New York– A  New York Times writer today described the Apollo Theater exhibit  titled “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing”, ironically  as an experience that “ain’t anything like the real thing”. In the Back to the Apollo, Uptown’s Showbiz Incubator article, writer Edward Rothstein points out  that while the exhibit provides interesting samples of history […]

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have jailed a 17-year-old Ypsilanti High School student they say repeatedly stabbed a classmate with whom he’d had sex after she told him she may be pregnant. The attack happened Tuesday on the school grounds in Washtenaw County’s Ypsilanti Township, west of Ypsilanti. The 17-year-old girl was in intensive […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Partygoers stampeded to escape gunfire that killed one college student and wounded 11 people at an Ohio fraternity house, authorities said Monday as they searched for a motive in the weekend shooting.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  — Haitian President Rene Preval will stay in office as his country chooses a successor. Preval Chief of Staff Fritz Longchamp says the president will stay three months past the end of his term, telling The Associated Press in an interview on Monday that Preval will leave May 14. Preval’s term had been […]

Sudan –In a stunning turn of events, Southern Sudan is slated to become the world’s newest country. The results are in from last month’s independence referendum, and close to 99 percent of ballots cast for secession from Sudan’s north. Juba is oil-rich but lacks the embassies and skyscrapers of other world capitals. There was only […]

It’s amazing how so many fans always want to see players give their all on the field. And, look. I understand that, but you saw the reaction to Jake Cutler. When he chose not to play in the NFC championship game because of a knee injury, you had people condemning him, trashing him for saying […]

Social media played a huge role in the uprising in Egypt. Smokey Fontaine joins Roland Martin on Washington Watch from News One’s New York headquarters via the HP SkyRoom with that story and more. WATCH:

NEW YORK — Michelle Obama is paying her first visit to “Live! With Regis and Kelly.”

WASHINGTON — The U.S. labor force has been split into two groups: the relieved and the desperate.

1926 – University of Chicago and Harvard University Graduate, Carter G. Woodson creates Negro History Week. In 1976 it became Black History Month.

New York Fire Department electrician, Gregory Seabrook, found a noose in his locker after suing the FDNY for racial discrimination. The New York Daily News reports: Gregory Seabrook, an FDNY communications electrician for nearly 20 years, found the noose Thursday at the FDNY facility at 87 Union St. in Brooklyn, his lawyers said yesterday. “There’s […]

A woman who believes “luck is preparation meeting opportunity,” Oprah Gail Winfrey has continuously shattered gender and racial barriers in America. Winfrey is the most successful talk show host in American TV history — male or female, Black or white — and the first female African-American billionaire. As one of the most influential women in […]