A pre-teen is being hailed as a brave young lady after calling 911 to help nab two robbers who invaded her home Saturday, NewsChannel 9 reports. When Breasia Morrow, 12, and Azariah Morrow, 11, of Chattanooga, Tenn., realized that two men were inside of their home, they took cover in their bedroom closet. Bresia called 911. […]
Dr. Velma Scantlebury Why she is a local hero: Scantlebury is working to increase the number of minorities who are organ donors and to bring more minorities into the field of organ transplant surgery. RELATED: CEO Focuses Agenda On American Inequality The story is simultaneously sad and hilariously funny. Scantlebury, the first Black woman to […]
Portrait artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh was tired of the catcalling she witnessed constantly. SEE ALSO: FSU Student Accused Of Slurring Black Students On Vine So rather than sit back and accept street harassment as a daily way of life, the Brooklyn, N.Y., resident created a street art project called, “Stop Telling Women To Smile” or (STWTS). […]
Modern day heroine Antoinette Tuff (pictured), the fearless woman who calmed an armed 20-year-old gunman inside the main office of her Atlanta-area elementary school, received a call from President Barack Obama on Thursday evening thanking her for her courage. SEE ALSO:Â Antoinette Tuff: Meet The Bookkeeper Who Stopped Ga. School Shooter Obama referred to Hill […]
What happens when you go to all your favorite fast food restaurants, camera in tow and record and post reviews of everything from Dunkin Donuts’…
Many Newsone readers may remember Desmond Hatchett, 33, the man who had 21 children with 11 different women. Well, he’s back in the news; this time he’s begging for help with child-support for his now 30 children! Huffington Post reports: Desmond Hatchett has fathered 30 children — which is believed to be the record in […]
Calling out author Sophia A. Nelson, Roland Martin and Pastor Jamal Bryant, who in an exclusive for Newsone said that he felt “jilted” by President Barack Obama‘s decision to show his support for marriage equality, Professor Michael Eric Dyson, filling in for host Ed Shultz on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” said that religion often cloaks […]
Rev. Addie Wyatt, the first black female international vice president of a major American labor union, died Wednesday in a Chicago hospital. She was 88. SEE ALSO: Here’s What To Do If You Win Mega Millions The trailblazing Wyatt, who died of undisclosed illness two days after being admitted to Advocate Trinity Hospital, spent her […]
Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson delivered a rousing speech this week before fellow members of Congress in which she pleaded that her colleagues “stand up for justice” in the wake of the recent shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. RELATED: Check Out Our Full Trayvon Martin Coverage Martin, 17, was shot and killed in […]
Roland Martin and David Frum join Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room to discuss Gov. Rick Perry’s call to prayer and fasting to fix the problems that government can not fix.
NEW YORK — Video has been released of the fight between high school football star, Isayah Muller, his father, and the parking lot attendants they suspected of stealing expensive cologne from their car. In the video, the father Andre Muller, can be seen punching the parking lot attendant and attacking them with a bicycle and […]
