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Watch: Tasha Cobbs Leonard – “Intercession” [Live In Nashville]

Tasha Cobbs Leonard and team hit Nashville for a live recording of “Intercession” and it really is moving.

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David Scott represents Georgia’s 13th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 13th district includes portions of Cobb, Clayton, Douglas, Fulton, Henry, and DeKalb

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Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (1835- )

Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee is one of three churches that evolved out of Nashville’s historic First Colored Baptist Church (1865-1891). It traces its origins back to black members of First Baptist Church who first met to hold prayer services in 1835. Up to that

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How Oprah's COVID Grant Winners Are Helping Communities In Nashville

How Oprah’s COVID-19 Grant Recipients Are Helping Their Local Communities In (Image via previously reported on Oprah Winfrey’s pledge of $10 million toward her COVID-19 relief fund to help communities from cities across the country who have been severely impacted by the viral

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Oprah Winfrey Gives Grants To ‘Home’ Cities During Pandemic

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Before praying and fasting, change starts with you Mr President

WE commend President Emmerson Mnangagwa for his realisation that the country is in a serious crisis under his leadership, hence his decision to seek divine intervention and have those problems

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Boston Muslims to celebrate Eid at home

Since large gatherings of over 10 people are prohibited in Massachusetts, the ISBCC, one of the biggest cultural centers in the area, is forced to cancel Eid

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A Childhood Biography of Oprah Winfrey

A biography of Oprah Winfrey would not be complete without a look at her early life. The larger-than-life success, fame, and fortune she enjoys today did not come easy and she had to overcome many challenges. Her achievements inspire many, and its easy to see how her childhood shaped the woman who

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You Care: Karen Wannabe Stacey Dash Officially Files For Divorce, She Makes $2500 A Month

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Yolanda Adams reveals her rapper celebrity crush in new talk show

Yolanda Adams appeared on the debut of OWN‘s new talk show “Girlfriends Check In” on Saturday and spilled the beans on one of her celebrity

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Botswana eases lockdown measures

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Knights of St. Peter Claver (1909- )

The Knights of Peter Claver organization was founded in 1909 in Mobile, Alabama. It is the largest African American Catholic lay organization in the United States. The organization was founded by the Josephites, a Catholic order whose mission was to serve Catholic African Americans. Josephite

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Ford, Harold Sr. (1945- )

Harold Eugene Ford, Sr., a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997, was born on May 20, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee to Vera Davis and Newton Jackson Ford, a funeral home director. Ford’s family was part of the local black elite dating back to the beginning of the 20th

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Black Caucus teams with state to hold Juneteenth weekend COVID-19 testing

COVID-19 testing will be available at six Memphis sites on Saturday (June 20) in conjunction with the Juneteenth weekend and sponsored by the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators (TBCSL), the state Department of Health’s Office of Minority Health and Disparities

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Death of Arna Bontemps

Death of Arna Bontemps (72), writer and educator, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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1973

Nashville School Destroyed By Blast

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1957

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The audience at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville, Tennessee, let out a big, collective gasp on Friday, June 19, after D.L. Hughley fainted onstage during his standup

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Lewis, John R. (1940- )

John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940. In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in

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Nelly and Darius Rucker join Brad Paisley’s Live Nation’s first ever drive-in concert series | The Crusader Newspaper Group

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Tennessee lawmakers adjourn without addressing race, reform

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