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Nashville, TN (November 18, 2019) – Appearances by music icon Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul / RCA) and gospel music superstar Le’Andria Johnson were highlights of BET Presents: 2019 Soul Train Awards, which aired live on BET and BET HER on Sunday, November 17th. The fourteen-time GRAMMY® winning Franklin took home the Best Gospel / […]
(LOS ANGELES, CA) – November 16, 2019 – DIVAS Simply Singing!, the longest consecutive running musical AIDS benefit in the United States, hosts its 29th annual fundraiser for The D.I.V.A. Foundation at the Taglyan Cultural Centerin Hollywood, California on World AIDS Day, Sunday, December 1. Created and produced by Tony Award-Winning Sheryl Lee Ralph and benefitting Project Angel Food, this […]
Richmond, VA – November 17, 2019 — St. Paul’s Baptist Church celebrated 110 years during the 9am and 11am morning services. Adding to the celebration were praise dances and the Mass Choir, under the leadership of Patrick Newby. Delivering an inspiring word for both the 9am and the 11am services was the senior pastor, Rev. […]
Nashville, TN — Ben Tankard is the best-selling Gospel/Jazz Artist of all-time, a 15-time Stellar Award winner and a Stellar Music Hall of Fame inductee. He has sold 15 Gold and 6 Platinum records and has earned numerous Dove, Grammy, Soul Train Award nominations and a 2019 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Jazz Recording. This year marked his first #1 […]
Nashville, TN (November 15, 2019) – With a knack for delivering worshipful heart-rending music and ministry that reaches across the world, multiple award-winning Gospel icon Donnie McClurkin has created yet another impactful album with A Different Song (CamDon Music/RCA Inspiration). Available everywhere, A Different Song marks the eighth solo album released from the prolific singer, […]
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK– In the latest episode of ESSENCE’s Yes, Girl! podcast, hosts Cori Murray and Charli Penn talk to Whitney Houston’s confidante Robyn Crawford—who reveals a side of the iconic singer that only ESSENCE can share. While at the height of a whirlwind tour promoting her book, A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston, Crawford shares […]
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Help us celebrate the birthday of one of Gospel’s Royalty…Karen Clark Sheard! Today she turns 59 years old!
Black PR Wire — NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today BET Networks announced the second season pick-up for its smart, sexy drama series “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY.” Starring Lauren London, Sarunas J. Jackson, Parker McKenna Posey, Karen Obilom and Jackie Long, season one of “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY” followed a desperate basketball wife trying to protect her family, a tenacious […]
Los Angeles, Calif. ( November 12, 2019) – Warner Bros. Pictures dropped the official new “Just Mercy” film trailer today. Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, Creed, Fantastic 4) and Oscar® winners Jamie Foxx (Ray, Django Unchained), and Brie Larson (Captain Marvel, Room, The Glass Castle) star in “Just Mercy,” an inspiring drama that brings one of […]
SILVER SPRING, MD – November 13, 2019 – Cathy Hughes, Urban One Founder and Chairwoman, today announced the honorees, performers and presenters for the prestigious annual URBAN ONE HONORS event on Thursday, December 5, 2019, at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The two-hour telecast will air on TV One, a division of Urban One, on January 20, 2020, […]
From L to r, Vanessa Fitzgerald, Sheilah Belle “The Belle”, Almeta Ingram, First Lady Kirven and Center, Cora Harvey Armstrong and Pastor Timothy and First Lady Michelle Kirven Richmond, VA –November 11, 2019 – Congratulations to Worship and Praise Church and a successful twentieth Anniversary Celebration where Rev. Timothy Kirven is the senior pastor. The […]
Nashville, TN — (November 11, 2019) – Through heartfelt ministry and stellar songwriting, multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning Gospel icon Donnie McClurkin, delivers a moving worship experience with the release of his new single “All To The Glory Of God” (CamDon Music/RCA Inspiration). Marking the fourth single released from McClurkin’s forthcoming album, the new single is available […]
