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NewsOne is proud to welcome our new cartoonist Kevin Eason. You should expect new pieces from Kevin on a weekly basis as he tackles topics in popular culture ranging from politics, sports, and entertainment. Today, he takes on Alicia Keys finally speaking on the allegations from Swizz Beatz’ ex wife Mashonda that she is a […]
via CNN By Lisa Miller, Special to CNN This year marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, and Bible publishers are ostentatiously commemorating the landmark by producing an abundance of gorgeous doorstops. Leather bound Bibles. Two-volume sets. Replicas of the 1611 version complete with “original” illustrations. The hoopla is entirely justified, since the […]
Looks like I’m going to owe my friend Corey $100 because at the beginning of this NBA season, he took the Heat to win it all and I took the Lakers. Luckily, there’s a “no pay for a push” clause so even though I can’t win, I still might not lose provided the Heat don’t […]
Candice Wiggins has already made history with professional women’s basketball, but that’s only her half of her story. In high school she was listed as the best shooting guard in the nation and won a scholarship to Stanford to play volleyball and basketball, an amazing feat, but not the whole story. She chose Stanford over […]
As I begin this letter I would like to say to Dr. West that I have the utmost respect and admiration for you. I have been and continue to be a long time fan of your work, your intelligence, and passion to assist the community…especially the underserved. As president and CEO of The Optimum Institute […]
It seems that President Obama has played his political hand correctly, contrary to a previous argument stating that the revelation of his long form birth certificate gave Donald Trump more legitimacy. Donald Trump has seen his approval rating among Republicans take a severe beating since the public establishment of the fact that Obama was born […]
I just went to the hospital to visit Rasul “Rocky” Clark, a young man who was once a very talented high school football player. In the year 2000, Rocky took a bad hit, like many of us did while playing the sport. But this hit severed his spinal cord so badly that he was paralyzed […]
NEW YORK – I spoke with actor Jeffrey Wright recently at the Black Writers Conference Symposium for playwright August Wilson. In our discussion he said that there was no Black cinema because African Americans do not have the power to tell our own stories. RELATED STORIES Jeffrey Wright Breaks Down His Roles In “Basquiat” And […]
Religion gives God a bad name. Unfortunately, all some crackpot usually has to do to get a following is cloak himself in one or more tenants of an existing religion and folks will follow him like he’s the New Prophet. And the problem is there are, quite simply, so many tenants. Like, let’s say Osama […]
BY CARLITO RODRIGUEZ “They got him, yo. They got Bin Laden.” That’s how I heard. Unlike other hip-hop journo cum Twitter pundits whose daily grind requires them to keep eyes glued to the tube (“flatscreen” just doesn’t do it for me, sorry) while thumb-typing their way into relevance at 140 characters a minute, my May […]
WASHINGTON– An African-American high school teacher in an urban Washington D.C. neighborhood school blogs about his students in order to capture the experience and challenges he faces to enhance the educational experience and lives of his students.
Close to 51 percent of Black Americans in a recent BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll think that President Obama’s covert operation in which he killed Osama Bin Laden will help him get re-electe. While polls on President Obama’s have yet to come out since Osama’s murder, many are expecting him to receive a positive spike. But while half […]