NEW YORK — Community members in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood are gathering to mark the 20th anniversary of race riots there. The riots tore through the neighborhood in 1991, stoked by tensions between the Jewish and black communities living side-by-side. The rioting began Aug. 19 of that year after a 7-year-old black boy, Gavin Cato, […]
Jet magazine is undergoing a makeover. Johnson Publishing Co., the publisher of Jet and Ebony magazine, recently announced that Jet magazine will begin adding opinion and perspective pieces to the magazine. In addition to opinion pieces, Johnson also plans a cover-to-cover redesign of the magazine in the future. While Jet’s presence is less dominant in […]
Every time I turn on the television and see Michele Bachmann I cringe. Not that the alternative candidates are much better. From Texas’ Governor Perry who eerily reminds us of a George W. Bush, to a candidate like Mitt Romney that thinks corporations ‘are people too.’ Those in the run to challenge President Obama are […]
SAN DIEGO — Federal officials said Thursday they’ve busted a drug trafficking ring involving Mexico’s most powerful cartel and members of an Iraqi immigrant community in the U.S. who were caught selling illegal drugs, assault rifles, grenades and homemade explosives. About 60 people from the Iraqi community were arrested after a six-month investigation carried out […]
Roland Martin and Terry Holt join Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room to discuss Rep. Maxine Waters’ comments about African-American lawmakers frustrations with President Obama. Many Black leaders seem to be afraid to criticize POTUS in fear of voter backlash.
Nivea has apologized for an advertisement they placed in Esquire that featured a clean cut African American male throwing a mask of a face with an Afro and beard with the title “Look Like You Give a Damn. Re-civilize Yourself.” People quickly turned to social networking and Twitter to voice displeasure over the ad. “The […]
The city of Detroit is offering about 200 free and reduced price homes to police officers living outside the city limits in attempt to revitalize the city. Detroit is seeing a housing crisis that was sparked by a huge decline in the population. The city’s population decreased 25% in the past decade, according to Census […]
More than 3,000 people showed up for the Congressional Black Caucus’ “For the People” Jobs Initiative at Atlanta Technical College Thursday. The “For the People” Jobs Initiative is a five-city tour, and launched in Cleveland, Ohio August 8th. According to TheGrio.com, the Atlanta job fair featured help finding work with the federal government, GI Bill […]
The trial of a man charged with planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King parade in Spokane Wash. has been moved due to the unveiling of the new MLK memorial in Washington D.C. Kevin Harpham was originally set to face the court Aug. 22, but a federal judge insisted on moving the trial date […]
A NewsOne Exclusive Spelman College’s endowment fund was reportedly worth more than $350 million in 2010, making it the largest private endowment of all historically black colleges and universities, and second only to Howard University in largest overall endowment. Though Spelman’s endowment is only a fraction of those at predominantly white universities like Harvard, whose […]