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Fashion may be fun, but it can also change people’s lives. Mo’ne Davis, the famous 13-year-old little league pitcher that covered Sports Illustrated, is teaming up with shoe brand M4D3 to design a line of sneakers, which will give 15 percent of its proceeds to benefit impoverished girls around the globe. The sneaker company is collaborating with the Because I’m A Girl movement for the […]

A woman who believed she was 12 weeks pregnant turned out to be six months pregnant when she gave birth to her fourth child in her shower, the New York Daily News reports. Brittany Young of Des Moines, Iowa says she may have misheard her doctor when she found out she was pregnant in January. […]

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Here’s some good news. Not too long ago, news of a father who would be raising quadruplets on his own after his wife died during childbirth hit the internet. When the world got wind of the tragic story, people became determined to help Carlos Morales and now, over $310,000 has been raised for him and his family. TIME reports: Although […]

Grab some Kleenex, it’s about to get real… Raheem DeVaughn is our new hero and if you weren’t a fan of him before, here’s why you…

Seniors gearing up for graduation at Howard University can breathe a little easier now; the Mecca is implementing a new practice that will surely lower some of those Sallie Mae student loans. Starting next year, the university will cover 50 percent of a student’s final semester if they graduate early or on time. Now there’s […]

UPDATED, 9:40 AM EST, 2-9-15: The news keeps getting better for James Robertson, the Detroit man who made headlines last week for traveling 21 miles five days to get to his $10.55 per hour factory job in Rochester Mills, Mich., because he could not afford a car. On Friday, he received a new red Ford Taurus, […]

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 […]

Each year the Rhodes Trust awards exceptional postgraduate students with a scholarship to pursue studies in all fields at the prestigious University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.  The competition for the coveted honor is tough, but this year, five African-Americans intellectual talents have received the scholarship and are on their way to leaving their imprint, […]

Movie mogul, playwright, director and actor extraordinaire Tyler Perry (pictured with kids) is known for being generous with his fortune. Perry has supported such causes as HIV/AIDS research, the NAACP, and organizations that champion forgotten issues. Now he has rallied around an Atlanta youth center, Young People Matter (YPM), which was on the brink of closing its doors. Thanks to […]

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Mo’Ne Davis, 13, led her Little League team to the World Series when she struck out six batters Sunday. The Philadelphia native plays for the Taney Youth Baseball Association and can pitch a 70-mph fastball, according to reports. Davis is only the 18th girl to play in the Little League World Series since girls were officially allowed […]

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Dan Davis of Detroit might get our vote for father and neighbor of the year. In a time where there are so many depressing stories coming out of the Motor City, here’s a good one. Davis has turned a vacant lot in his neighborhood into a play and exercise area for kids and adults alike. It’s equipped […]

N.Y.C. police were combing the city for 93-year-old World War II veteran Richard Micheaux (pictured), after he mysteriously disappeared on the morning of July 1, when he took a routine walk to the grocery store in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, but police were searching for the elderly gent in the wrong state! Micheaux was found […]