I just had this happen to me less than a month ago. It was at a convenience store. I was driving in to park. The passenger at the pumps opened his door without looking, taking off my driver’s mirror and scraping the door. I was over 2 feet away from their car. He immediately started Read More…
Year: 2024
HBCU Basketball Team Visits The White House More Than 60 Years
More than 60 years after their historic championship victories, the Tennessee A&I Tigers, the first HBCU team to claim a national basketball title, were finally honored at the White House. Back in 1957, they made history as the first HBCU team to win a national championship and went on to win two more titles in Read More…
16-YRS-Old Black Author Releases Children’s Book Teaching Young People To Believe in Themselves
Nationwide — Alicen M. Felder, a 16-year-old author from Detroit, has released her latest book Don’t Count Me Out, to teach young people to always believe in themselves regardless of what others may say. She says that it is perfect for when others’ opinions of you often overrule your beliefs about yourself. Don’t Count Me Read More…
Black Twin Sisters Acquire Plantation Where Their Ancestors Were Enslaved
Nationwide — Twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner have made a significant move to reclaim their family’s heritage and protect the environment by acquiring the historic Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, Louisiana. This plantation holds deep ties to their ancestors, who were once enslaved there and took part in the 1811 Slave Revolt, a pivotal moment Read More…
Atlanta Police Fired Black Woman After Daughter Criticized Cops
Written by NewsOne Staff NewsOne Featured Video Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty Rhonda Frost, the former Deputy Director of Public Affairs with the Atlanta Police Department, is suing Mayor Andre Dickens and Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum for wrongful termination. Inside her suit filed on March 18, Frost, who served as deputy director from 2019 Read More…
Outrage High School Student Is Suspended Just For Using The Term ‘illegal alien’
A 16-year-old North Carolina high school student says he was suspended just for saying “illegal alien” while discussing word meaning in English class — possibly ruining his chances of landing a college sports scholarship. Christian McGhee, a student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, received a three-day suspension last week after he used the Read More…
A Buddhist Monk And A Neuroscientist In Conversation
An excerpt from “Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience.” By: Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of Read More…
The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine
A Hidden History of Diplomacy That Came Up Short—but Holds Lessons for Future Negotiations By Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenk In the early hours of February 24, 2022, the Russian air force struck targets across Ukraine. At the same time, Moscow’s infantry and armor poured into the country from the north, east, and south. In Read More…
I’m A Single Mom. I Date — But I Don’t Date Single Dads.
by Nicola Prentis Nicola Prentis is a single mom and has no interest in dating single dads. Nicola Prentis Nicola Prentis has been a single mom to two sons for five years. When she started dating, she found herself to be too judgmental toward single dads. She has quit using dating apps and only seeks Read More…
I Planned On Confronting My Absent Father About His Parenting.
by Justin Jones-Fosu The author had an absent father while growing up. Courtesy of Ariel Perry My father was absent throughout most of my life, so I went to Ghana to confront him about it. In Ghana, I learned about my father’s past and understood his perspective for the first time. Although we will never Read More…