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VIA: Singersroom.com Grammy Award winning Gospel recording star Karen Clark Sheard graces the cover of the new issue of EEW Magazine. Saying she’s always been the “shy” one and “baby girl of the family,” Clark Sheard tells the magazine that she is looking forward to her first album under a joint venture with EMI, titled […]
VIA: USA Today Leaders from the largest black Methodist churches have gathered in Columbia, South Carolina to seek solutions to the problems plaguing many young African Americans. The event, which is being called the Great Gathering, is the first time these three denominations will jointly meet. Participating churches are: African Methodist Episcopal (AME) African Methodist […]
VIA: Elev8.com The greats of the gospel music world came out in full force for the 25th Annual Stellar Music Awards, which aired Sunday, February 28 on the Gospel Music Channel. Check out some photos from the red carpet and behind the scenes at the 2010 Stellar Music Awards.
VIA: CNN.com Rescuers searched for survivors Monday as crews sought to deliver food and water and prevent looting after the fifth strongest earthquake in 100 years ravaged central and southern Chile. More than 1.5 million people were without power in and around the capital of Santiago, according to Chile’s National Emergency Office, but the hardest-hit […]
VIA: Washington Post An independent two-year study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs recommends that President Obama and his National Security Council make religion “an integral part of our foreign policy.” The study identified six patterns that “reflect religion’s increasing importance in international affairs . . . making them impossible to ignore in the […]
An 8.8 earthquake, 100 times more powerful than Haiti, struck Chile early Saturday morning, causing a massive amount of destruction, fallen buildings and at least 140 deaths. Tsunami warnings were called for the coasts of California and all of Hawaii, but the warnings have since been cancelled. Since the earthquake hit on Saturday morning, a […]
VIA: CNN.com As the sun set in Chile on Saturday, a picture of the immense structural damage wrought by an early morning earthquake had come clearly into focus, with the nation’s president estimating that 2 million people had been affected in some way. More than 300 people were killed, according to Chile’s Office of Emergency […]
Think you can walk in Oprah’s shoes? Well here’s your chance! The mega mogul recently went through a major closet overhaul. With the help of her O Magazine creative designer, Adam Glassman, she managed to reorganize her wardrobe, ridding it of its excess. Though the process began as a tug of war between Adam and […]
VIA: AJC.com Bobsledder Elana Meyers of Douglasville heard a scream as she and driver Erin Pac crossed the finish line. “I didn’t know what was going on,” Meyers, 25, told the Washington Post. “I thought something was wrong at first. It was incredible. And then I figured out she was screaming — and it was […]
VIA: National Public Radio Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare and Otherworldly African-American Gospel is a new three-CD set that explores the diversity of postwar gospel music. Across 80 songs spanning six decades, the collection ranges from scratchy field recordings to intricate vocal harmonies to snappy adaptations of rock ‘n’ roll rhythms. The different styles […]
VIA: New Orleans Times-Picayune Admitting a massive cover-up, a former New Orleans police supervisor pleaded guilty to a federal obstruction charge on Wednesday, confessing that he participated in a conspiracy to justify the shooting of six unarmed people after Hurricane Katrina that was hatched not long after police stopped firing their weapons. The guilty plea […]
Lots of people came out last week for 102.5’s Praise Night at the Universoul Circus at the Turner Field parking lot. Check out our pictures below!