Actor Denzel Washington is no stranger to speaking on certain issues especially controversial social justice issues. The two time Academy Award winner told the Grio” if the father is not in the home, the boy will find a father in the streets. I saw it in my generation and every generation before me, and every […]
Award-winning author and film producer Evie Rhodes has written several books about the tragedies and senseless violence in our communities. Her most recent novel turned movie, Expired, highlights a mother’s struggle to cope with the death of her son. On May 20th, Rhodes’ 24-year-old son James Rhodes, was shot and killed in Camden, New Jersey. This tragic […]
This past weekend, the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historic Black fraternity, took to the streets of Chicago and held steadfast in the midst…
NewsOne’s Top 5 takes a quick look at the trending stories you’re talking about: Mom Slams #BlackLivesMatter For Not Addressing Black-On-Black Crime Black Activists Unveil Policy…
Peggy Hubbard, a St. Louis mother now living in Rockford, Ill., posted a Facebook video rant railing against the #BlackLivesMatter movement last Thursday. The video…
NewsOne’s Top 5 takes a quick look at the stories trending on NewsOne.com that you are talking about. Stephen A. Smith’s “Black-On-Black Crime” Rhetoric Gets…
Stephen A. Smith’s comments on the Black Lives Matter movement rattled many on Twitter, including hip-hop artists and activists Killer Mike and Talib Kweli. The drama…
An African-American movie director is trying to spread awareness of black-on-black crime, by wearing a KKK robe in the middle of Philadelphia. While wearing his robe, 35 year-old Sixx King stood out in the middle of downtown Philadelphia holding a sign that read, “the KKK killed 3,446 blacks in 86 years, while black on black […]
An annual study released on Wednesday revealed that Missouri leads the nation in the highest homicide rates for African Americans for the second year in a row. The study, performed by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, has placed the state at the top of the list three times in the past five years. SEE […]
Across the nation, Black men are killing each other at an alarming rates and the problem is only getting worse, Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. SEE ALSO: Terrence Howard’s Nasty Divorce Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat While John-Hall reports that black males killing black males are a national issue, she uses her […]
