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The Justice Department has ruled there will be no charges filed in the 2013 death of Kendrick Johnson, the 17-year-old who was found dead inside a rolled up gym mat at his Valdosta, Georgia high school. Though local and state investigators ruled Johnson’s death a freak accident, his parents, Kenneth and Jackie Johnson, have always believed their son […]

Jenkins was pronounced dead on May 17, just one day before her 10th birthday, according to the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

According to the FBI, only twice in 60 years have police deaths fallen under 41. In 2013, the year that preceded the recent spike, police deaths hit a record low of 27. In 1961, there were 37 police deaths.

Source: Comstock / Getty Get In the Know With Kim’s Thursday News & Sports Headlines Flurries. That’s the buzz word on this Throwback Thursday. In Local News… City crews are still trying to keep up with the winter weather this busy Thursday morning after working since Wednesday to clear the snow and ice. Plan on a […]

Watch Roland Martin and Stanley Nelson discuss the upcoming documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution in the video clip above. Don't miss the premiere of the film tonight on PBS.

In Georgia, nearly 46 current and former correction officers involved in a statewide drug trafficking operation were arrested by the FBI today. The arrests came about as a result of a two-year investigation by the federal authorities, reports CNN. United States Attorney for the Northen District of Georgia John Horn announced details of the arrests […]

The legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remains strong as ever, but rumors about his private indiscretions once threatened to dismantle it.  In 1964,…

The news comes a year after reports of fatalities and injuries at the hands of police--most recently Laquan McDonald in Chicago--amid widening frustration over the lack of official recordings of the incidents.

Investigators in the case pondered whether founding members of the famed rap group, RZA and Raekwon, are linked to murders that occurred more than 15 years ago.

On Wednesday's edition of NewsOne Now, Roland Martin asked Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color of Change, what led the organization to ascertain documentation about Black activists was being surveilled by government officials.

On Tuesday, Roland Martin, former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, and the NewsOne Now panel discussed Comey's comments and his explanation that increasing crime rates are a result of cops being afraid to do their jobs because they don't want to be video taped.

Get In the Know With Kim’s Wednesday News & Sports Headlines  In local news… Indianapolis Firefighters have been busy on this Wednesday morning at the scene of a blaze in a house on the city’s east side. Firefighters rescued two people and others were able to escape this home that was converted into nine units. […]