Mo’Nique, who won an Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in the movie Precious, talked with Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now” about Hollywood’s “Dangling Carrot” technique and how Black entertainers have been affected by it. The Oscar winner illustrates her point about the importance of Black entertainers being independent and […]
Oscar Award winning actress and comedienne Mo’Nique recently sat down with Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now” for an exclusive one-on-one interview. During their chat the Academy Award winner talks about the idea of now being “mainstream” after her Oscar win and how important “The Chitterling Circuit” has been to the development of her career. SEE ASO: Actress […]
Oscar Award winning actress and comedienne Mo’Nique recently sat down with Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now” for an exclusive one-on-one interview. During their chat, Mo’Nique talked about the benefits of being an independent actress and her willingness to help others take that path. Though no one has come to Mo’Nique and her husband, Sidney Hicks to inquire […]
Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now” and Academy Award winner, Mo’Nique chat about the liberal media spectrum and why it was challenging to get distribution for her new independent film, “Blackbird.” Mo’Nique who recently made headlines when she told The Hollywood Reporter she was being “blackballed” by Hollywood after winning an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress […]
Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now” and Academy Award winner, Mo’Nique discuss the concept of a white person having to “walk a black person in the door” in order for them to be validated, have an opportunity and be taken seriously. Mo’Nique who has decided to go the indie route, stresses the importance of going independent […]
A Bloomsburg University baseball player has been dismissed from the team for calling Little League World Series star Mo’ne Davis, “a slut,” reports the Associated Press. Joey Casselberry’s Twitter account has since been deleted, but, of course, screen shots of the Tweet live on. Joey Casselberry on Mone Davis, he subsequently deleted his account. pic.twitter.com/9EDvdYSvM9 […]
Giving your child a leg up on schooling that uses Common Core State Standards is as simple as this act: Reading a bed-time story. So says infant and toddler education specialist Daseta Gray, who recently sat down with the National Urban League and NewsOne and explained the best way to prepare our children for a Common Core education. Hers was part of […]
A lawyer has come forward to claim responsibility for the “exclusively for white people” stickers posted in several Austin, Texas businesses during the city’s popular South By Southwest (SXSW) festival last week. In a video posted last Thursday, Adam Reposa says that the words on the stickers are not the problem, but the fact that East Austin […]
Three Fort Lauderdale Police officers were fired and another resigned after an internal affairs investigation revealed that they spent time on the job sending n-word laced text messages and sharing an unbelievably racist video defaming the president and cut with images of the KKK with one another, reports The Broward Palm Beach New Times. SEE ALSO: Unarmed Teen […]
Taking a page from the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, “intelligence analysts” from Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis set up a fake Facebook account to identify and monitor local Black Lives Matter activists, who were later arrested and charged for a holiday protest at the mega mall, according to The Intercept. The Intercept’s investigation revealed […]
