Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller that is up to 50 times more potent than heroin, autopsy results released Thursday show. Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) The […]

With gentrification changing the demographics of Washington D.C.’s historic U Street corridor the history of what is known as “Black Broadway” lives in former journalist Shelle’e Haynesworth’s virtual time capsule in cyberspace. Haynesworth’s Black Broadway on U documentary is a multi-media project that tells the story of this segment of African Americana in a way […]

In this May 19, 2013 file photo, Prince performs at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Prince was found dead at his home on April 21, 2016, in suburban Minneapolis. He was 57. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Prince’s death sent fans flocking to […]

ATLANTA (AP) — You can add Lyft driver to Shaquille O’Neal’s post-retirement resume. In this, Nov. 23, 2014, file photo, Shaquille O’Neal reacts as he talks about his career during a National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame induction event in Kansas City, Mo. O’Neal appears as an undercover Lyft driver in a video published by […]

In this Feb. 14, 2016 file photo, Fetty Wap performs at the 2016 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. A New Jersey school district is investigating how rapper Fetty Wap was allowed to record a music video that included drug references and a pole dancer in his old high school. (Photo by Chris […]

Anika Noni Rose and Laurence Fishburne are two of the stars of the remake of ‘Roots’ currently airing on the History Channel. (Courtesy photo) Based on the 1976 novel by Alex Haley, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” is an update of the famous story of Haley’s efforts to trace his ancestors. The History […]

Michael Jace, who played a police officer on the TV series, “The Shield,” appears in court with his attorney, attorney Jason Sias, left, during his trial, Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at Los Angeles County Superior in Los Angeles. A jury convicted Jace of second-degree murder, Tuesday, in the 2014 shooting death of his wife. (AP […]

Three Tuskegee University grads are going to be living life on the small screen this summer.  Animal Planet will premiere “The Vet Life” TV series Saturday, June 4, 2016, at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST. The show follows veterinarians Drs. Diarra Blue, Aubrey Ross and Michael Lavigne, balancing their newly-opened animal hospital with family life. […]

FILE – In this April 30, 2012, file photo, Khloe Kardashian Odom and Lamar Odom from the show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” attend an E! Network upfront in New York. Kardashian filed for divorce from Odom for the second time on Thursday, May 26, 2016, citing irreconcilable differences. The pair married in September 2009 […]

In this Oct. 2, 2010 file photo, rapper Gucci Mane arrives on the red carpet for the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta. A lawyer for rapper Gucci Mane says his client has been released a few months early from an Indiana federal prison where he was serving a federal firearms sentence. Attorney Drew Findling […]

Bill Cosby’s lawyers gave a blistering preview of the questions the actor’s accuser will face at trial, as a judge refused to dismiss the sexassault case at a preliminary hearing. Bill Cosby departs the Montgomery County Courthouse after a preliminary hearing, Tuesday, May 24, 2016, in Norristown, Pa. Cosby was ordered to stand trial on […]