Protesters block the streets in Berkeley, Missouri on Wednesday, Dec. 24. over the death of Antonio Martin, who was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly pulled a gun on Tuesday,
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Tia Carrie is as sweet a teenage girl as you can image.
Nothing about her — not her big smile wired with colorful braces, or her florescent pink sweatshirt and elaborately dressed hair — would make you think she is angry.
But she is “damn angry.”
It showed on Wednesday night only when the 1
Sequels of Black movies are suddenly very popular given the success of The Best Man Holiday and Think Like A Man 2. Now Martin Lawrence, star of the new sitcom Partners says that yes, Bad Boys 3 is on the way.
Yes, Lawrence and Will Smith will reprise their respective roles as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, Miami detectives with great comic chemistry.
The two previous films have done a great job at combining action and humor and expect this one to be no different. Lawrence told Conan O’Bri
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Roland Martin talks to Pastor Jamal D. Bryant after a controversial line in a sermon he preached a month ago, has caught wind and offended many.
Titled “I’m My Enemies Worst Nightmare: Part 1″, Bryant references singer Chris Brown popular song “Loyal” and recites the songs chorus, ‘these hoes ain’t loyal’ in the pulpit.
“I’m shocked because out of 29 minutes I affirm women and their dreams and the influence they have on their men…I made a comment referencing a song by Chris
A generation after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his children are fighting among themselves again, this time over two of their father’s most cherished possessions: his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried.
The civil rights leader’s daughter Bernice King has both items, and her brothers, Dexter King and Martin Luther King III, asked a judge last week to order her to turn them over. She said her brothers want to sell them.
In a blistering statement this week, Bernice
MLK children fight over dad’s treasures
The children of Martin Luther King Jr. are back at loggerheads — this time over his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize.
The estate of the civil rights icon filed a complaint in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Friday to force Bernice King, his daughter, to turn over the items.
King’s heirs agreed in 1995 to give up their inheritance to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc., the complaint reads.
Bernice King has “repeatedly acknowledged and conced
 FILE – In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, President Kennedy stands with a group of leaders of the March on Washington at the White House in Washington. Immediately after the march, they discussed civil rights legislation that was finally inching through Congress. The leaders pressed Kennedy to strengthen the legislation; the president listed many obstacles. Historians generally agree that Kennedy’s phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing concern over her husband’s arrest in October 1960 — a |
Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza said he's thankful America has survived having "grown-up Trayvon [Martin] in the White House."
For a response to President Obama's comments on the acquittal of George Zimmerman and racism in the United States, we're joined by Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of numerous books.
On Obama's remarks comparing himself to Trayvon Martin, West says: "Will that identification hide and conceal the fact there's a criminal justice system in place that has nearly destroyed two generations of precious, poor black and brown brothers? [Obama] hasn't said
Justice failed Trayvon Martin the night he was killed. We should be appalled and outraged, but perhaps not surprised, that it failed him again Saturday night with a verdict setting his killer free. Our society considers young black men to be dangerous, interchangeable, expendable, guilty until proven innocent. This is the conversation about race that we desperately need to have -- but probably, as in the past, will try our best to avoid. Because it happened in America, the trial of George Zimmerman for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin was all about race. And because it happened in America, the people who benefit politically from the same invidious forces that led both to Trayvon Martin's killing, and the acquittal of his killer, will deny that race had anything to do with either the killing or the verdict.Suppose Trayvon Martin had been a 230-pound 30-year-old black man, with a loaded gun in his jacket. Suppose Zimmerman
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 There is no disputing the historic significance of President Barack Obama's state visit to Israel; his first since he was elected our nation's chief executive just over four years ago.During his first term, the president did a great deal to make clear to all - including Israel's adversaries - that he has the back of the Jewish state. In the face of unfair charges during last year's US elections that Obama was somehow anti-Israel, no less an authority than then-defense minister Ehud Barak
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Faith has always been the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen. But what happens to that hope when the laws around us seem to be a little tainted and many times it seems like justice has no equal playing field. What happens to the little child that runs to his mother and tells his mother that he was being bullied by another? That parent will immediately want justice for her son, and for that particular school to act swiftly and accordingly to the rule book. But what
On Martin Bashir's television program this afternoon, Democratic strategist and MSNBC analyst Karen Finney said that Republicans are supporting Herman Cain because of his race:
