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WASHINGTON — Islamic radicalization in prisons continues to be a concern among law enforcement officials across the U.S., and countering it should not be a partisan issue, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security said Wednesday. Rep. Peter King led the second in what he has promised to be a series of hearings on […]

New York is on the verge of becoming the sixth state in the union to legalize gay marriage, as soon as this week. The State Senate is one vote away from passing the law which was shot down two years ago in a Democratic-led Senate. In two years, opinion amongst New York state residents has […]

NewsOne’s contributing blogger Dr. Boyce Watkins recently wrote a story revealing that 38.3 percent of African Americans say they’ve lost their job at some point in the last three years. The survey, conducted by YourBlackWorld.com, showed that although 16 percent of those surveyed were able to find another job, 88 percent say they were unable […]

For 33 years, the FDA has pondered stricter standards for sunscreens that would require the products to provide a minimal amount of sun protection. Currently, SPF refers only to protection from UVB rays, which cause sunburns, not to UVA rays, which cause skin cancer. Effective next summer, the SPF will have to refer to both […]

Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson tackled the topic of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s refusal to confront the racist past of his Mormon religion, in an op-ed on The Grio today. Hutchinson takes us back to the Mormons long standing purported curse of Ham teachings about Blacks, which justifies the enslavement of Blacks in many Mormon […]

Oprah Winfrey announced that she wants to interview O.J. Simpson for the “Oprah Winfrey Network” on the condition that he confesses to the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. “I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” Oprah told a group cable execs at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention in Chicago. […]

According to data from last year’s Census, the Black population in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Clinton Hill has decreased by one-third over the last decade. NY1 reports: The findings also reflect a trend in black migration to the suburbs. New York City’s black population declined by 2 percent. It is […]

A former New York Giants wide receiver may have gone from a loved figure to a hated one in New York after his comments on the possibility of gay marriage being legalized in the state. David Tyree, who became a hero after making a game-changing catch in Super Bowl XLII, made a video for the […]

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House Speaker John Boehner warned President Obama in a letter Tuesday that he may face legal repercussions for issuing U.S. military involvement in Libya without authorization from Congress. Boehner requested Obama to justify U.S. involvement, and warned the President that he may be in violation of the 1973 War Powers Resolution if he does not […]