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VIA: www.newsone.com This week marks the 35th commemoration of International Women’s Day (Monday), celebrated by the United Nations. This year’s theme is “Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities, Progress for all.” As a woman, I am grateful that for one day out of 365, women are recognized for our achievements. But outside of this special day and […]

VIA: www.phoenixhouse.org Friday, March 5, was an incredible day for all of us at Phoenix House. Pop superstar Beyoncé and her mother, fashion designer Tina Knowles joined us for the opening of the Beyoncé Cosmetology Center at our Phoenix House Career Academy in Brooklyn. The new Cosmetology Center will offer a seven-month cosmetology training course, […]

VIA: www.thepewview.com In the fall of 2002, I was blessed with the unique opportunity to serve as the college ministry director for one of the largest and most influential churches in the country. For nearly four years, I had the opportunity to serve, counsel, lead, and learn from hundreds of college students who attended various […]

VIA: www.charlotteobserver.com The call came at 4 a.m., India time. Evangelist Franklin Graham, in the country for a crusade, jumped out of bed and answered his vibrating iPhone. It was Michael W. Smith, the contemporary Christian singer-songwriter, calling from Nashville, with an idea: Franklin, he said, I’m producing a song for Haiti and want some […]

VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The newly opened Charlotte Empowerment Zone in the Pressley Ridge Apartments, which started Jan. 26 with just 11 kids, represents Charlotte’s first attempt at re-creating New York City’s successful Harlem Children’s Zone, an educational initiative serving 17,000 children in a 100-city block area of Harlem. On Tuesday nights, kids jostle to be […]

VIA: www.elev8.com If you are anything like me, once you find a great author you try to read everything they have written. Victoria Christopher Murray is one such great author. She can be rightfully considered the new Jackie Collins. She creates exciting characters and suspenseful plots that allow you to anticipate with fervor the next […]

VIA: www.blackgivesback.com Creating his first Father’s Day Mentoring Weekend last year for 100 teenage boys, multi-faceted entertainer Steve Harvey is taking to his bike and pedaling to the limit to raise funds for mentoring camps in 10 cities nationwide for 2010. Kicking off registration on March 1st for the 2nd Annual Father’s Day Mentoring Weekend […]

VIA HELLO BEAUTIFUL Spring is around the corner and for ‘all my single ladies’– loneliness may emerge, especially when we hear of  the statistic that 42% of black women have never been married. What’s a single, black female to do? Well, if we assume that it’s true and think of  it through ’the glass is half full’ mantra. It also says that the majority, 58% of black women have been […]

VIA Elev8 Gospel music fans will have plenty to choose from with new releases by Marvin Sapp, Karen Clark Sheard and hip-hop gospel performers the Grits. March 2, 2010: Bishop Paul S. Morton: Memorable Moments: The Best of Paul Morton (Light) March 16, 2010: Marvin Sapp: Here I Am (Verity) Kirk Whalum: The Gospel According […]

VIA: www.elev8.com Does race matter? It’s a question that was brought to me the other day. And in the midst of all that’s going on in America — the first black President in the White House, politicians remarking that black people were better off during slavery, celebrities using inappropriate and racially charged words — it’s […]

VIA: www.theredpumpproject.com Every year, the United States recognizes March 10th as National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. It’s a nationwide initiative to raise awareness about the increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on women & girls and encourages ladies to take action. While progress has definitely been made in the areas of AIDS prevention and treatment, […]

VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The leaders of three black Methodist denominations – one of them headquartered in Charlotte – are joining together to address unemployment, crime and other problems that disproportionately affect black men. It will be their first joint gathering in 45 years. “When people talk about us being in an economic downturn, that’s nice […]