This image shows Black naval battalion sailors unloading aerial bombs from a railcar, circa 1943-44, in Port Chicago, California. The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated…
Source: Bilal Morris / iOne Digital During the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the NewsOne team decided to switch it up, leave the convention floor behind and talk with some Black voters about the important issues facing the community. If you want to get a sense of the pulse of a…
Police have arrested a woman and are preparing to file charges against her daughter for attacking a Sam’s Club worker in Georgia because they couldn’t order pizza. Cellphone video showed a fight after it broke out between multiple women at the warehouse store on Jonesboro Road in the Atlanta suburb of Henry County. The employee…
Sean Patrick Grayson. | Source: Sangamon County Jail The Illinois police officer who shot and killed a Black woman in her own home after she called 911 to report a suspected break-in has been charged with charged with murder more than two weeks after he fired the fatal shots. Now-former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean…
Gary Owen has been under fire since reports confirmed he was welcoming twins with his now fiancée a year after finalizing his divorce from Kenya Duke. Owen and his ex-wife were together for 23 years and married for 17 and had three children. Duke has claimed that her ex’s current lady and mother of his…
Source: Urban One Podcast Network The Dear Future Wifey podcast, a renowned love and relationships platform boasting over half a million YouTube subscribers, has now found its home on the Urban One Podcast Network. Hosted by Laterras R. Whitfield, this podcast delves deep into the complexities of love, relationships, and personal growth, catering to…
Naomi Campbell’s history of flying off the handle is up for debate nearly two decades after she was involved in a chaotic exchange on a flight. A resurfaced 1998 clip of the fashion icon tussling with two passengers is circulating, leaving social media users divided on whether or not her actions were justified. Video footage…
Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Violent crime in America has virtually done nothing but decline since the early 1990s, and crime analysts report that U.S. crime, in general, is currently at a 50-year low. But Republicans continue to ignore the explicitly clear databases of the FBI and local law enforcement agencies —the same databases where…
Source: Victoria McGraw ( @victoriasaidit ) / Radio One Digital Irv Gotti, co-founder of record label, Murder Inc., and a prominent music producer, faces allegations of sexual assault and abuse, as detailed in a lawsuit filed in Miami on July 11 and reported by People. The lawsuit, brought by an unidentified woman referred to as…
A Black man who was just a teen when a white woman in her 60s spit on him during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 is not happy with the settlement amount in the civil case concerning the matter. Now 22, the victim was formerly known as Eric Lucas III. He legally changed his…
