A few of rap's heavyweights are joining forces to help a former Mississippi high school student, who they feel is being persecuted under the law - and it's all in the name of hip-hop.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Evenwel v. Abbott, in which two Texas voters are challenging the current practice of using the total population to create voting districts and not the number of eligible voters.
Every person deserves to be counted and given equal protection, not just some of us.
The US Supreme Court presides over birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act for the fourth time while New Yorkers are on edge after this morning's Penn Station shooting.
NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today. So This Happened: White Man Allegedly Bombs Miss. Walmart…
The discovery of racially coded notes taken by prosecutors during jury selection is forcing the Supreme Court to take a second look at this murder trial, The Washington Post reports.
GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush claims he would not reinstate Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act if he were to be elected president.
Fifteen years before Amistad, there was the Antelope: a slave ship with 275 captives whose fates were argued before the U.S. Supreme Court not just…
Also in today's roundup, Chris Christie announces his bid for president and Greece fails to pay its IMF debt by deadline.
Also, the Supreme Court is making more groundbreaking rulings before their fall session and the second escaped convict has finally been caught.
Also, three international terrorist attacks killed over 40 people this morning and a Kansas judge blocked a procedural ban on second-trimester abortions.
In the biggest victory yet for same-sex marriage, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriage. The split fell along expected idealogical lines with the conservative justices in the dissent. Read this key moment in the fight for same-sex marriage. The New York Times interpreted the ruling as “the Constitution […]
