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A young survivor of the bombing that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City has graduated from high school and will be attending college in the Fall. The Grio reports: Two-year-old Donquay Hammons was being taken from America kids daycare downtown — bloodied and injured from the Murrah federal building bombing across the street. […]

CNN invited NewsOne’s very own Editorial Director Dan Charnas to be part of their expert panel discussion on the uproar caused by rapper Common’s recent invitation to a White House poetry reading. Check out the footage below. RELATED: Common Performs Poetry At White House White House Brushes Off Fox News As Common Performs At Event

An article on The Grio details the Black commencement speakers that will be making an appearance at the graduation ceremonies of colleges across the country. From Bill Cosby to Marc Morial, check out the article and a slideshow of the speakers here. RELATED: First Lady To Give Commencement Speech At Spelman College Denzel Washington To […]

NEW YORK — Fashion Row, an organization based out of Harlem has given six Black designers a shot at the opportunity of a lifetime — the runways of New York’s Fashion Week. NY Daily News reports: From 15 semifinalists, the [Fashion Row] team culled the top six, evaluating portfolios and interviewing designers in person. In […]

BATON ROUGE, La. — Sisters Network Incorporated, the only national African American breast cancer survivor organization in the country, will kick off its 12th annual National African American Breast Cancer conference today in Baton Rouge. A pioneer in the African American breast cancer awareness movement, Sisters Network hosts the only national conference specifically addressing the devastating […]

CHICAGO, Ill. — A federal appeals court has ruled the City of Chicago must hire more than 100 African-American firefighters to compensate for past hiring discrimination. myfoxChicago.com reports: The ruling is the latest development in a fight over the department’s 1995 entrance exam. Thousands of people sued the city, saying the test favored white applicants. […]

It is being reported that the sexual coercion lawsuits against Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church are likely to be tried publicly, rather than settled out of court as it was initially thought. The Root reports: Settlement discussions between the prosperity preacher and the four young men who have filed civil […]

Data from a recent study released today in the American Journal of Public Health showed that banning menthol cigarettes could save as much as 600,000 premature deaths by the year 2050. Check out more information below and discuss whether you think these cigarettes should be banned. The Grio reports: With tobacco companies heavily marketing menthol […]

It has been confirmed that Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith are scheduled to appear on Oprah’s grand finale on May 25. The Daily reports: Speculation about who will appear on the mystery-shrouded last episode has been building as Oprah ends her 25-year run of “The Oprah Show.” Fans’ and journalists’ guesses have included […]

NEW YORK, New York — Wings Academy high-school basketball star Deonte Houston was charged with first-degree robbery after he and three others allegedly stole an iPod from a 15-year-old boy. NY Daily News reports: The 17-year-old point guard and his cohorts rode their bikes into Pugsley Creek Park in Clason Point at 6 p.m. Sunday […]

MCKINNEY, Texas — A 14-year-old named Nicholas Cobb has created a non-profit group providing food and other essentials to the city’s homeless. The Grio reports: It started small with toiletries for the homeless, cleaning supplies for their shelters. Then two years ago, at age 12, he set up Comfort and Joy, a small non-profit with […]

DALLAS, Texas — Over 50 years after being one of 11 Black students to integrate the University of North Texas, Dallas mother Burlyce Logan returned to the school to earn her bachelor’s degree. NBC Dallas reports: In 1997, Logan told her husband she wanted to get her degree and she wanted it from UNT, but […]