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“Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you Dear God, I see your face in all I do Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it… But God, I know you have your reasons…” Dear God 2.0 by The Roots How do you talk to God? I like this song, because it is a conversation with […]

Ebony-Jet Gets a New Manager  Johnson Publishing recently announced (Tuesday Aug. 10) that former White House Secretary Desirée Rogers will be the new CEO for the company. She will take care of the struggling company’s day-to-day operations.  If you don’t know whom this woman is, recall the party crasher’s incident with President Barack Obama. Yeah, […]

Her mind was made up that she would never be whole again after the rapes. However, God wasn’t finished with Galena yet.

In the black community, the institution of marriage is essentially dead. While marriage in Western developed nations is declining in general, the black community and black women are being disproportionately affected. Unless marriage and family issues receive a higher priority, tackling other major problems, like declining high school graduation rates, will be like treading water […]

To relieve the misfortunes of our fellow creatures is concurring with the deity; it is godlike. [But, he added,] if we provide encouragement for laziness, and support for folly, may we not be found fighting against the order of God and Nature, which perhaps has appointed want and misery as the proper punishments for, and […]

I grew up in a single parent home were I never knew my father. Even though I would still love to meet him, I’m so thankful I had my mother and the rest of my family. Sometimes I wonder how it would’ve been having both of my parents around. Could we have survived as a family […]

We get so caught up in the daily tasks of life. We cook, work, clean, shop for everyone’s needs, and pitch in everywhere. The list goes on and on and can often leave us feeling depleted. When we let that depleted feeling take hold of us and allow it to rule our days, we are […]

As a working mother who lives in the Washington-metro area, I admit that I’m dreading Bravo’s new programThe Real Housewives of D.C. (begins August 5). I took some comfort in the Washington Post‘s scathing advance review of it: Every word of the title is wrong, except “the” and “of.” Real: What can that even mean anymore? Housewives: […]

A longtime employee of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has accused its leaders of racial discrimination after they fired him last month. Keith Carter, who joined the NRSC in 1995, has charged Republican officials with creating a hostile environment for the two African-American employees who worked at the committee. Carter, who is black, said […]

In Black Pain, Terrie has inspired the famous and the ordinary to speak out and mental health professionals to offer solutions. The book is a mirror turned on you. Do you see yourself and your loved ones here? Do the descriptions of how the pain looks, feels, and sounds seem far too familiar? Now you […]

A bevy of historically black colleges and universities are hemorrhaging too many students while revenue sources have dried up to the point where it threatens their very survival. Legendary radio host and famed HBCU advocate Tom Joyner will launch an ambitious online education initiative to stem the bleeding at the institutions, bring back throngs of […]

Matthew Lee Anderson, author of the forthcoming Earthen Vessels: Breathing New Life into a Broken Faith and blogger at Mere Orthodoxy: Within the happy confident hope we have in Christ (Jesus is still Lord, and nothing can undo that), evangelicals need to expand their intellectual horizons. While this is a landmark decision, it comes amid […]