Category: Frontpage

Greater Mount Nebo Commemorates “The Emanuel Nine”

Greater Mount Nebo Commemorates “The Emanuel Nine” Under the leadership of our Pastor, Reverend Jonathan L. Weaver and Greater Mount Nebo Savoy/Brown Lay Organization, paid honor to those who were… Read More »

The Lynching of Philando Castile

The Lynching of Philando Castile By: Jenn M. Jackson  There are subtle (and not so subtle) reminders everywhere that Black lives do not matter. The recent acquittal of Philando Castile’s… Read More »

The Persistence of Love

The Persistence of Love By Jennifer P. Sims, Ph.D., Contributing Writer   My grandmother has dementia. She no longer remembers me; so when I visit her, she repeatedly asks me… Read More »

Going to the People

Going to the People By Bishop Ronnie E. Brailsford, Presiding Prelate of the 20th Episcopal District Over the months of March, April and May, Bishop and Supervisor Brailsford visited 96… Read More »

A Letter to My Unborn Black Son

A Letter to My Unborn Black Son Dear Ulysses IV, Dad here. I know you’ve yet to be conceived or even thought of for that matter, but there’s a strong… Read More »

Mt Zion AME Church Celebrates Groundbreaking

Mt Zion AME Church Celebrates Groundbreaking The Mt. Zion AME Church family celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, June 10, on the site of the previous church that was destroyed… Read More »

Senator Kamala Harris gets interrupted by her GOP colleagues because she has those liars “nervous” and shook

By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. Columnist As a trial lawyer and political pundit, I am so impressed by Senator Kamala Harris and her performance on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Her questions… Read More »

The Truth is the Light

By Reverend Dr. Charles R. Watkins, Jr., Senior Columnist “But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret;… Read More »

How Many Former AMEs Do You Know?

By Rev. Francine Brookins, Esq. If we are honest with ourselves, most of us who have been in the AME Church all of our lives know more “former AMEs” than… Read More »

Longest Serving Pastor of Wayman AME Minneapolis to retire

Longest Serving Pastor of Wayman AME Church Soon to Retire By Charles Hallman/MSR News The Rev. Dr. Alphonse Reff, Sr., of Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis, along with Dollie… Read More »

Outreach Ministry – The Heartbeat of Allen Chapel AMEC

By Rev. Ritney A. Castine, 2nd Episcopal District It is said that you can tell the heart of a church based on the ministry outside of the four walls of the… Read More »

St Paul AME Jacksonville Meeting the Needs of Students

The Reverend Marvin Zanders’s vision of service was personified to his congregants at a recent worship service. Pastor Zanders, along with the James L. Williams, Sr. Lay Organization, has embarked… Read More »