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Red Grant is an actor and comedian who has been featured on Showtime, HBO, Showtime, and Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam. Hailing from Washington, D.C., Grant got his start doing stand up comedy at the Apollo in 1996, according to his official site. He has also made appearances in Katt Williams comedy specials and on the […]

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Keshia Thomas (pictured below center), a Black woman who protected a White man at a Ku Klux Klan rally back in 1996, recently recalled her act, according to BBC News. SEE ALSO: Ohio Teacher Suspended Over Racist Facebook Post “I knew what it was like to be hurt,” Thomas said. “The many times that, that […]

Entertainment

Whoopi Goldberg is set to bring the hilarious and iconic comedienne Moms Mabley to life in a highly anticipated HBO documentary, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley, premiering in November. The buzzed about documentary was previously titled Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You and was snapped up by HBO back in April during the Tribeca Film Festival. “Moms […]

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Ohio teacher Dr. David Spondike, 51, was suspended with pay Monday after posting a racist Facebook rant about Black trick-or-treaters, reports the Daily Mail. Spondike, a former production assistant on The Jerry Springer Show who teaches music at the predominately Black Firestone High School in Akron, complained about “ghetto” trick-or-treaters who urinate on telephone poles. The teacher twice […]

Today on ”NewsOne Now,” with Roland Martin, the host talked with Eric Deggans, TV critic from NPR, about the 2013 fall television season and how African-Americans are faring so far. Deggans had this to say about the Monday night head-to-head battle between NBC’s “The Blacklist,” which stars Harry Lennix, and CBS’ lagging “Hostages,” with Billy Brown: […]

Updated Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 10:10 a.m., ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she’s sorry consumers have wasted so much time dealing with technical problems on the Obama administration’s health insurance website. Sebelius told the House Energy and Commerce Committee she apologizes for access problems that have been […]

Updated November 14, 2013: See Joe Morton (pictured above), who plays “Scandal” character Rowan Pope, head of the all-powerful spy organization, B-613, today on NewsOne Now with Roland Martin. Earlier: News that the U.S. has been spying on foreign leaders has dominated headlines this week. Could it really be that President Obama didn’t know about the surveillance? […]

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  Davis Franklin Cruz (pictured) was placed behind bars last Thursday after a few patrons at a downtown bar in Athens, Ga., complained to police that he had spiraled out of control. The 23-year-old man is accused of biting a woman’s behind, fondling another woman’s breast and trying to kiss both a man and a woman, […]

The storied professional boxing career of the great Muhammad Ali (pictured) began on this day in 1960. Then — under his birth-given name Cassius Clay — the Louisville, Ky., native defeated a West Virginia police chief in a six-round decision. SEE ALSO: Muhammad Ali Wins 1st World Heavyweight Championship On This Day In 1964 Tunney Hunsaker […]

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James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond (pictured), a rap music mogul who for nearly twenty years denied any involvement in the near-fatal 1994 ambush of hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur at a New York recording studio, has now been sentenced to life in prison for his 2012 conviction on cocaine trafficking charges, reports The Smoking Gun. The 48-year-old recidivist […]

For the millionth time, racist old people in positions of power: If you don’t want your bigotry to be made in to big headlines all over Al Gore’s Internet, go back to journaling. Not that many in the Grand Old Party maintain such modesty, but in the case of Nevada Assemblyman Jim Wheeler (pictured), it’s a lesson […]

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson (pictured right) has led a life that few can even imagine. Tyson made a fortune but then lost it all as an ex-felon, drug abuser, womanizer, and sex addict. Yet, in recent years, Tyson has managed to rise above it all and has now found his happy place. In an honest […]