Over 10,000 votes were cast in the first annual Digital Gospel Music Awards presented by Elev8, and the Gospel music fans have spoken! Votes were placed by readers of Elev8.com and Radio One sister sites MyPraiseATL.com, PraiseCharlotte.com, PraiseCleveland.com, MyColumbusJoy.com, Praise1027Detroit.com, PraiseHouston.com, PraiseIndy.com, PraisePhilly.com, TheLightNC.com, PraiseRichmond.com and PraiseDC.com. (One vote per computer was accepted in each […]
Bullying is a national issue and many experts have their own solutions on how to curb it, but none are likely as creative as Nikki Davis‘ approach. For the past few months, Davis has been touring New York City, singing at elementary, middle, and high schools to promote anti-bullying messages that she hopes young people […]
A short pencil will beat a long memory any day! Learn the value of writing things down. Things as great as God inspired visions and as small as grandma’s favorite recipe can be lost if you don’t learn this valuable principle. Begin the path of your idea becoming a legacy by ‘putting it in ink’. […]
– Renowned Bishop T.D. Jakes joins Roland Martin for the second of a two-part discussion about fatherhood in the Black community and Jakes’ daughter joins to share a personal story about her teenage pregnancy – December 29, 2011, Silver Spring, MD – – A special New Year’s Day edition of WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN concludes […]
Roland Martin and Ron Bonjean join Natalie Allen in the CNN Newsroom to discuss the GOP presidential field shake up.
A movie about a Black teenage girl struggling with her identity, who suffers verbal abuse from her mother and struggles to fit in with her peers, is currently getting a strong Oscar buzz. No, the movie is not “Precious 2” it is “Pariah,” the story of a teenage lesbian coming to grips with her identity. […]
A few months ago, while on the coattails of summer’s craziness, I lived through a strange experience of friendship that left me to the tendency of some friends to take, take, take… and take. Call them what you may, I like to think of these types of relationships as “convenience friendships.” This particular story involves […]
You might think that once you’ve passed your 75th wedding anniversary, it’d be smooth sailing through the golden years of your marriage and then into the great beyond. But unfortunately that’s not the case for one Italian couple who are getting divorced at the ripe old ages of 99 and 96, after an impressive 77 […]
This has been a great year in Gospel Music. Make sure that you check out who the winners of 2011 are in Digital Gospel Music Awards Winners Revealed! Here are the final album chart positions of 2011: #1 “Hello Fear-Kirk Franklin #2- WOW Gospel 2011 #3- “Something Big”- Mary Mary #4 “Rehab”- LeCrae #5- “Triumphant”- […]
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (pictured) told an audience at TED, a conference of “ideas worth sharing” in technology, entertainment, and design made popular by its free video and discussion site, that knowing only a single story of a person or a place is destructive like the one-noted image we have of Africa – hunger, poverty, […]
New Destiny Christian Center announces that the Rev. Paula White has been named its new senior pastor. White will assume her new role when she takes the pulpit to lead the church’s annual New Year’s Eve services on Saturday. “We celebrate the continuation of a vision, a vision launched back in 1996 with the founding […]
Mo’Nique is suing her landlord in Fulton County, Georgia over allegations her home smells and suffers from a mold problem. According to TMZ, the “Precious” actress is demanding she be let out of her $22,000-a-month rental contract due to her house smelling like dog feces. Mo’Nique also claims the house has an overflowing septic tank […]
