A north Nashville church is giving back to Nashville Electric Service customers in the community by covering $30,000 in past due balances for victims of the March 3 tornado. Lee Chapel AME Church presented a check to NES which wiped…
Church
Faith of A Mustard Seed
by Barbara A. Woods Washington, M. Div. •
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith.” (Matt 23:23). Look at this ‘Faith’ in Matthew’s Gospel. Never before have…
Church
Eradicating sickness from your body (part 1)
by B. Bethel •
Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases that can attack the human body. Like all other diseases and illnesses, there is a cure that can eliminate it. The cure is Jesus. Jesus bore all of our diseases in His…
Leisure & Sports
Radioactive is a portrait of a groundbreaking heroine
by Dwight Brown, NNPA News Wire film critic •
Rosamund Pike makes a lot of good choices. Check out her filmography and some of her very impressive feminist roles: A courageous war correspondent in A Private War, gusty widow in Hostiles, stoic wife in an interracial marriage in A…
Our Times
COVID-19: ‘Vulnerable populations’
How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity.
by Glenn Ellis •
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — The CDC stated early on in this pandemic that “vulnerable populations” need to take extra precautions in order to protect themselves and their families from COVID-19. By now, we know that COVID-19 causes more serious illness in the…
Headlines
One North Carolina city council approves reparations – sort of
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire senior correspondent •
Lost in the aftermath of the demonstrations stemming from the police killing of George Floyd and the pandemic is the issue of reparations for African Americans. Asheville, a North Carolina city where Black people make up just 11% of the…