A special NewsOne/Elev8 report: Bishop Eddie Long may have just wrought the end to his Atlanta mega-congregation, the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. A source within New Birth says that the consequences of the Long sex scandal have amounted to a veritable “three strikes” against him. Strike One — Church elders are abandoning Long– The […]
NEWARK, N.J. — 19-year-old Rasul McNeil-Thomas was charged with murder yesterday for killing an off-duty police officer in a drive-by shooting. The Westward Patch reports: William C. Johnson, 45, a 16-year veteran of the Newark Police Department, who was assigned to the communications division, was unarmed and not working when he was shot shortly before 10 […]
Naomi Campbell is suing Cadbury over an ad campaign that compares the super-model to chocolate.
A celebration and burial of dead soldiers held by African-Americans on May 1, 1865 on a South Carolina burial ground was the first recorded Memorial Day, according to Yale University history professor David Blight.
ALABAMA — Almost three weeks after the first round of tornadoes swept across the mid-west, a dog that suffered two broken legs in the storms crawled back home to his owners. Although no one is exactly sure how far the injured animal had to crawl, the extent of damage to his legs was so severe […]
A San Francisco elementary school recently shed its old name as stand against racism. Formerly named Peter Burnett elementary after the state’s first civilian elected governor and a known racist, school officials were prompted to remove Burnett’s name from the building.
DEKALB COUNTY, GA– Bishop Eddie Long reached a settlement and paid off the four young men who accused him of sexual misconduct to avoid being interviewed by the plaintiffs’ attorney, says former DeKalb County Prosecutor J. Tom Morgan.
From her impact on the national lexicon, to propelling the careers of numerous celebrities and figures and to the countless self-help revelations and mantras that have helped us shape our lives, Oprah Winfrey’s influence will be long cemented in the public conscious. As the daily dose of wisdom that has become the Oprah Winfrey show […]
JOPLIN– The violent tornado that killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it rumbled through the small city, was captured by a man who took cover in a gas station.
An article on The Root today lists the top 25 interviews with Black guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The obvious number one is the show’s first interview with a sitting President and First Lady. Just hours after releasing his original birth certificate, and not long before he would announce the death of Osama Bin […]
America’s top science achievers are mostly the children of immigrants, according to a study released Tuesday.
Georgia’s Effingham Police Department is quiet as can be after a video released shows two of their cops sucker punching and attacking a Black man while in his car. Bernard Wallace was on his way home with brother Calvin Lee, when the police pulled them over on a routine traffic stop. While Lee and Wallace […]
