(EURweb.com) The stage was foreign to R&B singer Keyshia Cole on the morning of Resurrection Sunday at the City of Refuge Church.
After being informed that she was present, the Pastor, Bishop Noel Jones, invited her to participate in a mini-concert of sorts.
Cole was the last of the plentiful talent asked to perform impromptu at the [...]
While many of us are grumbling about paying taxes (sigh!), our politicians are having a ball with your hard-earned money!
WASHINGTON (examiner.com) – Congress is keeping Andrews Air Force base plenty busy this year ferrying lawmakers all over the globe at taxpayers’ expense. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi took his wife, nine Democrats and two Republicans [...]
Dear Jesus!
Keep these folks in your prayers!!!
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 30 people and wounding many more before he was killed, police said.
“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said university president Charles Steger. [...]
Just me thinking out-loud…
While I am getting tired of hearing about this situation (as if it is the first time the words “nappy-headed hoe’s” were uttered from the words of mortal man), I think that there is some good to it because folks are starting to seriously look at the double standards we have in [...]
This past Saturday, I appeared on the Count it All Joy streaming radio program where SepiaLove and I with other callers talked about a wide range of issues. I had never been on radio, so this was certainly neat for me. Sepia is DOING exactly the kind of thing I have been talking about: Controlling [...]
If you are between the ages of 30 and 38 and you watched television as a child, perhaps you remember hearing the following:
“A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter”
What was the show?
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(joburg.org.za) MORE than R1,7-billion has been invested in property refurbishments and construction in the inner city since Johannesburg launched a drive to regenerate the area in October 2004.
To complement this, the City is calling on black economic empowerment (BEE) and female investors to take advantage of the inner city’s bright economic climate and participate in [...]
Too many of our babies are running away from home!
JEREMY BARNETT
Case Type: Endangered Runaway
DOB: May 21, 1992
Sex: Male
Missing Date: Mar 15, 2007
Race: Black
Age Now: 14
Height: 5’4″ (163 cm)
Missing City: PEORIA
Weight: 120 lbs (54 kg)
Missing State : IL
Hair Color: Black
Missing Country: United States
Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1066546
Circumstances: Jeremy was last seen on March 15, [...]
This is the question I have regarding the latest craze in the world of positive thinking (or should I say profiting thinking).
As many of you may know by now, Oprah has become the latest evangelist for The Secret gospel. Here is an excerpt from her site:
“On February 8, 2007, millions tuned in to The Oprah [...]
Not too long ago, Ed Brown of Darkstar spouts off dropped an idea that I thought was a pretty good one. He proposed to a few churches in his area that they invest in some stock with Radio One (one of the leading–if not THE leading–provider of urban radio here in the US). This way [...]
(newsobserver.com) RALEIGH – The new chairwoman of the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus has ordered an audit of the group’s nonprofit foundation amid worries from the past chairwoman, Rep. Beverly Earle of Charlotte, that the group spent too much money on its annual conference and banquet.
The caucus foundation spent $50,000 on its 2005 conference, nearly as [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police detained several hundred people, including chess champion Garry Kasparov, on Saturday as they snuffed out an attempt by opponents of President Vladimir Putin to protest near the Kremlin.
Activists had planned to gather at a city centre square about one km (half a mile) from the Kremlin to protest at what [...]
(mlive.com) The weather forecast for Saturday’s global warming rallies in Grand Rapids and Holland calls for snow and cold rain and temperatures in the 40s — about 10 degrees below normal.
For some, this might make global warming a tough sell.
“I’ve thought of that,” said Lisa Locke, associate director of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council, [...]
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