STATEMENT FROM LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY REACTION JUST ADDED! Lawrence North played for the semi-state championship against Bedford North Lawrence at Bedford Indiana last Saturday.  Lawrence North’s girls basketball team just happens to be all-Black.  The Bedford/North Lawrence Team is all white. When Lawrence North fans and team arrived at the gym they were […]

Talk show Wendy Williams will be in Indy on Saturday, April 26 as the keynote speaker for the Women’s Empowerment Series. She sat down with…

Yesterday, New Jersey Judge Peter Bogaard denied Rachel Canning’s request for emergency financial support and college tuition from her parents after allegedly voluntarily moving out…

Master Lawrence Whitaker and our good friends over at the Urban Defense Center stopped through the Praise 103.9 studio to give a little lesson on…

  Hezekiah Walker’s “Every Praise” joins an exclusive club of songs that have topped Billboard’s weekly airplay chart for half a year or more, as the…

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A debate over an anti-abortion bill in Alabama quickly turned controversial, after one Democrat said white Republican lawmakers would force their kids to abort babies…

Pastor and gospel singer Marvin Sapp’s Grand Rapids Ellington Academy of Arts and Technology charter school is partnering with Amway and the nonprofit KaBOOM! to…

Pastor and gospel singer Marvin Sapp’s Grand Rapids Ellington Academy of Arts and Technology charter school is partnering with Amway and the nonprofit KaBOOM! to…

Today’s recipe is courtesy of Executive Chef John Besh of Restaurant August, New Orleans. Add this homemade dirty rice dish to tonight’s dinner and have…

The popularity of Yoga has created an industry that is being valued at 27 billion dollars.  Yoga studios are popping up all over, yoga gear,…

  Actress and producer Roma Downey said in a recent interview that her new film “Son of God’ is already changing lives after having a…

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Monday, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund launched a new nationwide campaign, National “I Love My HBCU” Month, to honor historically black colleges and universities and the pride that…