Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ROME (AP) — Beyonce told Serena Williams to dance and the tennis champion let loose. Top-ranked Williams recounted Sunday how she came to have a part in the singer’s video, “Lemonade.” Williams says, “I have known the director since I was like nine years old. I know Beyonce pretty well, so they were like, ‘We […]

Curtis Jackson, best known as 50 Cent, issued an apology after a video of him harassing an autistic teen went viral. In this July 20, 2015, file photo, Actor Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson attends the premiere of “Southpaw” at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. The Missouri Senate has tabled a sales tax […]

Prince (AP Photo Rogers and Cowan) Was a California doctor acting legally when he sent his son to Prince’s home with a drug often used to treat people addicted to opiates such as prescription painkillers? Dr. Howard Kornfeld may have been trying to help, but he was not licensed to practice medicine in Minnesota and […]

In this file photo dated Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2004, Congolese pop star Papa Wemba is hoisted by supporters as he leaves the courthouse in Bobigny near Paris Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2004. Wemba, known around the world as “the king of Congolese rumba,” died aged 66, on Saturday April 23, 2016, following his collapse on stage […]

A woman uses her cellphone to take a picture American reality-show star Kim Kardashian West, center, and her husband Kanye West as they ride on a classic car along the streets of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Rap superstar Kanye West, his wife Kim Kardashian and members of her reality-show-star family have become the […]

In this Feb. 3, 2016 file photo, actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives for a court appearance in Norristown, Pa. Cosby has asked the state Supreme Court to review last week’s decision by a mid-level appeals court that upheld the case. Cosby is charged with indecent sexual assault over a 2004 encounter with a former […]

In this Jan. 25, 2016, file photo, actor Danny Glover poses at the premiere of “Complete Unknown” during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Glover will receive a human rights award at a historic site in the Adirondacks honoring abolitionist John Brown on Saturday, May 7. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File) LAKE […]

In 2015, Baltimore had 344 homicides. Given that, sometimes it can be hard to find the time to sit down and think about the privilege that some Whites have in today’s society. Donna Drew Sawyer’s debut novel “Provenance: A Novel” is historical fiction set in Richmond, VA, New York and parts of Europe in the […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince’s representatives arranged for the musician to meet a California doctor to help him kick an addiction to painkillers shortly before his death, according to a newspaper report published Wednesday. Prince’s representatives called Dr. Howard Kornfeld on April 20, the day before the musician died, to seek emergency help, attorney William Mauzy […]

In this April 12, 2015, file photo, actor Eddie Murphy talks with his girlfriend Paige Butcher during an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks. Murphy and Butcher welcomed their first child together on May 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Murphy is now […]

Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Lin-Manuel Miranda (left to right) in a scene from the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” (Joan Marcus/Sam Rudy Media Relations via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — The megahit musical “Hamilton” has grabbed a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations, the biggest haul in Broadway history and another step in the show’s […]