The Black businessman, who unsuccessfully ran for Chicago mayor earlier this year, announced his presidential candidacy in June. Here's what you need to know, and what a prominent civil rights leader told NewsOne about his bid.

Democratic lawmakers are introducing a new bill that is set to restore the cornerstone of the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court gutted the…

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Gentrification will soon drop to the second most-powerful force in Brooklyn, NY, thanks to a big political move. According to MSNBC, Hillary Clinton has signed a…

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Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Thursday said that the Rev. Leah D. Daughtry will serve as chief executive officer of the…

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Rev. James Meeks joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss why he and a group of Black pastors in Chicago backed Republican gubernatorial candidate…

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Who should take the blame for the midterm massacre? Should DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz bear the brunt of the blame or is there enough…

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Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight talk panel (Lauren Victoria Burke, Angela Rye, J. Hogan Gidley, Tara Wall and Dr. Jason Johnson) take a…

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In what would seem to be a last ditch effort to gin up the Black vote on election day, Democrats are invoking the shooting deaths…

All during the 2014 Election, Afternoons with Amos has aired an unprecedented number of live interviews with candidates running for office.  In the Fall election, some fifty-four different candidates were interviewed live in extensive interviews that included questions and concerns from Afternoons with Amos listeners and the community.  Incumbent three term Congressman Andre Carson was […]

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Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel (J. Hogan Gidley, Kim Keenan and Paris Dennard) discussed the latest poll numbers, GOP attempts to…

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Rick Klein, Political Director for ABC News joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to analyze the political landscape in the final weekend before the 2014…

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The 2014 Mid-Term elections are just a few months away. Republicans are ramping up their messaging machine and seem to be controlling the narrative, hitting…