manager and longtime IT worker […]
Something amazingly powerful is happening all over the country with America’s youth. In 34 states, with at least 44 high schools, 21 colleges, and 2 youth sports leagues, brilliant, bold, courageous young student athletes – ranging from football players to cheerleaders to volleyball players and marching bands have all taken a knee during the […]
I wanna get right to it and make one clear, strong point for you right now. It might surprise you. It’s important that we get our language right with what I’m about to say – because I hear a lot of us saying it wrong. We mean well, but we’re off. Our criminal justice […]
This is one of those moments where it’s gonna take every skill and prayer I have not to accidentally slip up and cuss. I know we’ve all talked about the debate, but I’m stuck on something and I just can’t move forward. The truth is – None of us should move forward on what […]
Shaun King is the Senior Justice Writer for the New York Daily News. When you are living in a moment, it can be hard, almost impossible even, to truly understand the historical context, the weight, the gravity of that moment. If we could travel back in time to 1955 & 1956, and go to […]
9/26/16- Roland Martin talks to Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and New York Daily News’ Editor Shaun King about the latest in the case of Keith Lamont Scott and the unrest in the city of Charlotte. “I can tell you dozens of cases where the police said one thing and the video shows […]
Roland Martin talks to Shaun King of the New York Daily News about community policing, the double standard that blacks face and the percentage of cops killed by white vs blacks. “It’s pretty wild. Even after the shooting in Dallas, the majority of officers who’ve been killed in 2016 have been killed by white folks. […]
King was on Twitter airing out his thoughts on the importance of making #BlackLivesMatter death videos go viral to bring justice after he was accused of being shady and unethical by Elzie and Mckesson.
NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today. 6-Year-Old Louisiana Boy Just Became The Youngest Person Killed…
Breitbart.com's Milo Yiannopoulos alleged in a article that Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is being deceptive about his ethnicity.
Activist Shaun King has been outed by the conservative media as a white man, but he’s maintained that he’s never lied about his race. Raised in the the small town of Versailles, Kentucky, King has been one of the activists at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement since Ferguson. The Morehouse graduate and […]
