Thursday morning in Washington, Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) announced the launch of the Justice Department’s National Justice Department’s National Initiative for Building Community Trust…

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This week St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced that he is extending the Michael Brown grand jury’s deadline to January 2015. Roland Martin, joined by an…

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In an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, Pharrell Williams shared his thoughts on the police killing of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown and the unrest the followed in…

In a cell phone video provided to CNN, two men who were doing construction work on a home near the scene react to seeing Brown shot by Officer Darren Wilson. “He had his f**king hands up,” one man says in the recording.  The men later spoke to CNN about what they saw. One worker said […]

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Michael Elsbury, a 15-year-veteran with the Baton Rouge police department, resigned on Thursday after racist text messages he sent to a friend became public, reports…

Man leave to J Cole never to disappoint when it comes to entertaining AND informing!  That’s why he opened his set with this tribute and I appreciate him for it.  I wish some one would have told Kanye to stop talkin bout yourself and how bout using your voice for good to inform folks about […]

Hey somebody had to do it.  I know I was wandering when the Hip Hop community was going to band together for a message in regards to what happened in Ferguson.  So biggups to The Game for making it happen!  Listen here and to decide for yourself if they did Mike Brown Justice, but also […]

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  On August 28th, the “Black Lives Matters Ride” (BLM Ride) a national advocacy effort of #BlackLivesMatter, will bring concerned citizens from across the country…

The police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael “Mike” Brown in Ferguson, Mo., on August 9th captured the attention of the nation. With an explosive case…

Actor/activist Hill Harper joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” and talked about how traumatized the young people in Ferguson are as a result a of…

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Activist Rev. Jesse Jackson had an unpleasant encounter with a few Ferguson protesters who told the civil rights leader that they hadn’t seen him marching…