National
So I was out for a few days and couldn’t tell you about some great TV for gospel. Check out Pastor Marvin Sapp here from his appearance Thursday, April 22 on Good Morning America!
Fantasia Barrino and her mother, Diane Barrino-Barber, work it out on this song on the Celebration of Gospel, which aired at the top of the year.
From the NY Daily News: Ethnic frictions are rising in city politics this election year, as black and Latino candidates – who routinely pay lip service to interracial solidarity – are squaring off in districts around the city. Click here to see photos. In Harlem, Puerto Rico-born Adam Clayton Powell 4th is running against longtime […]
WASHINGTON — The last time Barack Obama was in Asheville, N.C., he complained he was too busy to play golf. The president plans to fix that this weekend. Obama and his family were to leave the White House at midday Friday and fly to Asheville, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. […]
Steve Benjamin, a Columbia attorney, was elected the South Carolina capital's first black mayor this week.
The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is today and the climate and clean-energy jobs movement is the "lunch-counter moment" for our generation, a reference to the students in Greensboro, North Carolina who sat down at a segregated lunch counter 50 years ago. Their actions galvanized the civil rights movement, which for the couple years prior, had been somewhat stagnant.
This years cruise was definitly one to remember. Thank you to all the loyal listeners that sailed with us, as well as those that sailed with us for the first time. Take a look at some of the fun that you missed, and come join the fun and sail with us in 2011!
VIA: www.elev8.com Diabetes does not discriminate. It doesn’t care whether you’re famous or not, if your body frame is small, medium or large, or whether you’re female or male. Diabetes affects millions of individuals all over the world. The statistics for African-Americans developing diabetes are alarming. African-Americans are 1.8 times more likely to develop diabetes […]
Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height died today at the age of 98, according to media reports. President Barack Obama called Height “the godmother of the civil rights movement” and a hero to many Americans."
Just call her Shaunie O. Amidst all the recent drama surrounding her divorce from NBA giant Shaquille O’Neal and above all the haters who venture to say she’s a “gold digger,” first lady of the Basketball Wives, Shaunie is newly single, independent and making moves to build an empire all her own, with or without the NBA. Her current projects on deck scale from producing more “Sports Wives” series to developing her own line of high-fashion shoes. This former arm candy is on a roll and doing big things in more ways than one. And it’s not all work and no play for Shaunie O. The queen bee also dishes the details on her latest love affair with sexy, 23 year old Marion Yates. Let the games begin…
Recently, the national media has erupted with concern over the state of Black marriage in America. Gloomy statistics depict that the institution is rapidly declining and many are losing hope.