MTV leans on a legacy Ananda Lewis helped build, yet they couldn’t even bother to honor her on their biggest night.
Ananda Lewis’ absence underscored a broader pattern of how Black women are often overlooked until someone else forces the acknowledgment.
In this op-ed, Dr. Stacey Patton picks apart Fox News host Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery's latest insults against Rep. Jasmine Crockett and calls them what they are.
Music visionary Missy Elliott will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards.
Comedienne Tiffany Haddish will become the first Black woman to host the MTV Movie and TV Awards.
The attempt to get Black Lives Matter labeled a terrorist group has come to a halt. On July 6, a “We the People” petition was created on the White House website in efforts to have the federal government officially recognize the movement as an extremist group. “Terrorism is defined as ‘the use of violence and […]
NewsOne’s Top 5 takes a quick look at the trending stories you’re talking about: Rebel Wilson’s Cop Joke, Miley Cyrus’ Mammy — Just How Racist Were The 2015 MTV VMAs? “Straight Outta Compton” Makes History As Highest Grossing Musical Biopic Ever NewsOne Now Exclusive: Man Mistakenly Identified As WDBJ Shooter Speaks Out Black Man Jailed For […]
Rebel Wilson's police brutality joke? Miley Cyrus endorsing Donald Trump? Was MTV's VMAs 2015 racially charged?
Who’s Performing? This year’s Video Music Awards will be hosted by Miley Cyrus so we should expect plenty of inappropriate behavior, lots of cursing, cats in bathing suits and plenty of tongue wagging. Not to mention she’s been given “free reign” by VMA producers, which means we should all be very afraid. Nicki Minaj is […]
Jose Antonio Vargas, director of the MTV documentary White People, joined Roland Martin on News One Now to discuss how millennials view White privilege and race relations in America. Martin, host of NewsOne Now, described the conversations captured in the film as “kind of complicated” and extremely uncomfortable. Of the documentary White People from MTV: What […]
A series of tweets published by rapper Nicki Minaj that exposed MTV for upholding a certain standard of beauty were interpreted as an “attack” by American sweetheart Taylor Swift, launching mainstream media into a frenzy that perpetuated the racist trope that is the “angry Black woman.” On Tuesday evening, Nicki took to Twitter to call out […]
It’s true. Black America spends a good amount of time discussing race, thinking about race, experiencing race, and living through the trauma these conversations and incidents based on race bring. No surprise there — our Black and Brown skin has for so long bound us to a contentious relationship with a country that created a […]