For Black people, milk has always been bound up with power, race, whose bodies are valued, and whose children are expected to thrive.
Jake Lang held a failed white nationalist rally in Minneapolis and got attacked by citizens and counter protesters.
2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado presented President Donald Trump with her Nobel medal.
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In this week’s episode, Lee Merritt, Esq., explains the legality of ICE shooting Renee Good and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Dr. King’s dream was not an invitation to complacency; it was a call to arms of the spirit. A call to organize, to resist, to transform.
When Claudette Colvin left this world on January 13th, with her went a library, a recipe box, and a curriculum we still don't understand how to follow.
Few ever grapple with the true crux of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work and the clarion call he and others had for jobs and justice.
This administration is not just targeting immigrants. It is dismantling the infrastructure that has allowed Black institutions to survive and thrive by attacking from multiple directions at once.
NewsOne honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on what would have been the civil rights icon's 96th birthday this year.
What Trump and so many of his supporters and conservatives refuse to accept is that Black people can’t be racist, nor can “reverse discrimination” exist in America.
President Donald Trump said in an interview that the 1964 Civil Rights Act led to white people being discriminated against.
The Bison ONE Newsroom is a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind partnership between a national media corporation and an HBCU journalism program—a partnership that honors the power of HBCUs as incubators of cultural and political transformation.
<b><i>The Covfefe Chronicles with Dr. Stacey Patton</i></b> is where America’s chaos meets unflinching commentary. Hosted by award-winning journalist and author Dr. Stacey Patton, this podcast cuts through the noise with sharp analysis, biting humor, and unapologetic truth-telling about race, culture, politics, and power. Each episode peels back the headlines to expose the double standards, lies, and historical amnesia shaping our current moment. If you’re tired of sanitized punditry and craving clarity with edge, The Covfefe Chronicles will give you the context and candor mainstream media won’t touch.
There is a ghost roaming the halls of Pickens County Museum in South Carolina and his name is Willie Earle.
From adaptations of games like “Fallout” and “Cyberpunk 2077,” to a dark comedy from rapper Vince Staples, here's what's worth binging.
Ryan Coogler and Spike Lee got together to discuss Denzel Washington, Michael B. Jordan, and the power of movies.
Virginia’s redistricting effort is somewhat of a Hail Mary, considering it has to pass twice through the Grand Assembly and be put to a public vote.
New Hampshire GOP Rep. Kristin Noble, chair of the New Hampshire House Education Policy Committee remarked that she wanted "segregated schools."
California voters approved Prop 50 last November, which implements a congressional map designed to neutralize Texas’ redistricting effort.
In this op-ed, Stephen A. Crockett Jr. writes that ICE has become a roaming tribunal that decides who gets to stay and who disappears.
In the first episode of 'The Le[e]gal Brief,' civil rights attorney Lee Merritt gives an overview of officer-involved shootings and the laws surrounding them.
Keith Porter Jr. was killed by an off-duty ICE agenton New Year’s Eve at his apartment complex in the Los Angeles area.
The universal child care plan introduced by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul would be implemented over several years.
The 19 monks, led by Bhikkhu Pannakara, began their journey Oct. 26 at the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Slang words reigned supreme in 2025, with new terms flying left and right across the internet faster than ever before.
A federal judge previously blocked a similar Department of Homeland Security policy requiring a week’s notice for officials to visit ICE facilities.
Protestors showed up at the church of a pastor who is also an ICE field director. Things didn't go well, and Don Lemon got blamed for it all.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson of Minneapolis say they and their children were on their way home when ICE agents tear-gassed their car.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a child pornography conviction in a North Carolina case, despite rejecting the trial judge’s rulings about the defendant’s privacy rights.
A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits Perdue Farms filed against the US Labor Department to block whistleblower proceedings involving two Robeson County poultry farmers.
A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s ban on “ballot selfies,” rejecting a Libertarian voter’s 2024 challenge.
“There are countless stories that may seem small at first, but they carry a powerful impact. The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge is one of those stories,” said Rene Olmos, director and producer.
Duke Energy, Dominion Energy, and the North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation are supporting the state Department of Transportation in a Mecklenburg County easement dispute.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a former provost are working on a deal to end an open meetings and public records lawsuit against the school.
In this episode of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (LLPoH), we explore the powerful 125-year journey of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, often called the Black National Anthem. Filmmaker Keith Michael Brown traces the song’s origins in a segregated Jacksonville school in 1900, where James Weldon Johnson first wrote it as a poem […]
Did the President have the authority to impose sweeping tariffs under emergency powers? In this episode of The Le(e)gal Brief, civil rights attorney and movement lawyer Lee Merritt breaks down a major Supreme Court ruling that struck down tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The Court ruled that the Constitution reserves […]
