NewsOne Featured Video Source: Sean Pavone / Getty “It never ends,” began Nsombi Lambright-Haynes during an exclusive discussion with NewsOne about Mississippi’s Goon Squad members, Brett McAlpin, who filed a notice of appeal this week despite having plead guilty to torturing two Black men, his attorney Aafram Sellers reported. Lambright-Haynes is the executive director of […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: ETHAN MILLER / Getty From the criminal justice system to race relations and beyond, the death of football legend-turned-acquitted murderer O.J. Simpson has placed a spotlight on a number of issues. But perhaps none of them are as immediately urgent to Black people as Simpson’s cause of death — prostate […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Dr. Melina Abdullah, one of the founders of BLM, speaks at the 10th anniversary Black Lives Matter Festival in Leimert Park on Saturday, July 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. | Source: Jason Armond / Getty Independent presidential candidate Cornel West looked to his familiar worlds of academia and activism when he […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: BSWC / BSWC The Black Southern Women’s Collaborative (BSWC) is a network and advocacy organization committed to empowering Black women serving as executive directors in the Southern United States. Established in 2021, BSWC assembles a team of dynamic Black women executives to address pressing issues like economic justice, political empowerment, healthcare […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate Fanny Hamer speaks out for the meeting of her delegates at a credential meeting before the formal meeting of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 1964, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. | Source: Bettmann / Getty It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights […]
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