Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Vandals in North Carolina rearranged a church’s marquee into a message calling Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s newborn baby Satan, according to TMZ.com, but church officials said the incident never occurred. The gossip site reported that Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, N.C. was the victim of vandalism after someone defaced their marquee to create the […]

A writer for a popular Internet website was fired after using the N-word in an article about rapper Kanye West. According to TheWrap.com, Seth Abramovitch of the gossip website Gawker.com was ousted from the publication after posting about Kanye West’s Twitter rant in early January. West took to the social network to voice his plans […]

Multi-platinum singles aren’t the only thing that rapper Lil Wayne is writing these days. According to the Associated Press, the rapper, born Dwayne Carter Jr., has signed with Grand Central Publishing to release a memoir detailing his eight-month prison stint in Rikers Island in 2008. “Gone ‘Til November” will be released in November and will […]

HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (AP) — Johnson Mncube remembers the first day at Oprah Winfrey’s boarding school for underprivileged South African girls, when 11- and 12-year-olds were crying at the thought of being separated from their families, and he said he almost wanted to put his own daughter in his pocket and take her home. Five […]

Award-winning entertainer Tank took to Baltimore’s Soundstage Dec. 15, working hard to keep up his 10-year tradition of crooning the ladies into sweet submission. With four albums and eight Grammy nominations to his name, Tank has emerged as one of the heavy hitters of the music industry, not only writing his own material, but producing […]

Oprah Winfrey will host a reunion of the cast of the miniseries “Roots” at her Montecito, Calif. Home that will air on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 16, on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The epic story, based on the novel by author Alex Haley, reached television screens 35 years ago and chronicled six generations of […]

“Drumline” star Nick Cannon is being treated for kidney problems. The 31-year- old TV and movie star was admitted to an Aspen, Colo. hospital on New Year’s Eve due to minor kidney failure. His wife, Mariah Carey, posted a picture on her website with a message about how Nick was doing. “We’re trying to be […]

Born Dana Elaine Owens in Newark, N.J. on March 18, 1970, Queen Latifah is an award-winning actress, rapper, singer, author and entrepreneur. She landed an Oscar nomination in 2003 for Best Supporting Actress, as well as Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations for her performance as Mama Morton in “Chicago.” In 2008, […]

Ever present in the background, Kevin Peck has had the kind of success in his career that most producers can only dream of. Manager of the popular group, Dru Hill from 1992 to 1996, Peck has again and again shown what it takes to possess longevity in the entertainment business. “It’s about being the best […]

Judith Anna Jamison, an icon of American dance and the artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) for 22 years, will receive an Honorary Degree of Human Letters from Towson University on Jan. 8 during commencement. “I’ve had extraordinary peaks, and you know how blessed you are when you can look back […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammy-winning singer told The Associated Press in a statement Monday that she and Wilkerson are considering a summer wedding, perhaps in Miami Beach, Fla. The Queen of Soul wants to follow the ceremony with a reception on a private yacht. The 69-year-old jokes: “No, I’m not pregnant.” Franklin and Wilkerson […]