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Let me begin by saying, I don’t have a problem with dating White men. However, I personally haven’t decided to go searching for my “something new” just quite yet.  Why? Because I love (and prefer) to date black men. Yesterday as a debate began to brew in our office about the politics of interracial dating […]

Noted film director John Singleton has new movie out this weekend called “Abduction” starring Taylor Lautner.

ATLANTA — After the Georgia Parole Board refused to grant a pardon for Troy Davis this past Thursday, they spared the life of a convicted killer and changed his sentence to life in prison hours before his scheduled execution. Samuel David Crowe was convicted of beating a store owner to death in 1988 and was […]

http://mrmokelly.com/2011/09/vesta-williams-found-dead-at-age-of-47/ Reports have been confirmed that R&B singer Vesta Williams was found dead yesterday in an L.A. hotel room.  Will post more as details are released.  Singer Lalah Hathaway broke the news to many people (including Mo’Kelly) on her Facebook page. Vesta produced Top 10 R&B hits “Sweet Sweet Love”, “4 U”, and “Congratulations” Our […]

From KYSDC Howard University students took to the streets to protest the execution of Troy Davis last night. 13 people including a professor were arrested in total. Read more here The students were told to move from the front of the White House to Lafayette Square. They refused to move and were then arrested. One […]

The outpouring of support and grief for Troy Davis was visible across tv screens and the web in the last few weeks. But what was also visible though not as much on the surface, were the commenters glad to see an arguably innocent man be executed. Buzzfeed compiled a list of 15 of the most […]

NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton weighed in on capital punishment on Thursday, saying courts need to slow down appeals processes to consider DNA evidence that could potentially prove a defendant is innocent. Clinton’s comments came less than 24 hours after the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a man convicted of shooting an […]

September 22 is the first day of the rest of your life, or at least that’s what Facebook would have you believe. Their VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage recently told Tech Crunch that this year’s F8 conference will be “either the most important, or the second most important F8 yet.” Already, Facebook has been […]

UPDATED (December 17, 2014): Seventy years after 14-year-old George Stinney became the youngest person in American history to be executed, he was “exonerated” today by a South Carolina judge who vacated his conviction. Judge Carmen T. Mullen wrote that her court “finds fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process exist in the 1944 prosecution of George Stinney, Jr. […]

WASHINGTON — Young adults are the recession’s lost generation. In record numbers, they’re struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock, if they’re becoming parents at all. The unemployment rate for them is the highest since World War II, and they risk […]

We just reported on the relevance of the movie “Do the Right Thing” and how the racial climate hasn’t significantly changed since that time.  But, we are also watching Troy Davis face the death penalty today as  the U.S. courts completely ignore evidence of the man’s innocence.  Now, we have a hate crime that will certainly be under the  microscope […]

TheGrio and NewsOne have teamed up to launch a new multimedia series called THE BIG ISSUE. Our first installment is this special report, “Addicted To Food.” On TheGrio: The Big Issue: Blacks Aren’t Immune To Food Addiction (hosted by Mara Sciavocampo] [VIDEO] The Urban Fresh Food Fight Goes National Map: Obesity by state vs fast […]