Thursday, July 10 at 12 p.m., NewsOne will host a Twitter chat on Black women and street harassment that you shouldn’t miss. Our featured guest will be feminist blogger @feministajones and our moderator will be NewsOne’s Associate Editor Terrell Jermaine Starr. Follow the conversation at #YouOKSis? For now, check out our video on street harassment […]
A Norfolk, Neb., Independence Day float stirred up quite a bit of controversy for depicting Barack Obama’s presidential library as a dilapidated outhouse. The float took the blatant presidential degradation a step further by depicting a likeness of our nation’s leader as a zombie-like creature who stood outside the makeshift building guarding it, according to The Omaha World-Herald. SEE ALSO: […]
You’re at the grocery store, looking at that container of yogurt. It says “Use by” tomorrow. Should you buy it? Agencies like the FDA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) work to make sure that the foods you’re buying at the grocery store are safe […]
The WestView News, a New York based community newspaper, is under fire for running an op-ed piece that refers to President Obama with the n-word in its headline. The article, written by James Lincoln Collier, actually took a pro-Obama stance and focused on criticizing what it deemed to be the “racism” he’s had to deal […]
While many enjoyed celebrating Independence Day all across the nation, Chicago’s violence raged on with a vengeance that left 60 wounded and nine dead from gun wounds, according to ABC 7 News. SEE ALSO: Sentencing Nears For Former New Orleans Mayor The first reported shooting took place in the wee hours of Friday morning, when […]
N.Y.C. police were combing the city for 93-year-old World War II veteran Richard Micheaux (pictured), after he mysteriously disappeared on the morning of July 1, when he took a routine walk to the grocery store in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, but police were searching for the elderly gent in the wrong state! Micheaux was found […]
Someone over at Variety must be in hot water after a poorly-conceived tweet raised the ire of social media users on Independence Day. A message went out from the music magazine’s Twitter account that read “How Elvis invented rock ‘n’ roll 60 years ago.” Of course, anyone familiar with the likes of Bo Diddley, Chuck […]
July 4 Parade Features ‘Obama Presidential Library’ Outhouse Float An Independence Day parade in Norfolk, Nebraska included a float depicting President Obama’s presidential library as an outhouse, sparking outcry from residents as well as the state’s Democratic Party. The float, which did not identify its sponsor, featured an overall-clad dummy standing in front of an outhouse. Nailed to the […]
On any given day of the week Melanie Ennis leaves her studio apartment and steps on to the streets of her Brooklyn neighborhood, there’s a strong likelihood of her being called a “bitch,” “stuck-up hoe,” or verbally abused by a man whose overtures — often quite lewd — she ignores. Ennis, 25, says she has […]
