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With Black in America 4 premiering tonight, we at NewsOne wanted to take a look at the featured guests on the show which focuses on Blacks in Silicon Valley and the technology sector. Today, we take a look at the founder of the NewMe Accelerator, Angela Benton. See Also: Black In America 4 Exclusive Trailer […]

NEW YORK – Bobby Robinson, a fixture of Harlem’s 125th Street for six decades who died last week at 93, was remembered tonight by U.S. Representative Charles Rangel and about 100 mourners in a church one block away from Robinson’s legendary record shop.

Bobby Robinson, the founder of one of the first rap labels, Enjoy Records, and the first record man to sign a bonafide hip-hop act from the streets of the Bronx — Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five  — died Saturday at the age of 93. I was lucky enough to be able to meet and […]

Bossip is reporting Bishop Eddie Long will step down from the pulpit following services this upcoming Sunday. Bishop Eddie Long’s problems are continuing to mount (pun intended)! While so far the number of plaintiffs who’ve filed civil complaints against New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and it’s leader currently stands at three, BOSSIP sources tell us […]

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago has elected its first female prime minister in an early election, ousting an incumbent hurt by soaring crime and allegations of public corruption.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a young lawyer working for Justice Thurgood Marshall, Elena Kagan repeatedly expressed her concern that a conservative Supreme Court was looking for ways to cut back on the rights of women, criminal defendants and prisoners.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to show command of a crisis that has exasperated the U.S., will head back to the state of Louisiana on Friday to review efforts to stop the disastrous Gulf oil spill.