Photo courtesy of WSB-TV A SWAT team had to be called in Wednesday night to quell a riot that broke out at the DeKalb Regional Youth Detention Center, reports the AJC. com. The county police SWAT team showed up at the south DeKalb facility, located on Clifton Springs Road, at around 10:15 pm and was […]
The California preacher who said he was “flabbergasted” that the the world did not end on May 21st as he predicted is now saying Judgment Day will take place on October 21st, 2011. Family Radio preacher Harold Camping said the world did not come to a fiery end because God was too merciful to trigger […]
The California preacher who said Judgment Day would take place on Saturday, May 21st, 2011 says he is “flabbergasted” that the world did not come to an end this past weekend. As we previously reported, 89-year-old radio preacher Harold Camping convinced hundreds of his Family Radio followers that the rapture would occur on Saturday at […]
This past Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the rest of the country got a chance to see why Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is considered an emerging leader in America. Mayor Reed was part of a panel that included former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, Tea Party-backed Illinois Republican Congressman Bobby Schilling, MSNBC […]
With a big arctic air mass pouring into the state, the temperature isn’t expected to rise above freezing until Friday. “Anything on the ground is going to stay there because we’re not getting above freezing,” Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton said. “The wind is blowing, that will help some, but it won’t be […]
Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifah, Shanice Wilson and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. were among the celebrities who honored singer Teena Marie at a private memorial service in Los Angeles on Monday. Gordy and Wonder spoke and Robinson and Wilson sang at the memorial service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Marie’s daughter, Alia Rose […]
One of the men filing suit against Bishop Eddie Long has broken his silence. In an interview with Fox 5 Atlanta, Jamal Parris said Eddie Long “turned his back on us when he had no more need for us. That’s not a father, that’s a predator.” “I loved him,” Parris said. “I’m always going to […]
From the AJC.com: A crowd of people hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd. Thousands of people were lined up at the Tri-Cities Plaza shopping center, hoping to apply for a voucher from the East Point Housing Authority that will give them a […]
Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at a rally for the antigay National Organization for Marriage and said marriage equality would lead to “extinction” and called it “genocide.” King, who heads King for America, addressed a rally Saturday in Atlanta whose attendees were outnumbered by counterprotesters, according to the Georgia Voice. […]
Praise 102.5’s Praise in the Park concert took place this weekend at the Clayton County International Park in Jonesboro, GA! Performers included Byron Cage, Brian Courtney Wilson, Regina Belle, Smokie Norful, J. Moss, our own Darlene McCoy and more! Check out the photos below, and continue checking mypraiseatl.com for more exclusive concert footage on the […]
Wyclef Jean appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live” last night to officially announce his candidacy for the presidency of Haiti. Wyclef made the announcement live via satellite from Haiti, his home country. However, actor/activist Sean Penn appeared on the show as well and criticized Wyclef’s run for president. Do y’all think this is fair criticism? […]
Days after releasing a statement, Essence magazine Editor-in-Chief Angela Burt Murray is continuing to defend her decision to hire Elliana Placas, a white woman, as the publication’s new fashion director. In an opinion piece for The Grio, Burt Murray claims that the magazine’s “commitment to black women remains unchanged.” She added: “When we run pieces […]