The predominantly White First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, stayed true to it’s Dixiecratic roots by refusing to marry a Black couple after an outcry from the congregation, reports CNN. Charles Wilson and his now wife Te’Andrea had programs printed with their wedding date of July 21. The couple had already sent out invitations […]
Jas Prince (pictured right), the son of Rap-A-Lot Records founder and CEO James Prince, is suing the managers who handle rapper extraordinaire Drake for cheating him out of royalties he feels he deserves for discovering the artist, according to the New York Daily News. In documents that were filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Prince alleges that […]
It’s funny how a close election can make you rethink your political stance. SEE ALSO: Boy Hit In Face By Bird While Riding Roller Coaster At Six Flags For the first three and a half years of his administration, Black constituents (mainly the Congressional Black Caucus) have practically begged President Obama for special attention to […]
In the wake of a public relations disaster set into motion by Chick-fil-A president, Dan Cathy, the vice president of corporate public relations for the company, Donald A. Perry, has died of a heart attack, reports the Huffington Post. He was 60-years-old. “Don was a member of our Chick-fil-A family for nearly 29 years,” a […]
Rodney Dwayne Valentine, (pictured) who had been incarcerated since May 22 for damage to personal property, was released last Saturday from Rockingham County Jail in North Carolina at 8 a.m. SEE ALSO: ‘Dark Knight’ Shooter Claims Amnesia But, instead of heading home, he wound up right back in a jail cell because he reportedly refused to […]
Michael Jackson‘s mother, Katherine Jackson, has agreed to share custody of her late son’s three children with her grandson, T.J. Jackson, the Los Angeles Times reports. SEE ALSO: Over Half Of HIV Patients Will Be 50-PLus By 2020 Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! The Times reports that she will file […]
Tying the knot should be a festive, happy time for all involved, but this certainly wasn’t the case for Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson (pictured). The Jackson, Miss., Baptist church, First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, that the couple selected to hold their wedding banned them from doing so because the White congregation members allegedly refused, according to WAFB. SEE […]
Margaret Nunn (pictured), a patient registration representative at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, was arrested for allegedly stealing and using a dead patient’s credit card, ABC News reports. MUST READ: Up Close And Personal With ‘Love & Hip Hop Star Emily B: ‘People Love To Watch A Train Wreck’ [EXCLUSIVE] Want to Keep Up With […]
Sometimes, I just don’t know what to say. After helping to organize the funeral for entrepreneur and pioneer Sylvia Woods — the founder of Harlem’s famous Sylvia’s restaurant — I found myself in the terrible position of preparing for another burial, that of a four-year-old boy. Lloyd Morgan was playing outside on a summer evening with […]
John Perreault (pictured below), a Leominster, Massachusetts police officer was booted off the force for spewing racial slurs at Boston Red Sox star player Carl Crawford (pictured left), reports the Union Leader. The outfielder, who is Black, was signing autographs in front of the dugout on July 5 at the New Hampshire Fisher Cats game […]
