It was recently announced during the 2015 Cannes Film Festival that a biopic on the life of Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager whose death…

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Pastor Jamal Bryant, Dr. Chris Metzler, Michelle Hudgens and Malik Husser joined Roland Martin Monday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss what is next for Ferguson and America…

On the eve of the “Realize The Dream” march in Washington, the families of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin joined together at Shiloh Baptist Church…

The fallout behind Lil Wayne‘s controversial lyrics where he referenced the heinous death of Emmett Till continues. After Mountain Dew dropped him as their celebrity…

Even though Lil Wayne’s publicist wrote an apology letter to Emmett till family, PepsiCo decided they wanted to part ways with the rapper. PepsiCo, which distributes Mountain Dew, said in a statement that Wayne’s offensive comparison of Till to a violent sexual act on Future’s “Karate Chop” remix did “not reflect the values of our […]

A friend of mine once said, “Correctly applied heavy effort is greater than hard work.” The family of Emmett Till must have heard that saying…

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As the author of an academic and theological treatise defending Hip-Hop’s existential right to be, I have been asked many times to weigh in on…

We are all for freedom of expression, but when there is a lack of taste that is tied into it, we have to take a…

Jet Magazine, recognized and respected for its long history of bringing Civil Rights issues to the forefront, has again proven its allegiance to the advocacy…