Trailblazing American actress Ellen Holly, the first Black person to star in a soap opera, has died. The White Plains resident, who helped change the face of daytime television with her lead role on One Life to Live, passed away peacefully in her sleep Wednesday at the age of 92 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York. […]
Adams spent a half-century as pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church before retiring in 2019. He had since served as pastor emeritus. […]
An ordained minister, he is president of the auxiliary council at his church in Inglewood and heads Village Solutions Foundation, a faith-based community development corporation that connects Black churches and communities with green energy programs. He begins his emails with “God morning” or “God afternoon” instead of “good morning” or “good afternoon,” and for him, there is no conflict between his Christian faith and climate action. On the contrary, God and climate (specifically clean energy) are wholly aligned. […]
November was a difficult month for so many as we lamented the passing of Kenneth “SeaDog” Ivory, who was loved and revered by an amazing family, close friends and myriad fraternity brothers of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. […]
On September 3, 1967, Dawn Mercedes Smith was born in Tallahassee, Florida, to the late Sylvia Morris Johnson and the late Percy Johnson. Sylvia named her only daughter Dawn as that was the favorite part of her day. Dawn was later adopted by Harold Smith upon his marriage to Sylvia. […]
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These days, as many Black residents have left amid the high cost of housing, the services are largely empty, save for a couple dozen faithful who return week after week, some of them from far away suburbs. […]
I first came to Broward County in 1969, an inexperienced first year teacher, who like so many others, had been recruited by Mrs. Blanche G. Ely to help continue the educational legacy she and her husband had established to enrich the lives of the students in the Pompano Beach community. […]
‘Test Your Bible Knowledge’ […]
Bobby Brayboy, Jr. Funeral services will be held December 2nd at Worldwide Christian Center. Lieutenant Bobby G. Glenn Funeral services will be held November 30th at First Baptist Piney Grove. Raines Heath Funeral services will […]
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