Over the last few weeks American Muslims have been in the news a lot. It started with controversy over the TV show All American Muslim. Then it continued after Muslims boycotted Lowe’s hardware stores for pulling ads during the show due to outside pressure. Not long after Muslim community leaders in New York boycotted Mayor Bloomberg’s […]
WASHINGTON — Inserting his voice into a big night for Republicans, President Barack Obama was appealing to Iowa Democrats during the first balloting in the GOP presidential campaign, seeking to counter months of withering criticism in the state that launched his presidential ambitions four years ago. SEE ALSO: Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work Obama […]
NEW YORK-Robert L. Carter, a federal judge who helped form the case against segregation in the historic Brown Vs. Board Of Education Supreme Court trial has died at age 94 after complications from a stroke. Carter was part of Thurgood Marshall’s NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a lawyer and helped win the historic […]
DES MOINES, Iowa– Don’t expect Herman Cain to endorse any of the Republican presidential candidates before Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses. SEE ALSO: Breakups Of 2011 Cain’s campaign manager, Mark Block, tells The Associated Press that Cain hasn’t seen in any of the GOP candidates the commitment and resolve to make bold changes to put the country […]
A video has been circulating of police officers in Utica, New York allegedly planting evidence in an African American couple’s car. Utica police have denied that police were planting evidence in the car and claim that another part of the video shows the officer taking a bag from the man. WKTV reports: “Obviously it’s a […]
DES MOINES – The Democrats in Iowa are having a caucus on Tuesday night, but of course President Obama is unopposed. In the hotly-contested GOP race, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the favorite, but former senator Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul are close in most polls. SEE ALSO: Santorum Will Win Iowa: Here’s […]
Each year, new laws impact every aspect of our lives. Of the more than 200 new laws that went into effect January 1, NewsOne spotlights the more controversial, questionable and bizarre legislation of 2012. SEE ALSO: Where Are The Good Roles For Black Actresses? California If you are a teacher in California, you will now […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold. SEE ALSO: LA Arson Suspect Harry Burkhart: “I Hate America” A circuit judge ruled last month that […]
SEATTLE-Jim Hardie, a white Iraq veteran brawled with several African American bus patrons after he became fed up with their use of the n-word and the b-word and confronted them on it. After Hardie expressed his disapproval of their language, the passengers attacked Hardie and he was successful in fighting the three assailants off the […]
Karen Freeman-Wilson, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former Indiana Attorney General, has the resume to lead any of America’s largest cits. SEE ALSO: Why Black Women Are The New Face Of The Weight Loss Industry Instead, she is mayor of Gary, Indiana, a Rust Belt city whose claim to fame is that it is the hometown […]