#BlackLivesMatter

Pittsburgh, PA hip hop artist Mac Miller has never been your conventional rapper, but his latest stream of consciousness still came as a slight surprise to his…

There's a fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech. Emily Faz, a student at Georgia Southern University, has had to learn that the hard way.

T.I. is using the holiday season to bring some positive attention to the Black Lives Matter movement! How so? Click on the audio player to hear more details on this exciting venture in this edition of the Hip-Hop Spot! Sign Up For Our Newsletter![sailthru_widgetfields=”email” sailthru_list=”Rickey Smiley Subscribers”] Listen to “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” weekdays from 6-10 […]

Officer Ben Fields is shown on camera viciously grabbing, flipping and arresting a student at Spring Valley high school.

An ineffective system has left Tamir Rice and Eric Garner -- two high-profile police brutality victims of the previous year -- off the federal government's official record of homicides by officers. In fact, out of 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, 17,776 refused to provide such data

Jeff Johnson reminds us that in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, we can’t forget that black women- as victims, survivors and voices -are a big part of the picture as well as black men. Click on the audio player to hear this elaborated on in this edition of 3 Things You Should Know.  Sign Up […]

20 years ago, the historic Million Man March drew unprecedented crowds of African-American men and women to Washington, D.C. in 1995 in an effort to…

            Meryl Streep is one of the most celebrated and respected actresses in the business. The 66-year old is currently promoting her upcoming film, Suffrages which highlights a group of British women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who advocated for women’s right to vote. In the movie, Streep plays Emmeline Pankhurst, the […]

NewsOne’s Top 5 takes a quick look at the trending stories you’re talking about: Ex-Con Shoots Self In Groin, Tells Cops A Black Man Did It…

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is taking his powerful message to the Ivy League this fall. Yale Divinity School announced this weekend that he will…