Guy Anthony and George Johnson founded the nonprofit, Black, Gifted, and Whole, to help empower young, queer Black men through mentoring and scholarship at HBCUs.

As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, NewsOne takes a look at some of his most impressive wins.

After over nine hours of meeting Republican and Democratic leaders in the state could not devise a concrete plan for a repeal.

If I had my doubts there would be a Black president in my lifetime, I couldn’t even begin to fathom the day when I would be able to utter the words, “This is my husband, Andrew.”

Plus, conservatives call for holiday boycott of Target for store's pro-LGBT support and Colin Kaepernick and Miami newspaper reporter spar words over Fidel Castro.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), more than 200 reports of hate-based intimidation and harassment have been filed since Election Day.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider a Virginia school district's challenge to Obama's transgender rights regulation.

Tennis star Serena Williams has been eliminated from the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Pastor Jordan Brown, founder of the Church of Open Doors in Austin, said in a statement that the grocery chain "did nothing wrong. I was wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story.”

A North Carolina school board will discuss and decide whether to allow high school students to carry pepper spray during school in case they encounter a transgender classmate in the bathroom and feel threatened. During the May 9th meeting a board member suggested that pepper spray may be helpful to female students who use the […]

Michael Sam was the first openly gay player to be drafted by the National Football League in 2014. Though he never actually played in an official NFL regular season game after leaving the University of Missouri, Sam helped pave the way for the LGBT community in professional sports. In a soon-to-be released interview in Attitude Magazine, Michael Sam discussed his feelings about […]

The proposal, known as House Bill 757, was supported by religious groups and organizations who wanted protection for denying service to those whose religious beliefs are different from their own. If passed, the bill would have allowed the refusal of jobs and services without legal ramifications.