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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 […]
We at NewsOne wanted to provide our audience with something fresh and original to kick off our Black History Month campaign. So, we decided to look back in the last ten years and take the five biggest Black stories from each year and create a timeline. Everything from the Jena Six protests, to Coretta Scott […]
New York — Theirs was a partnership built on vision and pride and rooted in a building at the very heart of black America. In 2002 the National Black Theater, a cultural anchor of Harlem, invited the owners of Nubian Heritage, a growing beauty-care company with an African pedigree, to invest in its sprawling building […]
New York — His family calls him “Olakunle,” a name that means “the wealth that fills the house” in the Yoruba language of Nigeria, where Akeem Ajimotokan grew up adored as the youngest of four boys. But Mr. Ajimotokan’s real richness, his family said Monday, is in the trust and generosity he has always showered […]
Chicago — Last week, Chicago’s Police Board voted to allow convicted police lieutenant Jon Burge to keep his $3,000-a-month pension. But one civil rights leader plans to fight that ruling tooth and nail. Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the elder statesmen of the civil rights movement and a major political force in the city and […]