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Imago Dei Music Group recording artist and BET’s Sunday Best second season winner Y’Anna Crawley released her first solo CD project, The Promise, on August 24, 2010. Y’Anna says that winning Sunday Best and working on this CD project have been amazing blessings in her life. Her experiences inspired her to choose The Promise as […]
The 20th Annual NAACP Theater Awards went down last night and tons of celebs made it out to the red carpet looking fab. Check it out: RELATED: Shirley Sherrod Writes Letter Supporting NAACP, Blasting Tea Party RELATED: Did Any Black Actresses Make Forbes’ “Highest Paid” List?
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“We have to be able to decode what’s happening and realize that this is religious intolerance on one hand, and it’s [also] good ol’ red-blooded American racial and ethnic bias on the other hand,” said Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, sitting in his office at the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. in Harlem. A controversial nationwide […]
As a getaway for two Democratic presidents, including the current one, Martha’s Vineyard is often disparaged as an undemocratic haven for wealthy white elites. Kathlyn Joy Gilliam and Lorraine Parson thought differently from what they had read in black history books, and longed to visit. “It’s always been said this is where the elite African-Americans […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton led a march and rally in Washington, D.C. over the weekend to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic 1963 March on Washington. Themed “Reclaim the Dream” to counter conservative TV host Glenn Beck’s rally that took place the same day at the actual site where Dr. King delivered his “I Have […]
In a recent interview Fantasia tells Vibe that she feels her “African and more ethnic features” played a role in the coverage she received from the mainstream media regarding her affair with her married boyfriend as opposed to the coverage Alicia Keys received.
There’s a new shoe that is the object of desire for female politicians in Washington, D.C. It’s Kate Spade’s “Halle” shoe.
A drunk man barged into a mosque in Queens, N.Y., and shouted anti-Muslim slurs before urinating on prayer rugs, the New York Post reported. Evening prayers were disrupted at the Iman Mosque this week when the unhinged man “came in with a beer bottle in his hands, clearly very intoxicated,” according to Mustapha Sadouki, who […]
From CNN: Belief Blog: Long before last week’s revelation that a large and growing chunk of Americans believe that the President is Muslim – and that only about one in three Americans correctly identify him as Christian – Barack Obama was battling misperceptions about his religion. In early 2008, right as Obama was in desperate […]
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 […]
After months of remaining silent, Elin Nordegren’s team contacted PEOPLE magazine for a one-time interview so the now ex-wife of troubled golfer Tiger Woods could finally tell her side of the story. A source tells PopEater, “After Elin contacted the magazine, she went back and forth many times about doing the interview. This was a […]