NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama will visit 10 cities to promote her memoir “Becoming,” a tour featuring arenas and other performing centers to accommodate crowds far too big for any bookstore. Michelle Obama’s book tour is essentially a stadium/arena tour. That’s totally fair given a) her popularity b) her ability as a speaker […]
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Frederick Haynes is the vice president of the African-American Pastors Coalition.
There aren’t many things that gospel megastar Kirk Franklin hasn’t accomplished. However, when Pop singer Tori Kelly asked him to help her create her first gospel album, it ended up being new experience that lead to great music and a new friendship. Franklin chatted with Willie Moore Jr. about what went into creating her album and what […]
Whether it is a movie or TV show, Black fathers are often not shown as being positive influences in their families. Instead, we are constantly bombarded with story lines that create a misconception that all Black men are bad fathers. Nationally syndicated radio hosts and fathers, Rickey Smiley and Willie Moore Jr. participate in the “Fatherhood: […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss New York Nia Imani Franklin was named Miss America 2019 in Atlantic City. Her victory Sunday night resurrected a string of successes the Empire State has had in the pageant in recent years. Mallory Hagan, Nina Davuluri and Kira Kazantsev won the title from 2013 to 2015 competing as […]
DETROIT (AP) — A black pastor’s controversial eulogy at Aretha Franklin’s funeral laid bare before the world what black women say they have experienced for generations: sexism and inequality in their houses of worship every Sunday. In eulogizing the beloved artist known as the Queen of Soul, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. declared that as […]
On December 5, 2017, Keisha Lance Bottoms defeated Norwood in the Mayoral election. She took office in January 2018 and is only the second female mayor of Atlanta. It wasn’t an easy race, she faced push back and lack of support from those who she thought would support her. But, she didn’t let that stop her, she knew […]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A woman was in for a huge surprise when Miami Beach police pulled her over. She and her boyfriend got out of the car. An officer asked the boyfriend if he had anything to say. And that’s when the man, identified as Kenneth, got down on one knee, held out […]
Things are heating up now for the Greenleafs after Lady Mae (Lynn Whitfield) dropped that bomb on Bishop James (Keith David) last week. She should’ve never come for Bishop with the threat of divorcing his black a**. He switches up the game on her and beat her to the punch. While enjoying the sunshine […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Cicely Tyson, composer Lalo Schifrin and publicist Martin Levy will be getting honorary Oscar statuettes this fall at the film academy’s Governors Awards, while producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the honorees Wednesday […]
