On Tuesday’s “NewsOne Now, ” Former NFL player and scout Bucky Brooks joined Roland Martin to discuss the controversy surrounding former Eagles player DeSean Jackson. Jackson was released from his contract with the Eagles late last week on the heels of reports that he has “gang affiliations.” NJ.com reported: ..Sources close to Jackson and within the Eagles’ organization say, it […]

A Delaware judge sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter. Judge Jan Jurden noted in her order that Robert H. Richards IV “will not fare well” in prison and needed treatment instead of time behind bars. Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” panel came down hard on the judge and Richards in a segment […]

Spike Lee is on rant mode once again and this time his discontent is directed at New York Times film critic A.O. Scott who wrote a column discussing the director’s gentrification remarks from February. Thing is, Lee attacked Scott for critiques that the columnist really didn’t make. RELATED: What Do Native Brooklynites Think About Gentrification? […]

Millennials are America’s future, but are they ready to take the baton of leadership? Well, new research from Pew uncovers some interesting characteristics of millennials that might help answer that question. The New York Post reports. According to a Pew survey this month, half of millennials — people ranging from 18 to 33 years in […]

You’ve probably already heard that a healthy diet can help reduce a host of diseases and conditions, as well as help improve how your body looks and performs. But now, a new study is singling out one food group in particular as the one that can really help save your life. But…there’s a catch. According […]

  Virginia Couple Wins Lottery 3 Times in 1 Month Calvin and Zatera Spencer have been having an epic month. On March 12 the Portsmouth, Va., couple won a $1 million Powerball drawing. Then, on March 26, Calvin Spencer won $50,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Pick 4 game. The next day he dropped his wife […]

Kwasi Enin, a senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, applied to all eight Ivy League Universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell—and was accepted to all of them. “My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight,” says Nancy Winkler, a […]