https://twitter.com/THEAlleyeceeing/status/866628716461424640 It’s 2017 and Black women are still being told what’s appropriate when it comes to their hair. The further away we are moved from the Eurocentric standard of beauty, the harder we are chastised — a bold and proud afro usually makes things worse. Jenesis Johnson, 17, knows this all too well, after recently […]

Teenagers in the U.S. are drinking and smoking less than has been the pattern for 40 years. According to a Monitoring the Future survey, young people are using these and other drugs less, with marijuana use dropping among 8th-graders through 10th-graders. University of Michigan researcher Lloyd Johnston, who has led the study since 1975 supposes that though […]

***LANGUAGE WARNING* Uncut footage from an incident at a McKinney, Texas pool party. PLEASE BE AWARE THERE IS SOME PROFANE LANGUAGE, however, in my opinion the handling of these young people is more egregious than the foul language used.

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At NewsOne, we believe that the child who reads is the child who leads. In keeping with that idea, we decided this summer to take…

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At NewsOne, we believe that the child who reads is the child who leads. In keeping with that idea, we decided this summer to take…