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A big thanks goes out to everyone who came out to the Family Comedy Show. The Griff, Small Fire, John Gray and Marcus Wiley had everyone rollin’! Check out pictures from the show!
Fresh from a sunny outing that brought a smile, Gabrielle Giffords is moving to a Houston rehab center where her husband hopes the “fighter” continues on the path to a full recovery. University Medical Center staffers took the wounded congresswoman to a deck at the hospital Thursday, where she breathed in the fresh air and […]
Now that the less-than-stellar US remake of the controversial UK series Skins has premiered on MTV, it’s been receiving quite a bit of backlash from the Parents Television Council, which has urged such an intense boycott – for its frank depiction of teenage sexuality and drug use – that Taco Bell has already pulled its […]
John Gray has been a busy man over the past year. He’s worked on a movie and just got married.
The controversy surrounding the Wake County school board’s plan to assign students goes up for another debate Wednesday night. The issue is once again getting national attention – this time on a comedy show. First, it was a story in The Washington Post, then a letter to the editor by the U.S. Secretary of Education. […]
Venus Williams was in the middle of a first-set tiebreaker at the Australian Open on Wednesday when the voice of her mother rang out from the players’ box at Rod Laver Arena. Oracene Price’s urges to “fight” were clearly intended for her daughter, but they appeared to fall on deaf ears, as Venus lost the […]
Raleigh City council members on Tuesday are expected to discuss a proposed smoking ban in Raleigh parks. The ban was expected to pass two weeks ago, but council members had several concerns, which the Parks, Recreation and Greenway Advisory Board has been working to address. The advisory board has spent the past two weeks researching […]
The 31st annual Martin Luther King Noon Ecumencial Observance was held in downtown Raleigh. See some of the great celebration. width=576; height=324; wral_insert_video_player_8951461(576, 324);
Author, lawyer and professor Randall Robinson spoke at Duke’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration yesterday and said education will drive the country’s continued progress on the civil-rights front. “We will not be able to build a brotherhood until we can come to know and appreciate the full stories and histories of the world’s varied […]
Born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, King’s roots were in the African-American Baptist church. He was the grandson of the Rev. A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta’s NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer’s pastor and also became a […]
