Seventeen-year-old Milan Morris is using fashion to make a serious statement about police brutality.

Douglas Muir, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia, faces scrutiny after posting a disparaging message on Facebook aimed at Black Lives Matter.

Right on the heels of the murder of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another man named Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. While law enforcement in Tulsa, Oklahoma quickly released footage of the incident and charged the officer who shot Crutcher with manslaughter, law […]

It’s been about a year since Tory Lanez, rapper behind the number one hit “Say It,” first came to the studio to visit “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show!” He talks about the cinematic quality of his album, and talks about his city of Toronto in comparison to life in the United States. He remarks on the […]

Over the past few years, we have seen a number of Black athletes–both men and women–stand up and speak out about the police and state violence that African-Americans and people of color disproportionately face in this country. We can now add San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to that growing list. On Friday during a pre-season game against […]

In solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and #StopTheViolence, Chicago rapper King Yella was shot during his video shoot yesterday.

The charges sound foolish, but do they sound familiar? Ramsey Orta was also arrested after filming Eric Garner's death.

Over the course of the last week, NewsOne was forced to revisit our gallery that lists the shooting deaths of Black men killed during police encounters, to add the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, while also documenting the two-year anniversary of Eric Garner's death.

With the latest tragic events taking place and the shootings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the Dallas police many artists are speaking out on the issue. Snoop Dogg & The Game led a peaceful march yesterday to meet with the LAPD.  Snoop Dogg talked about how respect and conversation are the key to handling […]

Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police officer shot and killed a black man during a confrontation outside a Baton Rouge convenience store, authorities said, prompting hundreds to protest at the site where the man died. An online video that surfaced purporting to show the killing of Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge […]

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Sixteen female West Point cadets, who took a photo with their arms raised in Black Power fists, did not violate a directive that warns against “partisan political activity” while in uniform

Just minutes before the deadline to enter Baltimore's mayoral race approached, prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson on Wednesday jumped into the contest in hopes of becoming the city's 50th mayor.