VIA: NY1.com Civil rights attorney and politician Percy Sutton has died. The son of a slave, Sutton first moved to New York City after serving with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. He went on to open a law office in Harlem where he represented Malcolm X, his family and many other defendants. Sutton […]
VIA: New York Times The actor, writer, director and producer Tyler Perry has had hits with film adaptations of his plays, including “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Madea’s Family Reunion.” He also recently added some star wattage to the film “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” by joining the project as […]
VIA: USA Today Mary J. Blige’s willingness to bare her sometimes-tortured inner self via powerful music has ensured her unbroken reign as the queen of hip-hop soul over an almost-20-year career. With today’s release of ninth album Stronger With Each Tear, she extends that approach outward in Anthony Mandler’s stunning cover portrait, which reveals a […]
VIA: USA Today It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas this morning: Snow is falling, shoppers are bundled up as they bustle into the grocery store, and Bill Schmidt, 63, is ringing a hand bell non-stop near a bright red kettle as he collects donations for the Salvation Army. He greets passers-by enthusiastically even […]
VIA: Baltimore Sun Michael Vick’s peers appreciate his tough journey back to the NFL. Vick won the Ed Block Courage Award, voted on by his teammates on the Philadelphia Eagles. The once-disgraced star quarterback returned to the league after spending 18 months in a federal prison for his role in a dogfighting ring. “It means […]
VIA: CNN.com The Senate passed a $871 billion health care reform bill Thursday morning, handing President Obama a Christmas Eve victory on his top domestic priority. The bill passed in a 60-39 party line vote after months of heated partisan debate. Every member of the Democratic caucus backed the measure; every Republican opposed it. Should […]
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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 […]
