NewsOne Featured Video John Lee, Republican candidate for Nevada’s 4th Congressional district, speaks to Republicans gathered for the Freedom Rally and Candidate Roundup at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., on Thursday, May 23, 2024. | Source: Bill Clark / Getty A Republican candidate for Congress in Nevada offered a stark reminder of how […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Adhering to a Mediterranean diet may help improve cognitive enhancement and memory function in Black individuals, addressing a significant health issue that disproportionately affects the community. The REGARDS study published Sept. 18, funded by the National Institutes of Health, investigated the reasons behind higher stroke rates and cognitive decline in Southern and […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty For months now (and that’s being generous), Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding undocumented migrants in America has become increasingly more demeaning, outrageous, xenophobic and flat-out bigoted. After his anti-immigrant racism backfired on him last week during the presidential debate, when he parroted false rumors spread by his […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Rapper Rich Homie Quan pictured at State Farm Arena on April 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Paras Griffin / Getty UPDATED: 5:00 p.m. ET, Sept. 5 Rapper Rich Homie Quan’s unexpected death has been unofficially attributed to a drug overdose, with reports on social media claiming the 34-year-old succumbed […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: HOSSEIN FATEMI / Getty Black Americans remain the most frequent victims of racially motivated hate crimes in the U.S. A 2023 study published by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino found that Black people were targeted in over 20% of hate crimes […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Lorado / Getty UPDATED: Aug. 26, 2024 The relationship between Black people and dogs is a multifaceted one, deeply rooted in history and shaped by a complex combination of cultural, social, and systemic factors. While dogs have been beloved companions in many Black households across the world, it’s important to remember […]
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Three victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, whose remains were exhumed along with those of eight others, were found to have gunshot wounds, investigators announced on Friday, in the latest findings from research about one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. G.T. Bynum, the mayor of Tulsa, Okla., announced in 2018 that […]
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For some women, getting a Pap smear is hell. Since her early twenties, Kevinn Poree has suffered from chronic vaginal pain — pain that led her to scream in agony the first time a gynecologist tried to insert a speculum. “I completely lost it,” Ms. Poree, 38, said. After the speculum was removed, she started […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty In his upcoming memoir, Fred Trump, nephew of former President Donald Trump, recalls that his uncle used racial slurs at the beginning of his billion-dollar New York real estate career. Fred wrote that Donald Trump, now 78 years old, angrily used the N-word while falsely accusing Black […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Secret service agents cover former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump at Butler Farm Show Inc. on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty As an interpreter of American life, I’ve learned that there are watershed moments from the past […]
Read MoreAs President Biden watches his support among some key Democrats in Congress quietly crumble, one group has emerged as a vocal base of support on Capitol Hill: Black lawmakers, particularly older ones. While most elected Democrats have avoided publicly weighing in on Mr. Biden’s fate and many have privately expressed skepticism that he can remain […]
Read MoreNewsOne Featured Video Source: YUKI IWAMURA / Getty Americans all over the country are facing record-breaking heat waves at the start of the summer, drawing attention to the disparities among heat-related deaths when it comes to Black people. On Sunday, an excessive heat warning was issued by the National Weather Service for locations in the […]
Read MoreWhen Representative Emilia Sykes arrived at the regional airport in Akron on a recent Thursday morning to meet with dozens of local elected officials, she was the only Black person in the room. It wouldn’t be long before two others took seats in the audience, but it soon became clear that they were both related […]
Read MoreJeanette Batchelor-Young had been tracing her roots for years when she received a message that would change what she knew about her origin story. There were still so many blanks in her family history: Mrs. Batchelor-Young had lived with her father briefly until his death and then she was adopted. She knew the name of […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: CIA / CIA.gov George Hocker’s remarkable journey as a Black spy, amid the tumultuous civil rights era, remained largely untold until recently. In an exclusive interview with the CIA and NBC News, the 84-year-old recounted his daring exploits serving in the nation’s clandestine service, where he undertook high-stakes missions across the […]
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Patriotism did not bring my grandfather to the Army recruiter’s office in 1956. Poverty did. A youth spent picking cotton and working odd jobs to help feed his family meant that he was a good way from graduating from high school as his 18th birthday approached. He wanted a better life for himself and saw […]
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Shay Youngblood, a novelist and playwright whose works about her upbringing by a churchgoing cohort of “Big Mamas” and her adventures in Paris as a young aspiring writer inspired a generation of young Black women, died on June 11 at the home of a friend, Kelley Alexander, in Peachtree City, Ga. She was 64. Ms. […]
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After South Africa’s president announced the largest cabinet in the nation’s democratic history on Sunday, some critics were questioning whether the attempt to pacify diverse political interests would complicate efforts to tackle the country’s myriad economic and social problems. President Cyril Ramaphosa had for years promised to shrink the size of government — partly because […]
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Eddie Murphy has been so famous for so long, occupying such a lofty place in the cultural landscape, that it can be easy to overlook just how game-changing a figure he actually is. Let’s start, as Murphy’s career did, with standup. There had been star comics before — Steve Martin, Richard Pryor — but none […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Patrick Lane / Getty Handshakes have long served as symbols of greeting, agreement, and camaraderie across cultures. However, within certain communities, particularly in African American culture, a unique handshake known as the “dap” has emerged as more than just a greeting—it’s a gesture rich in history and meaning. In honor of […]
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Like many Americans who watched the presidential debate on Thursday night, I knew when it was over that there was no way I was going to sleep. So I did something I almost never do: tuned in to the pundit commentary on cable news. I’m glad I did. Not long after the debate, Vice President […]
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Ever since Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s reign, beginning in the late 1930s, Abyssinian Baptist has been one of the most influential Black churchs in the country, a force in the political life of New York and an economic and social engine in Harlem, where it has stood for a century. When the Rev. Calvin O. […]
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The raised right arm of a 7-foot-tall Black automaton in a somber Victorian dress came swinging down toward an approaching visitor, who had unknowingly triggered a motion sensor. “Oh, watch your head!” the artist Kara Walker called out. She was standing just outside the wingspan of her creation, called Fortuna, as it sputtered to life […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Corey Mayes at his New York home on Feb. 10, 2023, after receiving a kidney transplant. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three […]
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Brazil decriminalized marijuana for personal use on Wednesday, making the nation of 203 million the largest to take such a measure and the latest sign of a growing global acceptance of the drug. Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that Brazilians could possess up to 40 grams of cannabis — roughly enough for 80 joints — without […]
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Nearly four years after Patrick Braxton won the mayoral election for the small town of Newbern, Ala., in November 2020, he could soon get to serve his first term. Mr. Braxton said in a lawsuit that, after he won the election, he never received access to manage the town’s finances, was barred from opening the […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: facebook / facebook A family is seeking answers after a Black Chicago woman disappeared in the Bahamas during a yoga retreat. According to AP, Taylor Casey, 41, went missing on June 19 while attending the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island, Bahamas, which was confirmed by her family in a […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: zamrznutitonovi / Getty Language is a dynamic reflection of culture, yet it often falls prey to stereotypes and misconceptions. One prevalent stereotype centers around the concept of “talking Black,” a term that oversimplifies and generalizes the linguistic diversity within Black communities. It is vital to understand that there is no monolithic […]
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The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it had approved the first menthol-flavored e-cigarettes in the United States, less than two months after the Biden administration delayed a fiercely contested decision on whether to ban traditional menthol cigarettes. The F.D.A. said it had authorized four types of menthol-flavored e-cigarettes made by NJOY, part […]
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Nathan Hare, a sociologist who helped lead a five-month strike by faculty and students at what is now San Francisco State University, resulting in an agreement in 1969 to create the country’s first program in Black studies, with him as its director, died at a hospital in San Francisco on June 10. He was 91. […]
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On June 4, the Missouri Supreme Court set a September execution date for a man named Marcellus Williams. There’s a profound problem with this ruling, however. Williams is most likely innocent of the charges against him. The story — like every story about capital punishment — begins with tragedy and evil. On Aug. 11, 1998, […]
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