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Via: CNN.com The word “billion” is thrown around a lot come Super Bowl time, but much like the big game, the potential audience and ad revenues don’t always live up to expectations. It’s indisputable that the National Football League’s last hurrah each season dwarfs all other single sporting events in terms of ad sales, but […]
Via: Eurweb.com *“It was like mind-blowing. At first I couldn’t believe it,” said Sipokazi Nxumalo, one of 19 founding members of the Soweto Gospel Choir, about winning their first Grammy Award. “There are 26 members (including band and dancers) and 90% of us have been together since the beginning. Seven or eight have moved on…” […]
Via: NewsOne.com // Jeff Paul, a Haitian student and president of the Haitian American Student Association at Medgar Evers College. NEW YORK – Every payday, Jeff Paul sent whatever dollars he could spare to his mother and little brother back home in Haiti. They’ve become even more desperate since the Jan. 12 earthquake, compounded by thieves, […]
Christians in the U.S. can now access a minister around the clock through a new 24-hour hotline. Non-profit organization the Bless Me Network launched the new service to fill “the need for convenient and direct access to clergy,” according to an announcement Wednesday. “We feel that in this modern day, individuals are losing touch with […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From the Huffington Post: In honor of Black History Month, the NBC cafeteria served fried chicken, collared greens, and jalapeno cornbread today for lunch. The picture below was snapped by Questlove, the drummer for the Roots–Jimmy Fallon’s house band. He was also the musician that pointed out via Twitter that Conan spent […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ten members of a U.S. missionary group who said they were trying to rescue 33 child victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association on Thursday, their lawyer said. Edwin Coq said after a court hearing that a judge found sufficient evidence to charge […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From WashingtonPost.com: Every morning, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m., a short religious passage comes across President Obama’s BlackBerry, sent by one of his aides. At other moments, Obama prays privately, his advisers said. And when he takes his family to Camp David on the weekends, a Navy chaplain ministers to them, […]
BET Networks will host a Haitian benefit concert and telethon Feb. 5 that will feature performances by Wyclef Jean [ tickets ], Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo, Ludacris and Justin Bieber, among many others. “SOS Saving Ourselves — Help for Haiti,” which will be taped at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, FL, also will feature […]
Via: TMZ.com Tyler Perry is facing one hell of a lawsuit — dude’s accused of using a Gospel song on his show “Meet the Browns” without forking over any green to the guy behind the music. It’s all over a 2009 episode of the show, in which several characters sang the words, “The Devil thought […]
Via: Elev8.com // This year’s ceremony for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards was touted as the most exciting ceremony in years, drawing in more than 25 millions viewers. However, unless those viewers visited Grammy.com, they probably didn’t find out about the latest pack of winners in the Gospel music field (most awards are presented in […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From BlackNews.com: Chicago, IL — A landmark study released today by Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, reports that there has been an increase of more than one million additional African Americans in need of emergency food assistance each year since 2006. With more than one in three African American […]
Radio personality, TV host, philanthropist, devoted husband, new father…these are just some of the many titles that can be used to describe Cory “Coco Brother” Condrey. This year, he’ll add yet another label behind his name, record producer. On March 30th, Condrey will release his debut CD STAND 2010 on Tyscot Records. Featured on several […]
