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Actor Hill Harper is scheduled to speak at Amtrak’s 5th Annual National Train Day. This year’s celebration takes place in Chicago, Illinois.

President Barack Obama's popularity among women, minorities and independents is giving him an early edge over his likely GOP rival, Mitt Romney, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Andre Benjamin, also known as Andre 3000 of the hip-hop duo Outkast, will play Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic titled "All Is by My Side."

Entertainment producer Issa Rae recently won the Shorty Award, which recognizes the best in social web series across all forms of media.

President Barack Obama’s re-election team has launched a new video that highlights the President’s accomplishments since taking office in 2009. Titled “Forward”, the campaign's new slogan, the video focuses on the numerous ways in which the Obama administration has made a bad situation, better.

President Obama is capping a week devoted to courting young votes w/ a Rolling Stone interview that segues from foreign policy to pop culture.

CNN reports that only 6 percent of the STEM program at Bucknell University in Louisville, Pennsylvania is Black. What gives?

The merging of urban radio stations KISS-FM and WBLS Thursday spelled the beginning of the end for KISS-FM. Listeners of WRKS, better known as 98.7 KISS-FM, were transitioned to 107.5 WBLS when the two stations began simulcasting at 10 a.m. Thursday. A special tribute is planned this weekend prior to the station's sign-off.

The stats for women, globally, regarding leadership and career leave much to be desired. In fact, according to College Times, four in ten businesses worldwide have no women in senior management. A growing program based in California targeting young women hopes to help change these stats.

The U.S. House of Representative seat that encompasses Harlem has been held by an African-American since 1944. This may change soon.