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Singer David Peaston Dies At 54

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:57:07 +0000

With sadness we report that R&B/gospel singer David Peaston has passed. He was 54. Unfortunately, as of this posting, details of his death are not available. However, according to postings on his Facebook page, he died on Wednesday.

EUR received this note of remembrance from his friend, singer Cheryl Pepsii Riley

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Why February Is So Special-Celebrating Black History

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Today begins the celebration of Black History Month. No matter what your opinion is of this celebration, our yearly recognition time is here. Let’s share and embrace these 28 days focused on amazing individuals and accomplishments to the fullest.

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Do you know how Black History Month originated? If you know or may know briefly, here’s what biography.com details about the origin of February being Black History Month. Check it out.

In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson and Rev. Jesse E. Moorland co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Their goal was to research and bring awareness to the largely ignored, yet crucial role black people played in American and world history. The following year, Woodson published and distributed his findings in The Journal of Negro History. He founded the publication with the hope that it would dispel popular mistruths. He also hoped to educate black people about their cultural background and instill them with a sense of pride in their race.

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Carter G. Woodson

The son of former slaves and the second black person to receive a degree from Harvard University, Carter Woodson understood the value of education. He also felt the importance of preserving one’s heritage and, upon his urgings, the fraternity Omega Psi Phi created Negro History and Literature Week in 1920. In 1926, Woodson changed the name to Negro History Week. He selected the month of February for the celebration as a way to honor of the birth of two men whose actions drastically altered the future of black Americans. Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation was born on February 12th and Frederick Douglass, one of the

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Woodson and the ANSLH provided learning materials to teachers, black history clubs and the community at large. They also published photographs that depicted important figures in black culture, plays that dramatized black history, and reading materials.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson died in 1950, but his legacy continued on as the celebration of Negro History Week was adopted by cities and organizations across the country. This observance proved especially important during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the inhumane and unequal treatment of black people in America was being challenged and overturned.

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Our History Makers: Langston Hughes

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:28 +0000

James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. His grandmother raised him until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in Mexico and a year at Columbia University. During these years, he held odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. Hughes’s first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature.

Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in Montage of a Dream Deferred. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Unlike other notable black poets of the period—Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen, Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself.

Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York. In his memory, his residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York City, has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission, and East 127th Street has been renamed “Langston Hughes Place.”

In addition to leaving us a large body of poetic work, Hughes wrote eleven plays and countless works of prose, including the well-known “Simple” books: Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Stakes a Claim, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple’s Uncle Sam. He edited the anthologies The Poetry of the Negro and The Book of Negro Folklore, wrote an acclaimed autobiography, The Big Sea and co-wrote the play Mule Bone with Zora Neale Hurston.

A Selected Bibliography

Poetry

Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994)
Dear Lovely Death (1931)
Fields of Wonder (1947)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
Freedom’s Plow (1943)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
One-Way Ticket (1949)
Scottsboro Limited (1932)
Selected Poems (1959)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)
The Weary Blues (1926)

Prose

Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes (1973)
I Wonder as I Wander (1956)
Laughing to Keep From Crying (1952)
Not Without Laughter (1930)
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 (2001)
Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)
Simple Stakes a Claim (1957)
Simple Takes a Wife (1953)
Simple’s Uncle Sam (1965)
Something in Common and Other Stories (1963)
Tambourines to Glory (1958)
The Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters (1980)
The Big Sea (1940)
The Langston Hughes Reader (1958)
The Ways of White Folks (1934)

Drama

Black Nativity (1961)
Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move (2000)
Don’t You Want to Be Free? (1938)
Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963)
Little Ham (1935)
Mulatto (1935)
Mule Bone (1930)
Simply Heavenly (1957)
Soul Gone Home (1937)
The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (2000)

Poetry in Translation

Cuba Libre (1948)
Gypsy Ballads (1951)
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (1957)

Translation

Masters of the Dew (1947)

Our History Makers: Hank Aaron

cofrazier — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:04 +0000

Via Newsone

Baseball purists and the media may still obsess over how Barry Bonds broke Hammering Hank’s home run record, but Hank Aaron doesn’t care. All Aaron knows is that he held the record for 33 years. For more than three decades, Aaron’s 755 career home runs was the proverbial carrot for every slugger’s stick. And by 2007, Aaron was ready to let it go.

“It’s probably the most hallowed record out there, as far as I’m concerned, but it’s now in the hands of somebody else,” said Aaron, who retired in 1976. “My hope today…is the achievement of this record will inspire others to chase their own dreams.”

Aaron congratulates Barry Bonds:

Aaron – born Henry Louis Aaron in Mobile, AL – knows plenty about dreams. He quit high school in 1951 to play for the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro League. He started in the major league’s in 1954. He broke Babe Ruth’s record in 1974.

“I thought, we’ve come along way baby,” Aaron said in an interview regarding breaking’s Ruth’s record, “From Mobile, Ala., to breaking the most prestigious record in baseball. I feel very proud of myself like I had shown everybody that I could play major league baseball.”

Breaking Ruth’s record not only showed the world that Aaron could play major league baseball, but it was another signpost of what would become African-Americans’ domination of professional sports.

Aaron on breaking Ruth’s record:

A few notable achievements:
• Aaron made the All-Star team every year from 1955 until 1975.
• Won three Gold Glove Awards.

• Won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1957

Read Aaron’s bio here.

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Inspirational Minute: Words From Iyanla Vanzant

Elev8 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:00:59 +0000

“Duck Behind God, When The Crazy Starts Flying”

D (Dodge) U (underdeveloped) C (consciousness) K (kindly) – Iyanla Vanzant

EXCLUSIVE: Yolanda Adams “Be Still” Premiering Tuesday 9am CST! [SNEAK PREVIEW]

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:09:33 +0000

PraiseHouston.com has the exclusive world premiere of Houston’s own gospel recording artist, author and radio show host Yolanda Adams‘ new video, “Be Still”! Watch the video below as Yolanda gives us a glimpse into her day-to-day life while making sure she finds time to “Be Still”.[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]Video courtesy of PraiseHouston.comPurchase your copy of Yolanda’s 12th album Becoming which features “Be Still” in stores now!Follow Yolanda Adams on Twitter Join Yolanda’s Facebook Fan Page Yolanda Adams Official WebsiteRelated Stories:

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Inspirational Song: Still Able

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:09:00 +0000

Today put all your worries aside. You can make it no matter what the struggle has been. You will get through this. James Fortune’s song will bring you strength today! Here is a song to get you through the day! Make sure to Read: Inspirational Song: Heaven Read more..

2-Year-Old Black Scientist Knows Physics And Chemistry

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:57:06 +0000

Two-year-old Romanieo Golphin Jr. of Washington D.C. is an amazing scientist with knowledge of chemistry and physics. Romanieo’s father, Romanieo Sr., is a composer who has developed a series of learning programs he uses for his son called BabytechiOS and Novus.

Romanieo Sr. believes his son’s advanced knowledge of science is simply a process of cultivating talent that everybody is born with. Romaneo Sr. has already met with African American astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson and has produced videos showcasing his son’s knowledge of chemistry, physics and astronomy.

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From The White House: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:51:22 +0000

In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement” features songs from the Civil Rights Movement performed by top entertainers, as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings.

This will air on Monday Night. Check your PBS listings.

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Watch A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement – Preview on PBS. See more from In Performance at The White House.

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Inspirational Song Of The Day: I See The Truth

Yolanda Adams In The Morning — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:48:54 +0000

Truth. What is truth? How do you hold on to truth. The lyrics “Sometimes I got to be a little bolder, Fight a little stronger” have some truth. What do you say? Read: Wow! Trans-Gender Man Gives Birth In Israel Read more..