NewsOne Featured Video Source: Marc Elias / Getty Making yourself more beautiful can result in tangible, material rewards. Pretty privilege, as it is called, can lead to greater access to money and social capital, resulting in a better quality of life. In Brazil, this understanding that beauty is important to one’s social status and mental […]
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What The Supreme Court Racial Gerrymandering Decision Means For Black Voters In Alabama
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Bill Clark / Getty In a surprising ruling on June 8, 2023, the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that a lower court had ruled discriminated against Black voters and violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At issue in the case that […]
Read MoreTrump Twice Indicted: Which Gets Priority, The Federal Or State Case?
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty A federal grand jury in Florida indicted former President Donald Trump on June 8, 2023, on multiple criminal charges related to classified documents he took from the White House to his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, according to multiple sources cited in The New York Times and The […]
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Op-Ed: CNN CEO Chris Licht Ousted After Appearing To Be A Mediocre White Man Failing Up
NewsOne Featured Video Chris Licht, now-former Chairman and CEO, CNN Worldwide, speaks onstage during the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront 2023 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on May 17, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Right-wing America talks about DEI as if it stands for “Death to European Interlopers” […]
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Why Tim Scott’s Appearance On ‘The View’ Was Such An Unimpressive Display Of Tap Dancing
NewsOne Featured Video Republican presidential candidate Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks to guests during a town hall meeting at Barley’s Bar and Grill on June 2, 2023, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. | Source: Scott Olson / Getty I‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again: South Carolina senator and Republican great wannabe white hype […]
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Why New Laws Can’t Actually Stop Schools From Teaching About Racism Fairly, Accurately And Truthfully
NewsOne Featured Video Source: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty When it comes to America’s latest “history war,” one of the biggest consequences is that it has made many K-12 educators scared and confused about what they can and can’t say in their classrooms. Since 2021, at least 28 states have […]
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Alabama Redistricting Case: We Must Be Clear-Eyed About Where We Are And Where We Go From Here
NewsOne Featured Video Source: brichuas / Getty In a democracy, all people should be able to vote and have their votes counted. That maintains the social fabric of the nation and ensures that voters have hope and confidence in the electoral system. That means that fair elections and a fair electoral process are central to […]
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GoFundMe, GiveSendGo And The White Privilege Of Raising Funds Online
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty A former United States Marine was recently charged with second-degree manslaughter for fatally choking a 30-year-old Black man, Jordan Neely, on a New York subway train. A GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign has raised over $2.8 million from 57,000 donations for Daniel Penny’s legal expenses. It’s the second largest […]
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D.C. Council Vote Could Undermine Affordable Living For Poor And Working Families
NewsOne Featured Video The Wilson building, which houses the Mayor’s office and the City council chambers in Washington, D.C. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty One step forward, five steps back. This year, the D.C. Council has been dealt an admittedly nontrivial hand. With the end of the Public Health Emergency comes the end […]
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Memorial Day: The Authentic Story Of How This Holiday Came Into Being
NewsOne Featured Video Black American soldiers stand beside the graves of their fallen comrades from the present Normandy war to fire a volley in their memory during Memorial Day. The memorial was held at Blosville American Cemetery (Blosville Temporary Cemetery Memorial) near Sainte-Mère-Église, France, on June 13, 1945. | Source: Archive Photos / Getty In […]
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Jordan Neely And The Lost Lives Of America’s Young, Black And Disabled
NewsOne Featured Video Supporters of Jordan Neely protest a rally in support of Daniel Penny on May 24, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty We are disabled. We are Black. We are women, and just like Fannie Lou Hamer, “We are sick and tired of being sick and tired”. […]
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Latest Racism Against Soccer Star Vinícius Júnior Shows How Institutionalized Anti-Blackness Is In The Sport
NewsOne Featured Video Vinícius Júnior of Real Madrid looks on during the LaLiga Santander match between Valencia CF and Real Madrid CF at Estadio Mestalla on May 21, 2023, in Valencia, Spain. | Source: Aitor Alcalde Colomer / Getty After suffering months of racial abuse on the field and off, Brazilian soccer star Vinícius Júnior […]
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Op-Ed: ‘Affinity Graduations’ Aren’t ‘Segregated,’ Contrary To What Conservatives Say
NewsOne Featured Video Source: PeopleImages / Getty For most college students, graduation is a one-time event. But for a growing number of students from various groups, such as students of color or LGTBQ students, there might be multiple graduation ceremonies to attend. These special graduation ceremonies for certain groups are known as “affinity graduations.” These […]
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Black Educators And Organizers Focus On ‘Teaching With Tenderness’
NewsOne Featured Video Source: pixdeluxe / Getty This Teacher Appreciation Week, education justice advocates and educators once again sounded the alarm on inequities in education that impact teachers and children alike. The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF), D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice and Black Lives Matter at School illuminated some of these concerns […]
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This Mother’s Day, I’m Focusing On The Black Matriarchs In Buffalo
NewsOne Featured Video Jeanne LeGall, of Buffalo, readjusts a couple of stuffed animals at a makeshift memorial near the Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. | Source: Kent Nishimura / Getty Many will enjoy Mother’s Day with breakfast in bed, brunch at their […]
Read MoreOp-Ed: ‘National Day Without Child Care’ Demonstrates How Families And Businesses Come To A Screeching Halt Without Child Care
NewsOne Featured Video Children play together in the three-year-olds class at Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center located in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, on January 11, 2021. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Child care providers perform one of the most important jobs. They work to educate the next generation, and […]
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We Call Him Mr. B.
NewsOne Featured Video Harry Belafonte during the March for Justice on December 17, 2006, to protest police brutality and the killing of Sean Bell on his wedding day by NYPD. | Source: Bernd Obermann / Getty It was a day that felt familiar but I didn’t know why. Looking out the balcony, I just came […]
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Op-Ed: For Early Childhood Education, We’re At Mission Critical
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Prostock-Studio / Getty In communities across the country, early childhood providers will temporarily modify their hours and engage the public about the crisis in early childhood education. The National Day Without Childcare occurs on May 8 and is an opportunity for childcare providers and advocates to highlight the lack of funding […]
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Sudan War: Why The Political, Economic And Humanitarian Situation Is Likely To Worsen
NewsOne Featured Video Sudanese greet army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16, 2023. | Source: Getty Sudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war sparked by the deadly confrontation between the Sudan Armed Forces of General Abdelfatah El-Burhan and the […]
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For Many Black Women, Entrepreneurship Presents A Path To Liberation
NewsOne Featured Video Source: kali9 / Getty There is always a story behind the story. For instance, many people celebrate the impressive volume of Black women launching and running businesses. Black women are the fastest-growing demographic of entrepreneurs in the U.S., launching and running 2.7 million businesses. JPMorgan Chase found that “[t]he number of businesses […]
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To Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey: The Opposite Of Woke Is Ignorance
NewsOne Featured Video The Alabama State Capitol stands on May 15, 2019, in Montgomery, Alabama. | Source: Julie Bennett / Getty On Friday, April 21, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey forcibly removed from office Dr. Barbara Cooper, who was the secretary of early education in Alabama. The forced resignation of Secretary Dr. Cooper by Ivey over […]
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Tennessee’s Proclamation For Confederate History Month Doesn’t Mention Slavery Once
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Education Images / Getty The ghost of the Confederacy hangs heavily over the Tennessee Legislature. Justin Jones, one of two Black members expelled from the state’s House of Representatives in April 2023, had run afoul of House leadership before. In 2019, as a private citizen, he was arrested following his actions […]
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Racial Equity In Medicine: The Subtle Racism Of Medical Journals Downplaying Black People’s Health Issues
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Rick Meyer / Getty The leading U.S. medical journal, read regularly by doctors of all specialties, systematically ignores an equally reputable and rigorous body of medical research that focuses on Black Americans’ health. The American Medical Association created a segregated “whites only” environment more than 100 years ago to prohibit Black […]
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Black Women’s History Month: The Women Whose Understated Influence On MLK Left Lasting Legacies
NewsOne Featured Video American educator and Civil Rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898 – 1987) (center) speaks from behind a lectern during a Southern Christian Leadership Conference banquet at the Redmont Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, in August 1965. | Source: Chris McNair / Getty Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on […]
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‘Swarm’: How Deranged Superfans Can Become Serial Killers
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Prime Video / Prime Editor’s note: This article contains plot spoilers for “Swarm.” “Swarm,” the new streaming series created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, centers on a deranged superfan named Dre who becomes a serial killer. Dre longs to meet a global pop star named Ni’Jah, who’s based on Beyoncé, […]
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For Black Women, The Bar And The Expectations Are Always Much Higher Than They Are For Everyone Else
NewsOne Featured Video Angel Reese of the Louisiana State Tigers cuts down the net after their win over the Iowa Hawkeyes during the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament National Championship at American Airlines Center on April 2, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. | Source: Ben Solomon / Getty In a previous life before journalism, I worked […]
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National Minority Health Month: To Save Lives And Tackle Healthcare Inequities, Fix The Information Gap
NewsOne Featured Video Source: SDI Productions / Getty Health inequities plaguing people of color have gotten more attention in recent years. But the latest figures show there’s a great deal of work to be done in counteracting the daily devastation. Life expectancy for Black people is 70.8 years, compared to 76.4 for white people. Black […]
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The Way That States Are Banning Critical Race Theory Matters
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty Few topics in education have dominated the news over the past few years as much as efforts to ban critical race theory from the nation’s schools. The topic is so pervasive that researchers at the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program have created a new […]
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Jonathan Majors Has Already Been Found Guilty In The Court Of Public Opinion
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Lia Toby / Getty There is nothing quite like watching someone you admire fall from grace. In the age of the 24-hour digital news cycle and social media, that fall is thunderous and echoes back millions of times as each person with a platform and an audience shares their reaction and […]
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How Religious Pluralism Played A Role In MLK’s Vision Of Social Justice
NewsOne Featured Video Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a group that includes a nun and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel during the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights march. Bettmann via Getty Images The life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have been the subject of ongoing debate ever since his assassination on […]
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This Holy Week, We Must See And Condemn Christian Nationalism
NewsOne Featured Video Source: SETH HERALD / Getty April 2 marks the start of Holy Week, a time to reflect on the trials and tribulations Jesus Christ faced through crucifixion because of his care for the poor, sick, elderly and others cast aside by the power structure of Biblical times. While this week should involve […]
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