May 21, 1975 – “LOWELL W. PERRY” — confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm. He was an American football player and coach, government official, businessman, and broadcaster. He was the first African-American assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL), the first African American to broadcast an NFL game to a national audience, […]
Actress Cicely Tyson will receive an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from the American Film Insitute, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress, who won a Tony Award last year for her work on the Broadway stage in the play The Trip to Bountiful will be honored for her “contribution of distinction to the art of the moving image.” […]
Freddie Lewis (MVP) May 20, 1972 – 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets, 4 games to 2 led by Freddie Lewis (MVP), George McGinnis & Darnell Hillman. George McGinnis Darnell Hillman
Wess Morgan stepped into Gospel Music in 2007 with a soulful debut release LOOK AT ME NOW. His gritty, yet passionately soothing vocal crooning, coupled with his dynamic transparent testimony of his life’s transformation captured the attention and the heart of the nation. He followed up with a 2010 sophomore project, UNDER AN OPEN HEAVEN which featured the Celebration of […]
Bad news guys. That ‘Waiting To Exhale’ sequel we have been looking forward to may never happen. According to Sister 2 Sister reports: If the A Day Late and a Dollar Short author had to gamble with that money, Terry McMillan would bet there will be no Waiting to Exhale sequel coming to the big screen. I don’t think that’s going […]
May 19, 1961 – White mob attacks “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dropout is a key word in today’s evangelical churches concerning teenagers and young adults. The quote often sounds like this: “86% of evangelical youth drop out of church after graduation, never to return.” The problem with that statement (and others around that number) is that it’s not true. But that doesn’t mean there is no […]
Prosecutor Steve Parks of Delta County, Michigan, says he’s pushed for more than a decade to have Merriam-Webster recognize the word Yooper, a longtime resident of the Lake Superior region. Now Yooper and 149 other words or phrases have been added to the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Many of the other new […]
It wasn’t long after the release of “Poetry Man,” the breezy, jazzy love song that would make Phoebe Snow a star, that the singer experienced another event that would dramatically alter her life. In 1975, she gave birth to a daughter, Valerie Rose, who was found to be severely brain-damaged. Her husband split from her […]
Pastor Charles Jenkins made an inconspicuous return to the Internet streets after a nude photo emerged online last month which the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Chicago leader has yet to explain. When a disgruntled woman leaked the embarrassing shot in an alleged extortion attempt as previously reported by EEW Magazine, the “Awesome” singer-songwriter went silent […]