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Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren are now divorced. Woods and Nordegren also issued this joint statement: We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future. While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and […]
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 […]
Fantasia says she knew exactly what she was doing when she overdosed earlier this month…she was trying to kill herself.
In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project. “If this really is a free country,” said Mr. Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, “then, by […]
Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department employee forced to resign after an edited video clip gave the false impression that she had discriminated against a white farmer, is coming to Washington next week to meet with USDA officials to discuss the job they offered her in the wake of the scandal. Sherrod, who has been quietly […]
Gainesville’s fire department yesterday denied a permit for a public Quran burning being organized by the city’s Dove World Outreach Center, a self-described “New Testament, Charismatic, Non-Denominational Church,” according to the Gainesville Sun (via theOrlando Sentinel). The event had drawn the ire of city residents and leaders, and both the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the National […]
Excerpt from Acts of Faith by Iyanla Vanzant A friend is a person who dislikes the same people you do. – Anonymous Don’t hang out with people who are where you don’t want to be. Your friends and the environment reflect what you really feel about yourself. Winners hang out with winners. Losers hang out […]
The foreclosure crisis has touched everyone, including the church. A predominantly African American church in Atlanta is speaking out about its foreclosure, saying the bank is not doing enough to help. Pastor Dexter Johnson, Higher Ground Empowerment Center leader, has been given until Aug. 31 to pay up or leave the grounds. He says the […]
The African American woman who called Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice and heard the radio talk show host use the n-word 11 times said Thursday that she was confused and hurt by the call. “I was calling her to get some help,” Nita Hanson told CNN’s “American Morning.” “I did not expect to hear the […]
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — Americans need only stand in line at the grocery checkout counter to glimpse the conspiracy theories percolating about President Obama. “Birthplace Cover-Up,” screams the current issue of the racy tabloid Globe. “Obama’s Secret Life Exposed!” The article claims, without proof, that Mr. Obama uses a phony Social Security […]
The family of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman who was killed in an illegal police raid has received $4.9 million, the Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced Monday morning that the estate of Kathryn Johnston, led by her niece Sarah Dozier, would be getting a $4.9 million settlement. The full city […]
By Oretha Winston at Elev8.com Gospel star Fred Hammond — a Grammy, Stellar, and Dove Award-winner with nearly three decades in music and ministry — has produced a concept recording unlike any other in recent gospel music history. “Life in the Word offers something a little different,” says Hammond, whose songs have, over the years, […]