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VIA SINGERSROOM: Mary Mary won an American Music Award during Sunday’s 37th annual celebration of music in Los Angeles. Picking up an award for Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist, Mary Mary joins fellow award winners Beyonce, Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift. As previously reported, winners for this year’s American Music Awards were selected by fans via […]
He’s a stellar Award Nominee, he’ll be apart of the Radio One “One Love Gospel Cruise” and he’s back with a brand new project!! James Fortune & FIYA will be releasing their 3rd CD in January 2010 called Encore! Kierra “KiKi” Sheard, William Murphy, Men of Standard’s Isaac Caree are just some of the artists that’ll be featured […]
VIA MSNBC: By Eve Tahmincioglu Elizabeth Nill, 61, had a dream of becoming a president of a community college when she went to Harvard Business School in the late 1970s. But even though colleagues told her she didn’t have the temperament for such a job, she spent years pursuing her dream. She worked as an […]
VIA GOSPEL FLAVA: Online voting for the 2010 Stellar Gospel Music Awards begins today for the categories of “Gospel Radio Announcer of the Year” and “Internet Radio Station of the Year”. Voting for these two categories closes on Dec. 1, 2009. The winners will be announced as part of the Stellar Awards weekend on January […]
A 4-year-project to record the entire Bible with big name actors has wrapped up with last month’s release of the Old Testament by publisher Thomas Nelson Inc. “The Los Angeles Times” reports it was a leap of faith for the Nashville-based religious publisher. Thomas Nelson’s last audio project cost only $17,000 to produce and sold […]
VIA ELEV8: By Orenta Winston It is a rare moment that a movie evokes such strong emotion out of an audience in its first few scenes. From the very opening scenes of the movie, the viewer is slammed into a wall with no time to take a breath. The movie leads you on a journey […]
VIA GOSPEL FLAVA: Black Smoke Music artists James Fortune & FIYA are gearing up for their first live recording. The CD/DVD session takes place on Dec. 3, 2009 at the Arena Theatre in Houston, TX. Special guests for the recording include Coco Brother and Pastor William Murphy III. The aggregation’s most recent effort The Transformation […]
VIA GOSPEL FLAVA: Famed host and gospel historian Dr. Bobby Jones has officially presented Tennessee State University with the exclusive rights to all his performances and all his television broadcasts. The in-kind gift, with an appraised value at $6 million, is the single largest in-kind donation in the history of the university. For students, the […]
VIA WIKIPEDIA: Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. History of Veteran’s Day: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution […]