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VIA SINGERSROOM: Thankful for the success of his first live album, “Smokie Norful Live,” Stellar Award-winning artist Smokie Norful is giving back to fans with the release of a special deluxe edition Tuesday. Featuring a Live! performance of “My Choice” and “Dear God (studio version),” the deluxe edition of “Smokie Norful Live” is slated to […]
Gospel great Vickie Winans is back with a brand new project called “How I Got Over,” her first music project in three years, which hits stores on August 25. Her first radio single, “How I Got Over,” is a personal testimony for Winans and the 11 song album is a blend of traditional and urban […]
VIA ELEV8: All of our television is basically reality driven. Surely, by now you have seen the “Housewives Series”. This brand of series follows women all across the country in what we consider to be the most affluent neighborhoods in our country. You sit for an hour and tune in to grown women whining about […]
VIA DC BRUNCH CLUB: By Erica Sietsma I have been to Busboys and Poets for just about every meal and I love, love, love it. Can’t get enough. DC Brunch Club was overdue for a visit to the original location at 14th and V. Of course, the restaurant, bookstore, coffee shop, bar, lounge did not […]
VIA EURWEB: Gary D. Hines is the conductor, clinician, producer and arranger for powerhouse R&B group/choir Sounds of Blackness. The ensemble, assembled in Minneapolis in the ‘70s, was his brainchild 35 years ago when the music man thought to create a group that showcased all the stylings of black music – the sounds of blackness. […]
VIA GOSPEL FLAVA: GRAMMY and Stellar award winner Israel Houghton along with New Breed are gearing for their annual A Deeper Level Conference which takes place on September 9-12, 2009 in Houston, Texas. This year’s worship conference features musical guests Erica Campbell of Mary Mary, Micah Stampley, Kari Jobe, James Fortune & FIYA, Freddy Rodriguez, […]
VIA GOSPEL FLAVA: Gospel legend Albertina Walker is preparing to celebrate her 80th birthday with a large two-day celebration. The Albertina Walker Scholarship Foundation will sponsor a birthday gala on August 29, 2009 in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Chicago with Yolanda Adams, Tramaine Hawkins, The Caravans, Joe Ligon, Ami Rushes, and Joshua’s Troop […]
VIA CHRISTIANITY TODAY: By Mark Regnerus Virginity pledges. Chastity balls. Courtship. Side hugs. Guarding your heart. Evangelical discourse on sex is more conservative than I’ve ever seen it. Parents and pastors and youth group leaders told us not to do it before we got married. Why? Because the Bible says so. Yet that simple message […]
VIA MSNBC: Michelle Obama may have become an archetypal African-American female success story — law career, strong marriage, happy children — but the reality is often very different for other highly educated black women. They face a series of challenges in navigating education, career, marriage and child-bearing, dilemmas that often leave them single and childless […]
VIA ELEV8: By Stuart McDonald Should Christians be more concerned with tithing or with paying off their debt? I heard the dilemma of a woman this week, who, like a lot of Christians, was in debt. Her and her husband were having the discussion as to whether they should tithe while they were still in […]