On Friday, September 17, as students across the country begin the new school year, Philadelphia natives Renee J. Amoore and Emma Chappell will join more than 200 African American HistoryMakers nationwide who will return to school as well.

About two or three weeks ago when a friend first told me about the video of an angry Antoine Dodson on a local TV news report, voicing his concern about his sister Kelly's near rape, I had a hard time wrapping my head around what could possibly be funny about that.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, director Spike Lee returns to New Orleans to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out in the all-new, four-hour documentary If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise.

In a recent study, published in the current issue of Reconsider, a publication for the leaders of today's Black churches, found that 39 percent of pastors say personal evangelism does not come easy for them; only 25 percent strongly agree that they find it easy to share the Gospel one-on-one.

On Thursday, August 5 at 3:00pm Shoes 2 Share International will pick up nearly 4,000 pairs of shoes collected by Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia. The pickup will be at the Village Deli, 1904 Jenkintown Road, Jenkintown, Pa, where the shoes are currently overflowing storage space.

The Citizens Bank Foundation recently announced the donation of $25,000 to Philabundance, the area's largest hunger relief agency, to help overcome a significant drop in food donations.

Graham has exhibited a lifelong commitment to community via Athletes Against Drugs (AAD), a non-profit organization he founded in 1985 which remains dedicated to developing leadership in underserved youth through scholarships and education. Recently, Graham talked to me about his work with AAD and other projects.

In the thirty-six quadrennial session and thirty-seventh General Conference of the Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church convening in Mobile, Alabama during June 26-July 4, 2010, five new bishops were elected.