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…

What happened in Baltimore is just part of a bigger problem in the black community and activist DeRay McKesson joined us “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” to talk about it. There’s a lot of conversation about what black people could be doing differently, but DeRay doesn’t believe police brutality is black people’s responsibility to fix. “There’s a trauma in blackness […]

A man shot in the back seven times can’t be justified and neither can a man beaten to death in police custody. But one listener on “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” believes it is. “These are the people causing everything,” the caller said referring to black people and police brutality. Activist DeRay McKeeson joined the conversation in response […]

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wanted to focus his interview with activist, DeRay McKesson, on the violence against police in Baltimore. But it was clear DeRay McKesson wasn’t having it. “You’re suggesting broken windows are worse than broken spines,” McKesson shot back in response to Blitzer’s commentary on the “violent riots.” Sign Up For Our Newsletter! We […]

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Tuesday saw a number of interviews gone “real,” particularly for CNN hosts currently covering the recent uprising in Baltimore sparked from yet another incident of…