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A fight broke out at New Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis last Sunday during the Communion services! Members watched as two women threw down right in the middle of service and the police had to be call. The police have now launched an investigation into the scuffle. Even though news reports claim it was two […]
MSNBC host Al Sharpton and iconic boxing promoter Don King will give away hundreds of turkeys in Harlem, Queens, and other parts of the City on Monday. It all takes place at the National Action Network 106 West 145th Streetin New York, Monday, December 19, 2011 1:00 p.m. In addition to giving away turkeys at NAN’s […]
A Houston man avoided a life sentence on Thursday after a court determined that he was actually imprisoned during the time of the crime in question. SEE ALSO: 30 Percent Of Americans Arrested By Age 23
At Last” blues singer Etta James, whose health has been fading in recent years, is now terminally ill, and her live-in doctor is asking for prayers. Dr. Elaine James, who isn’t related to the 73-year-old entertainer, says the singer’s chronic leukemia was declared incurable two weeks ago. The singer whose health has been on a […]
Late Monday afternoon, a judge has ruled that the New York City medical examiner’s office can move forward with publicly releasing the cause and manner of death of Zachery Tims, the late pastor of New Destiny Christian Center (NDCC) in Apopka, Fla., and may do so in as little as two days. Read: Good, Bad […]
Aw damn Dwight! The former “6th Housewife of Atlanta” got caught up by 5-0. Check out why Dwight was caught ridin’ dirty inside… The AJC reports that Dwight Eubanks was arrested last week after being stopped in Atlanta with a faulty car headlight. Typically a headlight outage wouldn’t get you arrested–just a ticket. But since he was […]
A Florida middle school teacher is facing a battery charge after she threw an assortment of food items back through a drive-thru window following an argument with a McDonald’s employee, according to cops. The incident, which was captured by a restaurant surveillance camera, went down at a McDonald’s in Lakeland. 39 year old Simone Paolercio had ordered […]
Keria Holmes Gordon would’ve turned two years old Thursday. But Sunday afternoon, the toddler lost her life in a hail of bullets at the BW Cooper housing development. “The fact that she was out here as a innocent bystander, she’s dead now. It’s hard,” said Rufus Rusk, the child’s cousin. Rusk was inside an apartment […]
Oh this is THEBOMB.COM! Maybe…Tamar Braxton and her husband Vince are getting their own spin-off reality tv show! The loudest dot comer on earth just got her wish–she’s the center of attention of her very own show. It’s tentatively called “Tamar & Vince” and will tentatively kick off fall 2012…after “Braxton Family Values” ends its […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-museum-slavery-idUSTRE7BI27G20111219 – Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which opened with great fanfare along the banks of the Ohio River in 2004, is struggling with a $1.5 million revenue shortfall this year. The Center’s exhibits memorialize the escape of slaves from the American South. Just across the river from the slave state of Kentucky, […]
From action heroes to political figures, 2011 saw its fair share of high profile scandals and controversies. SEE ALSO: The Quote Of The Year Is… Church Secretary Fired For Interracial Marriage? Below is a list of scandals from the past year that rocked NewsOne. 7. News Corp. Phone Tapping Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent […]
On the morning of Saturday, December 17th, 39-year-old Simone Paolercio, a teacher at a middle school in Lakeland, Florida, was in the mood for hash browns. She drove in her white SUV to a local McDonald’s and ordered about $20 worth of food. She pulled up to the window to collect her meal. But when […]