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Ashanti Downey | Source: GoFundMe The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office in Lillington, North Carolina, is searching for three suspects responsible for setting 20-year-old Ashanti Downey on fire earlier this month. In a media release posted on Monday, Harnett County Sheriff, Wayne Coats, said the office received a call from Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford, North Carolina, on Dec.16, at around 5:55 p.m. reporting a burn victim. Deputies and investigators discovered […]

Source: Getty / Radio One In just a few short days, we’ll be kicking off a new year – which means there’s lots of events to choose from in Houston. It really all depends on what you’re interested in. RELATED: Texas Liquor Store Hours and Closings New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day RELATED: Our Favorite Moments from Beyoncé’s NFL Halftime Performance From live shows, dining, church services, downtown nightlife […]

Source: Evgeniia Gordeeva / Getty We’re only a few days away from the new year and if you have a New Year resolution to read more books next year, we perfect list for you! Studies show that reading daily can; reduced stress, expanded vocabulary, improve focus and concentration, improve memory plus so many more benefits. Continue scrolling for 12 books releasing in 2025, that you can read each month or […]

Source: BreAnna Holmes / Radio One Digital Language, no matter which one, is our verbal way of communicating daily. With approximately 7,164 languages spoken throughout the entire world, there are 5 languages that are the most widely spoken. English (1,456+ million speakers), Mandarin (1,118+ million speakers), Hindi (602+ million speakers), Spanish (548+ million speakers) and French (310+ million), as provided by berlitz.com, are the popular languages on planet earth. In […]

Travis Hunter and fiancee Leanna Lenee. | Source: Leanna Lenee/Instagram The salacious and unverified reports about this year’s top college football player and the alleged motivations of his recently revealed girlfriend build on the stereotype that star athletes attract love interests who enjoy the clout – and money – from such a status more than they do their significant others. Football coach Deion Sanders, citing his own personal experiences, once […]

Richard Parsons, a Black executive lauded for his efforts leading Time Warner and Citigroup, died on Thursday (Dec. 26) at the age of 76. Richard Parsons navigated deals such as splitting one-time Internet giant AOL from Time Warner and other notable moves. Richard Parsons, who also went by the shortened version of his name Dick, was born on April 4, 1948, in New York and was raised in the South […]

Source: General / Radio One Alabama’s Mobile Police Department is currently the subject of a federal lawsuit accusing its officers of shooting and killing a Black teenager while he had his hands up during an unauthorized “no-knock” raid. It’s a story that shares striking similarities with that of Breonna Taylor, and if what the complaint claims is true, officers should be facing more than a lawsuit — they should be […]

Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty While Jay-Z remains mum about Dame Dash as the latter continues to dish his thoughts, opinions and memories about his heyday in the music industry, N.O.R.E., for one, has no problem responding. And one of his comments seems to have rubbed the thugged-out rapper the wrong way. In one of Dame’s segments in his recent interview on The Art of The Dialogue, Dame touched on […]

Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Elon Musk‘s X is now firmly the main meeting space for all things MAGA, offering a safe haven for the hateful and belligerent who fell in line with the movement. However, “First Buddy” Elon Musk and his DOGE Bro Vivek Ramaswamy are catching MAGA wrath on Musk’s social media platform. To illustrate what is happening with the proposed DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) coalition of […]