The Huffington Post is reporting that one year after a devastating earthquake toppled homes and killed roughly 250,000 people in Haiti, the road to recovery is perilously slow. Despite billions of dollars of donations and aid pledges from some of the world’s most powerful leaders, a 12,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping presence and an army of…

“States’ rights” is an issue that keeps surfacing — case in point, the Commonwealth of Virginia. WTVR.com is reporting that Gov. Bob McDonnell and Virginia Republicans revealed their general assembly plan, which includes job creation, fixing roads and an amendment that would give states the right to throw out federal law. Come again? “Our federal…

The Game is returning to television tonight on BET at 10. While a lot of focus has been on the shift from the CW to BET, Uptown Magazine spent time chatting with the stars and the director of the much anticipated show at the New York City premiere. The stars are thankful for the fans,…

ESPN is reporting that former Michigan basketball star Rumeal Robinson will serve 6½ years in jail for financial fraud. A jury found Robinson guilty in September of 11 charges, including bank bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution. Prosecutors say Robinson schemed between 2004 and…

Politics Daily is reporting that President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address will be given before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 25, 2010. New House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) extended the formal invitation to Obama on Tuesday. In his letter to the president, Boehner made a mention — though not by name…

Excerpt: Arizona, as we now know, has almost no gun laws. No laws to protect children from adults who leave guns unlocked. No laws to require a license with a purchase. No laws to require mandatory reporting of stolen guns. No laws requiring fingerprinting, or the micro-stamping of guns. No laws limiting how many guns…

MSNBC is reporting that Ted “Golden Voice” Williams and his daughter were detained by LAPD after getting into a shouting match in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel in Los Angeles. The LAPD confirmed for the Today show that the former homeless man known as having a golden voice was “transported” to a police station…

The Game is returning to television tonight on BET. After it was unceremoniously canceled, fans took to the Internet demanding its return. The protests, zines, homage videos and 2 million Facebook followers fell on deaf ears at the CW, but BET heard the call and decided to answer. BET and the show’s creator, Mara Brock-Akil,…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today announced that nationwide private-sector workplace-discrimination charge filings with the federal agency hit an unprecedented level of 99,922 during fiscal year 2010, which ended Sept. 30, 2010. Despite the increase in overall charges filed with the EEOC last fiscal year, the commission dramatically slowed the growth of the charge…

AJC.com is reporting that Gov. Nathan Deal chose crime and its cost as his very first topic in his inaugural address on Monday. The GOP governor stated, “As a state, we cannot afford to have so many of our citizens waste their lives because of addictions. It is draining our State Treasury and depleting our…