Kirk Whalum stopped through the WOL 1480 AM studios to talk with Bernie McCain about this new project, “The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III.” See photos of his visit here.

VIA EURWEB: The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation. Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at an all-school assembly at Urban Prep Academy […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: At Friendship Heights Metrorail station this week, commuters in raincoats hurried down one of two broken escalators to the platform to catch a rush-hour train, then bumped into one another as they boarded the crowded cars. Lines of dozens of impatient commuters waited for a slow eight-person elevator at the station […]

By Mark F. Gray After a regular season with more number one teams than President Obama has critics we can now let the real madness begin. The NCAA Men’s Tournament, the premiere sports event in the country is now upon us. This is as wide open a tournament as there has been in years so […]