Amid last week’s 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently expressed a potent critique of the ruling that ended racial segregation in schools, resulting in many critics denouncing him on social media. Thomas, the Black conservative who currently is the longest-serving justice…

Source: Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Black Girls Rock! returns to television this year through a broadcast partnership with Lifetime. The beloved awards show makes a triumphant return with Academy award-nominee Danielle Brooks hosting and countless tributes honoring award-winning talent like Tracee Ellis Ross, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Stephanie Mills. Read more about the upcoming celebration inside….

A California man faces life in prison after a jury found him guilty in the brutal slaying of his Black girlfriend, whose dismembered body was found last summer inside a trash bag near the shores of San Francisco Bay. Joseph Roberts, 43, was convicted of second-degree murder in the July 2023 death of 27-year-old Rachel…

Kevin Hart is not getting the last laugh following his antics-filled appearance on Twitch star Kai Cenat’s livestream. The gamer has had a host of well-known celebrities join him for extended stream sessions, with Hart being the latest to dwell in his gaming room on May 23. As to be expected, the comedian was the…

Source: iOne Digital Creative Services In a discussion about the partnership between NewsOne and the Dream Defenders which launches today, Marjua Estevez, the organization’s public relations manager and a seasoned journalist whose op-ed appears below, brought up mainstream media’s guise of neutrality. Of course, we who have worked in media for any length of time…

Source: iOne Digital Creative Services I arrived at Dream Defenders exactly 12 years after Trayvon Martin was murdered. On a quest to redefine my role as a writer in times of turmoil, I sat during my interview process feeling I was such a far cry from the days I felt hope by speaking truth-to-power as…

A veteran teacher at a Texas middle school has been fired after students accused her of using a racial slur in front of a class full of sixth graders, according to officials. The now-former teacher, who taught math at Bradley Middle School in San Antonio for the past 18 years, was previously identified by parents…

It appears as though Gayle King has more tenacity than ever after flaunting her assets on the cover of Sports Illustrated. The veteran broadcast journalist is still reeling from the fanfare over her swimsuit photos, so much so that even while dressed in her professional, buttoned-up attire, she can’t seem to closet her newfound fierce…

Source: Bettmann / Getty “Just because a record has a groove / Don’t make it in the groove.” ~ Stevie Wonder Turn on some music right now – almost any made by Black Americans after about 1930. Odds are the nuances that make it so appealing are using compositional and orchestral practices first conceived and…

Any murder of an innocent teen is tragic enough, but some cases surpass our nightmares and fall into the realm of the truly strange.  When LaTania “Janell” Carwell went missing with her stepfather in the early morning hours of her “sweet 16” birthday — on April 17, 2017 — an entire Georgia community turned into…