LeBron James & JR Smith were just a few of many high-powered stars who reached out to encourage middle-school student Keaton Jones, even though his mother is a cyber bully herself.

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Earvin “Magic” Johnson continues to inspire the very community that reveres his aspiring legacy, as it’s just been declared Johnson along with Kimbra and Mark Walter, co-founders of the organization Inner City Youth Empowerment, are set to invest ten million dollars for the One Summer Chicago Plus program, geared at Chicago’s at-risk youth. The Windy […]

We are a culture obsessed with aging! It’s not just women who are worried about their looks over time–men are worried about looking older too. Personally, I welcome maturity, however, I don’t have to look like I am getting older. Many of us scramble to find products we can invest in to make us look […]

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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…

An old boo of mine called around 1:00 AM Monday morning. It took a while for it to actually register who was calling when I saw the name because it’s been a few years since we actually had a conversation outside of occasional texts and tweets. Pleasantly surprised, I answered after realizing it was him. […]