An anti-lynching bill stalled in the Senate last year after Sen. Rand Paul singlehandedly kept it from passing into law. “The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights organization named after late activist great Julian Bond. But she told The Washington Post in…
Whitney Houston performs in Las Vegas for the 2004 World Music Awards. | Source: Kevin Winter / Getty UPDATED: 10:00 a.m. ET, Aug. 9, 2021 NewsOne remembers Whitney Houston on Monday, Aug. 9, on what would have been the superstar with the mellifluous voice’s 58th birthday. And now that Whitney has gone to glory, here…
A video from Erykah Badu’s Instagram Story showed her on the dance floor with the Obamas before it was removed. Pictures from the star-studded birthday bash for former President Barack Obama are slowly leaking online, revealing what A-listers attended the private event on Martha’s Vineyard. The guest list for the ex-president’s 60th birthday party was…
Mental health emerged as the theme of professional sports over the past few months leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Tennis champion Naomi Osaka was openly criticized after the 23-year-old announced she would not be doing press interviews and ultimately withdrawing from the French Open, citing her mental health. Then, in a move that stunned…
In an incident caught on video last fall, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has announced that a grand jury will investigate the shooting of a motorist by Bloomfield, New Jersey, police. The probe comes after several investigations cast doubt on what took place last November when officers stopped Jeffrey Sutton on a felony traffic stop….
Source: Michael S. Schwartz / Getty It’s been a little over a month since news broke of Alexi McCammond rejoining Axios as a national political reporter. And she is making the most of her second act as a political journalist covering the progressive movement and, more broadly, the 2022 midterm election. An internal memo obtained…
Lewis Bronson of the Miami Marlins. | Source: Mark Brown / Getty If a shameless example of anti-Black racism displayed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game on Sunday was any indication, the sport’s decision-makers may want to revisit its new plan to attract more Black players. The incident during the game between the Miami…
‘You Got Away With it Stop Screaming You Guilty’: O.J. Simpson Says the Possibility of a Chance Encounter With His Ex-Wife Nicole Brown Simpson’s Killer Is Enough to Keep Him Out of L.A., Social Media Reacts O.J. Simpson insists he is not a murderer, and he will likely continue to reiterate the fact every chance…
R. Kelly appears during a hearing in Chicago criminal court on Sep. 17, 2019. | Source: Pool / Getty UPDATED: 6:30 a.m., Aug. 9, 2021 Disgraced singer R. Kelly‘s trial for sex trafficking begins Monday in New York City, where he is facing charges of racketeering for allegedly kidnapping and exploiting underage girls and women…
Shapiro accused Nance of “succeeding” within the very system of meritocracy he claimed was racist Author and national security expert Malcolm Nance traded jabs with conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro on the topic of critical race theory during a segment of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday. Maher prompted the clash during an…
