Iconic singer Beyonce recently urged fans to donate money to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a bid to support the organization’s efforts to ease civil unrest in Baltimore. In an Instagram post shared with her 31 million fans on Thursday, the Grammy award-winning artist wrote “people are hurting” in a […]
Tensions between police and protesters caused clashes in Philadelphia during the fourth night of demonstrations over the death of Freddie Gray. Officers pushed back members of a march who surged on a police line outside City Hall on Thursday, with police saying four arrests had been made. One protester told the Philadelphia Inquirer he had […]
Today, Paula White posted photos of her wedding on her Facebook page. Paula has been in the thick of a series of storms that have battered her since she and her husband, Randy White divorced in 2007 and even before. The only positive that she could take from all turmoil is that she emerged much […]
Loretta E. Lynch was confirmed Thursday as the 83rd U.S. Attorney General following a months long wait in a bitter debate that had nothing to do with her candidacy, reports say. The Senate voted 56 to 43, with 10 Republicans for her confirmation, according to The New York Times. Democrats applauded the confirmation after Lynch […]
BALTIMORE – As fires continue to burn in Baltimore, schools and some city and state offices have been closed, a state of emergency and a curfew have been declared, and a few people are beginning the cleanup. “Every few minutes, you hear a fire engine or police siren,” WTOP’s Nick Iannelli reports from Baltimore. “Some […]
*It is rare that one is ever afforded the luxury of speaking frankly to a master of his or her craft without consequence born of inflated egos and pride. That goes especially so for a journalist. Sure, we often score exclusive interviews but the direction of said conversations are comparable to a well-worn propaganda path […]
After coming under fire for asking 200,000 people to donate $300 or more each to raise $65 million to help his ministry purchase a luxury jet last month, popular televangelist Creflo Dollar, who is widely reported to be worth an estimated $27 million, has declared that “there is no such thing as the prosperity gospel” […]
A 25-year-old Baltimore man died Sunday a week after an encounter with police that left him with a severed spine, according to a lawyer for his family. Freddie Gray was arrested for yet-undisclosed reasons April 12 after fleeing police on foot. It was unclear when Gray’s injury occurred. His death was confirmed Sunday by the […]
Percy Sledge, the R&B singer whose soulful ballad of eternal love and rejection, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” topped the charts in 1966, died on Tuesday in Baton Rouge, La. He was 74. His death was confirmed by Artists International Management, which represented him. Mr. Sledge had liver cancer, for which he underwent surgery […]
FALL RIVER, Mass. – Aaron Hernandez, who once dominated the football field as a star tight end for the New England Patriots, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancée’s sister, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. A 12-person jury reached the verdict […]