School psychologist, Mark Traina, is blaming “the liberal media” for a complaint filed by the federal government in response to various racist comments he made online, reports MSNBC.com. Traina who is employed by the Jefferson Parish Public Schools in Slidell, Louisiana in the suburbs of New Orleans, works with troubled students in the school system’s […]

World

A South African court convicted Chris Mahlangu for the killing Eugene Terreblanche, who was the former apartheid nation’s most influential racist, the BBC reports. SEE ALSO: Sleepy Surgeons: New Study Shines Light On Risks Of Surgeon Fatigue Patrick Ndlovu, who was also accused in Terreblanche‘s murder, was acquitted. The slain Neo-Nazi leader’s 2010 killing evoked […]

You can imagine how quickly my jaw hit the floor when I saw the cover of Vibe Magazine, in which they featured pictures of the stars of Basketball Wives, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and other reality shows, proclaiming them to be the “new role models.”  Chrissy Lampkin, Evelyn Lozada, Tamar Braxton and Kandi Burruss, for some […]

Biz/Media, Entertainment, NewsOne Original

Has the movie “Think Like A Man” been banned in France, as many American websites are reporting? According to sources at Sony Pictures U.S., the answer is “Non!” “The movie was never planned for release in France,” said an executive inside Sony’s publicity department, who asked that her name be withheld. In other words, you […]

A few days ago, the news broke that Witness #6 had changed his story  in the George Zimmerman case. In a shocking turn of events, three more witnesses have also changed their story, and their new version of events will likely be damaging to Zimmerman’s defense, according to the Chicago Tribune. RELATED: Key Zimmerman Witness […]

Disco queen Donna Summer, 63, who passed away on May 17th, after a long battle with lung cancer will be laid to rest on Wednesday after a private ceremony at a church in Nashville, Tennessee, reports TMZ. RELATED: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Donna Summer The funeral service, which is by invitation only, will […]

Nation

If you thought that President Barack Obama‘s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage went over relatively well in the church community, then you most likely haven’t been exposed to Pastor Charles Worley (pictured left) of Providence Road Baptist Church in North Carolina. In a recorded video that was taped a week ago, Pastor Worley told […]

Crime

Lorna Hampton was tased by a Subway eatery employee while trying to steal money from the establishment’s cash register, the Daily Mail reports. SEE ALSO: Did Cory Booker Have A Point? Race A Factor In Wrongful Convictions The entire encounter was caught on the eatery’s video surveillance camera. It shows Hampton hoping over the counter […]

Shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, which helped free slaves who had Confederate owners who opposed the Union, President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the act planted the seeds for emancipation. SEE ALSO: Race A Factor In Wrongful Convictions What the Act also helped promote is Lincoln’s inclusion of African-Americans in the […]

First the IRS seized rapper Young Buck‘s possessions, then they kicked him out of his mansion earlier this month, and now he is headed for jail.  According to TMZ, Young Buck will now have to do 18 months in prison for gun possession. RELATED: Yikes! Young Buck Evicted From Home It appears that after Young Buck, whose real name is […]

The prominence of African-American athletes in collegiate basketball has been reported on often enough, with a staggering 61 percent of Black players in those ranks, according to the most recent report from University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. Still, the drop in Division I Black basketball coaches from 25 to […]

The latest development of crooner Usher Raymond‘s volatile custody trial is that the entertainer was brought to tears on Monday, when he was accused by ex-wife Tameka Foster of loving partying more than his children, reports TMZ. RELATED: Tameka Begs Usher Not To Leave Her Homeless Foster’s legal team cut into the award-winning performer on […]