A warrant has been issued for the arrest of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Porsha Williams stemming from her altercation with castmate Kenya Moore during the taping of the “RHOA” reunion show. SEE ALSO: Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta’s Mimi Faust’s Sex Tape Goes ViralWilliams has been charged with misdemeanor battery and will turn herself in on April 17, according to her […]
Dom Cooks, an 18-year-old graduate of Decatur High School in Seattle, Washington, has died from brain cancer after being told he had two weeks to live in February, reports the Federal Way Mirror. RELATED: Dom Cooks: Wash. Teen With Weeks To Live Gets Early Graduation Ceremony [VIDEO] As previously reported by NewsOne, Cooks, who suffered from an inoperable […]
The two veteran Hip-Hop artists dropped by “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin to talk about some of the hottest stories of the day. They weighed in on violence in Chicago and the pushback against Diddy giving Howard University’s commencement speech. Watch what they had to say. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, weekdays at 7 a.m. […]
Former Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams has partnered with car maker Hyundai for their “Hope On Wheels” campaign to raise money to fight pediatric cancer. She joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her involvement in the initiative and do a little trash talk ahead of football season.vListen to her full interview with Roland […]
For “Wildin’ Out Wednesday,” comedians Huggy Lowdown, Alycia Cooper and William Troxler stopped by “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin to talk about news that Sean “Diddy” Combs will speak at Howard University’s commencement. Many have pushed back against the move because, despite having attended the HBCU, Diddy never graduated. Listen to what the comedians had […]
A Florida man was kicked out of a recreational basketball game after a referee learned that he was HIV-positive, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Dakota Basinger (pictured), 21, of St. Cloud, had been playing league basketball all season for Florida Dream Sports, a league sponsored by the city of Kissimmee. During the second half of a […]
President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation didn’t become national law until January 1, 1863, which gave millions of slaves their freedom. Before that historic event, the President signed an act abolishing slavery in the Nation’s Capital on this day in 1862. In Washington, D.C., Emancipation Day has been an official public holiday since 2005. SEE ALSO: Benjamin […]
Keeping with the theme of strengthening the middle class while the economy slowly improves, President Barack Obama (pictured center) has been consistent in promoting the necessity for job training for burgeoning industries. After tasking Vice President Joe Biden (pictured) to take action by leading an initiative focused on training American workers, the pair announced on […]
Quaneisha Torres (pictured) of Fredricksburg, Va., is under arrest for reportedly running her husband down with a van, WJLA reports. SEE ALSO: Grambling State Student Found Dead In Park One state trooper claims he saw Torres standing over a male around 10:30 p.m. Sunday and slammed her husband in to a guardrail. And when he managed […]
DreamWorks Is Producing A 3D Computer Animated Post-Apocalyptic Feature w/ A Black Girl At The Center DreamWorks Animation studios plans to add a little, shall we say, “color” to its growing, rather *vanilla* portfolio of movies, with its next project, titled Home, a 3D computer-animated feature film set in the future, which is based […]
A girl bully is captured on cellphone video physically attacking a boy almost twice her size, but the victim turned the tables on her in the most shocking way possible. Uploaded by YouTube user “UkraineGirl,” the blurry video shows a young girl with long braids kicking and punching the boy. It is not clear exactly […]
I’m not as fascinated with a new Pew poll that purportedly shows that most Americans identify President Barack Obama as “mixed race” as opposed to “Black.” Forgive me, but as much as I love Mariah Carey’s “Outside,” there are too many contemporary reminders that as long as you appear visibly Black in this country, your […]
