According to Bloomberg.com, an unidentified man posing as a member of Congress made it into a secure area backstage during President Barack Obama’s appearance at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards Dinner. Visit Bloomberg.com for more details about this security breach.

DALLAS — A hazardous-materials crew on Friday decontaminated the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient stayed, while public-health officials cut by half the number of people being monitored for any symptoms of the deadly disease. SEE ALSO: Is The US Equipped To Confront Ebola? The decontamination team was to collect bed sheets, towels and a […]

Roland Martin and “NewsOne Now” breakdown the latest developments in the fight against the Ebola virus in the United States and around the globe. More than 100 have been quarantined in Dallas, Texas after a man who travel from Liberia to the United States tested positive for the disease. Individuals who may have come in […]

AFL-CIO Chief Economist William Spriggs, Francesca Chambers, Jeff Johnson and Avis Jones-DeWeever joined Roland Martin Friday on “NewsOne Now” to breakdown the latest unemployment numbers. In September, the overall unemployment rate fell to 5.9%, a six-year low. Unemployment for African Americans still remains in double digit numbers at 11%. Listen to their entire conversation about the US […]

Jasmine Simpkins and HipHollywood take a behind the scenes look at the Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Outkast’s Andre 3000. “Jimi: All Is By My Side,” written and directed by John Ridley, premiered in theaters Sept. 26th, 2014. The film looks at Hendrix’s life between the years of 1966 and 1967 during the time he was making his mark on the […]

Here’s some good news you probably won’t read a lot about: Black and Latino students have cut their dropout rates by more than half over the past ten years. Black students have nearly closed the gap with white students with just 8% leaving high school last year. According to a new Pew Research Center report, […]

On “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg defended the cartoonist who wondered if Obama has tried the “watermelon toothpaste,” saying that she, in fact, uses watermelon toothpaste and, perhaps, he didn’t realize the implications of pairing a watermelon reference with the image of the first Black president. Rosie Perez, however, didn’t agree. She said, “It never occurred to […]

Voter registration has surged in Ferguson after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Since that fateful day when Brown was murdered by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, nearly 5,000 new voters were registered in St. Louis County and 3,000 new voters registered in Ferguson. Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now;” Jarvis Stewart, Chairman/Managing Parter of Ian Reid LLC; Aisha Moodie-Mills, Senior Fellow at […]

  Pam Aister (pictured), an Arizona teacher, was fired for defending a Black student against racist bullies, CBS5 reports. SEE ALSO: Discussing The Media’s Anti-Black Bias The incident happened this past May at Four Peaks Elementary School. Fourth-grade teacher Aister noticed the student being harassed by five boys who’d targeted him before. The boys had reportedly […]

Sirgiorgiro Clardy (pictured) filed a $100,000 lawsuit against mega-shoe manufacturer Nike because he reportedly felt that there should have been a warning issued about the Air Jordans he wore to stomp those who failed to fork over money to one of his prostitutes in June 2012.  The pimp claims the shoes were dangerous, potential weapons and the company should […]

If you are an affluent and influential person of color, then you might be a “Royalton.” So explains Andrea Hoffman, founder and CEO of Diversity Affluence in Hamburg, N.J. In the clip above, Hoffman goes into further detail about “Royaltons” and the reasons she started a marketing and business development agency that focuses on diverse consumers. RELATED […]

The London Barbican Centre recently displayed Black actors as slaves in chains  in its Exhibit B presentation.  However, after a successful media campaign, the controversial exhibit was cancelled. SEE ALSO: Do This To Crave More Healthy Food And Less Junk Food Based on the 19th century tradition of Whites putting African slaves on display in […]