The Fort Worth Police Department will drop charges against Jacqueline Craig and Brea Hymond.
KKK leader William Hagen stabbed Richard Dillon during a “National Klonvocation” event in North Carolina on December 2.
A state of emergency is in effect in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after demonstrators burned cars and businesses while protesting the police shooting death of Sylville Smith, a Black man killed by a Black police officer. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker activated the National Guard and plans to deploy troops if the violence continues. According to police, Smith was shot […]
According to Milwaukee police, an unnamed man was shot early Monday morning and transported to a nearby hospital in an armored vehicle during the protests. An officer was also injured and taken to the hospital after a rock broke through the windshield of his squad car.
Republican-led voter ID restrictions, which negatively impacted people of color, suffered a major blow last week in three states. On Friday in North Carolina, a federal judge rolled back obstructive voting measures. They included requiring a photo ID card to vote, reducing the number of early voting days, and prohibiting same-day voter registration. The 83-page decision […]
Two federal courts sided with voting rights advocates over Texas and Wisconsin voter ID laws. The rulings will permit residents in those states who don't have proper ID to vote in November.
During Tuesday's edition of NewsOne Now, Wisconsin's state coordinator for VoteRiders, Anita Johnson, spoke to Roland Martin about the state's restrictive voter ID law and the impact it may have in keeping voters from casting their ballots.
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
More than a thousand people came together to celebrate the life and times of 19-year-old Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. on Saturday, the biracial Madison, WI…
Nearly 2,000 students marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday—many of them high schoolers—in remembrance of 19-year-old Tony Robinson, the unarmed biracial teen shot and killed…
The story: all too familiar. The aftermath: taking it to the streets. Late Friday evening, protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin after an unarmed black teen…
On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 the GOP race moves to Wisconsin, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In order to win the Republican nomination, the candidate must have 1,144 delegates. According to a CNN estimate, Mitt Romney has 571 delegates, compared to Rick Santorum’s 264, Newt Gingrich’s 137, and Ron Paul’s 71 delegates. Even though, […]
