While browsing YouTube the other day, I noticed an interesting ad, placed below a video entitled, “Single black women find the search for love is especially difficult.” The ad pictured a Black woman with a shirtless White man next to the text, “AfroRomance — Where love is more than skin deep.” I didn’t want to […]
Louis Gossett Jr. recently learned he has prostate cancer, but it is in an early stage, the actor said Tuesday. “I count this diagnosis among the many challenges I have faced in my life and overcome,” Gossett said in a statement. “I expect this to be no different.” The Oscar-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor […]
With Dr. Conrad Murray officially charged in Michael Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles coroner has released the autopsy report that said it was a homicide. The 51-page report gives vivid detail supporting last August’s conclusion that Jackson died from “acute propofol intoxication.” Murray told investigators he gave Jackson propofol, a powerful anesthetic, to help him […]
February 13, 1920 Andrew “Rube” Foster) became successful in organizing the first Negro baseball league, known as the Negro National League (NNL). Foster is credited as being the father of black baseball.
Carter G. Woodson was a coal miner and child of former slaves with enthusiasm for the historical documentation of the African-American experience. He decided as a young man that our stories needed to be recognized. After earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University in history, Carter became a Howard University professor. He then co-founded and financed […]
Kelly Price is a mother, wife and an artist. But most of all she’s a woman who’s faith in God has carried her through some of life’s most trying times. Where are you from? KP – Queens, New York. Do you miss the city? KP – Not terribly. I miss the energy of the city. […]
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When my four-year-old asked me about defeating the devil, I was at a loss for words – almost. Luke 12: 11-12 (New International Version) “‘When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at […]
The directive – in the form of emails, text messages and word of mouth – was urgent: to spread the word about a live recording of the gospel music industry’s biggest stars in response to the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the already poverty-stricken nation of Haiti, impacting an estimated three million people with a death […]
Ending more than a decade of denials and evasion, former major league slugger Mark McGwire admitted Monday that steroids and human growth hormone helped make him a home run king. “The toughest thing is my wife, my parents, close friends have had no idea that I hid it from them all this time,” McGwire told […]
WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE THEY WEARING?????? Okay sorry for shouting, but I had to get that off of my chest. Some have said that gospel artists push the envelope and are dressed way too secular. Others have said that gospel artists need to catch up with the times and dress a little more “hip” […]
A four-year-old boy has died after a bullet fired from up to five kilometres away fell through a church roof and struck him in the head. Marquel Peters was playing a portable video game at the church in Decatur, Georgia, on New Year’s Eve when he suddenly slumped to the ground and began bleeding profusely, […]