A Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) train killed a man Monday night in the Buckhead area, forcing train service to shut down for hours, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. SEE ALSO: More Americans Choose Public Transit The incident occurred at 7:52 p.m. at the Lindbergh Center. An unidentified male was standing on the track […]
Steve Harvey is going to star in his own daily television show, and it’s going to be taped in Chicago. In a news release, Gov. Pat Quinn says the comedian, actor, author and radio host will host a one-hour program called “Steve Harvey” at the NBC 5 studios in Chicago. Quinn says the program will […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama is returning to the late-night stage. The first lady will appear on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on March 19. Mrs. Obama will discuss her Joining Forces initiative, which supports military families, and her plans for the program’s one-year anniversary. CBS, which airs Letterman’s show, says this will be […]
Public Policy Polling has released information about southern republican voters that show that many southerners still believe that President Barack Obama is a Muslim. It is no clear from the poll how these people have come to this conclusion. The information shows that only 14% of Alabama republicans believe that Obama is a Christian, while […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]
DORAL, Fla. — Tiger Woods‘ road to the Masters took a surprising detour Sunday when he withdrew after 11 holes in the Cadillac Championship because of soreness in his left Achilles tendon. SEE ALSO: Octavia Spencer’s Historic Rise To Hollywood Royalty Bobbi Kristina Inherits $20 Million From Whitney Houston It’s the same Achilles that he […]
A small-town police department in Ohio is on lockdown after one of its officers allegedly tasered a 9-year-old boy, the Huffington Post reports. SEE ALSO: Top 3 Hot Spots In Philadelphia Stress Free Travel: What Shoes To Wear An officer was called out to an apartment where a child was refusing to go to school. […]
Tanya McDowell, the homeless Black Connecticut mother who was charged with felony larceny last year after she was caught lying about her home address so that her 6-year-old could attend an elementary school in a good district, was slapped with a 12-year sentence earlier this month. The Mom, who only wanted her young son to […]
As we prepare to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day, a new research study has served as a wake up call for a community that might have gone too far. Â The Center for Disease Control now estimates that 1 out of every 32 black women will be infected with HIV during her lifetime. […]
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith, a Baltimore native, along with animal rights group PETA have asked her hometown’s mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, to not allow the elephants in the Ringling Bros. Circus to be prodded with bullhooks. Now, Mayor Rawlings-Blake’s reportedly flippant response has spurred a war of words, reports The Baltimore Sun. SEE ALSO: Love Jones […]
In a head-scratching initiative that kicked off during this month’s South By Southwest festival, New York marketing company Bartle Bogle Hogarty has given out 4G hotspots to homeless people along with a promotional T-shirt that says, “I Am a 4G Hotspot.” SEE ALSO: Anti-Kony Group To Air New Video Today Dubbed the Homeless Hotspots Project, […]
NEW YORKÂ — The NBA has fined New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith $25,000 for posting a photo of a scantily clad woman on his Twitter account. Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, announced the punishment on Saturday. Smith appears to have eventually deleted the post but that didn’t stop the […]
