Speakers honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at his spiritual home in Atlanta repeated the same message on his national holiday Monday: We’ve come a long way, but there’s still much to be done to fulfill King’s dream. The holiday came against the backdrop of recent national protests over the deaths of unarmed […]
More than 200 women met at Lake Forest Country Club in Hudson to hear Michelle Knight speak. The event was presented by the Zonta Club of Hudson. Knight, who with Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus were held captive for more than 10 years inside Ariel Castro’s Cleveland home. All three girls escaped in May […]
President Barack Obama delivers an address to the nation on the U.S. Counterterrorism strategy to combat ISIL, in the Cross Hall of the White House, Sept. 10, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) It was a speech that Barack Obama — a war-stopping, Nobel Peace Prize-winning President — never wanted to give. A […]
The Ms. Foundation hosted the Gloria Awards and Gala to celebrate the 80th birthday of Gloria Steinem. In addition to the awards that were given there were also speeches from Chelsea Handler, Amy Schumer and Gabourey Sidibe. If you’ve ever seen Sidibe during an interview, you know that she’s quite witty, engaging and bubbly. So it’s no surprise that she would […]
In February 2014, Grammy-winning Christian contemporary artist and Season 5 American Idol finalist Mandisa shared her voice of encouragement in a TEDx talk about breaking boundaries.On Monday, April 14, she excitedly tweeted that the video was finally available and shared the inspiring speech recorded at Oak Christian High School. EEW Magazine has it for you. […]
If you ask many Clevelanders to name what’s currently the most important issue City Hall should be concerned with, many will say “fixing the potholes.” Cleveland streets remain damaged by the rim-rattling, tire-chewing craters. Mayor Frank Jackson spent some time in his State of the City remarks addressing pothole questions posed by Channel 3’s […]
Celebrating one of his personal heroes, President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as the last great liberator of the 20th century, urging the world to carry on his legacy by fighting inequality, poverty and discrimination. At a memorial service in Johannesburg, Obama compared the former South African President to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. He […]
The president has dispatched first lady Michelle Obama to rally Democrats around his beleagueredObamacare which she has boiled down to one religious phrase: “There but for the grace of God go I.” At a New York City fundraiser for Senate Democrats Monday, the first lady opened with a long defense of Obamacare, suggesting her audience lives by the principle […]
President Barack Obama tried Tuesday to sell a military intervention he never wanted to an American public that opposes it, telling the nation that he needed authorization to attack Syria as leverage in a newly emerged diplomatic opening from Russia. Calling the United States “the anchor of global security,” Obama offered moral, political and strategic […]
We remember 50 years ago today 4 words changed the course of history in Washington DC..”I Have A Dream” thats what Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr said to millions of people that were gathered on that day..Here is the speech that Dr King shared with us on that day.. courtesy of youtube.com
First Lady Michelle Obama commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by inviting a group of predominantly black grade school students to the White House on Tuesday and showing them a documentary that chronicles the life of civil rights activist Whitney Young – who was raised in segregated Kentucky and became head of the National Urban […]
At this year’s Liberty University Convocation, North America’s largest weekly gathering of Christian students, Lecrae talked about erasing the secular-sacred divide. He pointed out that everything is God’s, so there shouldn’t be a division between our role in society and our role in the church. As representatives of God’s kingdom, we should engage, love and rehabilitate every […]
