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Al Bell Co-Owner of Stax Records, Frayser Boy and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell joined Roland Martin Wednesday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the new documentary “Take Me…

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed nearly 46 years ago. Friday will mark the anniversary of his death. But Thursday, April 3 marks another…

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A kindergarten teacher in Memphis, Tenn., has been suspended without pay for posting indecent comments about her students on her Facebook page, WCM-TV reports. SEE…

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A pile of stuffed animals marks the spot where a 15 year-old fell to his death. Justin Thompson was fatally shot by an off-duty Memphis police officer, on a school night in a working-class neighborhood. His death is a tipping point for the mayor in recently ordering a review of the department by an outside […]

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This is more frequent than not, coaches molesting young players. It’s tragic! Lakeshia Richmond, of Memphis, Tenn., has two sons, aged 8 and 9 years, who both play football.According to Richmond, her sons’ football coach, Tony Massey, molested them, as well as other children. “I asked them ‘Did he touch you bad, did he touch you […]

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The same dumb thinking that has you end up in jail is the same dumb thinking that makes you brag about partying like a Rock Star in prison. The prisoner showed off his weed and massive amount of junk food and… oh, oh it went viral and now it has hit the fan. Read more […]

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On NewsOne.com today came an intense video. Politics as a discussion has always been heated, and this interview takes debate to another level. Thaddeus Matthews had a black Republican in his studio very recently, and he went off on her when she could not answer his questions straight. RELATED: N.H. Reveal 5 Reasons Why Republicans […]

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MEMPHIS-Memphis talk radio host Thaddeus Matthews had African American GOP candidate for Congress, Charlotte Bergmann on his show last week. Mathews bashed Bergmann as a “token negro” and refused to shake her hand, saying that he was scared her “whiteness” would rub off on him. Matthews also claimed that Bergmann had no interest in the […]

Since the assassination of Martin Luther King, almost 900 cities have named streets after him. Of all of the cities with named streets, after MLK, Memphis Tennessee does not have one. That could all change if Memphis officials rename nine blocks of Linden avenue in their downtown area. Berlin Boyd, a former city councilman, came […]

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MEMPHIS — A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with threatening a school official after police claimed he made death threats against students and teachers at a high school he previously attended. Jamal Smith was arrested at Millington High School. The school was placed on lockdown after Smith posted the death threats on Facebook. See […]

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A 37-year-old Memphis, Tenn. man is in police custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted his 57-year-old mother. According to court documents, the suspect asked his mother for help changing a lightbulb, but instead he grabbed his mother from behind and raped her. Friends who didn’t want to  talk on camera said the victim in this […]

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MEMPHIS — A high school counselor named Cinnamon Davis was charged with having sex with a high school student after there were reports that she spent a weekend with a 17-year-old male student. After the student’s mother became concerned that she had not seen him for a weekend and he hadn’t called, he told her […]