CNN has admitted that Cornell Belcher, who appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show as a guest actually works with Obama’s 2012 campaign. In February, CNN announced that Belcher would join their team of paid political contributors. See Also: Does Kim Kardashian Want To Be Elizabeth Taylor? See Also: Black Travel: Visit Nashville, Tennessee For Some Country […]

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Angela Benton is the founder of BlackWeb 2.0 and the new web business developer for Black entrepreneurs, the NewMe Accelerator. InteractiveOne, the parent company of NewsOne, is a supporter of the NewMe, and has given this platform to Ms. Benton to respond to a growing controversy about a preview of an upcoming episode […]

On CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain claimed that African American voters have been brainwashed into not being open minded about voting for the GOP. Limbaugh Says Herman Cain Would Be First Black President Due To Slavery Shocker! Herman Cain Upsets Frontrunners, Wins Florida Straw Poll Despite these claims, Cain says one […]

CNN.com is reporting that a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the nations capitol, Washington D.C. and it was felt up to 90 miles away in New York and in parts of Ohio. Reporters are saying that you could clearly feel the ground move, buildings were shaking and were shaking and things were falling off of the […]

In all of my years covering politics on the local, state and national level, many stories have earned the “Are you serious?” look. The newest one? The so-called sexist cover of Newsweek depicting Rep. Michele Bachmann. Conservatives have been up in arms, slamming the “liberal” Tina Brown and Newsweek for choosing a photo that supposedly […]

Kentucky senator Rand Pau; got into a heated debate this past weekend over the raising of the debt ceiling with CNN anchor Don Lemon. The argument began when Lemon asked Paul to not conduct the interview with any “talking points.” The Huffington Post reports: As the House and Senate again failed to reach an agreement […]

Roland Martin and David Frum join Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room to discuss the battle over raising the debt ceiling.

It appears the Rupert Murdoch, News Corp scandal is not only stirring controversy in the U.K., as it has now spilled into American media. On his CNN show “Reliable Sources,” Howard Kurtz condemned Fox News, which is owned by News Corp, for not covering the scandal in which its sister company is being investigated for […]

NAACP President Todd Jealous blasted CNN for not having any African-American anchors in their newly announced prime time news line-up. “As CNN announced their new schedule, a glaring omission was present — no African Americans were hosts or anchors in their prime time lineup,” he said. “The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of […]

CNN invited NewsOne’s very own Editorial Director Dan Charnas to be part of their expert panel discussion on the uproar caused by rapper Common’s recent invitation to a White House poetry reading. Check out the footage below. RELATED: Common Performs Poetry At White House White House Brushes Off Fox News As Common Performs At Event