Harmonicas help young patients breath easy
VIDEO - Pediatric patients at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital are getting a boost in their recovery through a new program that's helping them breathe better in a fun way...
NCAA athletes improve overall graduation rates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The latest numbers show major improvement among football and some men's basketball players...
Schomburg Center getting Maya Angelou's papers
NEW YORK (AP) - More than 300 boxes of Maya Angelou's personal papers, including letters from Malcolm X and James Baldwin will be made public at a New York library...
Green power! UNCF teams up with finance industry
ATLANTA (AP) - The initiative is designed to increase the pipeline of HBCU students into the financial services industry...
Hair, hair! Off-duty NY cop praised in salon heist
NEW YORK (AP) - The result was cinematic: the cop managed to both shoot the suspect's gun out of his hand and the handle off the front door, briefly blocking his escape...
Obama appoints record number of gay officials
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gay activists say the estimate of more than 150 appointments so far -- from agency heads and commission members to policy officials and senior staffers...
Grammy-winning rapper runs for Chicago alderman
CHICAGO (AP) - Che "RhymeFest" Smith is best known for co-writing the Grammy-winning song "Jesus Walks" with his friend Kanye West...
Oprah donates $725K to South African school
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The refurbished Vele High School in South Africa's Limpopo province will feature 16 classrooms and accommodate some 640 students...
Curly haired Muppet is role model for little black girls
CHICAGO (AP) - A plucky little muppet in a pretty pink dress, her brown hair a perky 'fro, is helping little girls -- and their moms -- to accept themselves...
Black lawyer rejected for bar in 1800s honored
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The family of George Vashon was in Pittsburgh on Wednesday for a ceremony before the state Supreme Court...
