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UrbanFaith
The Missing X Factor
UrbanFaith
Historically, the music charts have reaped the rewards of musicians who have cut their artistic teeth in the black church. Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and countless others got their start singing and playing before a black congregation.


 
Emergency citywide leadership summit to convene at Brooklyn's historic First ...
Amsterdam News
The organizers of the summit believe that we must educate our children through community-based partnerships between young people, teachers, parents, churches and businesses. Black people must know how to compete in political and economic marketplaces ...


 
Things to do Feb. 8-16: Dr. King poster exhibit
Washington Post (blog)
“Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection,” Sixty-two prints by 45 artists including Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, William T. Williams ...


 
Unbowed and Unbought Sam Martin
Black Voice News
Sam would come by my house on California Street and take pictures of my Boy Scout troop for the paper. Over the years, the friendship grew into a partnership of him selling the Black Voice News to my family in 1980, which is one of the three papers he ...


 
CHURCH NEWS: Feb. 4, 2012
Odessa American
Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church, 1615 E. Murphy St., is celebrating Black History Month with the following events. Sunday: 10:30 am, Special guest, Loretta Walker, saxophonist and author of “Word Ghetto.” Feb. 12: 10:30 am, Special guests, ...

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BELIEF BRIEFS, Feb. 9
Durham Herald Sun
DURHAM – Holy Cross Catholic Church is celebrating Black History Month with several events. The church held a Black Catholic History Bowl Feb. 5 focusing on the parish's 2012 theme, “Black Catholics in American Culture and Life,” and shared history ...

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Black Women in America: Peeling Back the Labels
The Commercial Dispatch
The poll's findings and dozens of follow-up discussions reflect the conversations black women are having among themselves at church halls after Bible study, at happy hours after work, in college lounges after listening to lectures by the likes of ...

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