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“You don’t do a dog like that,” said Lesley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown. In an exclusive interview for NewsOne by reporter Brittany Noble, McSpadden said it wasn’t the police who notified her that her son had been killed but bystanders. “They didn’t let me identify him or anything,” she said. “It was some girls down […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A law enforcement spokesman says a large crowd has confronted officers, yelling such things as “kill the police” after a police officer fatally shot a male in a St. Louis-area neighborhood. SEE ALSO: Police Gun Down Ohio Man Holding Toy Rifle In Walmart St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman says shots […]
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Rolando McClain (pictured) is reportedly facing an 18-day jail stint for getting in to a shouting match with Decatur, Ala., police last year, according to ESPN. SEE ALSO: Slain Chicago Girl Mourned Amid New Shootings McClain’s resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges stem from an incident that took place at a park […]
Joe Jackson has been painted as everything from a monster to a genius over the decades. His love for his children overshadowed by greed and ambition. Now, in a series of posts on his blog, Jackson is opening up about his notoriously private family. Beginning with his estranged wife Katherine Jackson, the family patriarch has […]
A Staten Island man died Thursday after a New York Police Department officer put him in a chokehold. The incident was captured on video by a bystander and obtained by the The New York Daily News. WATCH VIDEO of the incident via The New York Daily News. Warning: the video is graphic and quite disturbing. You can hear Eric Garner, […]
Meet Chase Reed, a 16-year-old sneaker enthusiast from Harlem who just opened the world’s first sneaker pawn shop. NewsOne sat down with Chase to learn how he turned his love for shoes into a burgeoning business. Watch him tell his amazing story. Read more of Chase’s story.
Rhonda A. Lee (pictured), the Black woman who was fired from her meteorologist job in Shreveport, La., after defending her natural hair on the station’s Facebook page, has just accepted a job with a national weather channel in Colorado. RELATED: Weather Woman Fired After Defending Natural Hair And Black Kids Has No Regrets Lee announced […]
Thursday, July 10 at 12 p.m., NewsOne will host a Twitter chat on Black women and street harassment that you shouldn’t miss. Our featured guest will be feminist blogger @feministajones and our moderator will be NewsOne’s Associate Editor Terrell Jermaine Starr. Follow the conversation at #YouOKSis? For now, check out our video on street harassment […]
On any given day of the week Melanie Ennis leaves her studio apartment and steps on to the streets of her Brooklyn neighborhood, there’s a strong likelihood of her being called a “bitch,” “stuck-up hoe,” or verbally abused by a man whose overtures — often quite lewd — she ignores. Ennis, 25, says she has […]
Tyler Perry Just Successfully Trademarked “What Would Jesus Do?” What would Tyler Perry Presents Tyler Perry’s Jesusâ„¢, starring Tyler Perry, do? We’re probably about to find out, because the omnipresent creator of the Madea franchise now controls the trademark on “What Would Jesus Do?” Read more. Nick Cannon as Richard Pryor in Lee Daniels’ Biopic? Nick Cannon is dropping some serious hints […]
This year marks 50 years since Freedom Summer, when nearly 1,000 volunteers travelled throughout the southern United States to register black Americans to vote. Many stories are remembered and taught about the importance of that event in American history, but the impact of Freedom Summer can also be measured by the numbers. We broke down Freedom Summer from the amount of […]
Trent T. Daniel, founder of the One World Doll Project, and Stacey McBride-Irby, creator of Prettie Girl Dolls, joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” Tuesday to discuss the definition of beauty as it relates to the kind of dolls and toys that are available to black girls. Daniel and McBride-Irby also talked about how the […]
