Now we’re going back in the day with SOME REAL BLACK HISTORY – as we feature “Commissioned” Originally from Detroit, Michigan, the six original members were Fred Hammond, Mitchell Jones, Keith Staten, Karl Reid, Michael Brooks, and Michael Williams formed a group in 1982, 2 years after Fred Hammond played bass for The Winans. In 1991 Staten and Brooks left the group and were replaced […]
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family has been gathering in the days since she was rushed to the hospital Saturday. Now they may be preparing to say goodbye. Ebony, TMZ and People are among the outlets reporting that relatives who have been praying for a miracle may instead be preparing to mourn, nearly three years to the date […]
Charlie Sifford, considered by many “the Jackie Robinson of professional golf,” has died. Sifford, 92, lived in Shaker Heights. Born in North Carolina, Sifford helped desegregate the Professional Golfers’ Association. In November he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. After joining the PGA, Sifford went on to win several PGA […]
A Taiwanese commercial flight with 53 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in Taipei. Taiwan’s Central News Agency said at least 10 people were being taking to safety after the incident but gave no immediate information about the other passengers and crew aboard the TransAsia Airways flight. The […]
For the past 10 years, Detroit resident James Robertson has walked 21 miles without fail to his Rochester Hills, Michigan factory job once his 1988 Honda Accord stopped working. Robertson always planned on getting a new car but making $10.55 an hour, isn’t nearly enough for him to buy one, and he couldn’t afford to catch a cab […]
The black-and-white photograph of Rosa Parks on the bus looks familiar. She’s staring forward, reenacting her moment in history as if preparing for a place in a grade school textbook on the civil rights movement, conservatively dressed in a hat and patterned dress, holding her handbag tightly on her lap so as not to bother […]
Gospel’s latest Top Ten sensation Casey J – who is currently #2 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart with the radio smash “Fill Me Up” – is set to record her first Tyscot Records CD “The Truth” during a live recording session on Friday, January 30, 2015 @7:30 P.M. at the Fresh Start Church in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. The […]
Martin Luther King Jr. reads the newspaper as he prepares to accept his Nobel Prize Award in 1964, in this handout image provided by the Ebony Collection. Johnson Publishing, parent company of struggling Ebony and Jet magazines, is seeking a buyer for the archive, which it estimates is worth more than $40 million. BY AMBER […]
(PHOTO: THE CHRISTIAN POST / STOYAN ZAIMOV) Mark Burnett and Roma Downey at “The Bible Experience” opening night gala on March 19, 2013 in New York. Roma Downey and Mark Burnett are extending their collaboration with NBC from “A.D.” this spring to another television series, “Unveiled,” the network announced on Friday. The husband and wife […]
On the day of the Andrae Crouch homegoing service gospel singer Yolanda Adams talked with his beloved twin sister Sandra Crouch about his life, his legacy, and the amazing relationship the two shared. Sandra reflected on how much they accomplished together despite coming from a small town. She was amazed at all God did for them. […]