Glenn Martin, a former Rikers inmate and advocate for criminal justice reform, has continually made the effort to have Rikers…
It’s being reported that NBA player, Sacramento King, Matt Barnes, was in an altercation at a New York night club…
GETTY IMAGES: The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday, with victims’ relatives reading their names and reflecting…
We love to see celebs giving back. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs AKA The King of Harlem is giving back to…
At least one person was killed and more than a dozen were injured when a large crane collapsed in Manhattan’s…
Four teenagers from the Brownsville area of Brooklyn have been taken into custody in connection with the gang rape of…
A view of the giant numbers covered in light bulbs that will be used to ring in 2016 in Times…
Roland Martin and NewsOne Now were on hand for the New York premiere of the movie Concussion, starring Will Smith…
A Harlem resident committed a gentle act of kindness when she gave her shoes to a barefoot homeless woman on…
James Moss of Colorado was reminded how strong the power of kindness can be after thousands of strangers raised over…
*NeNe Leakes is headed back to Broadway. The reality star, 47, took to Instagram on Thursday to announce that she’ll…
By BridgetEE It’s being reported all over Social Media that “STRANGE’ ” herself, 67 year old Grace Jones has written a…
A Maryland woman’s death after a botched butt surgery in a New York basement has been labeled a homicide, The…
The murder case involving a former social worker who allegedly threw her newborn daughter out of an apartment building in…
An incident involving a transgender woman getting pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City has now been labeled a…
Artistic expression came alive in the halls of a New York high school this month with the help of the…
Dr. Olivia Hooker, the first African-American woman to actively enroll in the U.S. Coast Guard, was honored last week with…
A terrifying tale about a woman who was raped in the middle of the night turned out to be fake…
A year after transgender woman Islan Nettles was killed in New York, an arrest has finally been made. According to the New York Daily…
The New York City police officers killed in Saturday’s shooting are being remembered for their commitment to community and…
On Wednesday, Black America was hit with a massive punch to its collective gut as we learned a Staten Island grand…
Charges have been dropped against Jorge Pena who can be seen smacking “the soul out of a woman,” Danay Howard,…
Constructed in 1934, The Apollo Theater has been the launching pad for musical legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder and…
Queens, N.Y., Supreme Court Judge Richard L. Buchter (pictured above) broke down in tears after sentencing a former housing court…
Kwasi Enin, a senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, applied to all eight Ivy League Universities—Harvard,…
photo courtesy of Huffington Post A building has collapsed in Manhattan and four people are injured after a report of…
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