Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore, 40, was convicted Monday of first degree murder for the 2009 murder of Florida lottery winner, Abraham Shakespeare, 43, after cheating him out of millions of dollars, reports the Huffington Post. “She got every bit of his money,” said Assistant State Attorney Jay Pruner in closing arguments. “He found out about […]
Shalema Gaskin, 32, (pictured)stepped away from her 8-year-old daughter Briana, who was being treated at Brookdale Hospital in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, to check on her other children, and was discovered dead in the back entrance of the hospital with a gunshot wound through the neck, reports the Wall Street Journal. Police, who reported […]
If you’re headed to the hometown of the First Family of the United States for the holidays, be ready for “the hawk,” the feisty wind that blows off Lake Michigan and sweeps across the city. Despite the cold, the city is festive and aglow in lights and filled with the holiday spirit. Be sure to […]
I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial issues, so I have opportunities to represent my Black experience all the time, which I’m sure gains me some points. But it’s different […]
An off-duty Kansas City police officer working a security job at a local Walmart helped a pregnant woman deliver her baby in the store’s parking lot on Saturday, KCTV-5 reports. Marsheanna Clark was walking out of a Kansas city Walmart around 7 p.m. when she realized that her water had broken. She knew her baby […]
To say Britney Exline (pictured) is smarter than average is like saying Barack Obama is just another president. It simply isn’t true and here’s why: Exline recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011 at the age of 19, making her the youngest engineer to graduate from the school and the youngest African-American […]
When University of Texas at Austin law professor Lino Graglia (pictured) was interviewed by the BBC, he revealed that Blacks and Latinos cannot compete with White students academically because so many are raised in single-parent family households, according to Gawker. SEE ALSO: When Do Republicans Believe Humanity Started? According to the professor, on average, Blacks score 200 points […]
[ione_newsletter_signup] A 31-year-old law student from California was shot in the head at point blank range in the middle of Manhattan on Monday, the New York Daily News reports. Brandon Lincoln Woodard was walking west on W. 58th St. near Central Park when a hoodie-clad man walked calmly from behind and shot him. Woodard was […]
Three teenagers will be charged as adults in the shooting death of a 22-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. SEE ALSO: South Africans Worry Over ‘Tata’ Mandela Kayla Peterson, 22, died after one of the teens shot her in the stomach as she stood on her front porch on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls. […]
With a highly combative presidential campaign behind him, President Barack Obama has had quite a year. In no particular order, NewsOne put together the commander-in-chief’s best moments of 2012! 1. Obama Slow Jams the News During an unexpected appearance on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” President Obama joined Jimmy Fallon and the Roots to “slow […]
Editor’s Note: This story originally cited civil rights activist Angela Davis as opposed to the writer Michaela Angela Davis. Both the photo and copy have been amended. During an interview with television personality Jacque Reid last week, writer and image activist Michaela Angela Davis (pictured) announced a new campaign, “Bury the Ratchet,” aimed at improving […]
South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela is suffering from a recurring lung infection and is responding to medical treatments, the nation’s presidency said recently. The…
