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A 13-year-old Black boy was shot dead by his 75-year-old White next door neighbor, John Henry Spooner, after falsely being accused of breaking into the shooter’s home and stealing guns, WDJT-TV, CBS-58 in Milwaukee reports. Spooner has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide and his bond is set at $300,000. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? […]
According to 13-year-old Brea Persley, her science teacher at Inglewood’s Century Academy of Excellence told her in front of the entire class last week to “sit your nappy-headed self down.” And what’s worse is that the student has since been removed from the school after her mother complained about the teacher’s insensitive comment.
First it was the face eating dude in Miami now a 21-year-old electrical engineering student has been charged with first-degree murder after parts of a man’s dismembered body were found in his home a week after the man first went missing. Alexander Kinyua (left) confessed to police that he also ate his roommate’s heart and […]
George Zimmerman was ordered back to jail on Friday because the judge in this case found out that he had received over $200k from a website he started to help with his defense. Zimmerman failed to disclose these earnings to the judge. Zimmerman had 48 hours, as of Friday, to report back to jail. SOURCE […]
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/news/top-news/miami-attacker-cursed-says-girlfriend On the Saturday morning before he would make headlines for chewing off a man’s face–– before he would come to be known tragically as the “Miami Zombie”–– Rudy Eugene held his Bible and kissed his girlfriend goodbye. Eugene’s on-again, off-again girlfriend said he woke her up at 5:30 a.m. to say he was […]
Though Michelle Obama says she dreams of being Beyonce, it hasn’t stopped her from doing what she does best. To promote her new book “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America,” the First Lady spoke about the garden initiative she embedded in 2009 when she planted a fruit and vegetable garden […]
The pregnant Detroit woman who was kidnapped, set on fire, and shot early Saturday morning has successfully given birth to a baby boy.
Following a bloody holiday weekend where gun violence claimed the lives of 11, including a 13-year-old boy, and wounded more than 40 others, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday discussed out his plan to address Chicago’s gang problems. Emanuel was joined by Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy in stating that the city will work to coordinate […]
LAS VEGAS — “He doesn’t want to talk about it.” Or so said Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s spokesman, on the question of where President Obama was born. Cohen, in a phone interview, called the renewed controversy over Trump’s questioning of whether Obama was born in the U.S. “a distraction,” and blamed it on “the liberal […]
(CNN) — The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State and a Polish officer who provided some of the first accounts of the Holocaust are among 13 people who will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor, awarded to those who make […]
Fred Dukes recently walked the stage to receive his high school diploma from Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia. What made this young brotha’s achievement so much sweeter was that he did it while being homeless and without any family support. CBSAtlanta.com reports that Dukes, who scored a 24 on his ACT and […]
When it comes to dress sense, what’s worse: layer upon bulky layer of long underwear and puffy coats? Flashy, barely-there outfits? Or downright sloppiness? Travel + Leisure readers rated major destinations in categories including style for the annual America’s Favorite Cities survey — and the results confirm that city dwellers fall short of fashionable in […]