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Every week at the Sound of Praise with Maurette Brown Clark, we are memorizing scripture! Here is this week’s scripture: John 1:1 (KJV) – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Catch Maurette on the all new “Sound of Praise with Maurette Brown […]
Looking for a black-owned restaurant in your city? There’s an app for that. Entrepreneurs, Anthony and Janique Edwards, were tired of struggling to find black-owned eateries, so they created an app to solve that problem. EatOkra is a new app that connects users to black-owned restaurants in over 30 cities across the country. The couple founded the company […]
A long and overdue piece of legislation passed through the House on Wednesday, formally classifying lynching as a federal hate crime. The bill is named in honor of the 14-year-old black teenager who was brutally murdered by a white mob in Mississippi in 1955. Emmett Till’s uneventful death was one of the watershed moments marking the beginning of […]
God Bless Ms. Katherine Johnson (Grandma) a long life family friend. The friendship started with my parents then formed into a family bond that has stood for a lifetime. We called her Grandma. As a young teen, I would go over to the house with the rest of the family & friends, eat, fellowship […]
The daily reports regarding the coronavirus have now prompted the CDC has warned men about one of their most prized possessions: their facial hair. According to a graphic released by the agency, fashionable facial hairstyles such as various beards, goatees and more conflict with potentially “live-saving respirators”. The US is currently bracing for more cases […]
According to Fox 5 around two hundred international travelers, passing through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport showed potential systems that are related to the coronavirus. Officials said the more than 1,000 passengers were screened and only one person exhibited serious symptoms and has been admitted to Emory Hospital. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s General Manager John Selden released a […]
The University of Louisville in Kentucky is barring an unnamed student who passed out literature about the Bible’s teachings on homosexuality from having any more contact with students or a professor associated with an LGBT studies course. A spokesperson for the university reportedly told the Courrier-Journal last week that the institution issued a no-contact order to […]
Last September, a police officer in Orlando, Florida made national headlines after he arrested a 6-year-old and 8-year-old at a local elementary school. Now, newly released bodycam footage shows the incident in which fired officer Dennis Turner arrested a crying six-year-old and bragging that she broke his record for the youngest person he’d ever placed […]
An Alabama woman is thankful to be alive after being shot by her husband over the weekend. Local police said a man came to True Cornerstone Church on Halls Mill Road in Mobile on February 22 looking for his wife. He shot her outside of the church before shooting and killing himself. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. […]
A 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend were arrested this week after being accused of killing her roommates over a possible rent disagreement in a Southern California home. Jordan Guzman and her 18-year-old boyfriend, Anthony McCloud, were arrested on Thursday after police alerted authorities in Las Vegas to a missing car belonging to one of the victims, Trinity Clyde. The […]
An Alabama woman is thankful to be alive after being shot by her husband over the weekend. Local police said a man came to True Cornerstone Church on Halls Mill Road in Mobile on February 22 looking for his wife. He shot her outside of the church before shooting and killing himself. “She was calling […]
Former Empire star Jussie Smollett has officially pleaded not guilty to restored charges that accuse him of staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself last year in Chicago before then falsely reporting to the police. According to reports from AP, Smollett, 37, entered a Cook County courthouse on Monday surrounded by his legal team and a flock of reporters. […]