It’s been two years of writing and editing for this here site, NewsOne.com for me. Together, we’ve traversed the often-treacherous mine-field that is politics, racism, pop culture and the foggy bottom where they all intersect.

From WSJ.com: The number of people filing for unemployment insurance fell last week, but weak industrial output and a drop in wholesale prices point to a slowing in the economic recovery.

KANSAS CITY — The U.S. Postal Service has released a set of stamps honoring early African-American baseball players and their contributions to the nation’s culture and history.

From HuffPost.com: Four students have sued Savannah State University on the grounds that they were denied promised athletic scholarships because of they are white.

NEW ORLEANS — BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.

WASHINGTON — Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.

From USA Today: It was the summer of 1950, and Mary Jean Price, the salutatorian of Lincoln High School in Springfield, Mo., hoped to enroll at a hometown college and become a teacher but But this was four years before Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared denying black […]

From Gawker.com: Everyone knows that white people love Facebook and hate MySpace. But why? In a sure-to-be-controversial new essay, a famous internet sociologist says it’s a lot like white flight.

The recent results of our latest News One/Black Planet poll are out and it’s an even split. The voting ended last night and closed at nearly 1,500 respondents. Our communities were split down the middle with half believing Gilbert’s comments about LeBron James had racial overtones, while the other half disagreed with that assessment. The […]