Many fans of Kim Burrell have been waiting on her breakout hit that will allow her talents to be showcased to the world, more in the mainstream. Today, I received a text from a friend to checkout reports of her launching a secular album and a VH1 tv show. I said to myself, "No!" Well, this is true.

You can see the site for yourself with a slimmer, happy Burrell.

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I haven't really addressed the Haiti earthquake on this blog but it hit so fast, I never got the chance to grasp the overwhelming tragedy and how it has affected the people. I remembered after the quake hit that I have an online friend that travels to Haiti many times during the year to help in the clinics and orphanages, eventhough he attends college in New York City.

I saw that he was okay when he posted responses on Facebook to everyone's concern for him. It all hit me when I read an article… Continue

Great news for Haiti and music listeners alike, posted from Bishop Kevin P. Turner's (UAB Gospel Choir) facebook page, Kirk Franklin will be releasing new music that includes efforts from local Birmingham, Alabama musicians. Read below,

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So, today I go to yahoo.com to check email and to look at the headlines of the day and what do I see? I see the headline, "How to Bring Out the Natural Curl in Your Hair." Once clicking on the link I was met with a list of what to do to bring out the curliness in my hair. For obvious reasons I laughed because curly hair in the white community is the same consistency that black hair is but in the African… Continue

Unemployment up, new job creation down, national debt up, it's 1992 but it sounds like today's economic climate. This is from the 1992 presidential debate when Bill Clinton won over voters with his heartfelt approach to a town hall meeting participant's question, "How does the national debt affect you personally?" You will see how President George HW Bush's response was very general and showed how disconnected he was with the ailing American people. Click on the video below to watch Clinton's ca… Continue

The first openly gay mayor of Houston, Texas was elected on Saturday night. This happened in the state where former president George W. Bush was governor and in a city that did not vote to allow gay couples' partners to be included as beneficiaries on city retirement funds. Annise Parker garnered over 53%, a def… Continue

One of the people that served with me while I was president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's NAACP is running for State Auditor of Alabama. The primary elections are in June of 2010. Support her. Here is the site.




CLICK HERE

http://mirandaforauditor.ning.com/

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Two cities that I have an attachment to have been named cities that will prosper in this Obama economy by the Christian Science Monitor. Huntsville, Alabama has always been noted as a city that I would actually live, in my homestate of Alabama.

Huntsville, Alabama (downtown)
It has a large intellectual base, mostly due to… Continue

Well, my time at KHOU is about to be up this week but I was given this opportunity before I left for my demo reel. I had no time to read over the script & this was my 2nd time in history reading from a teleprompter. I edited the mess out of this thing. lol Check it out!

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This has to be one of the most awesome things I've seen. It is a meteor exploding in the air over South Africa. It shows the power of God and that we are not alone and all powerful. What if that thing had hit the earth and not exploded?

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