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Philadelphia –A former Philadelphia high school basketball star has been sentenced to 230 years in jail for raping a woman in Center City. RELATED: The Top 10 Black Movies That Should Have Won Oscars Domenique Wilson, 25, was convicted of raping a woman while her boyfriend was bound and gagged in 2008. He was also […]

Texas — A principal at an East Texas middle school has been reprimanded for blaming the school’s poor test scores on Black students. RELATED: Top 10 black cartoons of all-time On February 28th, Principal David Segers of Price T. Young Middle School called the school’s entire Black student body to the cafeteria. He then went […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the earthquake and tsunami in Japan are a potentially “catastrophic” disaster, and he says his thoughts and prayers are with the Japanese people. RELATED: Top 10 religious moments of the decade Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama says the U.S. is prepared to send whatever assistance Japan […]

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker succeeded Friday in taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state’s public employees, quietly capping weeks of contentious debate and delivering an epic defeat to the labor movement with a private bill signing. RELATED: Top 10 internet moments of the decade The […]

WASHINGTON — Labor unions at the heart of a burning national disagreement over the cost of public employees want to frame the debate as a civil rights issue, an effort that may draw more sympathy to public workers being blamed for busting state budgets with generous pensions.

PATERSON — A northern New Jersey pastor accused of stabbing another preacher has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. RELATED: Top 10 Religious Moments Of The Decade The Record reports that the Rev. Edward Fairley of Paterson was arraigned Friday in state court. The judge set bail […]

HONOLULU  — A tsunami warning has been expanded to include the entire western U.S. coast. RELATED: Cars We Loved Way Back When The Tsunami Warning Center says the warning is in effect for California, Oregon, Washington and southern Alaska. Warnings were issued for Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific following a tsunami early Friday […]

NEW YORK — AOL said Thursday it will slash 900 jobs worldwide, or nearly 20 percent of its work force, partly to eliminate overlap that stems from its recent purchase of The Huffington Post. Also read: Top 10 Black Cartoons Of All-Time

NEW YORK — Prosecutors sought Wednesday to dismiss charges against four teammates of a Pace University college football player arrested after he was fatally shot by a police officer. RELATED: Top 10 religious moments of the decade Convicting the four teammates of slain student Danroy “D.J.” Henry would “not serve the ends of justice,” prosecutors […]

Update: The last of the 20 men who raped an 11-year -old girl accepted a guilty plea in Fall of 2013. Two of the men had trials and were both sentenced to life or 99 years in prison. Eleven other men were handed 15-year sentences. Seven of them, still juveniles, entered guilty pleas and received seven-year probated sentences. ———————————————————— Cleveland, Texas– […]

Watoto From the Nile, the young sisters from Baltimore who created the “Open Letter to Lil Wayne” video that went viral on the Internet last week, have finally given their first on-camera interview. In this NewsOne exclusive, meet 10-year-old Nia, 9-year-old Nya, and their father Jabari Natur, who reveal how they conceived the song and […]

BALTIMORE – Police in Baltimore say an actress who appeared on the HBO series “The Wire” is among about 30 people arrested in an early morning drug raid. RELATED: Top 15 Black Biopics of All-Time Police say Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played a killer of the same name on the hit television series, is one […]