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News
The unemployment rate for Black women fell to 6.5% in October while 72,000 fewer held jobs. Federal data show how both can happen in the same month.
Men held the microphone. Baptist conventions, Montgomery kitchens and Sea Island classrooms supplied the organizers, money and voters who gave the pulpit its reach.
In Western New York, where food pantries are already seeing more visitors, a new USDA proposal could cut off working families and older adults with modest savings.
Mississippi and Florida elected Black leaders to offices no Black candidate had won at the ballot box. The road to both runs through a driveway in Jackson and a jail cell in Orlando.
Stephen Curry called out Gilbert Arenas, Nick Young and Emmanuel Acho by name after they criticized Ayesha Curry’s first leading film role. Young apologized within hours. Arenas stood by his point.
Gospel
“God won't put more on you than you can bear.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “God helps those who help themselves.” Christians have repeated these familiar expressions for generations. But are they actually in the Bible?
Nearly two-thirds of churchgoers scored below 60% on a Bible literacy assessment. A closer look at 2 Timothy 2:15 reveals what it means to study Scripture diligently and grow in understanding of God's Word.
For the bone-tired woman in an unfinished season, John 4 shows a weary Savior who finished His saving work and invites her into a harvest she was never meant to carry alone.
Jesus’ own claims, the Godhead, the empty tomb and more than 500 witnesses equip Christians to explain why Jesus Christ stands alone.
Inspiration
For more than four decades, Miss Dottie has fed the hungry and warmed the homeless. Her granddaughter shares how that steady faithfulness reflects the words of Jesus in Matthew 25.
You’ve turned the same worries over and over, wondering how everything will work out. Jesus points to the birds His Father feeds and asks if you are not much better than they.
You read a verse at dawn and it steadies you. By midmorning it is gone. Selah, a small word in the Psalms, shows how to stay with what God has said.
When loss, letdowns or hard times weigh on your heart, joy is still within reach. Seek God’s face, and draw on the strength and joy found in His presence.
Trouble has a way of testing what we believe about God. On Mount Carmel, Elijah showed a wavering nation who the true God is. His power has not diminished, and His worthiness has not changed.
Wellness
Two new studies ease long-held fears that menopause hormone therapy harms the heart. The stakes are highest for Black women, who report more hot flashes and are prescribed treatment less often.
The FDA is requiring Ozempic, Wegovy and every other GLP-1 drug to warn of NAION, a rare eye condition that can cause sudden, permanent vision loss in one eye.
University of Michigan researchers found that dementia caregivers reported less stress and brighter moods on days they made room for simple positive activities like gratitude journaling.
Christian psychologists and pastors are confronting a teaching that has kept many believing women silent: the idea that fear, anxiety and depression measure their faith.
Two Connecticut women spent more than a decade searching for answers before an endometriosis diagnosis. New national guidelines now name the racial myths that kept Black women waiting.
Entertainment
Netflix has released the trailer for Stephen Curry and Ben Proudfoot’s documentary on Clarence B. Jones, the attorney who helped draft King’s most famous speech. The film premieres Dec. 8.
Small towns, snowfall and guaranteed happy endings are back with a record 34 premieres. Researchers have even named the kinds of fans who can’t get enough.
Druski’s money-hungry pastor is headed to Netflix in “Collect & Praise.” Gospel voices, including Kirk Franklin and Lecrae, say the comedian found his material in real pulpits.
Faith carried Sherri Shepherd through fear onto “The View.” Now she is Broadway’s first female Genie in “Aladdin,” through Jan. 3, 2027.
Jimmy Jenkins’ modern-day Nativity premieres Oct. 24 at First Baptist Church of Glenarden before opening in select theaters Nov. 13.
Ministry
Empowering Everyday Women Ministries is asking supporters to fight hunger in Western New York, Haiti and Sudan through Hungry for Change, its GivingTuesday campaign on Dec. 1.
A mother and three children were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto their tent in Gaza. Israel says 91,000 tents have entered. UN agencies say more than 150,000 are still waiting outside.
After drought wiped out her farm and livestock, a Somali mother walked three days to get care for her severely malnourished daughter. Nearly 2 million children across Somalia are expected to face acute malnutrition.
A mother in Uganda lost her baby girl to illness after treatment for pneumonia and acute malnutrition. Her loss comes as drought and rising food prices leave hundreds of thousands of young children in need of lifesaving nutrition care.
Crowds in Times Square hugged, cried and prayed as Scripture filled the screens overhead on the first night of Global Bible Month, a worldwide invitation to read the Bible every day in November.
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