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 UPDATED: […]
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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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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Robert D. Barnes / Getty The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) travel advisory for the state of Florida comes as a direct warning to individuals, particularly those from marginalized communities, about the potential risks they may face while visiting or residing in the Sunshine State. While Florida […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: AzmanL / Getty Why don’t Black people tip? This lingering stereotype has withstood the test of time, but it’s just not true. I’m sure we all know a Black person who doesn’t tip well, but we also have Black acquaintances who do. Stereotypes have the power to shape perceptions and perpetuate […]
Read More NewsOne Featured Video Source: AzmanL / Getty Why don’t Black people tip? This lingering stereotype has withstood the test of time, but it’s just not true. I’m sure we all know a Black person who doesn’t tip well, but we also have Black acquaintances who do. Stereotypes have the power to shape perceptions and perpetuate […]
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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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NewsOne Featured Video Uber Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Bo Young Lee speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018, in San Francisco, California. | Source: Kimberly White / Getty The chief diversity officer at Uber is under fire after employees voiced complaints about a pair […]
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Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty While the America we live in today is far different from the one where Black people were enslaved and discriminated against based solely on skin color, remnants of the past still pop up in the present. That was the case over in Pulaski County earlier this week when a Kentucky […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Twitter / Twitter Nearly a week after the video of her dispute with several Black young men over a Citi Bike went viral, people have not stopped talking about Sarah Jane Comrie. The situation with “Citi Bike Karen,” as she has come to be known, has been endlessly debated across social […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Twitter / Twitter The latest viral “Karen” video has sparked a discussion on social media well beyond the basic premise of a white woman weaponizing the color of her skin at the expense of a Black person. While it’s true that all of that and then some were well on display […]
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UPDATED: 12:30p.m. ET, May 17, 2023 But if anybody thought police would be deterred by that apparent exception to the rule of holding police accountable for killing Black people, they should think again as it has been a quick resumption of law enforcement normalcy with continued shootings of Black men and boys with impunity since […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Sarah Jane Comrie aka “Citi Bike Karen.” | Source: Twitter I was having a conversation with one of my good friends and she made the following astute observation: “You put a white woman in a situation and a ‘Karen’ will come out.” Truer words have never been spoken. In case you missed […]
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Source: Tim Clayton – Corbis / Getty Karen attacks have been proven to come in many shapes and forms — Parking Lot Karen, TikTok Karen, the now-infamous Central Park Karen and even a Disney-inspired Tigger Karen are just a few to scratch the surface of white women in fake distress. However, the latest example that […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Allen J. Schaben / Getty Noted pan-Afrikan psychologist Dr. Umar Johnson is weighing in on the report that actor Jonathan Majors is dating actress Meagan Good. The report came out over the weekend and seemingly caught people off-guard since Majors is in the throes of a domestic violence case that has […]
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(opens in a new tab updated: 9:30 a.m. ET, Dec. 21, 2022 UPDATED: 2:00 p.m. ET, May 15, 2023 While they never really went anywhere, Karens and their Karening — white women amplifying and weaponizing their privileges when it comes to exerting their purported moral authority — are apparently making a serious comeback. The pandemic […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Twitter Perhaps the recent vigilante subway killing and the delayed response from law enforcement have emboldened other white people to also take the law into their own hands at the expense of Black people. That certainly may have been the case recently when a pregnant white woman starring in a now-viral […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Reporters watch a CNN town hall with former President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on May 10, 2023. | Source: JOSEPH PREZIOSO / Getty New year, same old Trump. Fresh off a guilty verdict that found the former president liable for sexual battery […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Broadcaster Glen Kuiper of the Oakland Athletics works from the press box during the game against the Chicago White Sox at Hohokam Stadium on March 8, 2015, in Mesa, Arizona. | Source: Michael Zagaris / Getty While MLB announcer Glen Kuiper is busy serving his indefinite suspension for saying the N-word […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Joe Raedle / Getty UPDATED: 12:30 p.m. ET., May 9 Racism is like cancer, ignore it long enough and it will corrupt everything around you including the minds of those it was intended to discriminate against. A growing number of U.S. Latinos are buying into the far-right, white nationalist narrative that’s […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Emergency personnel work the scene of a shooting at Allen Premium Outlets on May 6, 2023, in Allen, Texas. | Source: Stewart F. House / Getty Texas law enforcement officials have been tight-lipped with details about a horrific mass shooting on Saturday afternoon at a mall near Dallas that left at least […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Tim Boyle / Getty One month after setting a record low, the Black unemployment rate in the U.S. continued its steady decline to new historic proportions, according to the newly released jobs report for April. Data released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the Black unemployment rate dipped below […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Prince Williams/Wireimage / Getty Rapper Da Brat and her wife, Jesseca “Judy” Dupart, recently made headlines after they revealed that they had chosen a white sperm donor to conceive their first child. Their choice is drawing attention to a lack of diverse options for Black women looking to get pregnant through […]
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Source: Noel Vasquez / Getty If there’s one topic that will always grab the attention of Black people as a whole, the ongoing debate regarding the status of monetary reparations being distributed to descendants of enslaved African Americans is sure to always be a sensitive subject. Famed TV personality and talk show host Dr. Phil […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE A man wearing a shirt with swastikas on it is punched by an unidentified member of the crowd near the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term ‘alt-right’, at the University of Florida campus on October 19, 2017, in Gainesville, Florida. | Source: Brian […]
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NewsOne Featured Video This photo illustration created on April 13, 2023, shows the suspect, national guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. | Source: STEFANI REYNOLDS / Getty New reports of racist behavior linked to the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified Pentagon documents are placing a […]
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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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NewsOne Featured Video Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks before a rally for former President Donald Trump at The Farm at 95 on April 9, 2022, in Selma, North Carolina. | Source: Allison Joyce / Getty North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson‘s newly announced campaign for governor is placing a bright spotlight on the Republican’s history […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A protest led by the Black Student Union at the University of Washington at Seattle, 1968. Emile Pitre Collection Marc Arsell Robinson, California State University, San Bernardino When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that took place in the South. […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: twitter / Twitter White fragility must be one powerful drug the way it gets racists so deep in their feelings that they get themselves arrested and charged with crimes they’re forced to pay the penalty for when minding their own Caucasian business is 100% free. If one is so bigoted and […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Skyhobo / Getty Earlier this month, we reported that a Contra Costa County judge released the names of 17 Antioch, California, police officers accused of using racial slurs, making racist jokes and sharing racist memes in text threads over a period of two years. Now, the Antioch Police Department is facing […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: CNN / Youtube The grandson of Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl after Yarl went to the wrong house to pick up his brothers, has described his grandfather as a QAnon racist who obsessively watches Fox News—which, of course, is not terribly shocking news to […]
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