Queens

A white teacher in Queens, NY was arrested Thursday after he was accused of brutally throwing a Black student into a wall, then slamming him to the ground.

Hip-hop legend LL Cool J was honored with a statue in Queens, New York.

Lyricist Nas was bestowed with a key to Queens and awarded with a designated day.

Nas’ debut album has been added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.

A driver who reportedly struck Nicki Minaj's father in a fatal hit-and-run over the weekend turned himself into authorities on Wednesday morning.

A 6-year-old from Long Island donated over 5,000 books to children in need amid the pandemic.

A mother-daughter nurse duo traveled from Arkansas to NYC to join those who are on the frontlines of fighting the pandemic.

The 19-year-old college football player was awarded the 82nd Heisman Trophy for an outstanding sophomore season with the Cardinals.

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 Black and […]

Jemal Earle, the husband of Nicole Paultre Bell, has filed a federal lawsuit against a police officer who allegedly attacked him.

AMuslim store owner in Queens, New York is still in shock over an attack that police are treating as a hate crime, NBC4 New York reports. The incident happened Saturday, when Piro Kolvani entered Fatima Food Mart, owned by Sarker Haque. Kolvani walked into the store and acted erratically before screaming “I’m gonna kill Muslims,” and began punching Haque in the […]

Artistic expression came alive in the halls of a New York high school this month with the help of the legendary 5Pointz artists and Syreeta Gates, who headed a colorful beautification project dubbed “Operation Skittles.” Led by Gates and the graffiti team, in less than 48 hours the beige walls of August Martin High School in the Jamaica section […]