Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Maude (left) and Chloe Arnold make up the Syncopated Ladies. (Courtesy photo) Chloe Arnold and Maud Arnold are two sisters who’ve embraced their talents in tap dancing at a young age growing up in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Now the two have taken the tap dancing industry by storm by building their own film/production company and […]

President Obama and Michelle are some of the Black historical figures on Black History Bowties. (Photo credit: Black History Bowties) Dante Lee, president and CEO of Diversity Media and Blacknews.com, recently re-launched his Black History Bowties, a web site that sells printed neckwear featuring Black heroes. The online store recently revamped on April 1, after […]

This image released by The Public Theater shows Lin-Manuel Miranda, foreground, with the cast during a performance of “Hamilton,” in New York. “Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama on Monday, April 18, 2016. (Joan Marcus/The Public Theater via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — “Hamilton,” the hip-hop […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Kanye West fan on Monday sued the rapper and the streaming service Tidal claiming they duped users into subscriptions based on the promise of being the exclusive outlet for West’s latest album. In this Aug. 30, 2015 file photo, Kanye West accepts the video vanguard award at the MTV Video […]

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. (Photo Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) NEW YORK (AP) — John Legend and Chrissy Teigen (TEE’-gen) have welcomed a baby girl named Luna Simone Stephens. Legend’s real surname is Stephens. He and Teigen announced the birth of their first child on social media Sunday. Their daughter was born Thursday. The 37-year-old R&B […]

Reporter Tamron Hall, from left, Willie Wilkerson, singer Aretha Franklin, music executive Clive Davis and Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. attend Aretha Franklin’s 74th Birthday Celebration at the Ritz-Carlton on Thursday, April 14, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin was in the mood for celebrating, and not just […]

In this July 3, 2015 file photo, Slick Rick poses in the press room at 2015 Essence Music Festival Concert at Superdome in New Orleans. Ricky “Slick Rick” Martin Lloyd Walters became an American citizen during a ceremony in New York on Friday, April 15, 2016. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — […]

This photo provided by PBS39 WLVT, singer Diana Ross stands by her limousine that was involved in an accident on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 in Bethlehem, Pa. Bethlehem police say the 72-year-old singer complained of head and neck pain after the crash on Wednesday afternoon. She was treated at the scene by paramedics and indicated […]

1997 was a cloudy period for hip-hop, as the world was forced to deal with the deaths of 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. Sean Combs was dominating the charts with bubblegum rap while dressed in shiny-suits, and most of the industry was following his lead. Meanwhile in Queens, New York, Capone-N-Noreaga were helping to restore […]

Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall is seen in Washington, Oct. 24, 1967. He is the first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi) BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A movie about Thurgood Marshall before he became the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice will be filmed in Buffalo, New York. […]

In this March 15, 2014 file photo, CeeLo Green performs at Rachael Ray’s Feedback Party during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, ruled that Green will no longer have to report to a probation officer in a felony drug case because the Grammy winner had […]