An 11-year-old Ohio girl (pictured) allegedly beat a two-month old baby to death last Friday, 19 Action News reports. SEE ALSO: Decoding President Obama’s Budget: It All Comes Down To The Numbers The girl’s mother had been babysitting infant Zuri Whitehead at her Wickliffe home when she fell asleep. Taking advantage, the 11-year-old took the […]
Aaron McNamara (pictured), a Fairview Park, Ohio, police department auxiliary, resigned from his post after he was accused of posting incendiary posts on his social media sites, oftentimes referring to Blacks as “jungle monkey” and “spooks,” according to ABC 5 News. SEE ALSO: Whoopi Goldberg And Rosie O’Donnell Engage In On-Air Screamfest Over Racism The 20-year-old […]
Cleveland Police shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice within seconds of encountering him. Rice was brandishing a toy gun. Surveillance video acquired from a youth center across the street from where the deadly encounter took place captured the tragic incident which left another young African American male dead. On Monday, Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” panel (featuring […]
Michael Wright, Crawford family attorney, joined Roland Martin Tuesday on “NewsOne Now” to describe the surveillance video of the John Crawford police shooting. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has called for a special grand jury in the murder of Crawford who was shot by police officers in an Ohio Walmart holding a BB rifle. Listen to their entire conversation below. Be sure […]
Kayelisa Martin (pictured) reportedly committed suicide by walking in front of a semi-trailer truck on the very same day she learned that her 14-month-old son, Omoyele Gonzalez (pictured), mysteriously passed away at their home, reports Georgia Newsday. SEE ALSO: Todd Bridges Slammed For Calling Robin Williams’ Suicide ‘Selfish’ According to Canton, Ohio, police, the little […]
Roy Davis (pictured), a 34-year-old double amputee, managed to beat down, then sit on, an intruder until police arrived, after the stranger broke in to the Dayton, Ohio, home he shares with his wife Kanisha Marbury, accosted her, reports WHIO. SEE ALSO: Video: If Black People Said the Stuff White People Say On Saturday night, Davis […]
About 14 million US companies owned by women and minorities represent half of the country’s businesses. Yet, they only account for 6 percent of the total revenue generated by businesses in the US. Rod Robinson is trying to change this. As CEO and founder of ConnXus, the Ohio-based company is bridging the gap between small […]
Irea Nall (pictured) was arrested and charged with assault, inciting a panic, and aggravated trespassing when she reportedly forced her way in to Ohio’s Groveport Madison Middle School cafeteria and struck a child who she thought was her daughter’s tormentor, according to The Columbus Dispatch. SEE ALSO: School Bus Driver Mocks Crying Child And Makes Students […]
The saying is, “As goes Ohio, so goes the election.” The Buckeye State has proven to be a critical swing state in recent elections. Now, Ohio is one of many states with major activity around the issue of voter ID laws. There is currently a petition in the state to create a “Voters Bill of Rights” […]
Myasia (pictured), a 13-year-old girl, was ordered by her aunt and guardian to stand outside in the Akron, Ohio, bitter cold and hold a sign that criticized the fact that she failed to walk away from a school fight that ended in a three-day suspension, reports WKYC. SEE ALSO: White Girlfriend Enters Black Barbershop, This […]
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 […]
