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BATON ROUGE, La — About 230 current and former employees at a Louisiana-based oil services company have filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying they were forced to work in facilities where racist graffiti, slurs and discrimination are commonplace. The lawsuit was filed this week in a Texas federal court against Turner Industries Group LLC, which […]
War. Religion. Brotherhood. Slavery. Freedom. The American Civil War has been retold in many ways, but none in the gripping, powerful fashion director Matthew Lopez has provided us with in “The Whipping Man.” Lopez, who brought the play to the Manhattan Theater Club for Black History Month and beyond – takes us to a time […]
NEW JERSEY-In a stunt reminiscent of James O’Keefe’s Fake Pimp prank on ACORN, a young African American male visited planned Planned Parenthood and told them about his underage sex workers and received advice on how to have them treated for STD’s, while the woman that they talked with, Amy Woodruff, told them how to avoid […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. –- A woman who said she strangled her 18-year-old daughter because she “pushed my last button” pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter.
1. Oprah Winfrey Initially The Oprah Winfrey Show was just another talk show when it debuted in 1986. But what made it stand out and rise above the rest was the show’s host. Now The Oprah Winfrey Show is only a small part of Oprah’s empire, and in 2011, will cease to exist in its […]
Philadelphia, PA– Police arrested six teenagers at a school in suburban Philadelphia after a video one of them shot showed them beating a 13-year-old boy, tossing him in a tree and then hanging him from a wrought-iron fence by the hood of his coat.
I figured that I would share an update to the case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, the mother of two who was given jail time for sending her kids to a school outside of their home district. This week, Williams-Bolar met with both Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton about her case, appearing with me and […]
NEW YORK-Mary Turcotte, a white 26-year old Nun from the Apostles of Infinite Love in Brooklyn has admitted that she lied about being raped by a Black man in the snow to cover up for a consensual sexual encounter she had at with a bodega worker. The New York Daily News reports: After a police […]
New York — Jimmy McMillan is looking for a VP in his bid for President, and he’s got two candidates in mind – Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The bombastic former gubernatorial wanna-be, whose Rent Is Too Damn High mantra stole the show during November’s state elections last year, says both Republicans would make good […]
// Last January, Michael Allison, a 41-year-old mechanic from Bridgeport, Illinois, went to court to protest what he saw as unfair treatment from local police officers. Allison is an auto enthusiast who likes to tinker with cars, several of which he keeps on his mother’s property in the neighboring town of Robinson. Because both towns […]
Here at NewsOne, we are proud to announce that we have brought on another diverse voice in Vanessa Jean Louis – of the website – HipHopRepublican.Com. Below is her first piece for our site. —————————————– Two years ago I was scoffed at when I declined to participate in the historic election of our first “half-breed” […]
Another sad situation caught on film has now hit the Internet. If you thought church folks were only fighting for the Lord, you might want to take a look at this video and watch as it all goes down. Apparently, a rather unruly church congregation became upset and at odds with one another over the […]
