Bilal Morris

Atlanta

Senior Editor at NewsOne.com

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Articles

The Oklahoma City Bombing Was a Warning, We’re Still Ignoring It

1 week ago | newsone.com | Eric Ward |Bilal Morris

CLOSE Each April 19, we remember the 168 lives stolen in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing—children, parents, public servants, neighbors. Many believed that serving their community, especially through government, was a way to build a more welcoming society. Thirty years later, we still haven’t reckoned with what that attack revealed.
Now More Than Ever - Forward Forever Backwards Never

1 week ago | newsone.com | Antjuan Seawright |Bilal Morris

CLOSE A lot of folks out there are angry, mad, pissed off and just about every other feeling a person can feel right now, and I’d be blind if I didn’t recognize that it’s not just the Trump-publicans and the MAGA movement they’re angry at. It’s also at the Democratic Party. In fact, a recent CNN poll reports that only about 29% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party. But I didn’t need a poll to tell me that.
Karmelo Anthony Can’t Claim Self-Defense But Kyle Rittenhouse Can?

1 week ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris |Michael Arceneaux

CLOSE Austin Metcalf’s father asserts that when it comes to the death of his son, “This was not a race thing. This was not a political thing.”Metcalf, a white high school student from Texas, was fatally stabbed during a confrontation with another student, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who is Black, during a track meet in Frisco.
Op-Ed: Black NYC Voters Can Do Better Than Andrew Cuomo

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris |Michael Arceneaux

CLOSE It has been frustrating to watch longtime Black political leaders – especially members of the clergy – line up to endorse Andrew Cuomo of all people for mayor of New York City. Fewer politicians on the planet are less deserving of a political comeback than Cuomo.
OP-ED: How Hip-Hop Documents Life In America

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris |A.D. Carson

CLOSE Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might have merited it, the word was misleading. Kyra Gaunt, a Black woman who is a foundational figure in the study of hip-hop, worked as a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Virginia from 1996 to 2002.
Worried About The Current Moment? Channel Our Ancestors

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris

CLOSE After President Donald Trump announced a fresh wave of tariffs on April 2, the U.S. stock market experienced its worst crash since the COVID-19 pandemic. When the stock market closed on Friday, April 4, the S&P 500 lost 6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 5.5 percent. Since February, however, the S&P is down 12% and Nasdaq is down 18%.
Black Voters Help Deliver Decisive Defeats To Republicans

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris

CLOSE Black voters in Louisiana and Wisconsin recently gave Republicans two defeats showing the importance of state-based organizing. While some refer to odd number years as the “off cycle,” organizing efforts in both states led to major victories for pro-democracy advocates.
Black Women AGs Lead Charge Against Trump Admin’s Attack On Public Health

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris

CLOSE Depending on your perspective, New York State Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James is either the gift that keeps on giving or one of the biggest thorns in Trump’s side. 14 other state attorneys joined James and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell general in taking action against the Trump administration’s termination of NIH grants.
NC Court Sets Stage to Exclude 65K Votes Cast In 2024 Election

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris

CLOSE Five months after the end of the 2024 election, a North Carolina court seemed poised to undo the results of the state’s Supreme Court election. Ruling in favor of their colleague, Jefferson Griffin, the appeals court gave voters 15 business days to “fix deficiencies” to their registration. As reported by the Associated Press, the legal challenge could invalidate over 65,000 ballots in the 2024 state Supreme Court election.
Jasmine Crockett Can't Have It Both Ways

2 weeks ago | newsone.com | Bilal Morris |Michael Arceneaux

CLOSE Much as I like Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, she recently tried it when she sought to rationalize her referring to Texas Governor Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels” while speaking at a Human Rights Campaign banquet in Los Angeles. For all the chuckles she got in the room and select corners of social media, she’s also been criticized in conservative media and mainstream programming like ABC’s The View.