civil rights

The Justice Department is set to open a federal civil rights investigation following the emergence of a now-viral video showing a school resource officer slamming and dragging a Black female student across the classroom.

Seven inmates were given a combined total punishment of 7,150 days, or 19.75 years, of solitary confinement at the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).

NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today.  “I Feared For My Life:” Teen Tackled By D.C.…

Naomi King, the sister-in-law of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was viciously attacked outside of her Atlanta retirement home on Friday,  WSB-TV Atlanta reports.…

Grace Lee Boggs - a champion for civil rights, labor rights, feminism, and the Black Power movement - has died.

Rep. John Lewis reflects on the lives of civil rights giants and implores the next generation of activists to pick up the baton.

Roland Martin talks to filmmaker Keith Beauchamp about his plans for a Emmett Till movie in light of the 60th anniversary of his death. “This…

America has lost a warrior of the Civil Rights Movement. Amelia Boynton Robinson died today in Alabama of a massive stroke.

Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders reached out to Black voters last weekend in Republican-heavy Charleston, South Carolina in the hopes of drawing…

The death of legendary civil rights leader Julian Bond on August 15th left a community bereft, yet grateful for a life well-lived and legacy that will…

A socially conscious veteran documentary filmmaker/photographer takes us behind the headlines to her experience covering demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri. A spirit of protest against police brutality and work towards showing the world that Black Lives Matter is going on there at the first anniversary of the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown and beyond. Katina Parker is baring witness […]

Ambassador Andrew Young spoke with Roland Martin Tuesday on NewsOne Now about his good friend Julian Bond. Young told Martin: “Julian was a person who was…