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via News5: Participants of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will receive partial benefits early this month, according to a news release. Benefits are being partially issued to ensure that participants do not go more than 40 days between benefits due to last month’s government shutdown. The news release states that participants will receive half […]

  via Wkyc: Their motto is #NeverAgain and they are calling for tougher gun control laws. On Saturday, as many as 500,000 people, mainly high school students, are expected in the nation’s capital for the so-called “March for Our Lives Rally.” The event begins at noon with speeches and performances including Ariana Grande and Demi […]

getty image: Rev. Al Sharpton will not attend a march in Cleveland ahead of the Republican National Convention as previously planned. The Keep the Promise march has been canceled in light of the recent violent events in Dallas and across the country. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation will still go one with the Keep the Promise […]

Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images Black Lives Matter activists marched through the streets of downtown Cincinnati Sunday. The peaceful event, called “Enough is Enough: Justice for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and Sam DuBose,” comes after fatal police shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota last week. Demonstrators started at District 1 Police headquarters at […]

  Youth MARCH crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge Visionary and Gospel Award winning Recording Artist Deitrick Haddon and Apostle Veryl Howard of Faith Management recently teamed up with Mayor George Evans and Pastor Angela Fincher for the first ever “Save Our City Youth Prayer March” in Selma, Alabama. The historic March which drew over 500 […]

source Selma, AL — It was in 1965, fifty years ago, when the historic Selma to Montgomery March took place.  As a result, many now recognize Alabama as the birthplace of leaders with dreams as thousands came together to march for Freedom and Equality On Sunday, fifty years later, that same posture continued as hundreds […]

  Fifty years after Alabama troopers savagely attacked demonstrators protesting discriminatory practices that kept black voters from the polls, thousands of people gathered here Sunday to mark the anniversary of the attack that shocked Americans and helped usher in the landmark Voting Rights of 1965. Despite authorities’ concerns that the crowed of thousands might be […]

  Busloads who attended listened as Rev. Al Sharpton, attorney Ben Crump and the parents of Trayvon Martin called for the repeal of the state’s now-infamous statute. But it was the speeches by two mothers whose sons were affected by the law in completely different circumstances that led to poignant moments. The recent trial of Michael […]

  The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial may not be ready for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington later this month. Workers had been removing a disputed inscription from the memorial, but an architect says a contracting problem has stalled the project. Architect Ed Jackson Jr. says  the side of the memorial’s “Stone […]

New York City police stops of hundreds of thousands of people each year are in the spotlight as city lawmakers consider setting new rules for the stop-and-frisk practice and even appointing an inspector general to monitor the police department. It is too soon to say what laws, if any, will result from City Council hearings […]

Here is exclusive in-studio footage of Al Sharpton on his syndicated radio show talking about The Reclaim The Dream March the day before it went down.

Forty-seven years after thousands of people converged on the Washington Mall to stand together to protest the inhumane challenges blacks in America faced in 1963, organizers of the “Reclaim the Dream” march are looking to ignite change again on Saturday, Aug. 28 with another mass gathering in Washington. “In 1963, they had a dream, and […]