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Daily Devotional Keep Growing By Greg Laurie This week’s topic: Walking By Faith Every new Christian faces obstacles. And of course, every older Christian faces obstacles as well. These difficulties never go away. There never comes a moment when you reach some spiritual plateau. There is never a time when you don’t need to grow […]

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Daily Devotional How High Can You Jump? By Dr. Myles Munroe This week’s topic: Walking By Faith I remember the day I found out that I can jump real high—about eight feet high. Now, I can’t jump that high intentionally, but I did it once when I was a little boy. There was a lady […]

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M athew Knowles, the founder, president and CEO of Music World Entertainment, has been named to the Gospel Music Association’s board of directors. Matthew, who helped launch the career of Destiny’s Child and the solo careers of its members, including daughter Beyoncé — will sit on the 35-member GMA board. “These are challenging times in […]

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Jenesse Center, Inc. is proud to announce the “What A Little Love Can Do Project” as one of its distinguished 2011 Silver Rose Award recipients. Celebrating more than 30 years of continued service in the community, Jenesse will honor the project at the annual Silver Rose Gala and Auction on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at […]

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Roland Martin talks with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp about his new series launching on the Investigation Discovery channel entitled “The Injustice Files.” The series will focus on cold cases from the civil rights era, “The Injustice Files” airs Friday at 9 p.m. EST on Investigation Discovery.

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Comedian Jonathan Slocumb joins the “Washington Watch” team as our funny man correspondent. Slocumb will be taking on and talking about many different topics. Jonathan joins Roland Martin via Skype from Los Angeles to discuss what is on his mind. WATCH:

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Ted Williams joins Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss how he is doing and future projects that he will be working on.

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Washington — The Congressional Black Caucus isn’t happy with President Obama’s budget and they are making it clear. In a statement that shocked many on Capitol Hill, CBC Chair Emanuel Cleaver harshly criticized the president. “Rebuilding our economy on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans is something that I simply can not accept,” Cleaver […]

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Chicago high school comprised entirely of African-American students will be sending all of its 104 graduating seniors to college for the second year in a row. Urban Prep Academy is the nation’s first all boys public charter high school. Mason Fuller is one of the graduating seniors. He received a full athletic scholarship to Northern […]

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Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has canceled his scheduled appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” A statement released by HARPO Productions late Wednesday afternoon said, “Michael Vick was scheduled to be a guest on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ for an episode airing next Thursday, Feb. 24. Mr. Vick’s representatives called last night to cancel […]

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For the third year in a row, Maryland leads the nation in Advanced Placement test scores for high school graduates overall, and the state also leads the country in improvement for test scores of black high school graduates over the last 10 years. Still, a vast achievement gap between black students and their peers of […]

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Aretha Franklin says she’s back at “150 percent” and has announced the date of her first scheduled concert to take place since undergoing surgery. Franklin said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press that she’s set to perform at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 28. It’s the same month that […]