In the third episode of the infamous ON THE ROAD web series, Washington Watch correspondent and Interactive One Chief Content Officer Smokey D. Fontaine traveled to Louisiana to expose the frightening dilemmas of living in the Gulf Coast region after the worse oil spill in US history. Like this? Then def check out “Can Smokey […]
This exclusive second episode of “On The Road With Smokey Fontaine” lands our roving reporter at 2300 Jackson St. in Gary, Indiana, the childhood home of Michael Jackson and the Jacksons. Smokey talks to fans, local residents, Reverend Jesse Jackson and Gary mayor Rudy Clay Spacer about how a Midwestern industrial town could produce the […]
Originally published June 25, 2009 A NewsOne Editorial In the wake of Michael Jackson’s death, many tributes will be written about his talent, his musical canon, and even his humanitarian aspirations.
Originally published June 26, 2009 A NewsOne Exclusive It was the type of homegoing only Harlem could give him.
Originally published July 31, 2009 Meet the real Joe Jackson — beyond the rumors, beyond the stereotypes, beyond the usual answers to the typical questions.
From NYTimes.com: In the public’s imagination, the classic hate crime is an assault born of animus against a particular ethnicity or sexual orientation, like the case of the Long Island man convicted in April of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant after hunting for Hispanics to beat up.
From The Guardian: The Mimosa Dancing Girls strip joint on the edge of New Orleans was probably not what BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had in mind when he promised last week that the company would look after the “small people” affected by the Gulf oil spill. But then every day seems to be full of unpleasant surprises […]
In the official NewsOne / BlackPlanet.com poll, seventy percent of African-Americans say they “love” their father. With over 2,500 respondents, 11 percent said they “hate him” and 19 percent said they never knew him.