After a week of reporting on Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev — and subsequently, Chechnya — we know no more about this complex part of  the world or its people than we did before the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15th. RELATED: See NewsOne’s Boston Marathon Bombing Coverage As soon as Chechnya was identified as the […]

Mustapha Farrakhan (pictured left), the son of controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (pictured), is reportedly under investigation by the Illinois Police Standards and Training Board for enjoying all of the privileges of a part-time cop with the Harvey Police Department (HPD) even though he allegedly hasn’t worked in years, according to the Washington Free […]

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Alphonza Bryant (pictured), a 17-year-old Bronx teenager was fatally shot while hanging out with friends Monday evening, the N.Y. Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Amen! 105-Year-Old Pastor Has No Plans To Retire After returning home from playing basketball, Bryant reportedly changed and went back outside to meet his friends. While standing with them on Fox […]

White supremacist and extreme-Right organization the Ku Klux Klan began their reign of terror in Tennessee in 1865. Early on, it was a group made of largely southern Democrats who rallied against Black and White Republicans in the South and championed the suppression of equal rights for all. With many members enraged by the Reconstruction […]

Are bed bug infestations getting better or worse? A new report conducted by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) and the University of Kentucky has…

At Wayman AME Church in Minneapolis, folks gather in anticipation of hearing the gospel preached by one of its most senior pastors, Noah Smith (pictured), who at 105 years young still manages to belt out a sermon that sends chills down the spines of his devoted congregants, reports CBS Minnesota. SEE ALSO: Venus And Serena Documentary […]

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Being a college student at the time, I clearly remember when Nancy Reagan and the conservative wave in national government helped usher in the nation’s War on Drugs in the 1980s. Television news images of drug busts, large and small, along with the wholesale arrests and stiffer sentencing for anyone even suspected of drug involvement […]