Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at he U.S. Capitol on May 4, 2023. | Source: Bill Clark / Getty Florida seems to be the intersection of multiple controversial topics at the moment, and somehow they all seem to trace back to the state’s GOP governor, Ron DeSantis. The most recent of those issues that particularly applies […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Twitter An online crowdfunding effort has gotten underway in an effort to help support the teenager at the center of a bikesharing dispute in New York City and his family after the incident was recorded on video and went viral earlier this month. A GoFundMe account was started on Thursday, nearly […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Getty On the third anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Civil rights leaders mourn the loss of the Black man whose death sparked one of the largest movements in American history. But it was also a […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: KEREM YUCEL / Getty UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, May 25, 2023 Thursday marks the third year since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. As the wheels of justice have spun slowly but surely, this year is the first time the anniversary of the brazen police […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: facebook / facebook The family of Brianna Grier, the Black Georgia woman who died after falling out of a moving patrol vehicle, has filed a civil rights lawsuit for $100 million. The lawsuit, which was filed by family lawyers Ben Crump and Eric Hertz, names Lieutenant Marlin Primus, Deputy Timothy Legette, […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Megan Varner / Getty During a press conference demanding justice for LaShawn Thompson, Gerald Griggs, the President of the Georgia NAACP, called on Georgia’s leaders to take action in his tragic death, including Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis. MORE: Fani Willis’ Letter About Possible Trump Indictment In Georgia Advises To […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: kolderal / Getty The NYPD officers manning a police van that killed a Black pedestrian by running him over after speeding through red lights during a non-emergency will not be charged for the death, the New York Attorney General’s Office has announced. The decision in the death of Ronald Anthony Smith […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The independent autopsy results for a Black man who died in the custody of a jail in Atlanta was “killed” as the result of extreme neglect at the facility, where his body had been found to be “infested” with insects, according to lawyers who were scheduled to […]
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Source: picture alliance / Getty Of all the contributions for which Harry Belafonte will be remembered, perhaps none is more enduring than the celebrated entertainer’s lifelong support for youth activism. This support can be traced back to Belafonte’s early involvement in the Black student-led protests of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, but it […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Nancy Abudu is shown during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on judicial nominations in Dirksen Building on April 27, 2022. | Source: Tom Williams / Getty Underscoring the urgency for voting rights reform, the latest in a series of Black women nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed to the federal […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty UPDATED: 6:00 a.m. ET, May 19, 2023 In the history of African Americans who fought for the rights of our people, a conversation cannot go by without mentioning the great Malcolm X. May 19, 1925, is the birthday of the great civil rights leader who was […]
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NewsOne Featured Video People attend a vigil for Jordan Neely on May 11, 2023, at City Hall Park in New York City. | Source: Spencer Platt / Getty In what is likely a reflection of the political and racial climate in not only the U.S. but also the world, the online donations to support the […]
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UPDATED: 12:30p.m. ET, May 17, 2023 But if anybody thought police would be deterred by that apparent exception to the rule of holding police accountable for killing Black people, they should think again as it has been a quick resumption of law enforcement normalcy with continued shootings of Black men and boys with impunity since […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Honduran migrants head for the United States in 2019. Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images Politicians have been saying there’s an immigration crisis at the border for decades and have been trying to fix it for nearly as long. The rules have changed many times over the years – and they are about […]
Read MoreNewsOne Featured Video Source: Universal History Archive / Getty Jonathan Eig, the bestselling author behind Ali and King, made a shocking discovery this week that could dispel the long-rumored rivalry between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. MORE: 20 Malcolm X Quotes Every Black Person Should Know As he was searching through the Duke University […]
Read MoreNewsOne Featured Video Source: Young Women’s Freedom Center / Twitter Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black transgender man and community organizer with the Young Women’s Freedom Center, was tragically shot and killed outside a San Francisco Walgreens store last month. On April 27th, Brown was killed by a security guard who accused him of stealing $15 […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE People attend a rally on May 5, 2023, in in Washington Square Park in New York City to protest the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was choked to death on the subway. | Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty More than a week after the brazen vigilante chokehold homicide […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Protestors gather at Barclays Center Arena and march to the 7th police precinct to protest the NYPD’s response to the killing of Jordan Neely in Brooklyn, New York on May 4, 2023. | Source: ALEX KENT / Getty Jordan Neely‘s family has called out New York City’s mayor in no uncertain terms […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Harry Belafonte during the March for Justice on December 17, 2006, to protest police brutality and the killing of Sean Bell on his wedding day by NYPD. | Source: Bernd Obermann / Getty It was a day that felt familiar but I didn’t know why. Looking out the balcony, I just came […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Protesters hold “Jordan Neely” signs at the Broadway/Lafayette Street subway station during a “Justice for Jordan Neely” protest on May 6, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Amid growing outrage over the vigilante New York City subway killing of an unarmed Black man, the person who choked […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Wukela Communications Newly released bodycam video footage shows Alabama police using a police dog to attack an unarmed Black man they were already brutalizing at his home in 2021. Marvin Long is shown on his porch being approached by officers from the Sheffield Police Department and Colbert County Sheriff’s Office asking […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty The still-unidentified white man who killed Jordan Neely by placing the homeless and hungry Black man in a deadly chokehold on a New York City subway train for a reported 15 minutes on Monday is rightfully getting the brunt of attention for the brazen vigilante killing. But […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: VIEW press / Getty The identity of the vigilante subway passenger who placed a Black man in a deadly chokehold earlier this week is being protected by law enforcement despite officials ruling the death as a homicide. Meanwhile, the man killed, Jordan Neely, is being demonized after his name and criminal […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty The mayor of New York City is apparently refusing to say whether an unarmed Black man who was killed after being placed in a protracted chokehold by a vigilante passenger on a subway train was murdered despite medical examiners ruling his death a homicide. New York […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Tou Thao. | Source: Handout / Getty This article will be continuously updated as George Floyd’s murder is litigated. UPDATED: 2:00 p.m. ET, May 2, 2023 The third and final former Minneapolis police officer who accompanied Derek Chauvin during the killing of George Floyd has been found guilty of aiding and […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A demonstrator holds an ‘End Police Violence’ sign during a protest after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/via Getty Images Seeking accountability in the brutal police beating death of her son, the mother of Tyre Nichols has filed a US$55 million federal lawsuit against the individual officers, the […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Neilson Barnard / Getty Atlanta police have released images of a man they believe could be connected to the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Rasheeda Williams, aka Koko Da Doll. On Tuesday, Atlanta police shared surveillance footage from a local convenience store, which shows a man they say is a person of interest […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Carolyn Cole / Getty A Republican running for senator in Ohio believes descendants of white soldiers who died in the Civil War should receive reparations. Bernie Moreno announced last week he was running for U.S. Senate in the state of Ohio. During his announcement speech, he brought up the reparations movement […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty The ex-Louisville officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor is getting a new job in law enforcement. MORE: Social Media Videos Show Louisville Shooting Scene As 5 Killed, Including ‘Lone Shooter’ According to WHAS-TV, Myles Cosgrove was hired as a deputy by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, which […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A protest led by the Black Student Union at the University of Washington at Seattle, 1968. Emile Pitre Collection Marc Arsell Robinson, California State University, San Bernardino When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that took place in the South. […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: twitter / Twitter White fragility must be one powerful drug the way it gets racists so deep in their feelings that they get themselves arrested and charged with crimes they’re forced to pay the penalty for when minding their own Caucasian business is 100% free. If one is so bigoted and […]
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