Atlanta
This Saturday at Changing A Generation Full Gospel Church 4th Watch will pray for our civil leaders. This is the opportunity for all pastors and congregations to come together as one and pray for their strength and their courage and hold up their hands as they are on the front line of battle daily. Law […]
What exactly is considered a “megachurch” these days? By definition, large churches that have a weekly attendance rate of 2,000 or more persons is considered to be “mega” and/or a high profile church in your city. But this week, those megachurches all across the nation have reportedly been investigated or studied to find out just […]
From the AJC.com: The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation plans to blanket the metro Atlanta market this week with 50 billboards that shun religion and advocate separation of church and state. The billboards, which will run for a month, include such messages as “Imagine No Religion”, “Sleep In On Sundays” and even a quote from the late Thelma “Butterfly” […]
From the Washington Post: By Martin Luther King III Forty-seven years ago this weekend, on a sweltering August day often remembered simply as the March on Washington, my father delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. A memorial to him is being erected at the Tidal Basin, not far from where […]
From the AJC.com: A federal judge on Tuesday emphatically rejected Troy Anthony Davis’ claims that he was wrongly convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. In a 172-page order, U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. said Davis failed to prove his innocence during an extraordinary hearing in June ordered by the U.S. Supreme […]
From Savvycherise : In preparation for the Washington D.C. stop of the STAND Campaign, Atlanta’s own Cory “CoCo Brother” Condrey broadcast his show live from our affiliate station, Praise D.C. 104.1. Packed with local pastors, gospel artists, and others from the Christian Community (in support of the STAND Campaign), Praise 104.1 took to the airwaves […]
ATLANTA — In February 2007, Alberto R. Gonzales, the attorney general under President George W. Bush, issued a stern warning to those who murdered blacks with impunity during the civil rights era: “You have not gotten away with anything. We are still on your trail.” He noted that time was short. The window of opportunity […]
Discouraged by the avalanche of foreclosures around them in Detroit, Mona Ramsey and her husband started looking at states where they would move. They considered North Carolina, Florida, Texas — and finally tacked Tennessee to the end of their list. In 2007, they moved to Nashville. Ramsey represents not only continuing strong black migration to […]