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From TheGrio.com: There’s lots of buzz these days about author Wes Moore. His new book, The Other Wes Moore, has reached the top 10 of the New York Times best-seller list. Meanwhile, he’s appeared on Oprah, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR and beyond. Moore’s true-life tome examines the lives of two boys […] The post Meet Wes Moore, Author & Soldier With Fascinating Story appeared first on NewsOne.

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Family and friends gathered at St. Ignatius Loyola to mourn the death of jazz singer and actress Lena Horne.

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Bishop T.D.Jakes, Pastor of The Potter's House in Dallas, Texas and a West Virginia-born native, has responded to the mining accident in Montcoal, West Virginia, which killed 25 miners.

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The recent surge in bully-related suicides among teens has prompted parents, churches and a number of states to tackle the issue before another student takes his or her own life.

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Former Olympic runner Marion Jones has moved on with her life, after admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She served a stint in jail, came out and announced she wanted to play basketball, and now she's on the roster of WNBA team, with the Tulsa Shock.

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They played and sang uplifting spiritual music for several churches, but after the praise and worship and soul food fellowship was through, police say they came back and stole more than $100,000 worth of equipment from several Georgia chuches.

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The full name of the event was Oprah’s Live Your Best Life Walk, and the people in it started at Pier 86 and would eventually end up here in Times Square. And though it was partly a celebration of Oprah herself, and the 10th anniversary of her magazine, there were 10 different charities that would […]

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  While in New York the ladies also ate at Dinosaur Bar-B-Q in Harlem and Grimaldi’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn. Join us as we re-trace Michelle Obama’s NY culinary tour. read full story article courtesy of HelloBeautiful.com

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 482px" VIA: NationalGraduateUniv.Com Dr. Dorothy Height was laid to rest today, and I was honored to be able to celebrate her life. The Washington D.C. National Cathedral was full of people thankful to share in the celebration of Dr. Height’s life. Ceremonies commenced with the Howard University choir as the clergy […]

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  The lasting impact of her life was reflected Tuesday evening by the hundreds of people who came out to pay their respects at her viewing at the National Council of Negro Women, an organization that she served as national president for 41 years. People lined three city blocks in Washington to attend the viewing […]

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The findings, which document a steady drift away from church life, dovetail with a LifeWay survey of teenagers in 2007 who drop out of church and a study in February by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which compared the beliefs of Millennials with those of earlier generations of young people read full […]

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Most young adults today don't pray, don't worship and don't read the Bible, a major survey by a Christian research firm shows