VIA: 11Alive.com The senior pastor of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church took an HIV/AIDS test during the Sunday morning service to encourage church members to do the same. “We don’t like to talk about these things in church,” Rev. Raphael Warnock told the congregation. “We’ve got to fight the unholy trinity of silence, shame and stigma.” Rev. Warnock said […]
VIA: New York Times COLUMBIA, S.C. — Neighbors were chagrined last week when the police here found the body of a 75-year-old woman who had frozen to death, alone in her house, during unexpectedly frigid weather. But they were shocked this week when they learned that the woman, Juanita W. Goggins, had been a civil […]
VIA: New York Times President Obama has made good on a promise to give his $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize money to charity, releasing on Thursday the names of the organizations that will benefit. “These organizations do extraordinary work in the United States and abroad helping students, veterans and countless others in need,” Mr. […]
VIA: AJC.com Lima, a 12-year-old circus zebra that ran through downtown Atlanta last month, has been euthanized, according to a statement on Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey’s Web site. “It was very much a quality of life issue,” circus spokeswoman Crystal Drake told the AJC Thursday evening. “They could measure the quality of life […]
VIA: AccessAtlanta Attorney Leron Rogers of the Hewitt & Rogers law firm has filed a lawsuit against Larry Platt, whose song “Pants on the Ground” made him an overnight celebrity after he performed it as an “American Idol” audition. Rogers says the suit was filed on behalf of his client, American King Music, regarding a […]
VIA: AJC.com Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville has ordered King Inc. to revise the bylaws of the corporation that controls the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a way that will likely ensure that its president, Dexter King, no longer will control the corporation. The order issued Tuesday resulted from the final settlement of […]
The 2010 Academy Awards were a huge success for the film Precious, which won two awards.
Actress, comedienne and TV host Mo’Nique won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Precious.” She beat out Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Penelope Cruz, as she did at the Golden Globes. “I would like to thank the Academy for proving that it can be about the performance and […]
VIA: Entertainment Weekly Whether he’s facing the judges or facing down an American Idol exit interview, Jermaine Sellers is never at a loss for words. He talked happily about his eclectic fashion choices, his outsized personality, why he confused Idol associate music director Michael Orland for a certain King of Pop, and who was always on […]
TMZ is reporting that rapper DMX’s upcoming “gospel rap extravaganza” concert at an Arizona high school has been canceled three days before it was set to go off … and it’s all because the school just realized the arrest-plagued rapper was involved. TMZ spoke to the pastor of the church the concert was supposed to […]
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that hundreds of investors in the Detroit area and elsewhere in Michigan lost as much as $11 million to a Ponzi scheme involving a Saudi Arabian crude oil bond scam connected to Michael Winans Jr., according to state regulators. The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation said that it […]
Yesterday, just days before the Oscars, ESSENCE magazine honored the best and brightest of Black Women in Hollywood. They asked the ladies to come together to celebrate the legendary achievements of some of the greatest American actresses of our times. They honored: Hollywood royalty Cicely Tyson with the Legend Award Break-out star Gabourey Sidibe with […]
