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A dance group, Dancing for Action (DFA), held a flashmob outside Senator Chuck Schumer’s Midtown office Wednesday, demanding an end to “Stand Your Ground” laws.…
Thanks to rapper Common spreading the word and the ‘Teach For America’ foundation campaigning on his behalf, 19-year-old James Ward, who has been homeless for the past four years, will be going off to college at Howard University this Fall with over $12,000 raised for his tuition through PayPal donations from strangers. James, his mother, and his […]
UPDATE: The “HarrietTubmanSexTape” video has been removed, but NewsOne has an MP4 of it. We will upload our copy as soon as possible. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The…
As Charles Pierce noted, now that Michelle Bachmann has left Congress to take her crazy show on the road and earn a real coin for…
President Abraham Lincoln‘s (pictured left) historic issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862 began the long and arduous process of undoing the horrors of…
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…
The Brownsville Raid of 1906, also known as the “Brownsville Affair,” in Texas resulted in the largest U.S. Army dismissal in the history of the…
Sandra Coke Case Type: Endangered Date of Birth: January 1, 1963 Missing Date: August 4, 2013 Age Now: 50 Missing City: Oakland Missing State: Calif.…
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) announced his “Smart on Crime” initiative, calling for major changes to drug sentencing, the release of elderly prisoners,…
Calling youth involvement critical for any meaningful social change, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli (pictured center) became the latest celebrity to join the Dream Defenders, a…
Sean Hannity’s expressed hurt feelings over comments Oprah Winfrey made about the George Zimmerman trial and Trayvon Martin. The quote that got Sean’s conservative undies…
The incomparable Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 9, 1963 and she died on February 11, 2012.