This week Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) presented its 2022 BMI Christian Awards, honoring the prolific musical career of BMI Icon Award recipient Steven Curtis Chapman and the Christian Songwriters, Song, and Publisher of the Year. The post Essential Music Publishing And Writers Receive The Highest Honors At The 2022 BMI Christian Music Awards appeared first
*Jennifer Lopez has been praised by fans after referring to her child Emme using they/them pronouns, indicating that the 14-year-old does not adhere to gender identity. The “Get Right” singer took to the stage at the LA Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala last week when she introduced Emme to the audience ahead of their duet
*Hulu has dropped the trailer for an eye-opening documentary titled “Aftershock” about the Black maternal mortality crisis. Per the CDC’s website: “Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. Multiple factors contribute to these disparities, such as variation in quality healthcare, underlying chronic conditions, structural racism, and
*A jury has awarded one of Bill Cosby’s victims $500,000 after he was found liable for sexually assaulting the woman at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 years old back in 1975. Judy Huth testified in court and recalled the moment when she and a friend, aged 17, met Cosby on a film set.
*Famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump is speaking out about why he allowed a production crew to follow some of his high-profile cases for the new Netflix documentary “Civil.” The project hails from Emmy-nominated director Nadia Hallgren, and producers Kenya Barris and Roger Ross Williams. Per press release, the doc is described as “an intimate
*Kevin Hart has entered the fast-food industry with the opening of two plant-based restaurants named Hart House. The eateries offer a 100% plant-based menu of sandwiches, salads, and sides, Vibe reports. One location is in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles. The second location will be in Hollywood. “I founded Hart House to create a
By Jasmine Leonard, MPH, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield At three years old, I wanted to be a lawyer when I grew up to help my father, who experienced malpractice in healthcare. […] The post The Need for a Racially Diverse Public Health Workforce appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers .
By Sharon Williams Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers. Fathers, you play a very important role in children’s lives. You should be a role model, provider, protector, inspiration, and […] The post Happy Father’s Day! appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers .
After a successful 2022 edition of his annual Fearless Concert & Tour which hit major cities in Nigeria including Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, and Anambra, featuring Todd Dulaney, Tim Brown Jr, Dee Jones, Others, Tim Godfrey seems to be taking no breaks. The Award-winning Nigerian gospel sensation is on to a new movement as he hints
Nathaniel Bassey officially joins TikTok! The renowned worship leader joined the popular video-sharing app, which he celebrated with his first-ever clip featuring himself lip-syncing to “Ndum (My Life),” one of the songs housed in his latest project ‘The Names Of God’ and features Husband & Wife gospel duo, Mr M & Revelation. “NDUM – My