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The Gospel Music Channel continues to celebrate Black History Month this February with music and artists that have inspired the world. In addition to major premiere programming and specials, GMC will also present special vignettes throughout the month featuring artists including Marvin Sapp, Byron Cage (left), Canton Jones, Ricky Dillard, Beverly Crawford, The Murrills and […]
The Rev. Joseph Lowery was released from an Atlanta hospital over the weekend after having spent two weeks there. According to reports, the civil rights icon was released from the Emory University Hospital Midtown Saturday night after being admitted on Jan. 30. Lowery, 88, was experiencing shortness of breath when he was taken to the […]
One of the most exciting releases coming up is the return of Myron Butler & Levi. For their third outing, this class act is finally delivering a live album on March 30th with guest appearances from Kirk Franklin and Smokie Norful. The title track and lead single was released digitally just last month. The album […]
Major credit card reform will be in full effect starting February 22, 2010. Special thanks to Congress and President Obama the Credit Card Bill of Rights Act 2009 (the formal name is Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009) will put the smack down on credit issuers by placing stiffer guardrails that […]
Valentine’s Day is so special to me, so when a movie is made about it im compelled to go see it but….. Hope they had fun making “Valentine’s Day.” There’s little to be had watching it. The latest from veteran filmmaker Garry Marshall is a romantic comedy (debatable on both counts) memorable only for its […]
Nashville, TN –Gospel Music Channel world premieres “A Love Song for Haiti: The Making of ‘Are You Listening,’ ”on February. 21 at 9:30P.M. Take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look of the Gospel community’s answer to “We Are the World.” Kirk Franklin wrote and produced the song to benefit Haiti and assembled a who’s who of Gospel […]
Former President Bill Clinton was taken to a New York hospital on Thursday with chest pains, a White House official said.
Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in New York City, NBC News has confirmed.
New York (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton was in “good spirits” Thursday after undergoing a procedure to insert two stents into one of his coronary arteries, his office said. Clinton was hospitalized at the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital after experiencing chest pain, according to Douglas Band, counselor to the former president. […]
Washington, D.C. — Prominent African-American leaders pressed President Barack Obama on Wednesday to pursue an economic agenda that includes targeted help for blacks, whose unemployment rate is much higher than the national average and nearly twice that of whites. The three men who met privately with Obama for about an hour said they pushed for […]
Los Angeles, CA — Tyler Perry has found himself in a bit of copyright trouble lately for allegedly incorporating portions of copyrighted gospel music in his many successful shows. In the latest case, North Carolina songwriter Johnny Tyrone Stringfield filed a $100,000 lawsuit last week in California District Court accusing Perry, cable channel TBS, and […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Police in California say a car dealer who repossessed a San Jose woman’s Honda Accord left with something a bit more valuable: her 2-year-old son. The child, Cyrus Lopez, was sleeping in the back of the car on Tuesday night when it was taken away because the boy’s mother, Isabel […]