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Academy Award-winning thespian comedienne Whoopi Goldberg will unite with the West End production in London of Sister Act: the Musical this August.

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey‘s quarter-century run on daytime TV may be accompanied by a TV film dramatizing her life.

From NYDailyNews.com: Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry earned their New York baseball stripes with the Mets, but both fallen stars remembered George Steinbrenner for resuscitating their careers and for standing by them throughout their litany of off-the-field troubles.

FROM BLACKVOICES.COM GLAAD, the Gay-Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has gone hard against ABC and ‘The View’ about recent comments made by host Sherri Shepherd and guest hostDL Hughley. On the show, which aired June 22, Shepherd and Hughley linked the high rate of HIV among straight women in the black community to black men being on […]

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship in court.

With the passing of George Steinbrenner, we at News One decided to compile a list of the best Black Yankee ball-players that were signed under “The Boss’s” watch. Aside from the first Black Yankee ever, Elston Howard, all the players on this list were brought on by Steinbrenner. We developed our own lineup card  with […]

FROM CBSNews.com: The company has chosen Bollywood star Shahid Kapur to promote the application as well as its other skin-lightening creams for men. In the widget promising to “Transform Your Face On Facebook With Vaseline Men,” Kapur’s face is presented divided into dark and fair halves. “We started campaign advertising (for the application) from the […]

Roland Martin traveled to Plaquemines Parish for this week’s edition of “Washington Watch”. The people of the Gulf Coast are very frustrated and are not satisfied with the how long it is taking to stop the BP oil spill. No one knows what the long-term effects of the oil spill will be economically, socially, emotionally […]

From the Chicago Sun-Times: The president and chief operating officer of Johnson Publishing Co., the publisher of Ebony and JET magazines, has resigned.

A new study released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention highlights how teenage Black girls are leading the way in smoking cessation. The study, which was published earlier this month, focuses on the overall decline in teen smoking since 1991. But since 2003,  amongst different ethnic and racial groups of both genders, African-American […]