Tag: Newsletter

Here’s Every Black U.S. Senator In American History

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Circa 1870, from left: Sen. Hiram Revels of Mississippi with some of the first Black members of Congress, Benjamin Turner, Robert De Large, Josiah Walls, Jefferson Long, Joseph Rainey and Robert Brown Elliot. | Source: MPI / Getty UPDATED: 3:30 p.m. ET, Oct. 3, 2023 Black history was made on Tuesday […]

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Urban One Celebrates 43rd Anniversary Of Cathy Hughes Founding Media Empire

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Urban One As the saying goes, Rome wasn’t built overnight, and the same holds resoundingly true for Urban One, Inc. But it’s taken a considerably less amount of time for Cathy Hughes to build what first started as Radio One into the formidable multimedia empire that it has become today than […]

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Edward Blum Uses Civil Rights Act To Block Grant Program For Black Women Owners

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty On Sept. 30, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta issued a 2-1 vote to temporarily block the Fearless Fund from granting women of color-led business critical venture capital (VC) funding, the Associated Press reported.    The appeal was granted after anti-affirmative action leader Edward […]

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Violent White Folks Who Were Taken Into Custody With Loving Care By Police

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, Sept. 25, 2023 Originally published: June 18, 2019 It’s tough to reconcile the way the application of certain law enforcement tactics appears to fall along racial lines depending on who the suspect is. In America, when a white man goes on a murderous killing spree, he often […]

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Current Climate: Business Leaders Highlight Innovations At Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Alan Ohnsman moderated a panel on the hydrogen revolution. Jamel Toppin for Forbes This past week, Forbes hosted its second Sustainability Leaders Summit, which brought together business leaders, […]

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The Tuskegee Airmen National Museum Teaches Young Black Teens How To Fly

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Afro Newspaper/Gado / Getty The Tuskegee Airmen National Museum is teaching the next generation of Black pilots to fly high. Over three decades ago, the museum launched its popular Flight Academy program which is designed for youth between the ages of 14 to 19. The program–which is free–gives students hands-on experience […]

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Current Climate: Driving The ‘Loneliest Road In America’ In An Electric Car

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. AFP via Getty Images Electric vehicles are fun and fast to drive and have the added benefit of no tailpipe exhaust or carbon pollution. But driving them cross […]

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Never Forget: Anti-Apartheid Icon Steve Biko Was Murdered By South African Police On This Day In 1977

NewsOne Featured Video This 1977 photo shows Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko. | Source: – / Getty UPDATED: 10:45 a.m. ET, Sept. 12, 2023 Originally published: Jan. 28, 2013 Legendary anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died on Sept. 12, 1977, as a political prisoner who was murdered by the police in South Africa because he […]

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Current Climate: Electric Vehicle Sales Keep Going Up

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images If it feels like you’re seeing more and more electric cars on the road, you’re not wrong. According to a report from the Energy Information Administration, […]

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Trump’s Border Wall Caused Damage To Sacred Native American Burial Grounds, Report Finds

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Scott Eisen / Getty A government watchdog’s 72-page document claims that Donald Trump’s wall, constructed along the U.S. border, caused “significant damage and destruction” to the environment. The damage also impacted Native American tribal sites surrounding the area. According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the […]

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A Journey Of Ls: Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Big Lie’ Consequences For Defending Trump Keep Mounting

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Spencer Platt / Getty UPDATED: 11 a.m. ET, Sept. 8, 2023 Originally published April 28, 2021 The consequences of showing blind loyalty to former President Donald Trump continue to reveal themselves in the most amazing of ways. That is particularly true for Rudy Giuliani, who is still pretending like Trump […]

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‘N*ggers’ Do Not Belong Here’: Drunk Berkeley Cop Aims Gun At Unarmed Black Man Visiting A Friend, Lawsuit Says

NewsOne Featured Video Source: jroballo / Getty A Berkeley police officer has been slammed with a lawsuit for racial profiling and assault. According to court documents obtained by Berkeleyside, Brian Lindhurst Jr. is reportedly suing Sgt. David Marble, an officer who allegedly attacked him and yelled racial slurs after he left a friend’s house in […]

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HBCU Reverses COVID-19 Mask Mandate After Off-Campus Backlash

NewsOne Featured Video Source: halbergman / Getty UPDATED: 2:00 p.m. ET, Sept 7, 2023 Morris Brown College has rescinded its temporary mandate requiring students and faculty to wear masks while on campus.  The small Atlanta HBCU received some pushback after it decided to reinstate the mask mandate last month after a rise in positive COVID  cases […]

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Exonerated! Wrongly Convicted Black Folks Whose Names Have Been Cleared

UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, Sept 6, 2023 It’s a tragic story told time and time again: Black people who were convicted of crimes they never actually committed. But have you heard the one about the Black man exonerated for his crimes? Rarely.  Thankfully, in recent years more wrongly convicted Black men and Black women have […]

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Carlee Russell’s Ex Speaks On Fight That Led To Fake Abduction, ‘Nothing To Kidnap Yourself Over’

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Hoover Police Department / Hoover Police Department Carlee Russell’s ex-boyfriend is still uncertain about the motive behind her kidnapping hoax. On Sept.1, Thomar Latrell Simmons aired out his frustrations about the bizarre case on the 205 Boyz podcast, a YouTube show that he hosts with his close friend, Marcus Goody.  Simmons […]

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