About Desire Thompson

Desire is contributing writer for NewsOne.com and GlobalGrind.com

A recent report has discovered that drug defendants who’ve gone to trial in the past couple of years are being forced to plead guilty. According to the Huffington Post, in 2012, drug defendants who went to trial and lost are sentenced more than three times as many years than defendants who took plea deals. The […]

This makes no sense. A Texas middle school has put a ban on students speaking Spanish in the classroom. According to the ban, if they are caught speaking Spanish, they will be written up. Hempstead Principal Amy Lacey made the announcement over a month ago. According to Gawker, parents were outraged and claimed that there […]

Russell Simmons, Rev. Al Sharpton, President and CEO of National Urban League Marc H. Morial and Jewish leader Rabbi Marc Schneier are taking a stand against The Knockout Game. As we previously reported, The Knockout Game has gained national attention after the latest incident was said be a hate crime against the Jewish community in […]

As the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting approaches, Newton officials have released the 911 calls from that fateful day. The calls come just a week after officials released a report regarding shooter Adam Lanza and eerie details of his mental health and a timeline of the massacre, in which he killed […]

Joe Hendrix, the man that shot an Alzheimer’s patient who wandered into his yard, plans on using the controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law as self-defense in the case. The law was made popular in the Trayvon Martin case courtesy of George Zimmerman. Read more over at [Daily Mail] ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) has lost millions […]

Another young life is lost and another child is without its mother. A Texas teen was stabbed to death while holding her baby at a bus stop yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m., according to Fox San Antonio. The unnamed teen was waiting at the bus stop when friends say her ex approached her and they got […]

So this happened. The alleged ‘Knockout Game,” in which suspects come up and randomly punch victims in the face in an attempt to knock them out, has left people scared and confused across the country as more untruths and details spread. While some believe that the game is an urban myth, CNN decided to run with the […]

Nelson Mandela isn’t giving up without a fight. The former South African president has been fighting a lung infection that left him bedridden and breathing through tubes throughout the year. According to The Daily Mail, his daughter Makaziwe Mandela spoke to the South African Broadcasting Corporation and said that although her “Tata” is “not doing well,” he […]

Let’s all agree here that Black Friday is the worst. Waking up at 3 am and dealing with the pushing and shoving of strangers isn’t the best feeling after stuffing your face with turkey. Every year, anticipation grows for alluring sales and items to fill up stockings for the holidays, but no matter what, it’s […]

The wounds of the Sandy Hook massacre may have been reopened with this week’s release of a report detailing what happened that fateful day, but Newton High School made sure that spirits were still high at last night’s football game dedicated to the victims. Newton High School’s Nighthawks ended their season undefeated last night with a 42-7 win against […]

Somewhere in America, people are still twerking…and recklessly so. This time, two women decided that it would be a good idea to twerk on the subway tracks. We’re not sure where the train was, but these ladies were lucky it wasn’t coming around that corner. Luckily, the two twerked a few feet away from the […]

A 27-year-old woman gave birth to her first child over the weekend, and her little bundle of joy tipped the scales at 13 pounds. According to The Daily Mail, doctors are worried that the baby may be prone to diabetes and obesity, and believe his large size was due to the mom’s big appetite of fruit, […]