The 12-year-old twin brothers went missing from their home in Boston more than a week ago, but law enforcement has said their disappearance isn't considered suspicious. Here's why.

A jury found that Harris-Stowe State University, a historically Black college in St. Louis, discriminated against a white professor based on race and gender.

Kadarius Smith, 17, had tire tracks on his back, his mother said.

Russell Simmons was served with papers linked to a defamation lawsuit filed against him in a surprise move at a resort in Bali this month.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is being accused of "racial bias" due to his response to a fight video between a Black and white student.

Andrew Caldwell, who went viral for claiming in church that he was "deliveredt" from being a homosexual, announced his run for public office.

It looks like Jontay Porter might have to explain his performance on the court. The NBA is investigating him over gambling activity connected to his play. The Score is reporting that the Toronto Raptors player is now at the center of a new probe being conducted by the National Basketball Association. According to ESPN the […]

Former NFL cheerleader Krystal Anderson died shortly after the stillbirth of her daughter.

Good lord! No, this is not satire.

Meet U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams.

Black Voters Matter and me too. International have joined forces for the 2024 election.

NewsOne was on the scene at this year's Bloody Sunday commemoration.

Ferguson organizer Tory Russell was there.

NEW YORK — Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70. His longtime friend and former publicist Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press that Ashford — who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits — died Monday in a New York City […]

In the NFL supplemental draft, the Oakland Raiders drafted controversial Ohio State Quarterback,Terrelle Pryor. Pryor left Ohio State after he was accused of taking illegal gifts from boosters. Sports Illustrated reports: Sometimes the stereotypes are accurate, and the past is indeed prologue. Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has always coveted freakish athletes in terms of […]

Rev. Al Sharpton and National Action Network (NAN) will hold a mass march for jobs and justice on Saturday, August 27, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The rally and march is expected to attract thousands of members of the civil rights community. Martin Luther King III, Tom Joyner, CEO of the National Urban League Marc Morial, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York have filed papers recommending that some or all charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn be dropped. The filing in the sexual assault case against the former International Monetary Fund leader was not immediately made public and details weren’t released. The hotel housekeeper accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her […]

Former Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe, used U.S. aid to help him hide connections between his government and drug-trafficking paramilitary groups according to a report from the Washington Post. The Post reports that money sent to the Colombian government to help eradicate cocaine cartels was actually used to spy on the Colombian Supreme Court, which was […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can’t find new ones in an economy that has […]

Typically known as the mostly-white, suburban borough of New York City, Staten Island is undergoing an influx of African residents who say they  prefer the affordable rents and the island’s quiet atmosphere to the traffic-filled, concrete jungle of Manhattan. As their numbers grow on the island, organized soccer is one of the activities that is helping […]

The University of Miami may see its storied football program go up in smoke (for at least a while) after it was determined that a booster gave money, gifts and other sorts of lavish items to players in order to entice them to join the football program. So, it appears that the University of Miami […]

Black America may have its gripes with President Obama, but with Black unemployment  soaring and the wealth gap at an all-time high, can Black people not  re-elect Obama? And with most of the 2012 Republican candidates trumpeting the economic policies that placed America in its current hole, a more poignant question is whether Black America can […]

TAMPA-Dwight Levasiyea Ellick, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and high school teacher was charged with having sex with a minor after allegations that he had sex with a 16-year-old female student. Ellick went to Notre Dame and briefly played cornerback for the Buccaneers. ABC News reports: According to a police statement, “On June 8th, 2010, […]

Celebrated writer Oscar Wilde once quipped that there was “only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” It was an early turn-of-phrase that helped give birth to the concept that there’s no such animal as bad publicity. Certainly The Help, whose writer and producers appear to […]

Fourty-eight years after the March on Washington became the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is being remembered with his own memorial on the National Mall. At the same time, civil rights veterans are taking time to remember Bayard Rustin, the march’s chief organizer. The Washington Post reports: […]