About Melanie Pratt
Melanie began her career in radio when she joined the on-air staff at Praise 100.9 in 2006. She is a three-time Stellar Award nominee for Gospel Announcer of the Year, a preliminary judge for BET’s hit show Sunday Best, and has been recognized in Who’s Who in Black Charlotte. In 2013, she was an inaugural recipient of the Stellar Woman of Gospel Award for her contribution behind the scenes in the gospel industry. In 2015, she was awarded the 1st Melvin Crispell Gospel Heritage Award and was recognized as one of ten Most Influential Radio Personalities by the Gospel Music Industry Round-up. And in 2016 she was awarded Radio Show of The Year by the Queen City Music Awards. A self-proclaimed foodie - in particular tacos - and founder of the Foodie Flash Mob, Melanie had the pleasure of serving as judge of the Carolina Food Truck Chow Down. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Harvest Center, a transitional program for the homeless and underserved in Charlotte. Melanie is an ordained Elder in the Life Center Fellowship where she and her husband Bryan, serve as Young Adult Pastors.
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R&B veteran Chaka Khan is out of rehab and back on the road. Khan announced in early July she had checked into a rehabilitation facility for an addiction to prescription pain medication. She reportedly checked out of the program on August 1 and is back in the studio working on new music! Read the full story at […]
The reality of Big Brother becomes more apparent every day. For the past year, the City of Baltimore and it’s police department, has secretly conducted aerial surveillance of a 30-square-mile area of the city. The technology uses a small plane with high-resolution cameras to track activity, including crimes, saving images and footage on hard drives. Ohio-based Persistent Surveillance […]
38 people are confirmed dead and the search is on for at least 150 more following a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck central Italy early this morning near Amatrice. A small town with a population of a few thousand, Mayor Sergio Perozzi says his town “is no more.” The quake hit at 3:36 a.m. local time.
Rev. Bromleigh McCleneghan, associate pastor for ministry with families at Union Church in Hinsdale, Illinois, says single Christians can have sex as long as it’s “mutually pleasurable and affirming.” McCleneghan, a married mother of three, expresses her views in her new book, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn’t the Only Option — And Other Things the […]
Pastor Charles Jenkins dropped his new video “Winning” last week, from the album Think About These Things.
Last week, parts of the state of Louisiana suffered massive flooding that killed at least 13 people and left tens of thousands of homes damaged. It is tallying up to be the worst natural disaster in the US since Hurricane Sandy. Over the weekend, GOP nominee Donald Trump and his VP candidate, Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN), visited the ravaged flood grounds. President […]
Ryan Lochte in Instagram this morning, saying he was sorry for not being more “candid” for his role in “taking the focus away from the many athletes fulfilling their dreams of participating in the Olympics.” Lochte and three U.S. swimmers said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday, but Brazilian officials say the story was fabricated. The American […]
In what appears to be an effort to make him more palatable, Donald Trump took the advice of pundits and last night offered a vague apology for sometimes not choosing “the right words” throughout his campaign. “Sometimes, in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words […]
The Gospel Music Association has announced the hosts of its 47th Annual Dove Awards show. Christian music artists, For King & Country and gospel star Tye Tribbett will share hosting dutiesat the show that will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 11 in Nashville. It will be taped and air Sunday, Oct. 16 on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Previous Dove hosting duos […]
Monday, a judge signed an order ending a dispute over Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal. The dispute had put the slain civil rights leader’s two sons against their sister. During a January 2014 board meeting, the brothers, Martin III and Dexter Scott King, voted 2-1 against their sister, Bernice, to […]
Christian contemporary singer Jamie Grace attended Adele’s concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last week and was called up on stage to sing. In a clip that has now gone viral, Adele loved Jamie’s voice and asked her to keep singing. Following the performance Adele asked her to keep in touch via Twitter. Check out Jamie […]
Both Donnie McClurkin and Israel Houghton had romantic news over the weekend. Israel Houghton got engaged to actress Adrienne Bailon, and reports ran wild following an episode of TBN where it was suggested that McClurkin is engaged to CCM recording artist Nicole Mullen. McClurkin has not confirmed an engagement, but the couple are apparently dating. Congrats […]