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.

“This is not an anti-Obama poverty tour and I’m tired of hearing that quite frankly,” broadcaster Tavis Smiley told ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper today on his way into DC Central Kitchen in the nation’s capitol. Smiley and Princeton Prof. Cornel West have embarked on a lengthy multi-city Poverty Tour around the country […]

In a new BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll, 88 percent of African-Americans believe that President Barack Obama deserves a second term. Only 12 percent of those polled believe he should be a one-term president. These numbers stand in sharp contrast to a recent USA Today poll where half of the country believes Obama doesn’t deserve a second term. […]

A low-budget, yet popular web-series titled “The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl,” has received huge contributions from thousands of supporters to continue production of the series. The producer, writer, editor, and leading role of the series is a Stanford grad named Issa Rae, who stars the series as a character named “J”. She started […]

NCAA athletics has become the new prohibition – the illogical construct that creates a destructive underground economy because leadership is being guided by an illusion of what should be, rather than confronting the NCAA for what it really is: a professional sports league. Some of our most highly educated figures within academia are forced to […]

Facebook is on the defensive after various social networks went abuzz when users who synced their phones found out that all their contacts numbers were on the site. The social networking site denied rumors that syncing mobile phones with the social network publicly reveals the phone’s contacts. The story began circulating yesterday via status updates […]

While health studies have produced much data proving that tap water is healthy and sanitary, Black and Latino parent seem to believe otherwise. Instead, minorities are consuming and spending a greater amount of their income on bottled water compared to whites. A recent study in the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine illustrated this trend, reporting that […]

NEW YORK — The father of the children who were driven into the Hudson River by their mother, LaShanda Armstrong,  is suing New York City for $40 million. Black News 2 reports: Pierre, Armstrong’s 26-year-old estranged boyfriend, says there should have been proper barriers erected to keep vehicles from going into the river. He also […]

Despite high rates of unemployment and an uncertain economy Black barbershops and hair salons are booming, according to BlackNews2. The Census Bureau recently noted their jump in an otherwise glum report about mom-and-pop businesses, stating that the number of hairdressers and barbers and the shops that employ them grew by about 8 percent from 2008 […]

PORTLAND — According to witnesses, Robert Vietze peed on an 11-year-old child while intoxicated during a flight from Portland, Oregon to New York City. 18-year old Robert Vietze of South Warren, Vermont was on a red eye flight from Portland, Oregon, the New York Post reports. UPDATE: Robert “Sandy” Vietze is among the 75 most […]

Street gangs are quickly migrating from America’s inner city to its suburbs and small towns says a new National Gang Center study. According to the report, 55 percent of all gang activity occurs in big cities, while 41 percent occurs in outlying suburbs in our smaller cities. In Houston, Tex., officers say kids as young […]

WASHINGTON–The 2012 presidential election is slowly catching steam as candidates prepare their plans of attack. President Obama has reportedly set his sights on the former Republican governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney. According to reports, the Obama camapign is actively planning its “Kill Romney” plan, an effort to destroy Romney’s reputation with ferocious personal assaults. Romney, who is […]

Past research suggested that Black patients on dialysis survive longer than whites, but a new study finds that this does not hold true for young Black patients. In fact, young African-Americans are twice as likely to die while on dialysis. TheGrio.com reports: Doctors aren’t sure why young African American dialysis patients have such a large […]