NewsOne Featured Video Source: SeventyFour / Getty Two years ago, 37-year-old Tremar Harris was a pre-trial detainee in solitary confinement at the Appling County jail in Brunswick, Georgia. Now, Harris has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against three correctional officers, one of whom can be seen in surveillance video wrapping a chain […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene does not like being called a white supremacist. She appears to get really offended by the label, and she’s even compared it to a Black person being called a racial slur (we’ll circle back to that in a second). Now, to anyone who […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Prostock-Studio / Getty Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) is here. Every year, from April 11 to 17, the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) spearheads a week of activism, education, and community building in an effort to raise awareness around disparities in the pre-, pro-, and postnatal experience for Black women. According […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) cheers on Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during an election night watch party at the State Fairgrounds on February 24, 2024, in Columbia, South Carolina. | Source: Win McNamee / Getty The only reason many people know the name Sen. Tim Scott is that […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Angel Reese poses with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected seventh overall pick by the Chicago Sky during the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Sarah Stier / Getty Jason Whitlock—the world’s worst sports analyst, but possibly the world’s […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Ted Soqui / Getty It’s still unclear when – or if – O.J. Simpson actually said the words that rapper Jay-Z attributed to him in his 2017 Grammy-nominated song “The Story of O.J.” But the words stuck and came to symbolize the complicated relationship the Black community had with Simpson, who […]
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NewsOne Featured Video In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, Rudy Giuliani, former personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump poses for his booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Handout / Getty Ex-NYC mayor and thoroughly disgraced Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani recently paid a visit to Sheridan […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: ETHAN MILLER / Getty From the criminal justice system to race relations and beyond, the death of football legend-turned-acquitted murderer O.J. Simpson has placed a spotlight on a number of issues. But perhaps none of them are as immediately urgent to Black people as Simpson’s cause of death — prostate […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Robert Alexander / Getty An elderly white man has been charged with murder in South Charleston, Ohio, after he shot and killed a Black woman who was the victim of the same scam call he had been scammed by. According to NBC 4 Ohio, 81-year-old William Brock has been charged with […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Donald Trump meets with people during a visit to a Chick-fil-A restaurant on April 10, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Megan Varner / Getty Here’s the thing: If it were true that Black Americans support and admire Donald Trump in numbers that are as significant as the MAGA World suggests, Trump, […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty Listen: It is no secret that ever since Beyoncé dropped the first two tracks from her country-themed Cowboy Carter album, white people have been having a rough go of it. Actually, salty Caucasians of country music fandom have been salty about the Lemonade singer delving into what […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images / Getty An ex-San Jose police officer who resigned after his police chief released 10 pages of racist text messages, including one where he declared, “I hate Black people,” is facing a lawsuit that was filed after he shot one of the Black people […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes reacts during the 2024 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game between Iowa and South Carolina at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on April 7, 2024, in Cleveland, Ohio. | Source: Thien-An Truong/ISI Photos / Getty It’s unclear why broadcaster Jason Whitlock is so passionately dedicated to being […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty A pair of white men who operate as apparently racist conspiracy theorists were fined more than $1 million for orchestrating a robocalling scheme to keep would-be Black voters in New York from casting ballots via mail for the 2020 election, State Attorney General Letitia James announced […]
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UPDATED: 12:30 p.m. ET, April 9, 2024 It’s a tragic story told time and time again: Black people convicted of crimes they never actually committed. After spending more than a decade in prison for Murder, Anthony Robinson was exonerated Monday after medical records proved he was physically incapable of being the shooter. According to CBS […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Here is a demonstrable truth that does not need to include an “allegedly” or any other type of disclaimer: Donald Trump is a xenophobic bigot. And now that the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has become a hot topic and a thing of major concern […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Nicholas Klein / Getty In today’s episode of White People Don’t Actually Know What ‘Woke’ Means, the white woman behind the conservative social media account Libs of TikTok found herself getting laughed at by a room of college students as she struggled to define “wokeness” even as she was claiming it […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Anadolu / Getty Whoever is running the Michigan GOP’s X account appears to have stumbled on to a new term to describe what fragile white conservatives perceive as anti-white racism, and, as a bonus, the term doubles as an anti-Black racist slur. It’s actually low-key impressive linguistically speaking. “Another shining example […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: 4nadia / Getty Welp, the saga of The People of Enid vs. The White Supremacist They Put in Office has finally come to an end as Enid, Oklahoma, voters have successfully recalled city council member Judd Blevins, the politician who once served as a tiki torch-wielding leader of neo-Nazi group Identity […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty In an exclusive discussion with NewsOne, Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder, LaTosha Brown explains why the right-wingers have gone after TSU–and how that has larger consequences for us all. Responding to the right-wing attack that has disrupted leadership and funding at an HBCU, Tennessee State University […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: MoMo Productions / Getty Despite all of the statistical evidence that supports the idea of systemic racism in America, there are those (the unrelentingly white and fragile) who refuse to believe it’s real. But if the U.S. isn’t a systemically racist country, why is it that up until a few years […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: 4nadia / Getty On Tuesday, voters in the small city of Enid, Oklahoma, will decide whether or not a white supremacist will remain on the city council. Yes, that would be a weird sentence to read if you’re of the belief that we’re currently living in a post-racial America where systemic […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. | Source: Brent Stirton / Getty Right now, MAGA Republicans across the […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: brichuas / Getty In today’s episode of This Is Why Critical Race Theory Exists, three federal judges ruled Wednesday that plaintiffs have not proven that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature did not redistrict the state’s congressional map for a “racially discriminatory purpose,” despite DeSantis all but admitting it […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Scott Olson / Getty At this point, there should be no doubt that white conservatives have effectively made DEI the new N-word. We’ve seen it over and over again: all white people need to see is a Black person (or non-white male in general for that matter) in charge of a […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: da-kuk / Getty One thing about Black people: We are the absolute masters of laughing to keep from crying. There possibly isn’t another demographic in history that has perfected the fine art of finding humor in our oppression even as we fight it. It’s really something to behold. It’s obvious to […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey arrives to testify during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on January 10, 2024. | Source: Bill Clark / Getty Earlier this month, a video went viral on social media that showed a brutal fight between teenagers on a residential street near Hazelwood East High School in […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Opal Lee speaks during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 13, 2023. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty In today’s episode of If America Isn’t A Racist Country, How Did This Happen? a 97-year-old Black woman is getting a new home […]
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