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Yesterday, the Screen Actors Guild announced its award nominations, yesterday, and the ‘The Help‘ received the most nominations with four. The movie received a nomination for best film cast, while actresses Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain received individual nominations. Viola Davis is up for best actress, while Spencer and Chastain are up for supporting […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq – a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy. Panetta stepped […]

Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson has given her first-ever solo interview in an episode of “The Ellen Degeneres Show” which airs Thursday. SEE ALSO: Racist Chick-Fil-A Receipt Causes Uproar

—– This month, NewsOne presents a special exploration of Black Americans’ influence on social media, #TWEETING WHILE BLACK. —– The way we get our news has clearly changed. These days, Twitter is averaging 230 million Tweets per day. That’s up 110 percent since January. Though 40 percent of Twitter’s 100 million active users only sign […]

UPDATE: Forbes Staff Writer Kashmir Hill writes that she felt the column Gene Marks wrote was offensive. SEE ALSO: If Obama Loses, What Will He Do Next? “As soon as I saw the title, I groaned. “This is going to be offensive,” she wrote in a blog post. Hill also mentioned that Marks is one […]

‘Tis the season for giving and 123o The Buzz is in the holiday spirit! Yesterday, our very own Jeri Tolliver (along with supporting staff) made a trip to Riverview East Academy for a surprise party. It was an extra special treat as we were there with the Autism Units. We would like to thank Deborah […]

If you were involved with Occupy Cincinnati, protested Senate Bill 5 in Columbus, or protested anything this year, congratulations on becoming this year’s Time Magazine person of the year. As it has for the past 84 years, the weekly newsmagazine selected the person (or sometimes group, or thing) that its editors deemed had the single […]

FLORENCE, Italy-Gianluca Casseri, a 50-year-old author, went on a shooting spree in a market in Florence, Italy, killing three Senegalese men and wounding two others before killing himself. Casseri was a member of Casa Pound, an intellectual far right Italian organization and an author of fantasy novels. The AFP reports: Walter Veltroni, a lawmaker from […]

A new show, on TLC, has been stirring controversy. The show, “All American Muslim” has some of its advertisers, like Lowes, pulling their advertisements. This is in response to the letters and complaints by the Florida Family Association. They have sent letters to other advertisers on the show, saying that this show celebrates terrorism and […]

Last Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced that he would not seek the death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was unconstitutional and washed its hands of the matter. This left Williams with the option of pursuing a death sentence through a new hearing, or settling for […]

A South African woman was caught trying to smuggle cocaine in her dreadlocks on a flight to Bangkok.

People magazine recently gave an update on Michael Jackson’s children Prince, Paris, and Blanket.  Since the tragic passing of their father, so much has changed. But the Jackson family works hard to keep them leading regular lives. While they may be mini-celebs with multimillion-dollar trust funds reportedly waiting for them when they turn 30 – […]