A lawyer friend posed this thorny question yesterday: “How many Black men have been falsely accused of rape and spent have their lives in prison for crimes they didn’t commit?” I couldn’t answer his question with a hard number. I didn’t know. My friend really didn’t want a definitive response; his mind was already made […]
Jordan Baker, Sylvester Turner, and economic empowerment are just a few of the topics addressed on Sunday Morning Live in 2015. Join Marcus this Sunday as he looks back on the stories that meant the most to African-Americans and discusses what we need to do to move forward in the new year. YOU are the […]
For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could…
#BREAKING: After 4decades of #solitary confinement, tonight a judge granted #AlbertWoodfox unconditional release! pic.twitter.com/jTpr1fZi6q — AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) June 8, 2015 A federal district court on…
Loretta Lynch will investigate the death of John Crawford III, 22, who was shot last summer as he held an air rifle inside a Walmart in…
I'm not sure which is worse—dying as a victim of police brutality, or living through police brutality only to watch other black people die at the hands of the police in the black lives matter movement.
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Although this story is a few years old now, reading it today almost made me cry. The story is about a cook and a janitor, who stuck it out (without pay) when an assisted living home in California went under. It’s sort of the most unlikely thing you could have ever imagined that 1) An […]
A father in Houston is going to jail for six months – even though he paid more child support than he owed, reports Click2Houston.com. Clifford…
04/02/14 – Rev. Al Sharpton declares today a great day! Listen to find out just how many people President Barack Obama got to sign up for…
Did someone confess to the murder of Kendrick Johnson? I hope investigators are one step closer to determining what happened to Johnson. The 17-year-old high…
An appellate court on Thursday ordered a new trial for Marissa Alexander. The Florida woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a gun to scare off her allegedly abusive husband. The court said the jury was improperly instructed on self-defense. CNN.com has the complete story. Read more:
