The 12-year-old twin brothers went missing from their home in Boston more than a week ago, but law enforcement has said their disappearance isn't considered suspicious. Here's why.

A jury found that Harris-Stowe State University, a historically Black college in St. Louis, discriminated against a white professor based on race and gender.

Kadarius Smith, 17, had tire tracks on his back, his mother said.

Russell Simmons was served with papers linked to a defamation lawsuit filed against him in a surprise move at a resort in Bali this month.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is being accused of "racial bias" due to his response to a fight video between a Black and white student.

Andrew Caldwell, who went viral for claiming in church that he was "deliveredt" from being a homosexual, announced his run for public office.

It looks like Jontay Porter might have to explain his performance on the court. The NBA is investigating him over gambling activity connected to his play. The Score is reporting that the Toronto Raptors player is now at the center of a new probe being conducted by the National Basketball Association. According to ESPN the […]

Former NFL cheerleader Krystal Anderson died shortly after the stillbirth of her daughter.

Good lord! No, this is not satire.

Meet U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams.

Black Voters Matter and me too. International have joined forces for the 2024 election.

NewsOne was on the scene at this year's Bloody Sunday commemoration.

Ferguson organizer Tory Russell was there.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – A TV channel is quoting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as saying he retreated from his Tripoli compound in a “tactical move” after 64 NATO airstrikes turned it to rubble. Al-Rai TV said Wednesday it would air the comments from Gadhafi in full soon and reported an excerpt in which the leader […]

Jamal Parris, one of the men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual abuse, was sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Parris was arrested in June when Miami police found a gun and drugs in his BMW during a traffic stop. According to Parris, he […]

NEW YORK — Michele Moody-Adams, the first woman and first African-American dean of Columbia College — Columbia University’s undergraduate division — has resigned, only two weeks before the new semester begins. Moody-Adams’ departure is the second by a prominent African-American administrator at the university this summer. In June, Claude M. Steele, who served as the […]

Will & Jada Smith have announced that they are happily married, after a media-frenzy filled day that began with a rumor of their divorce. The couple spoke to People Magazine to clear up the report: “Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely […]

NEW YORK — Rev. Al Sharpton has officially been named the host for MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” after replacing its previous host, Cenk Ugyur for almost a month. The show airs at 6 p.m. daily and while Sharpton has been hosting the show for some time now, his official tenure begins on August 29th. The Huffington Post […]

Have you ever seen someone who was always driving a new car almost every other month it seemed? I remember, right after I graduated college, I had a few friends like that and always wondered where they got the money to get into the “flipping” cars game. They would have the newest of the newest […]

The Tea Party isn’t happy with the Democratic Party especially, Rep. Maxine Waters. The 11-term California Democrat recently made a comment at a meeting where she told the Tea Party to go where the sun doesn’t shine. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” Walters told the crowd. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. […]

Vogue Italia has apologized for posting a fashion editorial on large metallic hoop earrings that they described as “Slave Earrings” after protests from consumers. They’ve replaced the description with “Ethnic Earrings,” and maintain that it was a mistake due to an improper translation. TheRoot.com reports: We apologise for the inconvenience. It is a matter of […]

A new study released by Northwestern University says that men who claim they are both attracted to men and women do exist. The finding is not likely to surprise bisexuals, who have long asserted that attraction often is not limited to one sex. But for many years the question of bisexuality has bedeviled scientists. Read […]

Presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry recently said on a campaign stop in South Carolina that the Civil Rights movement is similar to the GOP’s current fight for lower taxes. “Listen, America’s gone a long way from the standpoint of civil rights and thank God we have,”said the Texas governor. “We’ve gone from a […]

Nude photos of Amber Rose have surfaced once again on the Internet Tuesday. Surprised? Rose who once dated rapper Kanye West, appears in the photos completely bare while posing on a bed. Nude photos of Amber Rose also leaked earlier this year, on June 28, 2011– this being the latest of amateur photos of the […]

In a new article on TheRoot.com writer Sharon Foster says that “The Confessions of Nat Turner” were a lie. Check out some excerpts below. “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.,” as told to Thomas Gray, is accepted as the primary historical source document on the slave uprising […]