New York City

NYPD’s aggressive policing of quality-of-life offenses to prevent more serious ones has created a tale of two cities. A city primarily populated by whites who are not prosecuted for minor offenses. The other, a primarily  Black/Hispanic city where minorities are are issued a disproportionate number of summonses for common offenses and could be interrogated by […]

New York’s City’s top cop went on a media blitz to deny that NYPD officers are singling out minorities in a crackdown on minor offenses. Visit The Huffington Post for a full rundown of NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton’s media offensive.

What you see above is a map of Detroit. The small colorful dots represent people, plotted to show where they live and their race. Whites are represented by blue dots, Blacks with green dots, Asians with red and Latinos with orange. All others are represented using the color brown. Again, what you see is Detroit, but also […]

  A New York City police officer put a seven-months-pregnant woman in a chokehold after a dispute over illegal grilling in Brooklyn, NY. For more information about this bizarre incident and to watch the entire disturbing video visit the New York Daily News.

If you missed the second day of the National Action Network 2014 Convention, catch some of the highlights of what might have been the day’s hottest panel in NewsOne’s exclusive video recap. ALSO WATCH: “NAN Convention Day 1: What You Missed [VIDEO]“ Stay tuned to NewsOne for more coverage of the 2014 NAN Convention.

The Affordable Care Act deadline is fast approaching. NYC-based celebrities and community leaders banned together Friday to organize a #GetCovered tour through three of the city’s five boroughs, share their personal healthcare stories and spike enrollment in New York City by the March 31st deadline. The one-day tour travelled to Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx. […]

The Affordable Care Act deadline is fast-approaching. NYC-based celebrities and community leaders banded together Friday to organize a #GetCovered tour through three of the city’s five boroughs, share their personal healthcare stories and spike enrollment in New York City by the March 31st deadline. The one-day tour travelled to Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx. Public figures […]

Al Sharpton’s National Action Network organization will host its annual convention April 9-12 in New York City. It’s slated to be big with tons of panels and President Obama delivering the convention’s keynote speech on the last day. But we can’t help but wonder: with all the conventions put on by civil rights organizations every year, are […]

The Obama administration reported last week that 5 million people had signed up for the Affordable Care Act’s exchange plans — still short of their 6 million goal. With just a few days before the March 31 deadline to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s healthcare exchange, NewsOne hit the streets of New York City to ask […]

The death toll has risen to seven in Wednesday’s gas explosion that rocked a New York City neighborhood. One of the victims – who lived above the church where the explosion originated – was tragically on a rare day off from work. Three of the seven victims killed in the explosion have been identified: Rosaura Hernandez-Barrios, 22, Carmen […]

Jeremiah Huger Case Type: Endangered Date of Birth: December 10, 1980 Missing Date: June 25, 1985 Age Now: 33 Missing City: Bronx Missing State: New York Case Number: NCMEC: 601769 Gender: Male Race: Black Complexion: Light Height: 3’6″ Weight: 45 lbs. Hair Color: Black Hair Length: Medium Eye Color: Brown Wear Glasses or Contacts: No […]

The release of the Nike Air Jordan Gamma Blue 11 sneakers (pictured) this weekend caused fights in shoe stores nationwide, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Duck, Duck, Tongue In A Noose In one Instagram video clip, multiple customers exchange blows at a store in Weberstown Mall in California. One shirtless individual is […]