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Jason Collins, according to Newsday, woke up just after 8 a.m. on Sunday to find he had missed a bunch of phone calls, texts and emails from important people trying to get in touch with him, including his agent and Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd. As you know by now, the Brooklyn team was looking […]

It’s an unprecedented mass ceremony at the White House that will correct decades of racial prejudice. President Barack Obama, perhaps pondering his legacy as America’s first black president, will award the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans who were systematically overlooked because of their racial and ethnic backgrounds. It’s a gutsy decision by the […]

Bryan Fischer will say anything to legitimize his beliefs that gay people are cooties-having hedonists destined for a life of hell. Their greatest crime? Not…

It’s unbelievably easy to stalk just about anyone with all the technology and social media available. But even before the digital age, stalking was alive…

 A mistrial for Michael Dunn was declared on the first-degree charge in the death of Jordan Davis after being found guilty of four other charges. Although we are in…

If Kevin Hart’s character from the new movie “About Last Night” would have used phone technology to help him get more uh…”dates” he would have most likely used the very popular Tinder app.   And let’s just say if your mate has the app on his or her phone, exclusivity isn’t high on his or her […]

For iPhone users: First I want to start by praising Jordan Davis’ mother and father for the dignity they’ve displayed throughout this entire ordeal. The fact they are still standing in the face of an overwhelming tragedy is nothing short of a miracle. Davis’ mom Lucia McBath made this remark after the Dunn verdict came […]

All week-long on traditional and social media, in the break rooms at work, on the bus and on the train people will be analyzing the Michael Dunn verdict in the Jordan Davis murder.  CNN  even interviewed George Zimmerman. I don’t want to hear anything from George Zimmerman. In fact, I don’t want to hear anything […]

A friend from Chicago, a black female physician, had a sobering conversation with her three school-age sons days before a Florida jury failed to convict Michael Dunn of the premeditated murder of Jordan Davis, a black teenager, in a dispute over loud music. “I presented the concept of “Strange Fruit” to them through poetry, music […]

It wasn’t enough that party promoters thought using Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s likeness wearing gold chains to advertise a party was cool or that Russell Simmons thought making fun of Harriet Tubman was funny or  that Li’l Wayne thought that comparing rough sex to Emmit Till’s death was okay. Now rapstress Nicki Minaj has gone and […]

For Black History Month, NewsOne honors GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME CHANGERS…

This week, the Senate, or more specifically, Senate Republicans, had two opportunities to show that their wing of the legislative body had a heart as…