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Season 5 Sunday Best Finalist Danetra Moore Signs Deal With Tyscot

Sunday Best Season 5 Finalist, Ms. Danetra Moore has signed with Tyscot!
A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Danetra is no stranger to the entertainment world.  Her repertoire includes background vocal contributions, songwriting, acting, and modeling. Moore’s multiple gifts have led her to share the stage with artists such as Ledisi, Angie Stone, Marvin Sapp, Fred Hammond, Donald Lawrence, Kirk Franklin, Neyo, Kierra Sheard, Trace Adkins, Byron Cage, Jonathan Nelson, Ann Nesby and more...


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Spring/Summer 2013 Outfits for Women by Stylish Eve



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Baldness & Heart Disease: What Every Man Needs To Know



Male pattern baldness affects around 40 percent of adult men. By the time they reach 80, over 80% of men will be bald. Researchers have…


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Activists Cornel West And Carl Dix Hold Mass Incarceration Dialogue In N.Y.C.

Cornel West Carl Dix Mass Incarceration

Freedom fighters Carl Dix (pictured above right) and Cornel West (pictured above center) held an intense dialogue about mass incarceration on the Upper West Side Monday evening. The event, “Mass Incarceration + Silence=Genocide,” served to challenge the sociopolitical forces herding a disproportionate number of Black and Hispanic men in to prisons. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network/ Revolution Books-sponsored event was tinged with revolutionary fire, which was-a testament to its keynote speakers...

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Minnesota To Grant Care Workers The Right To Join A Union



On Monday, a bill squeaked through the Minnesota House of Representatives that would allow in-home child care and personal care workers in the state to unionize. By a margin of two votes, the state House of Representatives sent the bill to Gov. Mark Dayton (D), who is expected to sign it.

SEIU and AFSCME, the state’s largest unions, now have four years to organize those workers:

The 12,500 child care workers in Minnesota who look after children in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program, known as C-CAP for short, must vote on...


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The National Urban League: $100MM Jobs Rebuild America Campaign

Jobs Rebuild America is a $100 million public-private-nonprofit partnership effort aimed at putting America back to work. The two-prong initiative will touch 50 U.S. cities and focuses on community investments and grassroots legislative advocacy. Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor Seth Harris joins Marc Morial, President & CEO of the National Urban League, today for the national launch in Cleveland, OH...


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Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing ‘Other People’s Money’

 

(Credit: Nashville Public Radio)

Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) agitated against food aid for poor Americans included in the Farm Bill during last week’s House Agricultural Committee debate, accusing the government of stealing “other people’s money.” Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has already been decimated in both the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill, cutting off nearly 2 million working families, children, and seniors from food assistance.

 

Fincher invoked the Bible in his defense of the devastating cuts, quoting, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

At a Holiday Inn in Memphis over the weekend, Fincher expanded on his version of the Christian social gospel: “The role of citizens, of Christians, of humanity is to take care of each other, but not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others...

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Donald Lawrence Celebrates 20 Years With Star-Studded Live Recording

Grammy® Award-winning Gospel superstar, songwriter and producer Donald Lawrence will kick off a star-studded live recording from his home base in Chicago on Tuesday, June 18th for the first part in his much-anticipated two-volume 20th Year Anniversary album, Donald Lawrence 20 Year Celebration Volumes I & II.  Celebrating 20 years for the musical trailblazer since releasing his first album with the Tri-City Singers, a host of diverse performers will join Lawrence for this milestone live album recording of Volume I, including CCM star Natalie Grant, the legendary Karen Clark-Sheard, Kierra Sheard, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Coko (of SWV), DTP Records’ soul singer Rudy Currence, Faith Evans, Lalah Hathaway, Kelly Price, Ted & Sheri, Bishop Hezekiah Walker, Lawrence’s backing ensemble The Co., and dancing to Lawrence’s tune “Beautiful Feet” superstar director/choreographer/dancer Laurieann Gibson...


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Spring/Summer 2013 Outfits for Women by Stylish Eve



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Wanda Sykes: “It Sounds Scary, But What Do You Want?”


Startling reports of Angelina Jolie undergoing a double mastectomy have turned the public’s attention back to the fact that disease is an unfortunate occurrence that affects us all, regardless of color, age or status.

Something that another star, Wanda Sykes, knows very well.
In 2011, during a recent Ellen DeGeneres show taping, Wanda Sykes made a shocking confession...


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