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The older I get the more important comfort becomes to my fashion. I am a slave to fashion (yes, I admit it). I have to be fashionable. But I also have to be comfortable. Comfort is different for each person. For me, it means having comfortable shoes, but more importantly comfortable pants. My pants of choice - leggings.

Last week news broke that a Brooking study showed that Atlanta has surpassed Chicago to become the No. 2 destination for blacks. New York is No. 1. According to a Tara Servatius column in Creative Loafing, that same study found the Charlotte was the No. 6 destination city for blacks. Nearly 95,000 blacks have moved […]

Gospel superstar Kirk Franklin stopped by Atlanta’s Praise 102.5 Monday night to promote his new book,“The Blueprint: A Plan For Living Above Life’s Storms,” on CoCo Brother Live. Although Kirk was only scheduled for CoCo’s first hour, the gospel star decided to stick around until the end of the show at 11pm! Several contest winners […]

VIA BLACK CHRISTIAN NEWS A Princeton University professor says the black church is dead. Whoa. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod professor of religion and chairman of the Center for African-American studies at Princeton University, posted on the Huffington Post, “(The) idea of this venerable institution as central to black life and as […]

In less than 12 hours, I was saturated in Asian and black culture all on a Saturday in the Q.C. My day started on Lake Norman for the annual Charlotte Dragonboat Festival. Dozens of organizations and businesses sponsored boats to participate in the races on the lake. The event was part of the annual Asian […]

It has been said for centuries that a woman's hair is her glory - and Black women believe it wholeheartedly. That's why we pile up in the salon each week to get our hair 'fried, dyed and laid to the side.' It's a tradition in our community and one that we don't take lightly.

Queen Latifah and Common's highly anticipated film 'Just Wright' opened Friday night, and it seems fans were eagerly waiting for the film's opening. According to The Box Office Report the film grossed $8.5 million during the opening weekend, making it number 4 in weekend movie earnings. And it seems Queen Latifah was the star - and saving grace - for the film.

VIA HUFFINGTON POST: In one of the greatest domestic population shifts in American history, African Americans poured out of the South in the early 20th century. The so-called “Great Migration” brought millions of southern blacks to areas across the country, including hundreds of thousands who came to Chicago. The city’s South Side quickly became the […]

The CIAA released its official photos on Facebook today. I found a link on the page to an April story by the Charlotte Post about the tournament’s economic impact. This story hasn’t been widely reported so I wanted to share it with the Praise Charlotte family. This year, the tournament brought in $37.1 million, slightly […]

Tasha Smith (pictured) has some of the most amazing hair year round. That's really hard to do in the summer. Learn more about how to obtain Tasha Smith hair this summer.

BET's Sunday Best promised to make Y'anna Crawley a star - and they have. Crawley has been featured on several awards shows and yesterday she released her first single, "Grandma's Hands."