10 Verses for Joy
“Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy are in His place.” 1 Chronicles 16:27 “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” Romans 12:15 “You have put gladness in my...
View Article10 Verses to Encourage Your Faith
“We walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7 “All things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Matthew 21:22 “Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.” Proverbs...
View ArticleMark O’Mara Visits Arkansas Bar Association to Talk Race
The lead defense attorney in the George Zimmerman trial addressed members of the Arkansas Bar Association at its annual convention in Hot Springs. Mark O’Mara joined well-known civil rights attorney...
View ArticleU.S. Senator Cory Booker’s Love Connection to Arkansas
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is joining Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor on the campaign trail. Pryor is locked in a heated battle to retain his seat in the Senate. While talking with...
View ArticleThe Officer Credited With Calming Ferguson
The crowds have thinned. And, the businesses are reopening. But, the outrage over the shooting death of unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer is still a...
View ArticleUnder Arrest In Ferguson
Editor’s note: This is the story of Carissa McGraw as told to Vickie Newton, Editor-in-Chief of TheVillageCelebration. It never occurred to me I would spend a night in jail for standing along the...
View ArticleOne-on-One with Little Rock’s New Police Chief
Since the incidents in Ferguson, Los Angeles, and other cities where an unarmed Black man was shot and killed by police, communities and police departments have made efforts to settle their issues of...
View ArticleThe Party That Left Its President
I recently finished a political assignment in Florida for the gubernatorial race. And even before the midterm election results were punched, dried, or mailed, political talking heads began calling the...
View ArticleThe Run For Justice
A steady rain fell on the Canfield Apartment complex in Ferguson Sunday afternoon. Between the Sabbath day bookends of church and football, a new paragraph in the protests surrounding the death of the...
View ArticleElijah Cummings, Maryland Congressman and House Oversight Chairman, Dead at 68
Maryland Congressman, Elijah Cummings, has passed away. Cummings was a giant in Civil Rights and the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee which played a role in the Russian investigation of...
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