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PRAISEHOUSTON.com – Information about funeral arrangements for Whitney Houston have been released and set for Saturday in Newark, New Jersey. According to HLN.com, it will be a private ceremony by invitation only for her closest family, friends and relatives. Her mother Cissy Houston has been arranging all of the details of the funeral, which will […]

Bishop T.D. Jakes addresses the tragic passing of Whitney Houston during the 2/12/12 service at The Potter’s House!

Online and offline fury continues in the wake of a video interview of rapper Too Short — posted last week and retracted yesterday by XXL…

Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in 1931 in Lorain (Ohio), the second of four children in a black working-class family, Toni displayed an early interest in literature. She studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989, a chair at Princeton University. She […]

Happy Valentine’s Day!  Here at HelloBeautiful, we’re feeling the love and we’ve been celebrating it all month with our series “Make It Last Forever.”  We’re…

This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME…

via: myfoxhouston.com HOUSTON – Occupy Houston protesters are planning to regroup Tuesday — a day after they were booted from their camp in Tranquility Park. The protesters were evicted by Houston police after a deadline to vacate the park had passed. Everyone was out by 9 p.m. Monday. Occupy Houston Plans to Regroup: MyFoxHOUSTON.com Read […]

Former talk show diva Oprah Winfrey is in some boiling water. On Sunday night, Winfrey took to Twitter, urging viewers, especially Nielsen households, to watch the OWN network as opposed to the Grammy Awards. After breaking Nielsen’s cardinal rules of never influencing a viewer and their TV-watching habits, Winfrey issued an apology on Monday. SEE ALSO: […]

via: myfoxhouston.com HOUSTON – Early morning commuters battled thick fog on the way into work Tuesday. As of 6:30 a.m., there were no reports of any major accidents and the fog on the west and northwest side of town started to lift. Foggy Start to Valentine’s Day in Houston: MyFoxHOUSTON.com Read more: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/traffic/120214-foggy-start-to-valentines-day-in-houston#ixzz1mNPU5BsZ

The white bricklayer from Virginia defied stereotypes and centuries of racist laws when he married Mildred Jeter, who was black and Native American. Convicted of violating a law against interracial marriage, the Lovings fought for their rights and won a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that struck down such bans nationwide. Read:Black Love Their lives […]