Precious Perry shares a few things in common with the fictional protagonist in the 2009 film “Precious.” Both young women grew up in Harlem with troubled single mothers. Both left home in their teens. And both had their lives changed by social worke ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 10:28PM
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In a world of fiercely guarded corporate names and logos, it should be easy to understand this feast. The letters IHS are an abbreviation of Jesous, the Greek name for Jesus. Although St. Paul might claim credit for promoting devotion to the Holy Na ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 12:40AM
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Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world.” To anyone moderately aware of world events, this passing comment by German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is an obvious fact. However, it created a stir in her country and beyond by groups with ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 10:07PM
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BREAKING - "Lance ... to admit doping," by USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer: "Armstrong plans to make an admission about doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey ... to tape Monday at his home in Austin ... In the interview, which is scheduled to air ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 9:33PM
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INAUGURAMA - "Obama's 2nd inauguration smaller, yet still grand," by AP's Nedra Pickler : "Estimates of turnout are 600,000 to 800,000, compared with the 1.8 million in the record crowd on the National Mall four years ago ... While organizers said Ob ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 9:27PM
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Friday, January 11, 2013
At Barack Obama’s second public inauguration ceremony Jan. 21, a laywoman will offer the invocation, apparently for the first time. We’ve got nothing against clergy, for obvious reasons, but we like this idea. A lot ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 2:20AM
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Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 2:06AM
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An Evangelical pastor scheduled to give the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony next week withdrew from participating in the event Thursday after uproar over a sermon he gave about homosexuality.
The Rev. Louie Giglio, a pas ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 1:54AM
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I'm was browsing through blogs that I missed and saw this one!!!!
I must say, Mr. West I guess that's why the President spoke out when Travon Martin was murdered is cause he don't care bout Black kids, Huh????
What a stupid statement. The tr ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 1:37AM
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Abraham Galloway was a mixed-race, 19th century slave and brick mason. Born in Smithville, North Carolina, his father was a white man named John Wesley Galloway, who was the son of a wealthy Brunswick County planter. His mother was a 17-year-old slav ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 4:07PM
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Add Grammy-winning R&B singer Fantasia to the growing list of musical acts heading to New Orleans Super Bowl weekend. Sherri Shepherd, host of ABC’s “The View,” and Grammy-winning gospel musician Kirk Franklin, are hosting the Sup ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 4:02PM
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Erica and Tina Campbell, the award-winning gospel duo known best to fans as Mary Mary, had a successful run with their self-titled reality show on WEtv last year. So of course they’re back with season two on Thursday night at 9 p.m. This episode find ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:53PM
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Stressing “kindness creates kindness, generosity creates generosity and love creates love”, a 51-year-old California...
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Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:33PM
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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver his recommendations for comprehensive gun violence legislation. "There is really a very tight window to do this," he told the press corps during his announcement...
The recommendations are ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:08PM
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There may be a correlation between restaurant meal consumption and diabetes. Researchers studied type 2 diabetes in 44,072 African American women from the Black Women's Health study to determine if Western culture's consumption of restaurant fo ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 2:16PM
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In February 2010, Laverne Wilkinson of Brooklyn, New York, felt chest pains and thought she was having a heart attack. So she went to see a doctor at Kings County Hospital. But despite her X-ray showing a suspicious nodule in her lung, she was told t ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 1:27PM
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A total of 43 new pro-life laws went into effect in 19 states last year, making 2012 the year with the second highest number of pro-life legislation passed at the state level.
The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute recently released the “Law Affect ...
Posted Wednesday, January 9th 2013 at 10:21PM
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The National Pro-Life Alliance has prepared a short video on the power of sonograms in saving babies. Please take a moment to watch and after watching, please sign the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act petition.
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Martin Fox
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Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 11:12PM
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(HBO) Wanda's take on how it would be if you had to come out being if all Black people had "to come" because they're Black. Hillarious!!!
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Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 2:01AM
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Beyonce's Personal Response to Kim Kardashian's Pregnancy.
Bonus Clip Spoof of Beyonce Talking About Her Blue Ivy.
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 11:27PM
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Montgomery County Police Department--- A man dressed as Batman is pulled over by police in Maryland for having improper tags on Lamborghini "Batmobile."
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Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 3:08AM
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre also called the Church of the Resurrection, is a Christian church within the walled Old City of Jerusalem. The ground on which the church stands is venerated by most Christians as Golgotha, the Hill of Calvary, where the ...
Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 2:47AM
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