The death toll has risen to seven in Wednesday’s gas explosion that rocked a New York City neighborhood. One of the victims – who lived…
Besides directing movies and performing high crane video shots, one of Spike Lee‘s other area of expertise is ranting. But there’s so much truth to…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is in preparation to release a report regarding an investigation into the financial dealings of the popular Puerto…
*Step aside Super Bowl because these basketball stars aren’t gonna stop ballin’ next weekend. Football stars will not only be present in NYC during the…
The release of the Nike Air Jordan Gamma Blue 11 sneakers (pictured) this weekend caused fights in shoe stores nationwide, the New York Daily News…
Paula Patton on Urban World Festival red carpet *The place to be Thursday was opening night in New York City at the Urban World…
A hip hop album by Michelle Obama? Yet another example of the expanding influence and impact of the music. Just a few weeks ago, Nas was honored with a hip hop fellowship in his name at Harvard University. Teachers are using hip hop in their classrooms to get students interested in math and science, and now the first lady, Michelle Obama […]
Actress Vivica A. Fox showed up to support her former Independence Day cast mast, Will Smith, during the New York City premiere of his new film After Earth. During an interview, Fox, who currently stars in the TV series Mr. Box Office, weighed in on Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s parenting skills, and also revealed the best advice […]
Real Bronx Tours are taking mainly White Europeans and Australians on a tour of the Bronx with stops for photo ops at a food-pantry line, “pickpocket” park, and housing projects. According to an unnamed patron on the tour, one of the guides, Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, poked fun at impoverished areas, describing the South Bronx, […]
Ed Koch, the brash, colorful and often confrontational mayor who helped to lead New York City out of its brush with bankruptcy in the 1970s, launching an astonishing municipal turnaround that continues to this day, has died. He was 88. Koch was recently readmitted to the hospital after being treated for water in his lungs, […]
The Brooklyn DA’s Office will hire an independent expert to reconstruct the death of a Black man struck by a police car that was chasing…
Two days after Hurricane Sandy ripped through much of the east coast, more than 72 people are dead and over 6 million homes and businesses are without power. Words cannot express the deep devastation and pain this storm has caused. NewsOne has compiled more Associated Press images to help provide a visual story of what […]
