Today Stevie Wonder turns 60. He’s accomplished more than many could have ever dreamed in those 60 years. Things like being one of the first African Americans to perform on television to recording more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and winning 22 Grammy Awards (the most won by any solo artist) as well as a […]
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Harvest Center hosted a fashion show featuring formerly homeless models as part of its volunteer appreciation luncheon. The Center is a drug and intervention program most known for its soup kitchen. Belk donated gift certificates for the clothes. Blossom Hair Boutique did the models’ hair, and makeup artist Joseph Huguenin of Durham […]
VIA BLACK CHRISTIAN NEWS A hip-hop writer from Houston has started a Christian campaign to support rappers behind bars, including Lil Wayne, who began a year-long sentence for weapon possession last month, and local rapper Richard “Lolife” Nash, who’s serving time in Sugar Land. Inspired by a biblical call to reach out to prisoners, Jason […]
VIA: www.newsone.com President Barack Obama on Monday launched an effort to get voters who propelled him to victory in 2008 to rally behind Democrats and help turn back Republicans in November congressional elections. Obama, in a video message distributed to his supporters, formally leaped into the election campaigns for November in which Democrats are trying […]
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Barack Obama today became the 12th president to meet with Billy Graham, and the first sitting one to visit Graham’s mountaintop home in Montreat. In a meeting that lasted 30 to 35 minutes, the president and the 91-year-old preacher prayed for each other, talked about Chicago – a city that helped launch […]
Steve Benjamin, a Columbia attorney, was elected the South Carolina capital’s first black mayor this week. Benjamin, 40, defeated a city council candidate whose campaign was built around the warning that Columbia’s budget is in crisis and a promise to shrink local government. Benjamin, in contrast, promised to restore funding cut to the police department. […]
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Two retailers are planning to open their first N.C. stores at Concord Mills this summer, according to the mall: VF Outlet and Zumiez. VF, in the 23,000-square-foot former A.C. Moore space, will anchor Neighborhood Five, selling jeans, intimate apparel, sportswear, swimwear, outdoor goods and children’s clothing from names such as Nautica, Lee, […]
VIA CNN Miami, Florida (CNN) — Four days after Haiti’s earthquake, a 2-month-old baby girl was brought to a field hospital barely alive, her skull fractured, her ribs broken, her pulse dangerously low. Doctors at the makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince knew the baby had only hours to live if they didn’t get her to a […]
VIA NEWSONE Newsweek wrote that Joe Biden’s Big F—- Deal Statement when the health care signed was one of the few times that the F-bomb was appropriate. Now they are using Biden’s statement as a fundraising T-Shirt.
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER When President Barack Obama comes to Charlotte today to tour Celgard, a battery-parts maker that has received $49 million in stimulus money, he’s sure to tout how government money will put people to work. He’s visiting a company that hasn’t yet spent any of its stimulus money, according to federal documents. But […]
VIA NEWSONE HAMPTON — President Barack Obama will be the commencement speaker at Hampton University in May, the university announced. “We are honored that President Obama has accepted Hampton’s invitation to speak to our 2010 graduates during our commencement exercises,” HU President William R. Harvey said in a statement. Harvey made the announcement to students […]
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER In the face of budget cuts in the coming fiscal year, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board will debate whether to layoff teachers or implement staff cuts during a board meeting tonight. Neither option will be easy to swallow. Layoffs could mean the loss of jobs for hundreds of teachers and larger classroom sizes […]