A majority of Black unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits. In early 2010, 75 percent of Black unemployed were receiving benefits. Now, only 48 percent receive unemployment, a shift that highlights the nation’s issues with long tern unemployment. Continue Story NewsOne.com
I am truly excited about bringing back Majic Mellow Music Monadys. This Monday I thought it would be fitting to drop a classic. With The Occupy Movement spreading like wild fire and people becoming frustrated with the state of the economy we are all just wanting to be loved in a scene of things. Â Having […]
A couple weeks ago legendary feminist and black power activist Angela Davis spoke at Occupy Wall Street and recently lent her voice to the Occupy Oakland movement when she appeared at one of the rallies. Davis addressed a crowd of several hundred people in her home city of Oakland, Calif. that had gathered at an […]
Mary gives a touching performance of “Need Someone” from her new album My Life II… The Journey Continues (Act 1) when she took a trip over the pond to London this past week. On Friday night the R&B queen visited BBC 1′s Jools Holland Show and dazzled the audience with a powerful touching debut. Check out the must-see performance now! Making […]
Police say two officers were injured when the car they were riding in crashed into a flat-bed truck driven by a suspected drunk driver. Â Police said a two-man HPD unit was rushing to a shooting scene eastbound on Berry near Bauman around 9:35 p.m. when the truck took a sudden left turn in front of […]
Tony Romo wasn’t at his best, and neither was the Dallas defense. They were still more than the Seattle Seahawks could handle. Romo shook off a horribly inefficient first half to throw for a pair of touchdowns, leading the Dallas Cowboys to a 23-13 victory Sunday. Romo had no trouble moving the ball from the […]
A Texans season expected to go further than any ever has, moved Sunday to unprecedented territory. In an otherwise routine start-to-finish 30-12 rout of the Cleveland Browns, the Texans used their first-ever run of three-consecutive double-digit wins to move to three games better than .500 for the first time in franchise history. In control by halftime before […]
Boxing great Joe Frazier, who went toe to toe three times with Muhammad Ali, including the famous “Thrilla in Manila” fight, is seriously ill with liver cancer and is in a hospice, his personal and business manager said Saturday. Frazier, 67, is in a Philadelphia facility, manager Leslie Wolff said. The former heavyweight champion was […]
The “Call of Duty” franchise is a perennial blockbuster, with more than 65 million units sold so far in the United States and hordes of fans lining up each fall to buy the latest installment of the war-simulation video game. Now, Activision Publishing will find out whether fans who are accustomed to dropping $60 on […]
Jury deliberations began Friday in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of pop icon Michael Jackson. The seven men and five women heard from 49 witnesses over 23 days, including Murray’s girlfriends and patients, Jackson’s former employees, investigators, and medical experts for each side. Prosecutor […]
The NBA and the National Basketball Players’ Association will meet this weekend to resume talks over a new collective bargaining agreement, a players’ union representative said. “We’re going to meet with the league on Saturday,” Roger Mason Jr., a NBPA executive committee member, told reporters. “It’s just going through where we are and just getting […]
When a CIA-operated safe house is targeted by a group of bad guys, the facility’s house-sitter is tasked with the dangerous job of moving the criminal who is being hidden there to another secure location. Universal Pictures presents “Safe House “with the cast staring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.