In an op-ed for Clutch Magazine, Newsone Contributing Editor, Kirsten West Savali, discusses why Naomi Schaefer Riley‘s scathing indictment of Black Studies is a glaring example of white privilege. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! Every now and again, there is a manifestation of white privilege so brilliant in its ignorance, […]

If anyone thought that the New York Association of Black Journalists  (NYABJ) would defend the caliber of Beyonce Knowles’ award-winning Essence story, “Eat, Play, Love,” they would be sadly mistaken. In a (second) slap in the face to journalists everywhere, President Michael J. Feeney basically told The Root’s Journal-isms that Beyonce’s piece was all they […]

It was all good just a year ago, as Oprah Winfrey (pictured center), then OWN CEO Christina Norman (pictured left) and David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications (pictured right), popped champagne to celebrate the network that was poised to revolutionize cable television. Fast forward to 2012, Norman is gone, fired over dismal ratings, […]

Chelisa Grimes gave her gay son, Darnell “Dynasty” Young, a stun gun to protect himself against bullies, after she lost faith that officials at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis would protect him, CNN reports. SEE ALSO: Entrepreneurs Keep HBCUs Afloat The 17-year-old high school student says be took the stun gun to school because […]

Usain Bolt (pictured) is known as Jamaica’s premier World- and- Olympic-winning sprinter. A national hero, Bolt has recently gained a boatload of criticism, though, due to his recent relationship to White, Slovakian-born girlfriend Lubica Slovak. SEE ALSO: Beyonce’s Award Draws Fire While Bolt has already been dating Slovak for a year, the ish literally hit […]

A 24-year-old Orlando man is charged with first degree murder after allegedly killing his own son during a two-week visitation on Friday, The Daily Mail reports. SEE ALSO: Mom Leaves Baby In Hot Car While Sipping Margaritas Eddie Lee Daniels, who is currently being held in an Orange County jail, is suspected of causing massive […]

Ben Bratton (pictured) pulled off a trifecta at last month’s World Fencing Championships in Ukraine when he became the first Black person, American and youngest competitor to win Gold for the U.S. team. SEE ALSO: Man Accused Of Having Sex With Girlfriend’s Dog Naturally, Bratton would be expected to take his winning ways to the […]

Everett Glenn, 19, a freshman at Lafayette College, was a reportedly charismatic and social teen who was even nicknamed “Mr. Mayor” by his fellow classmates. Unfortunately, Glenn died this past Saturday, after drinking too much in celebration of his birthday, reports the Express-Times. SEE ALSO: Will William Balfour Get Off On DNA? According to Glenn’s mother, Joanne, Glenn […]

White women have, in the most inopportune moments, been the ambitious politician’s kryptonite for some time. SEE ALSO: Was FAMU Hazing A Hate Crime? And with the release of “Barack Obama: The Story” by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post writer David Maraniss, where a White ex-girlfriend of Barack Obama describes his “sexual warmth,” we now have […]

Mothers are the most-honored family members around the world for their selflessness and the love they give to their children. That’s why this year, NewsOne will provide a number of daily posts about Mothers until Mother’s Day. Enjoy! —————————– As Mother’s Day rolls around, it’s easy to fall into the mushy, simple definitions of motherhood. […]

Singer Houston Summers (pictured) who made sweeping headlines back in 2005, after suffering an emotional breakdown and gouging his left eye out with a plastic fork, was arrested by the Los Angeles police for driving under the influence of drugs, reports TMZ. SEE ALSO: Tackling The Black Obesity Crisis The LAPD pulled Summers over, after they saw him […]

“We’re the forgotten people of Detroit,” Sharonda Hawkins of city’s Westside Martin Luther King Apartments, the Detroit News reports. SEE ALSO: Tackling The Black Obesity Crisis Eight months ago, her husband, Brandon Johnson, was shot dead several doors away from her apartment inside the complex. Hawkins, who carries her 40. caliber pistol with her whenever she […]