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While millennials will be jamming to Future, Fetty Wap and Desiigner at the family cookout this Fourth of July holiday, some of our favorite Generation X and Boomer aunties will be dancing to songs from back in the day. Our dancing aunties are family treasures. So in tribute to these special ladies, NewsOne has gathered a […]

Black History

Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech highlighted the hypocrisy of the Independence holiday as it related to slavery.

National

Since the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, there have been questions of what that independence means for America’s black citizens. As…

What would the Fourth of July in Washington be without fireworks? If you live in the area,  you know that the display in the nation’s capital is not to be missed.What is to be missed? The traffic, crowds and parking nightmares that come with finding a spot on the Mall to watch them. If you want to […]

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Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about the Fourth of July and his family’s tradition.

What better way to celebrate the birth of this country than to get your best girlfriends together and have a good time? There are many…