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About Time! @CNN Replaces Anchor Who Suggested Using Water Cannons On #Ferguson Protesters

Source: KRBN.com Bye Felicia!!  A CNN anchor who caused a wave of controversy has suddenly gone missing from her reporting duties. As previously reported Rosemary Church sparked outrage and an EPIC side-eye from her cohost Errol Barnett after she suggested that police water cannons (ya know like the ones used during the Civil Rights movement?) […]

Bishop T.D. Jakes: A Father’s Cry For Justice

by Bishop T.D. Jakes Senior Pastor, Potter’s House, Texas When Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. made plans to drop off their 18 year old son Michael at Vatterott College, a technical school near their Ferguson, Mo. home for the start of his freshman year, never could they have imagined that rather than celebrate his […]

T.D. Jakes On Michael Brown: Racial Profiling Puts Black Men ‘On The Endangered List’

Source: Stephanie Samuel / Christian Post Texas Megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes blamed racial profiling for the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, saying America is far from being a post-racial society and that racial profiling is putting black men “on the endangered list,” in a blog published on Huffington Post.com. In the essay posted Tuesday […]

NewsOne Now Video Podcast: Power Structure In Ferguson

Nearly two weeks of unrest in Ferguson has put a spotlight on the town revealing many interesting and disturbing truths. Roland Martin and “NewsOne Now” look at unemployment, education, the political power structure and how to go from a moment to a movement in the St. Louis suburb. Dellena Jones, Owner of the 911 Hair Salon in Ferguson, Ify Ike, Founder & Creator […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Moving From A Moment To A Movement In Ferguson

Hip Hop artist Talib Kweli joined Roland Martin Friday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the crisis in Ferguson. He also assessed the conditions on the ground and shared his views on what the next moves should be. Nearly two weeks of unrest in Ferguson has put a spotlight on the town revealing many interesting and disturbing truths. Roland Martin and “NewsOne Now” look […]

Ray Allen’s Florida Home Get’s Broke In, Cops Call It A Prank

Roland Martin talks to sports analyst Newy Scruggs about the unbelievable story around the home invasion of Ray Allen. The Miami Heat player wife, Shannon, awoke last week in the middle of the night to find seven teenagers between 18 and 19 years old wandering around her Coral Gables, Florida home. Initially, Coral Gables police, citing Florida law, dismissed it as a prank and […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Tense Relationship Between Black Men And Law Enforcement

Several days ago, St. Louis police shot and killed  Kajieme Powell in a hail of bullets. The entire incident was captured on cell phone video and posted on YouTube for the entire world to witness. Do you think St. Louis police officers had to gun down 25-year-old Kajieme Powell who was allegedly holding a steak […]

NewsOne Now Video Podcast: St. Louis Police Gun Down Kajieme Powell, But It Did Not Have To End This Way

Several days ago, St. Louis police shot and killed  Kajieme Powell in a hail of bullets. The entire incident was captured on cell phone video and posted on YouTube for the entire world to witness. Do you think St. Louis police officers had to gun down 25-year-old Kajieme Powell who was allegedly holding a steak […]

People’s Only Black Editor Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Magazine

Source:  Tina Nguyen / Mediaite In the 40 years of People magazine’s existence, only one of their editors has been black. And that editor is filing a lawsuit against the paper and its former executive editor, for what she calls a “completely dismissive attitude towards African-American employees.” Tatsha Robertson, a former editor at Essencemagazine, claims that the harrassment started immediately […]

Graphic Cell Phone Video Shows St. Louis Police Shooting Knife-Wielding Man

Source: Matt Wilstein / Mediaite In the name of transparency following the outrage over the fatal shooting of unarmed teenagerMichael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer last week, St. Louis police have put out cell phone video that shows two officers shooting and killing a man who approached them brandishing a knife and yelling “Shoot me!” […]