“This is history!” one Beyonce fan screamed as First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha, 10, and Malia, 13, sat down in private seats at Revels Casino and Resort to watch the “Bootylicious” diva in only her second live stage performance since giving birth to Blue Ivy in January, reports the Associated Press. Fans screamed […]
Cory Booker is an outstanding politician and an even more amazing human being. The man proclaimed to be “Baby Obama” has more friends than I’ll ever have and is one of the most respected and creative local politicians in America. In fact, if I were a light-skinned, bald guy who wanted to be just like […]
Two missing girls, Sharron Cherie Bess, 13, and Deony Cherie Goodwin, 9 were found safely Tuesday in Lynwood, California, and their mother, Diondria Cherie Davis, 33, has been arrested on felony child endangerment charges, reports KTLA. The girls had been missing since Wednesday night, when Davis handed them over to a woman named “CC” on […]
Where is the justice? Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs (pictured) whose wealth is guesstimated by “Forbes Magazine” to be hovering around $550 million, is the proud papa of his eldest child Justin (pictured), who just graduated from high school. Nothing wrong with that…except…the boy also landed a $54,000 football scholarship to attend the University of California, Los […]
UPDATE: 11:25 P.M. EST First Lady Michelle Obama is currently attending Beyonce’s second night performance with daughters Sasha, 10, and Malia, 13. Newsone reports here. ———————————————————————————————————————- She’s baaaaaaaack…just like she never left! Five months after giving birth to Blue Ivy Carter, Beyonce Knowles — Mrs. Carter if you nasty — stunned the crowd at […]
NewsOne contributor Elon James White is down in Florida at the NAACP’s eight annual Leadership 500 Summit… and he wants you to know what’s really going on. Check his exclusive video here: [ooyala code=”luczN1NDoODaFqVwn7UGeDsjmb1DjG4C”] ————- LIVE COVERAGE: The New NAACP: “Protecting Our BMW’s – Black Men Walking” ————- Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us […]
I have heavily critiqued the NAACP. I’ve spoken about how it feels very much disconnected from my generation and I’ve watched as local chapters hold press conferences about ridiculous and frivolous issues. The nation’s oldest civil rights group to me seemed stagnant—Just a bunch of old Black folks being old and Black and not growing […]
UPDATE: 5-27-12 — 1:19 A.M. EST Banks plans to file a claim against the state requesting money for the five years, two months that he spent in prison, his attorney told the Los Angeles Times. As previously, reported by Newsone, he was exonerated of rape after his accuser recanted her statement. “We do not plan […]
The Motor City is financially strapped, trying to dig out of a $265 million deficit and saddled with more than $12 billion in long-term debt. In addition to its cash-flow problem is a shrinking population, so the city’s governing body is considering turning off half of its streetlights in sparsely populated areas in order to save money, reports the New York Daily News. […]
Trying to show that he can look beyond his usual line of supporters as he campaigns for the presidency, Mitt Romney stopped by the Universal Bluford Charter School in West Philadelphia this week. There he discussed education that he deemed the “civil rights issue of our time.” I suppose to a person who largely ignored […]
