The Detroit Board of Education opened a new high school in 2011 named for city native Ben Carson but now may take his name off the building due to his ties to the Trump administration. 

When Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine was opened and then dedicated seven years ago – with Carson in attendance – he was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. 

But Carson then ran for president and then became President Trump’s secretary of Department of Housing and Urban Development. That irked some school board members, according to The Washington Post. Carson graduated from Detroit’s Southwest High School in 1969.

“It is synonymous with having Trump’s name on our school in blackface,” school board member Lamar Lemmons told The Post.

Carson “is doing Trump’s bidding, and he has adversely affected the African American community in Detroit as well as the nation with his housing policies,” Lemmons said. 

“And he’s allied himself with a president that says he is a white nationalist and sends dog whistles that even the deaf can hear,” Lemmons added. 

There is widespread support, Lemmons said, for changing the name. He said he regularly gets letters from citizens about the issue. 

“What really bothers me is he is a person that grew up in poverty and took advantage of all the social service…

Will Graham, the son of evangelist Franklin Graham, recently sat down with CBN News to encourage people to pray for the victims of the wildfires in California. 

When asked why churches and Christian organizations are often among the first to respond Graham said, “I think as Christians, we should be the first ones to be responding because we represent the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and we should be the first ones responding to anybody in need.”

He continued, “Pray with them; help with physical needs as well, and there’s going to be a lot of physical needs going forward.” 

The Evangelist noted that he is grateful for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s act of sending chaplains to California in this time of need.

Graham said, “One of the greatest things you can do, and that’s one thing I’m so excited about the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, we send chaplains simply just to sit there and pray with people; cry with people; hold people.”

He continued, “People have lost everything – they’re devastated, and they don’t even know where the next step begins, and we just sit there, and we just start praying.”

The executive director of the Billy Graham Training Center added, “We’ll see some people come to know Christ, but I don’t think we’ve ever been there when someone said, ‘No, don’t pray for me.’ People in times like this,…

Following the midterm elections, which turned control of the House over to the Democrats, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act may be in jeopardy.

According to CBN News, 50 more Democrats have decided to band together to co-sponsor legislation that would destroy the 25-year-old Act. This increase in support brings the total number of Democratic Congressmen opposing the act to 172.

Signed into law in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, the RFRA works to protect employers’ religious liberty by rejecting the idea that employers are required to provide medical insurance coverage for abortion-inducing contraception.

According to The Washington Examiner, the bill Democratic congressmen are moving to support, H.R. 3222, would make it so LGBT rights and other progressive causes would trump religious freedom.

The outlet also states that if the H.R. 3222 is passed into law it would reverse Supreme Court’s rulings in the Hobby Lobby and Masterpiece Cakeshop cases.

“Pushing this are progressive groups which claim that religious beliefs are just a cover for discrimination, bigotry, and hate,” the Examiner writes. 

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), who supports the bill, said during a meeting last month by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution that she was more concerned with the appearing “school of thought that weaponizes religious liberty” then about…

Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Stormy Daniels and Julie Swetnick – one of the Kavanaugh accusers – has recently shut down accusations of domestic violence after being arrested near his Los Angeles apartment on Wednesday. 

Avenatti told reporters, “I have never struck a woman, I never will strike a woman.” Shortly after his Wednesday arrest, he posted his $50,000 bail. 

The lawyer claimed to have been a supporter of women’s rights throughout his career and has no doubt that he will be acquitted of any wrongdoing. 

While police waited to make details of the incident public, Officer Tony Im, an LAPD spokesman, revealed that the victim has evident injuries. 

Avenatti, who found fame representing Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims to have had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, released a statement through his law firm calling the domestic violence allegation “completely bogus,” and one that was fabricated with the intention of damaging his career. 

“I wish to thank … the LAPD for their professionalism,” Avenatti said a statement. “They were only doing their jobs in light of the completely bogus allegations against me.”

“I have never been physically abusive in my life nor was I last night. Any accusations to the contrary are fabricated and meant to do harm to my reputation. I look forward to being fully…

The widow of a missionary who was killed last month says she forgives the man who shot her husband.

Stephanie Wesco said she “has no bitterness in her soul against anyone.”

Stephanie was riding in a car with her husband Charles Truman Wesco when he was shot in the head during a firefight between separatists and soldiers in Cameroon.

Wesco had eight children.

“We’ve all lost a friend, haven’t we?” said Pastor Randy King at a service for Wesco. “Charles definitely loved the people of Cameroon. So do we, having lived there with those precious people for 30 years. We love the Cameroonians. All of them, including the person who killed Charles.

“We love them because Christ first loved us and came to save us from our sins,” he continued.  

King said Stephanie and her family was praying for the man who shot Wesco.

“We do not know the name of that man. But I pray as a missionary to Cameroon that I or her brother Ben Sinclair might one day have the opportunity to meet Charles’ killer to express our forgiveness to him and in love, seek to lead him to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior that he might also receive God’s forgiveness for what he did.”

In a message to family and friends, Stephanie said that her husband’s life goal was to help “others love Jesus and serve him.”

“My prayer is that somehow someway Jesus will be…

Will Graham, grandson of the late evangelist Billy Graham, has urged Christians to help victims of the California wildfires, saying that believers “should be the first ones to be responding because we represent the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.”

“I think as Christians, we should be the first ones to be responding because we represent the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and we should be the first ones responding to anybody in need,” Graham told CBN News.

“Pray with them; help with physical needs as well, and there’s going to be a lot of physical needs going forward,” he continued.

California is experiencing the deadliest wildfires in its history, as at least 59 people have died and some 130 people remain unaccounted for, including many in their 80s and 90s. The number of those missing, authorities say, is only expected to rise.

Just 35 percent contained as of Thursday morning, the “Camp Fire” alone has destroyed a staggering 8,650 homes and scorched 138,000 acres in Northern California. Overall, more than 10,000 structures have burned down, officials said. As a result of the fires, air quality alerts have been…