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Two suspects in custody in double shooting (Indianapolis) – One suspect surrendered and police have arrested two men believed to be responsible for killing a man and his niece in a relative’s home last week. Michael Bell, 22, turned himself in to authorities at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Police later arrested Jeremy Priel, 25, of […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. SEE ALSO: More Elevator Terror Stories In a “special broadcast” Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a “great […]

MSNBC host Al Sharpton and iconic boxing promoter Don King will give away hundreds of turkeys in Harlem, Queens,  and other parts of the City on Monday. It all takes place at the National Action Network 106 West 145th Streetin New York, Monday, December 19, 2011 1:00 p.m. In addition to giving away turkeys at NAN’s […]

Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the racial attack on Black youths in the Queens, N.Y. neighborhood of Howard Beach, one that polarized New York City and left marks that are still being felt. The New York Times reports: One of the victims died in the attack and is memorialized in a Brooklyn street sign, […]

Marvin Sapp is looking for background singers to go on tour with him in 2012, and you could be one of the lucky six selected!

When I went to the screening of Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X , Rodney King was sitting in the front row and I was seated next to Alice Walker. At that time he was the proof of what Black men had been saying for so long: The police are trying to kill us unjustly and […]

PRAGUE (AP) — Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule. Shy and bookish, with a wispy mustache and unkempt hair, the dissident playwright was an unlikely hero of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who shot four people, killing two, at a utility office east of Los Angeles before turning the gun on himself was a 48-year-old company employee from Southern California, authorities said Saturday. RELATED: Round Up Of Gene Marks “Poor Black Kid” Critiques Investigators identified the shooter as Andre Turner of […]

I believe that everything happens in divine order.  It’s just that sometimes we do things to have the experience.  Sometimes we do things out of ignorance; we just don’t know that there could be another way Why God Loves Tim Tebow More Than Any Other NFL Player [ORIGINAL] It’s time to leave when: 1.  There […]

2011 was a year with so many great Gospel songs, but fans voted “Nobody Greater” by VaShawn Mitchell as the best of the year in the Digital Gospel Music Awards, presented by Elev8! He beat out great songs by some of Contemporary Gospel artists, and received 487 votes, which was enough win 22% of all […]

Fred Hammond has been criticized by some for making a “love” album, but in this interview, he explains why it makes perfect sense for a Christian to do this. In this video found on 1-800Gospel.com, he talks about the biblical connection to making love songs, and what it was like for him to go through […]

WASHINGTON — In the ultimate cap to a year of last-minute, half-loaf legislation, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to extend a payroll tax cut for a two months, with the chamber’s leaders and the White House proclaiming victory, even as they pushed the issue of how to extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits […]