protests

Finally! People are protesting Iggy Azalea performance the way God intended! Reports claim that about protestors took to Iggy’s performance at Bovard Auditorium on USC’s…

A pair of tone-deaf white people supporting Darren Wilson—the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, last week—made a brief…

Jesse Williams is one of few entertainers lending their voice to speak about Michael Brown’s shooting by police and the aftermath of the teen’s brutal…

The life and legacy of Nelson Mandela is synonymous with the abolition of apartheid. As the fight to end apartheid raged on while Mandela sat…

“What was in Trayvon Martin’s heart? Was it not fear? Was that child not in fear when he was running from that defendant? Isn’t that every child’s worst nightmare? To be followed on the way home in the dark, by a stranger? Isn’t that every child’s worst fear? That was Trayvon Martin’s last emotion,” Guy […]

There are not many artists in today’s Hip-Hop landscape that will ride for the cause until the wheels fall off like Yasiin Bey aka Mos…

Roland Martin talks with Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, the President of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP about the weekly civil…

It was a wild and tumultuous year all over the world and some very strong images came out of it. Protests, natural disasters, revolutions, remembrance; 2011 had it all. These five pictures are from an article appearing on Buzzfeed today displaying ‘The 45 Most Powerful Images’ of the year. You can hit the link below […]

NEW YORK — More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police. The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a […]

Often times peaceful protests turn violent. Many times police turn on protesters with violence, and sometimes peaceful protesters turn violent when confronted by police unjustly. There is a thin line between a peaceful protest and a riot. Sometimes violent people take advantage of peaceful protests to wreak havoc. 5. Oscar Grant Protests One week after […]