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VIA: Newsone.com The Obama daughters, Sasha and Malia, joined their mother, the first lady, Michelle Obama to read to children and answer their questions at the Children’s National Medical Center on Tuesday.
VIA: New York Times BAGHDAD — As a priest led prayers for a few dozen worshipers inside St. Joseph Chaldean Church here on Sunday, Iraqi police officers stood guard outside. They blocked the street to traffic and frisked those who entered for explosive belts. At churches in Baghdad this week, Christians are being asked for […]
VIA: AJC.com Shaun King, a 30-year-old, buzz-cut pastor, taps on the keypad of his BlackBerry while sitting in the fifth floor Midtown office suite of his fledgling ministry, the Courageous Church. “People from all around the world are giving,” he said, looking at the screen. “Somebody from Chicago gave $20 five minutes ago. Somebody from […]
VIA: AJC.com Ann Nixon Cooper, the 107-year-old Atlanta woman whose name President Barack Obama invoked when he gave his historic election speech last year, died Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. Then President-elect Obama called Cooper an example of “the heartbreak and the hope,” noting that she’d lived long enough to remember when African-Americans weren’t allowed […]
VIA: New York Times For more than three decades, they sang Mozart in Latin, Bach in German, and Cole Porter and Stevie Wonder in English, from Alice Tully Hall in New York to Royal Albert Hall in London. For the audiences that marveled at the Boys Choir of Harlem, it was an additional wonder that […]
VIA: AJC.com With only three days before Christmas, the Marines’ annual “Toys for Tots” program is only halfway to its goal, and down over 30 percent from a year ago. Gunnery Sgt. Edward Barrett told the AJC Tuesday that so far, they’ve counted 436,350 toys for metro Atlanta children to open at Christmas this year. […]
VIA: New York Daily News WASHINGTON – President Obama rejected criticism yesterday that he isn’t doing enough to help black Americans. “Is there grumbling?” Obama said. “Of course, there’s grumbling, because we just went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” Interviewed by American Urban Radio Networks, Obama got defensive when asked to […]
VIA: NBC Despite a year that saw her slapped with a $20,000 fine for an on-court tirade, Serena Williams managed to win the Associated Press’ Female Athlete of the Year Award, beating fellow tennis great Kim Clijsters and horse Zenyatta to capture the annual honor. Williams spent 2009 re-establishing herself as the best player in […]
VIA: AJC.com Weeks before installing a new King as the leader of the SCLC, the organization suspended its chairman and treasurer. In a overnight emailed press release, dated Monday, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said that its controversial board chairman, the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, and treasurer, Spiver Gordon, were suspended pending “an internal investigation into […]
VIA: CNN.com Health care reform moved a major step closer to reality Monday when the Senate voted before dawn to overcome a Republican filibuster against a sweeping $871 billion health care bill. The procedural vote virtually ensures the bill’s final approval by the chamber later this week. It would then be merged with the $1 […]
VIA: AJC.com Marva Kenny may be Greenbriar Mall’s greatest booster. She had the funeral procession of her husband, John, the mall’s maintenance chief, pass through Greenbriar’s parking lot. “The mall is part of my family,” she said. So she is apologetic when speaking about the 44-year-old Greenbriar, one of the city’s first enclosed malls. “When […]
Actress Alaina Reed Hall-Amini, most noted for her portrayal of Rose Holloway on the 80’s NBC sitcom 227 and as Olivia on Sesame Street passed away on Thursday, December 17th after a battle with breast cancer at the age of 63. Born in Springfield, Ohio, Hall-Amini began her career in Broadway and off-Broadway productions. She […]