K aren Clark-Sheard set the pace for the evening with her stirring performance of her new single, “Prayed Up”!!! The evening was full of Gospel songs of the cinema.
My girl Tiffany Carlin-Laird set the night off with “Joyful, Joyful” from the Sister Act movie. Tiffany has a great voice, she has grown so [...]

A li-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and ’90s and helped restored them to their hit-making glory with songs including “Treat Her Like A Lady,” has died, a friend said. He was 58. Woodson died Sunday (May30) in Los Angeles after battling cancer, Motown Alumni Association President [...]

T he second annual Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend for Young Men will take place on the radio host’s ranch in Dallas, TX from June 17-20. The Father’s Day weekend will serve 100 teenage boys with empowering presentations and summertime activities that build their road to the future. A mentoring initiative to inspire the next [...]

G ary Coleman, who soared to fame and who became perhaps the most well-known child star in the country during the late 70s and early ’80s, has died at the age of 42.
After suffering a head injury, that resulted in intracranial hemorrhage earlier this week, Gary was hospitalized at Utah Valley Regional Medical [...]

B randy owned the stage Wednesday night (May26) as part of SwaggMedia and R&B Live weekly showcase. She did a four song set that included her classic hits, “Almost Doesn’t Count”, “What About Us”, and “I Wanna Be Down”. She closed out her set with delightful rendition of the Etta James classic “At Last” [...]

M ississippi celebrated its enduring connection to the Grammy Awards last night (May27) with a gala hosted by Governor Haley Barbour and First Lady Marsha Barbour at Biloxi’s Hard Rock Live at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The event is part of the state’s ongoing campaign to reinforce awareness of its identity as [...]

A licia Keys and Swizz Beatz aka Kasseem Dean (government name) confirmed late Thursday (May27) they are engaged and expecting their first child together. The musicians “are expecting a baby and are engaged to be married in a private ceremony later this year,” reps for the couple said. It will be the first marriage [...]

J anet Jackson shocked viewers last night (May26) with a surprise performance before Lee DeWyze was crowned the 9th winner of American Idol. Dressed in all black, Janet Jackson showed off her new cropped-do and performed her new song, “Nothing.” Later, she took center stage and strutted her stuff in a skin-tight black one [...]

T aking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, the image covers up a much more disturbing truth: Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran boy who smokes some forty cigarettes a day (two packs), which he’s been doing since his 30-year-old father gave him a cigarette [...]

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J aden Smith, son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, did a photo shoot for Vanity Fair Magazine to promote his new movie The Karate Kid. The black and white photos show off Jaden’s modeling side while he shows off some of the karate skills he picked up from the movie. Back in January [...]

T he drama continues to swirl in the Mariah Carey Camp! She has shockingly withdrawn from Tyler Perry’s forthcoming film adaptation of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.
There is no official word as to why Mariah pulled out. Her rep Cindi Berger stated that she was not [...]

B est buddies Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco will be taking over VH1 this summer with their reality series’. The second season of The T.O. Show and Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch is set to premiere on VH1 on July 11.
VH1 has started running a commercial, where Terrell and Chad attempt to one-up each [...]

D iddy teamed up with Dr. Dre to introduce his new Diddybeats in-ear heaphones at Best Buy in New York’s Union Square on yesterday (May26). The music impresario joins his Interscope labelmates Dre and Lady Gaga as artists with their own Beats-branded products. “This is definitely a historical day, myself and Dre teaming up [...]

T he Norwood family, including Brandy and Ray J, will be calling VH1 home for some time. According to network, their hit reality series Brandy & Ray J: A Family Business has been picked up for a second season! The series’ renewal comes weeks before the season one finale, which is slated to air [...]

E rykah Badu doesn’t back down from anything and she definitely works hard to be true to herself. The outspoken singer sounds off about her recent controversial video, motherhood and much more in this issue of Jet Magazine.
Gearing up for her “Out My Mind, Just In Time” multi-city tour, the mother of three tells [...]

T yler Perry is keeping things moving, as he has selected the male cast members for his next film, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.” Khalil Kain, Omari Hardwick, Isaiah Mustafa and Richard Lawson have been cast as the men in the film.
As previously report the following [...]

50 Cent is a man definitely dedicated to his craft, he recently lost a reported 65lbs for a new movie role. In the upcoming movie, “Things Fall Apart” directed by Mario Van Peebles, 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer.
He dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid [...]

D a Brat is currently serving three years in prison for aggravated assault, but she took a moment while out on a weekend pass to stop by Jermaine Dupri’s studio and send some love to the fans that have been writing to her while she is away. I also hear that Da Brat [...]