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Richard Smallwood: You Don’t Know His Journey
Read Keith Alexander's article in the Washington Post here: Richard Smallwood
Tye Tribbett Hosts “Hate Won’t Win” Concert to Benefit Charleston Victims
PRESS RELEASE: The June 17th Charleston Church Massacre has prompted Grammy Award winning recording artist Tye Tribbett to launch a “Hate Won’t Win” concert to benefit the families of the nine people who were shot to death in that tragic incident. The concert features some of the biggest names in [...]
NewReleaseTuesday is now NewReleaseToday
(BOISE, Idaho) -- Christian music's largest site online, NewReleaseTuesday.com, got its name from the day new music releases in the U.S. But with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's impending move to a global release day on Fridays beginning July 10, the media outlet had a decision to make: [...]
More about the late Maggie Ingram
Maggie Ingram, a legendary gospel singer from Virginia, passed away this week. Learn more about her in this excellent remembrance: http://wtvr.com/2015/06/24/what-gospel-legend-maggie-ingrams-daughter-would-like-us-to-remember-about-her-mother/
Brian Courtney Wilson Launches #WeAreWorthFightingFor Campaign
June 18, 2015 (Houston, TX) - Today it is Charleston, but in the last several months, it has been Ferguson, Cleveland, Staten Island, and so many others. There is a constant barrage of images that continues to devalue the African American community. In response to hate crimes, social and civil [...]
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Airing from 1963 to 1984, Jubilee Showcase was the longest running gospel music television show before BET's Bobby Jones Gospel. Every week, host Sid Ordower introduced television audiences of all races and creeds to the era's gospel stars. Offering "music that both entertains and inspires," as Ordower announced at the [...]
Michael Corcoran on Washington Phillips and the “Manzarene”
Historian and journalist Michael Corcoran uncovered a myriad of hitherto unknown facts about Texas pianist and Church of God in Christ member Arizona Dranes. Those findings were revealed in He Is My Story (Tompkins Square), a resplendent extended essay that accompanied a reissue of Dranes's 1920s-era recorded material. Dranes is [...]
Tamela Mann Lands Third #1 Single from “Best Days”
DALLAS (June 9, 2015) - Grammy Award® Nominee Tamela Mann is the first Gospel lead artist in Billboard Gospel Radio chart history to score three consecutive No. 1's from an album. Her current single, "This Place," is the third song to ascend to No. 1 from her Tillymann Entertainment CD, [...]
JGM’s Bob Marovich Profiled in Chicago Reader
Check out this wonderful article written by Peter Margasak about JGM's Bob Marovich. Peter tells my story far better than I could ever tell it myself! http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bob-robert-marovich-city-called-heaven-gospel-book-festival/Content?oid=17800579
Stars Serve Strong Medicine at Chicago Gospel Music Festival Preview
KEM, Tye Tribbett, and Anita Wilson at Chicago Gospel Music Festival Preview yesterday. By Bob Marovich "The Bible says, 'Be fruitful and multiply,'" award-winning gospel artist Tye Tribbett told a standing room only crowd gathered at the 30th Chicago Gospel Music Festival Preview event last night. "That means [...]
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