B eyoncé has been named as the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2012. The 30-year-old singer tops the magazine’s annual list of the “World’s Most Beautiful” in a special double issue. Commenting on her selection, Beyoncé tells People: “I feel more beautiful than I’ve ever felt because I’ve given birth. I have never felt [...]

P resident Barack Obama stopped by “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” Tuesday night. During his stop, President Obama joined the host for a special installment of the show’s staple, “Slow-Jamming the News,” with the Roots providing the music. The theme was the President’s call to Congress to prevent rates from doubling on federal Stafford [...]

M ariah Carey and Rick Ross hit the studio together during Mariah’s trip to Miami this week. Mariah and Ricky Rozay collaborated together on Ms. Carey’s Touch My Body (Remix), and now they’re back in the studio cooking up something fab. MiMi and Ricky were joined by producers Jermaine Dupri and DJ Khaled during [...]

M artin Lawrence and his wife are calling it quits. “Martin and Shamicka Lawrence have decided to divorce,” a rep for Martin said in a statement. “The couple has made the joint decision to part ways.” The couple had been together for 15 years before getting married in 2010 at their home in Beverly [...]

J ay-Z is giving fans the opportunity to work their way up to the top! Ever dreamed of living the life of Hov? Coming up from rags to riches? Becoming the next entrepreneurial mogul? Marrying Beyonce? Well you’re probably never going to accomplish that last one — the rap icon has launched his new [...]

T he midnight train to Georgia pulled up at Tuesday night’s Dancing With the Stars elimination show, awaiting Gladys Knight’s elimination It came down to the youngest and the oldest castmembers — before the final verdict was made, Disney star Roshon Fegan and soul legend Gladys Knight duked it out dancing the jive [...]

L ast night’s Glee episode was billed as the Whitney Houston tribute with the McKinley High kids saying goodbye to Whitney and, in the process — with just 42 days to go until graduation — saying goodbye to their high school years. Even though Whitney passed away more than two months ago now, the [...]

I t’s been exactly 10 years since Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was killed in a tragic car crash in the Honduras on April 25, 2002 at the age of 30. As one-third of TLC — one of the bestselling female group of all time — Lefteye’s death still weighs heavily on us and especially [...]

“Sometimes you gotta work & you gotta grow & it gotta hurt”

W ill Smith and Jay-Z are among a group of investors who are backing a new video sharing application, Viddy. Viddy is an app for the iPhone which allows users to create small videos and share them with friends, much like Instagram works with photos. So far, the Viddy app is a hit, with [...]

I t was such a good night on NBC’s The Voice last night, because Goodie Mob reunited on stage! The Voice judge and member of the Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo Green, reunited with his hip-hop collective members to debut their new song Fight To Win. Dressed in classic eclectic Goodie Mob attire, the hip-hop [...]

D ionne Warwick, recently gave a candid interview, where the 71-year-old singer got very candid about: fame, the music industry, today’s artist, and her worst habits. “I respect young artists who are working towards longevity. I don’t know anything about Lady Gaga, but I do know about Mariah Carey and Beyoncé, about Toni Braxton [...]

N ew artist Leon Timbo and his manager Kendra Robinson were involved in a hit and run accident in Atlanta early Saturday morning. The two were traveling home from a charity event, where Leon Timbo had performed earlier that evening, when a car struck the SUV they were traveling in. After the accident, the [...]

J ennifer Hudson bravely took the stand this morning as the first witness in the trial of William Balfour — never mind saving bombshells for the end of the trial, prosecutors brought out their big gun on day one. Though Jennifer was on the list of potential people to take the stand, it was [...]

T he success of Think Like a Man is nothing that should have surprised anyone. For starters, it’s based on a best-selling self-help book by Steve Harvey, and many box-office experts had predicted that it would finally be the movie to knock The Hunger Games out of its number spot. But it was unclear [...]

T he new revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, which features all Black actors in the lead roles, opened Sunday night at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City. An excellent ensemble cast — a fragile Nicole Ari Parker stars as the doomed Blanche, a swaggering Blair Underwood as Stanley, a spitfire [...]

T he First Annual ABFF Strikes for Education, a celebrity charity bowling gala sponsored by American Black Film Festival and Cadillac, was held Saturday night at Lucky Strikes – Hollywood, California. The event was a who’s who of Black film and TV stars. Co-hosted by actress Nia Long and ABFF Founder, Jeff Friday, celebrity [...]

T he weather is getting warmer and the flowers are blooming — sounds like the perfect time to get outside with the kids. Whether going on play dates, shopping or running through the airport, celebrities are often photographed out with their offspring — many of whom can add “paparazzi” to the list of their [...]

U sher is one busy man these days. Aside from working on his seventh studio album, Looking For Myself, (which it’s lead single Climax, has just earned Usher his twelfth no.1 charting single on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Songs Chart) and locked in to play Sugar Ray Leonard in the new film, Hands of [...]

P eter Thomas, the husband of Cynthia Bailey from The Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA) — seems to have some business roots in the Hip-Hop industry. We know the 50-year-old entrepreneur for his blunt responses and is mostly viewed as Cynthia’s disgruntled husband on the RHOA. He is also well known around Atlanta [...]