Harlem's Apollo Theater is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its "Amateur Night" — a starting stage for some of the biggest stars in entertainment, including Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder and the late James Brown. The first 75 tickets to Wednesday night's show are going ...

When the soul singer Luther Vandross died in July at the age of 54, he lay in state for several days at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel (1076 Madison Avenue). Gargantuan black men in black suits, white shirts and sunglasses bear-hugged each other mournfully beneath the Chapel's entrance canopy, as security men kept the fans back. Slightly bemused ...

It must be that time of year - carnival time. The latest Good Times compilation from Norman Jay MBE (as he insists on styling himself) is yet another cracker. Ella Fitzgerald's cover of the Temptations' Get Ready' sits next to the vintage hip hop of Caveman's 'I'm Ready', and classic R&B and reggae battles it out ...

From the first woman elected to Congress to the first black female millionaire, a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington brings together photographic portraits of American women who made their mark on the 20th Century. The "Women of our Time" exhibition of 90 images is "a real panoply of women's identity, struggles and achievements in the ...