Back in May, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)Passed a resolution just a few weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for marriage equality in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC’s Good Morning America. And Tuesday will launch a series of radio adverts urging voters to support marriage equality for same-sex couples. It was […]
Searchers in Fairfax County have found a body Monday afternoon in the woods of Thaiss Park. Friends identify him as a teen who had been missing since last Monday. Hundreds of volunteers started searching the woods of Thaiss Park Monday morning looking for clues in the disappearance of 17-year-old Bryan Glenn, a senior student at W.T. Woodson High […]
Two Prince George’s County police officers are facing accusations of police brutality from a D.C. police officer. After completing his Saturday shift, D.C. officer Richard Merritt was outside the Ebony Inn, located in Fairmount Heights, when he was approached by two Prince George’s County police officers. Merritt said the officers ordered him to stand against […]
A 15-year-old Rockville boy is missing, and police need your help to find him. Montgomery County Police say Darrionte Hebron was last seen at the Wheaton Community Center around 2 p.m. Monday, and hasn’t been seen since. Darrionte is described as a black male, 5’8” tall, weighing 110 pounds. He has brown eyes and short […]
Its been over 10 years since the terror spree of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo on the Metropolitan area. The duo paralyzed the region for more than three weeks before getting apprehended at a truck rest stop in Myersville, Md. Can you remember where you were when each of the shootings took place? Can […]
After La Crosse anchor-reporter Jennifer Livingston, who hosts the morning news on WKBT-TV (Channel 8), received an email from a man who attacked her for being obese and a bad role model, she told viewers that “his words mean nothing to me.” In her four-minute on-air response, she accused the man of bullying and said […]
Meet 8-year-old Vivienne Harr of Fairfax, Calif. who set up a lemonade stand after seeing a gallery of photographs depicting modern day slavery.She told her parents, “We need to make a stand”. And they literally did. Utilizing social media and an old fashioned lemonade stand, called “Where do you stand?” She set a goal of […]
It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of “souls to the polls” […]
With over 30 years in the music industry and as a trailblazer for the musical genre “Gospel Jazz,” she is back to follow up her two projects “All For You” and “Full Circle.” Listeners to Jordan’s latest CD, “UNCOMMON”, will hear selections such as, “Oh Happy Day,” which showcases her rendition of gospel music with a new […]
In order for you to know pain exists you must feel pain, you must experience pain and go “through” it. Pain exists physically, emotionally and spiritually and they all endure through a process. A “process” is a series of actions or steps taken to achieve an end. Therefore, to come to the end of “pain” […]
Welcome to the local lounge! A segment dedicated to the local gospel artist of the DMV. In this segment we talk to Lynda Hodges, a native Washingtonian and music minister in her church; recently released her first project titled “Free”. In this project Lynda Hodges shares about the trials and tribulations God bought her through and the […]
In this installment of The Application, Sheylene reminds us that no matter what state we are in…..We are never too far from God. He is just at prayer away. You can hear The Application every Saturday at 1:20 on Saturdays with DatDude JC on Praise 104.1.