Chicago Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss corporate diversity and minority hiring. Burnett is part of a group of alderman…
Podcast: Download Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel (featuring Kim Brown, Cleo Manago and Lauren Victoria Burke) discuss the decades old sexual…
(photo credit: We Charge Genocide) Chicago youths representing the activist group We Charge Genocide (pictured above) started a silent protest during the Committee against Torture at…
Chicago has long been known for its gun violence, recording 329 homicides so far this year and a total of 441 last year. Weapons seizures…
Authorities have identified the man who brought traffic through both of Chicago’s airports to a standstill by setting a fire. It was a major wrench…
Extrajudicial killings of Black American men by police officers is not a new phenomenon in this country, but in the wake of several such incidents…
What you see above is a map of Detroit. The small colorful dots represent people, plotted to show where they live and their race. Whites are…
On a recent segment of Keeping It Real with Rev. Al Sharpton, a nationally-syndicated radio show where I serve as a co-host, a troubling yet…
Tonya Gunn, 44, was shot and killed in Chicago’s Morgan Park on Monday while attending a family gathering, reports ABC7-Chicago. RELATED: Getting To the Bottom…
After recently coming off of Coachella, people are gearing up for another big music festival, Lollapalooza! The annual three-day festival is going down the first…
1. Don’t Do Depression Alone! This week the media world mourns the death of Karyn Washington, the 22-year-old writer of the popular motivational blog…
Rapper Nicki Minaj has heard all of the criticism about her no longer rapping and solely being a pop artist. Well, she’s back with a…
