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A state panel appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recommended a $6.25 increase in hourly wage for fast-food workers Wednesday, bringing minimum wage to…

The story of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old who was found dead in a Texas jail cell earlier this month, was given more context on Tuesday…

NewsOne’s Top 5 takes a quick look at the stories trending on NewsOne.com that you are talking about. Stephen A. Smith’s “Black-On-Black Crime” Rhetoric Gets…

Muslim organizations have banded together to raise $100,000 in an effort to help rebuild Black churches in the South that were torched in recent months,…

Dylann Roof was also indicted of killing someone while obstructing religious freedom, a charge eligible for the death penalty after the attack on Mother Emanuel AME Church.

The man accused of killing nine Black parishioners at the historic Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C. was indicted on federal hate crime charges…

Is it just me or were Obama’s eyebrows pulling a Drake last night on The Daily Show? I think the make-up artist got a little…

Although African-Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s…

Stephen A. Smith’s comments on the Black Lives Matter movement rattled many on Twitter, including hip-hop artists and activists Killer Mike and Talib Kweli.  The drama…

Investigators are looking into the death of a Cincinnati man who was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer during a traffic stop Sunday.…

A series of tweets published by rapper Nicki Minaj that exposed MTV for upholding a certain standard of beauty were interpreted as an “attack” by…

Michael Kerr, a schizophrenic, was never treated for his mental illness while he was imprisoned.