Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61.
Continue reading Famed Gospel Artist, Walter Hawkins, Goes Home to be With the Lord at 61 .
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Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61.
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has fired off a public letter aimed not just at CNN, but all of the cable news networks for "moving backward" on diversity.
Developing and evaluating a faith-based, HIV-prevention program for African-American mothers and their daughters is the focus of Dr. Chisina Kapungu's $795,000 career development grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
What a difference a generation makes. We've gone from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference founders' sexcapades--infamously taped by the original TMZ gang, J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI voyeurs--to the continuing buffoonery of their heirs and disciples.
Continue reading The Struggle for Control of the SCLC has Descended into Utter Embarassment .
The Rev. Bernice King has not assumed her elected role as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference because she has demands not yet met and she wants to wait until the public turmoil around the leadership of the organization has been resolved, according to testimony.
Continue reading Bernice King Delays Taking Role as President of SCLC Until Turmoil Dies Down .
Kwame Kilpatrick, facing a possible jail sentence Tuesday for probation violations, is working to rebuild his tarnished image nationally with an important demographic: blacks.
Two factions entangled in a power struggle for control of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference say one side locked and chained the civil right group's downtown Atlanta headquarters.
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Sheila is one of 12 children that Ray Charles fathered. She was raised in Cambridge, Ohio, by her mother and didn't meet her father until she was 14 years old. Sheila suffered sexual abuse during her childhood and as a result spent many years struggling to find her identity. At 13, Sheila moved to Los Angeles to live with her Uncle Jerry and hoped to establish a relationship with her father.
Board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference voted to remove six other members of the board Tuesday amid an ongoing internal struggle in advance of the group's annual conference and the installation of the Rev. Bernice King as its next president.Pictured: Bernard Lafayette
Continue reading SCLC Removes 6 Members as Strife Continues .
The past decade has afforded me an opportunity rarely found in recent American church culture. For a complex of reasons I have become a white preacher in black churches. I have spoken before more than 200 African American congregations, conferences, and conventions in more than twenty states each year.
Vandals have sprayed graffiti at the historic King Center. Maintenance workers spent most of Wednesday power-washing the mostly white and light-blue paint off of the side of Freedom Hall that runs along Boulevard between Edgewood and Auburn avenues.
Continue reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Center Vandalized and Sprayed with Graffiti.
Richard Jackson was walking past the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's handsome $3-million headquarters this month, just blocks from the grave of its first president, Martin Luther King Jr.
Continue reading New Infighting Plagues Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Three of America's oldest black church denominations recently announced details of their nationwide scheme to save black men, called Male Investment Plan (MIP). It aims to halt the flow of black men into prison and instead get them turned onto education and Christian spirituality.
Hundreds of investors in the Detroit area and elsewhere in Michigan lost as much as $11 million to a Ponzi scheme involving a Saudi Arabian crude oil bond scam connected to Michael Winans Jr., according to state regulators.
Continue reading State of Michigan Eyes Winans Family Members in $11M Scheme.
The city council members of Washington, D.C. may have approved marriage equality in the District, and Congress may be unlikely to overturn the ordinance, but overcoming cultural and faith-based homophobia in black churches presents a new set of challenges, write a married heterosexual couple, both pastors with Covenant Baptist Church.
Continue reading Homosexual Weddings Unwelcome in DC's Black Churches.
President Barack Obama had a chat with White House correspondent April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks on Monday to answer critics who say he isn't showing enough compassion toward black America.
Continue reading Obama Answers His Black Critics.
For years, James Bain insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister when a 9-year-old boy was kidnapped and raped.
Continue reading Black Florida Man Exonerated after 35 Years Behind Bars.
To many, she is simply known as the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., the five-year-old cuddled in her mother's lap at her father's funeral in 1968.
Continue reading Bernice King Ready to Take Over Leadership of SCLC.
These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy.
The woman whose three-year-old line-cutting episode at a Wal-Mart store ignited a racial explosion in a small Missouri town has pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.
Continue reading Woman at Center of Wal-Mart Racial Storm Pleads Guilty.
The Rev. Al Sharpton quietly came to town this week to be a guest preacher at Simmons College of Kentucky's third annual Church Growth Leadership Conference.
Continue reading Meet Al Sharpton: Preacher, not Politician.
One Sunday morning in 1994, Din Tolbert brought his gangly frame to the altar of a chapel in Queens. Then 12 years old, he wore a blue suit from the Salvation Army, his only decent church clothes, and the white tube socks were his unwitting trademark as a geek.
Continue reading New York Minister Grows Up, Yet Ministry Stays Young.
In a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, an organization of African American firefighters accused the Philadelphia firefighters union of being "racially harassing and abusive" to blacks.
Continue reading Philadelphia Black Firefighters Sue Union, Cite Racism.
Via his blog on Global Grind, rap entrepreneur Russell Simmons has written an open letter asking Bill Cosby to stop criticizing today's urban youth, and focus more on the societal ills that created their behavior.
Continue reading Russell Simmons Wants Cosby to Cut Kids Some Slack .
Two former churchgoers say they were swindled out of a small fortune by the leaders of the Soul Factory, a large African American church in Prince George's County -- accusations the church denies.
