For two days, we’ve seen young people express outrage over the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott. Their form of expression smashing windows, looting drug stores, shutting downs streets and setting fires. They’re rioters, looters and agitators. To Cherrell Brown, 27, they’re protestors. Brown and the organizations she works with, QTCOP Collective (Queer and Trans Color […]

North Carolina’s governor declares a state of emergency, and deploys the state National Guard to quell the violence after a second night of unrest in Charlotte. The demonstrators protesting the fatal shooting of a black man by police started out as peaceful, but eventually became violent with wide-spread damage and confrontation with officers and protesters. […]

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

The Watts Rebellion, often referred to as the Watts Riot, began this day in 1965. Until 1992, it was the largest such disturbance the city has ever seen and historians point to a longstanding tension between police and the Black community as the impetus. Marquette Frye, then 21, and his brother Ronald were driving in […]

Events to attend in support of the rebuilding of Baltimore and remembering Freddie Gray + exclusive video from Prince's "Rally 4 Peace" benefit concert.

Two Baltimore correctional officers have been charged with looting after a YouTube clip showed them stealing from a local store during riots following the death…

The family of Freddie Gray held a peaceful and moving memorial service for the 25-year-old Baltimore man at New Shiloh Baptist Church on Monday morning. Few…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

People are divided over the Baltimore riots – what do you think? Answer the poll below and let us know in the comment section below!…

Call them riots or civil insurrections, when a disenfranchised population is triggered by an event that symbolizes their shared grievances, the consequences can be the…