Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Young Thug performs at the 2014 BET Hip Hop Awards. (Photo by Dan Harr/Invision/AP) ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say rapper Young Thug has been jailed in metro Atlanta on a charge of making terroristic threats. U.S. marshals arrested the rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, Wednesday morning on a warrant by Dunwoody police. […]

Curtis Jackson III, the rapper and actor also known as 50 Cent. (AP Photo) HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The rapper and actor known as 50 Cent has filed for federal bankruptcy protection, days after a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. Curtis Jackson III, who owns a home in Farmington, […]

In this May 17, 2015 file photo, 50 Cent arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Someone else’s sex tape is proving to be costly for 50 Cent: A jury ordered the rapper-actor Friday, July 10, 2015, to pay $5 million to a woman who said he […]

Sudanese model Nyhor Paul recently lashed out at the fashion industry for its lack of diversity racial sensitivity. Sudanese model Nyhor Paul. (Photo Courtesy of Instagram) In a long Instagram post, the 25-year-old model scolded makeup artists for asking her to bring her own makeup to shows and shoots because they don’t have the appropiate […]

In this Jan. 3, 1963 file photo, Egyptian actor Omar Sharif on his arrival at London Airport. Sharif has died in a Cairo hospital of a heart attack, his agent said on Friday, July 10, 2015. (AP Photo, File) CAIRO (AP) — In “Lawrence of Arabia,” Omar Sharif is first seen in the distance, a speck […]

As a chorus of sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby resounded this winter, some fans and famous friends stood by him, calling the allegations unproven attacks on a comedy legend. But for some, the breaking point came this week, when newly unsealed court documents revealed that the comedian has admitted to giving at least one woman […]

In the 1997 thriller Face/Off, an FBI agent underwent a face transplant in order to crack a terrorist plot. It’s hard not to think of that film while watching Self/Less which revolves around another radical surgical procedure, namely, the transplantation of a cancer patient’s brain inside the cranium of a healthy individual. The picture stars […]

In this Nov. 11, 2014, file photo, comedian and Navy veteran Bill Cosby speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony in Philadelphia. A lawyer for Cosby says it would be “terribly embarrassing” if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed in Philadelphia. Cosby’s lawyer on Friday, June 26, 2015, fought efforts by The Associated Press […]

Marion Hugh “Suge” Knight sits with his attorney Thomas Mesereau in Los Angeles Superior Court during a hearing on a robbery case involving Knight and comedian Micah “Katt” Williams, filed after a celebrity photographer accused the men of stealing her camera last year, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in Los Angeles. A judge set a […]

(Left) In this Nov. 6, 2014 file photo, entertainer Bill Cosby pauses during a news conference. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File); (Right) This is an excerpt from a 2005 deposition given by entertainer Bill Cosby, released Monday, July 6, 2015, by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In these documents, […]

The Afro-American Newspapers has collaborated with Global Social Media News Service to provide real-time social media and aggregate news coverage of the 2015 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans July 3-5. Voted as the No. 1 African-American newspaper in the nation in a recent survey, the AFRO is serving as a corporate sponsor of the […]

This photo provided by American Ballet Theater, Misty Copeland and James Whiteside appear in “Swan Lake” at the Metropolitan Opera House on June 24, 2015. It was Copeland’s New York debut in the lead role, a key moment for her fans who hope she’ll soon be named American Ballet Theater’s first black principal dancer. (Gene […]