Dr. Ben Carson, the GOP’s favorite minority darling and former director of pediatric surgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, has compared President Barack Obama‘s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) with slavery, reports the Washington Post. “You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” Carson […]
UPDATE: 10/12/2013, 7:28 PM EST Various media reports initially and incorrectly claimed that Adrian Peterson‘s son, Adrian Peterson, Jr., was the child who was killed. In fact, it was Adrian’s son, identified as Ty Doohen, with Ashley Ann Doohen, 29, who was slain. ————————————————————————————————————————————- UPDATE: 10/11/13, 6:35 EST: Adrian Peterson just sent out a series of […]
Self-important and deeply delusional conservative columnist and pundit George Will compared the Affordable Health Care Act to the Fugitive Slave Act and segregation laws on Wednesday during an interview with NPR’s “Morning Edition.” The flawed analogy came after host Steve Inskeep prompted Will about President Barack Obama’s stance that Republicans are short-circuiting the system by using government funding and an extension of the debt […]
Josh Marks, the “Seven-Foot Chef,” best known from the third season of the reality cooking series “MasterChef,” was recently found dead in Chicago. His death…
Philip Burns (pictured), a former elementary school teacher of the year who was arrested last November, was recently indicted for child molestation, according to prosecutors. A five-count indictment filed Wednesday charged the HIV-positive Burns with child molestation, aggravated child molestation, reckless conduct, child enticement and criminal solicitation, according to WALB News 10. Burns worked as a third […]
A 34-year-old Brooklyn mother taking pain medication following a C-section fell ill in bed Thursday night and died, rolling over and accidentally smoothing her newborn, the New York Daily News reports. When Marjorie Lyons‘s twin daughters (pictured) missed their morning breakfast and school, they simply assumed their mother was asleep. So they went to tell […]
Our news, our way. Roland Martin returns with “NewsOne Now,” the only national daily news radio show that focuses on the issues African Americans are talking about. It’s the water cooler, the barber shop and the Twitter feed for African Americans. From ballers to senators, Roland is talking with the people who make the biggest headlines […]
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 […]
Additional photos in the Kendrick Johnson (pictured) case were recently made public by CNN, RELATED: Second Autopsy In Kendrick Johnson Case Returned, Claims Teen Died Of Blunt Force Trauma After Johnson’s body was found in the upright, rolled up wrestling mat at Valdosta High School in January, state medical examiners ruled his death accidental. Johnson’s family didn’t […]
