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  This week on ‘COMMUNITY VOICES’ with Ron Holland, guest host, Brandi Williams talks with Victoria O. Johnson, Solid Waste Services Director for the City of Charlotte. Victoria Johnson’s compelling journey of how she rose to her current position as Charlotte’s Director of Solid Waste Services is an inspiration to all, but especially to women […]

via EEW Magazine Ida B. Wells, a highly gifted writer and civil rights activist, has been honored with a Google Doodle. July 16 marks the 153rd birthday of the fearless intellectual who was already editor of two papers by the age of 25: the Memphis-based Free Speech and Headlight. In 1884, a 22-year-old Wells was […]

Iran, the United States and five other world powers, have agreed on a deal to table Tehran’s nuclear program for more than a decade in exchange for lifting international sanctions on the country. The agreement includes a compromise between the U.S. and Iran to grant United Nations inspectors access to Iranian military sites for monitoring. The deal will […]

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy for South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney, one of nine killed in the June 17 shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church,  where he also served as pastor. Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama will also be in […]

S enegalese-American singer Akon has set out to bring electricity to some of the 600 million Africans.  Akon has launched a new “Solar Academy” scheduled to open this summer in Bamako, Mali. The school will give African engineers and entrepreneurs the skills needed to develop solar power with training provided by European experts. It’s focus is to teach […]

‘Behind The Mask‘  joins the wealth of films that are redefining what christian movies can do. The film takes the viewers on an amazing voyage…

Okay yall! An Georgia mother locked her son out of the house, causing him to sleep on the patio after he REPEATEDLY stayed out past his curfew. Was she wrong for her form of punishment? Did she really deserve to got to jail for this? Let me know your thoughts!

92-year-old Harriette Thompson finished the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon on Sunday to become the oldest woman ever to finish a marathon. Thompson who is a resident of the Queen City completed the race in San Diego in 7hr 24min 36sec. Remarkably, Thompson is a cancer survivor who only began running in her 70’s. Having lost […]

Our own Lonnie Hunter and Structure stopped by  MyFoxPhilly to talk about the success of his new album “GET IT DONE,” and to drop and exclusive performance…

This week on Lonnie Hunter’s #GETITDONE Song Of The Week, Lonnie spotlights Dr. Larry D. Reid and his latest single “Can’t Take God From Me.” Check…

Russell Wolfe, whose Pure Flix  movie house has released over 100 faith-based films, has died at the age of 50 after battling ALS. His film house,…

There is a text circulating among iPhone users that exploits a bug in the Apple operating system.  If you send this text to your friends, it will reset their phone. A very specific string of characters copied and pasted it into a text and sent to a friend, will crash their phone. However, it only works […]