Nia Noelle’s Water Cooler Talk
Hip-Hop mogul Jay Z, who has a holiday fashion deal with Barneys New York, is facing pressure to end the business relationship amid allegations that the ritzy department store racially profiled 2 Black shoppers, reports the NY Daily News. As previously reported by NewsOne, Trayon Christian and Kayla Phillips both have lawsuits pending against Barneys after […]
WATER COOLER TALK: The parents of the Nevada Sparks Middle School shooter may be charged with being responsible for the school shooting. There is a law called “child access” that holds parents accountable for improper storage/recklessness that allow a child to have access to a gun/weapon. The 12 year old turned his parents Ruger 9mm […]
WATER COOLER TALK: An OU Student is claiming that she was rapped Homecoming weekend on Court St. after videos and pictures from onlookers went viral. The pictures and videos depicted two people engaging in sexual acts. Witnesses are saying that they thought it was consensual because of the young lady’s reactions and that’s why they […]
Bishop Allyson D. Nelson Abrams resigned from her position as pastor of Zion Progressive Baptist Church in Detroit, Mich., after revealing to her congregation that she was in a same-sex marriage. Bishop Abrams said she married Bishop Emeritus Diana Williams of the Imani Temple of the African-American Catholic Congregation in Washington, D.C., in Iowa back […]
Many folks in Lubbock, Texas are up-in-arms about the nearly 60 or so huge billboards displayed all over the city depicting Jesus with outstretched arms tattooed with such bold words as “Addicted,” “Outcast,” “Faithless,” “Hated” and “Jealous.” The Jesus ad, which began popping up earlier this month, is the work of the website Jesustattoo.org, a […]
WATER COOLER TALK: Meet Erin Cox, an honor high school student in Massachusetts who is fighting her school suspension. Erin helped a friend out by being her designated driver. The friend had been to a party and was drinking and wanted to leave. Minutes after Erin showed up to take her friend home, the police […]
WATER COOLER TALK: A middle Georgia inmate has sued the state Department of Corrections saying prison guards violated his rights by forcing him to cut his dreadlocks. The Telegraph newspaper reports Georgia prisons require inmates to keep their hair shorter than 3 inches on top and above their ears and collar. But Bryan Kawand Sims, […]
WATER COOLER TALK: The great state of Iowa is now issuing gun permits to the legally blind. The permit will allow the legally blind to purchase weapons and carry them in public. The law states any attempt to deny an Iowan the right to own and carry a weapon based on physical ability is illegal. […]
WATER COOLER TALK: Karen Sizemore has worked at a Kentucky Lowe’s for 18 years but was recently let go because she went after a shoplifter. Karen was working when she noticed Kyle Heim taking a tool worth nearly $600. Karen followed him out to the parking lot and tried to get the tool from Heim’s […]
A Pittsburgh principal has come under fire for not only putting choke holds on students who were fighting but for also suspending onlooking students for taking pictures and sharing them on social media! Principal Todd Whitmire, told television station KTVU the photo was taken last Friday as he restrained a 15-year-old student who refused to […]
WATER COOLER TALK: The spotlight has been on the Washington Washington Football Team even more here lately regarding the controversy of changing their team name because Native American’s are expressing that they find it offensive. Even president Obama weighed in on the issue this past weekend, “If I were the owner of the team […]
It has came out that the woman that lead police on a high-speed chase yesterday in Washington D.C. that led to a lockdown of Capitol Hill was 34 year old mother Miriam Carey. Miriam was a dental hygienist from Connecticut and according to her mother had been suffering recently from post-partum depression. Officials searched […]