Dear Friends: I wanted to be sure you saw this editorial published in The New York TImes on Saturday. It clarifies a central point in the continuing struggle around voting rights. The fight to preserve pre-clearance by the Justice Department is not just historically significant but a necessary protection we still need today. The Voting RIghts Act of 1965 made it illegal for legislatures to use discriminatory tactics prevalent during that era, such as....
Rev. Frank Brown, president of the Concerned Black Clergy of Metro Atlanta, spoke with FaithAtlanta.com about some of the initiatives the organization is moving forward. These initiatives include financial seminars with Wells Fargo. June 23rd will mark the fourth seminar at Antioch Church North. People will be able to hear information that covers help with mortgage, credit issues, and basic banking information.
Under Jeff Byrd’s direction the audience is taken on the spiritual journey of Andre’ Stephens, a self centered, womanizing, hip hop icon. Best friend Chris Scott, wonderfully played by Robert Ri’chard, serves as the voice of reason that falls upon death ears until a very unfortunate event ushers in the option for a change of fate. Deitrick Haddon and Allison Elizabeth’s script gives Haddon full range of his dramatic and musical gifts...
Stage Play "God Give Me the Grace"
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We are sure you would agree the murderous killers of Roger and Dorothy Malcom (and the unborn infant, Baby “Justice”), and George and Mae Murray Dorsey should also be immediately arrested and brought to trial. The Malcoms and Dorseys were slaughtered and lynched on the Moore’s Ford Bridge in Monroe, Georgia, July 25, 1946. If international law enforcement agencies including the CIA and FBI can find murderous Nazis in Gwinnett County, GA...
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Forty four years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his prophetic "Mountain Top" Speech to the nation, much of his "Promised Land" Vision has come to fruition. Unfortunately, there are still persistent weed seeds of hate that remain embedded in our collective consciousness, hindering our success as individuals and as a society. Just as weeds compete for nutrients and water that cultivated garden plants require, our inner weed seeds...
King … er, uh, Bishop Eddie Long apologized to the Jewish community after being crowned king by Rabbi Ralph Messer at last Sunday’s service. “The ceremony was not my suggestion, nor was it my intent, to participate in any ritual that is offensive in any manner to the Jewish community,” Long wrote in a letter sent to Bill Nigut, Southeast Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League....
Don Cornelius, the creator and host of “Soul Train,” the television show that brought R&B music and the moves of young black dancers to a nationwide American audience, has died in an apparent suicide, at the age of 75. Los Angeles police, responding to a report of a shooting, found Cornelius at his Mulholland Drive home and he was pronounced dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 4:56 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center…
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*According to The AP, Etta James, the R&B singer whose raw, passionate vocals anchored many hits and made the yearning ballad “At Last” an enduring anthem for weddings, commercials and even President Obama, died Friday. She was 73. James died at Riverside Community Hospital, with her husband and sons at her side. “It’s a tremendous loss for her fans around the world. She’ll be missed. A great American singer. Her music defied category.”
A judge has ruled that the New York City medical examiner’s office can move forward with publicly releasing the cause and manner of death of Zachery Tims, the late pastor of New Destiny Christian Center (NDCC) in Apopka, Fla., and may do so in as little as two days.There are also rumors swirling that Paula White may be the new Pastor of Tim’s former church, New Destiny Christian Center....
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Bishop Eddie Long Takes Time Off
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"I'm going to take a little time off to work with my family," Long said Sunday to a packed house. "I do want you to know that this is, for me and my family, especially with me, one of the most difficult times and things I've had to face, and only because my strength, other than God, is in Miss Vanessa," he said to huge applause. "In all the things that I've ever had to deal with and being pastor, my rock has been to be able to come home to a virtuous woman...
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The state of Georgia has issued an appeal to the Justice Department to make unconstituational the pre-clearance clause of the Voting Rights Act which requires every state to get Pre-clearance from the Justice Department before they make any changes to voting districts or the process of voting. The reason we have that is to protect citizens right to vote. Georgia now has one of the worst voting…
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Fay Observer 40 Leaders Under 40
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Dear Friends: I am privileged to represent a district that is both rural and urban—a microcosm of North Carolina in 2010. I wanted to take a moment to share with you some initiatives in the General Assembly that benefit both Bladen and Cumberland Counties . While I usually tell you about bills we pass, I wanted to also show you the real-world effects they have.
Ron McElrath - A True Leader
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As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, today we honor Fayetteville's own, Ron McElrath. He led a peaceful march through the city of Salisbury during a tumultuous time in the 1960s and had crosses burned outside his dorm in college. He marched in protest of Winn Dixie supermarket's discriminatory hiring practices in downtown Asheville. His biography reads like one of his role models, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the presence he has had in state..
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