About Zack Linly

Zack Linly is a writer, journalist, poet and artist. Formerly a freelance writer for The Root, The Washington Post, HuffPost and other publications, he joined the iOne team in 2021 as a staff writer for NewsOne, Bossip, Hip Hop Wired, Cassius Life and MadameNoire, where he covers topics including politics, social justice and Black culture.

There’s a new pope of the Catholic Curch, and he’s the first pope to be born here in the U.SA. Not only that, but Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, is of a Creole lineage that traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian. Honora found evidence that the […]

One Virginia teenager is dead, another is injured, and a man is facing a charge of second-degree murder, all because a TikTok prank went terribly wrong. According to Law & Crime, 27-year-old Tyler Chase Butler has been charged with second-degree murder, malicious wounding and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a […]

Piers Morgan—the UK’s favorite poster child for unbridled white fragility and incel-lustious Meghan Markle hate—recently hosted a panel discussion with Marc Lamont Hill and a few others, including a rabid white supremacist KK-Karen who thinks her racism is justified because of Black people’s so-called “bad behavior” and gleefully admitted she “frequently” uses the n-word in […]

This is a shame. On April 15, 39-year-old John Scott Jr., known to his friends and loved ones as “LJ,” was taken into custody by Decatur, Ala., police officers who were responding to a call placed by Scott’s mother, who said her son was experiencing a”mental health crisis.” A week later, on April 22, Scott […]

You know — maybe there was a reason administrators at Target made the ill-advised decision of announcing its rollback of DEI initiatives and programs to promote Black businesses shortly after the second inauguration of commander-in-anti-DEI-propaganda, President Donald Trump. Perhaps the reason target execs were so confident making their announcement just after Trump made a big […]

Trigger warning: discussions of death by suicide On April 27, 2023, 11-year-old Louis Johnson III died by suicide in Ocala, Florida. On Monday, nearly two years after Louis’ tragic death, his parents filed a $75,000 wrongful death lawsuit against the Marion County School Board, alleging that their son took his own life because he was […]

It took three days and five rounds at the 2025 NLF draft, but Shedeur Sanders has finally been recruited onto a pro-football team, and the Cleveland Browns are lucky to have him. In a surprising, yet not that shocking twist, the most audacious administration in recent history believes that President Donald Trump deserves some credit […]

As the MAGA-fied federal government continues to lie about what DEI is and erode free speech under the guise of eroding “improper ideology,” Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing the White House of trying to seize “unprecedented and improper” control over the school’s programs and curriculum. According to NBC News, […]

On Monday, April 14, the second all-female crew to be blasted off into space in the last 62 years launched and landed safely aboard a rocket operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company. According to NPR, Bezos’ fiancé, Lauren Sánchez, was one of the six women who traveled above the atmosphere Monday morning, as were bioastronautics […]

A congressman CLEARED the United States Trade Representative over Trump’s tariff tyranny and you’ve gotta see the annihilation in action. On Wednesday, we reported that President Donald Trump dropped tariffs to 10% on imports from most countries and announced a 90-day pause for the higher tariffs he strategically refers to as “reciprocal” tariffs, while he focuses […]

In today’s episode of The U.S. Economy v. Trump’s Bigly Stupid Tariff War, President Donald Trump basically became the living embodiment of that one meme with the dog sitting calmly in the burning house, declaring, “This is fine,” when he took to social media to tell America to “BE COOL” amid the economic turmoil that […]

The family of Karmelo Anthony, the student-athlete at Centennial High School in Frisco, Texas, accused of fatally stabbing student track star Austin Metcalf, is urging the public to reserve all opinions regarding Karmelo’s case until all the facts have come out. Meanwhile, lawyers representing the 17-year-old are seeking to have their client’s “excessive” $1 million bond lowered, […]