Harper Lee, 87, author of the literary classic, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” is battling financial exploitation and elder abuse at the hands of her former literary agent, Samuel Pinkus, reports NYC Elder Abuse Center. Pinkus is the son-in-law of one of Lee’s oldest friends, the late Eugene Winick. According to Lee’s attorney, in 2007, Pinkus […]
Usually, when a Black man enters a subway car, cup in hand, pleading tone perfected, cynical and bored passengers duck down further into their books, or turn the music pumping through their ear buds up a little louder. This time, when the presumed panhandler entered a Philadelphia SEPTA train, he generated the same response — […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]
A couple in Florence, S.C., decided to take “Freaky Fridays” to the grass last week when they allegedly stripped down in someone’s backyard and began doing the wild thang, the Morning News reports. The cops were called to a home in the 300 block of Warley, after a passerby spotted the two horny toads going […]
Chattanooga Times Free Press Editor Drew Johnson Fired After Telling Obama To ‘Shove It’ In Headline
Political commentator Drew Johnson, who had been editing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press for less than a year, was fired from the paper, after telling President Barack Obama to take his jobs’ plan and “shove it” in a headline, according to WND. SEE ALSO: SMITHSONIAN DISPELS RUMORS OF OF ACQUISITION OF TRAYVON’S HOODIE During […]
Shaaliver Douse (pictured), a 14-year-old who allegedly fired at an unidentified target, was shot dead by police after he ignored commands to drop his weapon, according to the NY Daily News. SEE ALSO: Illegal Buttocks Injections Main, Kill Women The incident happened early Sunday morning in the Bronx’s Melrose section. Two “rookie” officers on patrol heard […]
What kind of mother bites her daughter’s breast during an argument? Well, according to allegations in an Indian River County Sheriff’s report obtained by The Smoking Gun, Joy Young (pictured), that’s who. SEE ALSO: Smithsonian Dispels Rumors Of Acquisition Of Trayvon’s Hoodie Young, 38, of Vero Beach, Fla., and her 16-year-old daughter, Diamond LaCrystal Simmons, […]
Pamela Smith (pictured below), the woman who claimed that basketball icon Michael Jordan (pictured) had fathered her 17-year-old son, was ordered by a judge to pay him $9,704.13 for reportedly trying to milk the player out of thousands for a child whom she knew was not his, according to TMZ. RELATED: Pamela Smith Drops Paternity […]
