Despite the trauma she endured at the hands of a rapist at the age of 19, Gabrielle Union calls the experience her “Aha! moment” in the April 2012 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. “It wasn’t long before I became uncomfortable with feeling like a victim,” Union says, describing how the attack taught her to [...]
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BLACKS CAN NO LONGER DO SOUL MUSIC = Singer-songwriter The Dream SAYS. Singer/Songwriter THE DREAM who frequently collaborates with Beyonce made a bold statement recently to UK’s The Guardian, Terius Nash told the British publication blacks can’t do soul music anymore because of the world’s fascination with white artists doing soul music. To support his statement, he made an [...]
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Nicki Minaj is the new face of Pepsi Cola. The ‘Starships’ rapper recently signed on to be the face of Pepsi’s new beverage coined ‘Pop’! According to Derek Jackson, the Glu agency chief who brokered the agreement, Minaj will become the face of a new Pepsi beverage nearing its debut. He said the pact, which includes a commercial filmed in [...]
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Fresh off his Golden Globe win for Luther, Idris Elba is busy working on his next TV project: the miniseries Ascension, which “revolves around the history of astronomy and mankind’s impulse for the stars,” as Deadline reports. Elba will play two characters: “the Egyptian polymath Imhotep in 3000 B.C., as well as a brilliant astronomer in the near [...]
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DWIGHT HOWARD wants SOLE CUSTODY of the CHILD he has with reality star ROYCE REED. Back in 2009 Dwight Howard successfully litagated a gag order against his baby mother, Basketball Wives star Royce Reed. Now binded by legalities, Royce can not say who the father of her child is, mention Dwight’s name OR post photos [...]
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While Beyoncé is the better-known Knowles sibling with the more famous husband, baby, and everything else, Solange, 25, has quite a story of her own. She’s released two albums, toured the world as a dancer with Destiny’s Child and has written album tracks for Kelly Rowland and four songs for her sister, including ‘Upgrade U’ [...]
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While Beyoncé is the better-known Knowles sibling with the more famous husband, baby, and everything else, Solange, 25, has quite a story of her own. She’s released two albums, toured the world as a dancer with Destiny’s Child and has written album tracks for Kelly Rowland and four songs for her sister, including ‘Upgrade U’ [...]
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17 year old Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. Previously the 911 Tapes were being withheld by the police.. Now one portion of the tape has been released.. In the tape you can hear Trayvon Martin screaming in the background begging for help. Shortly after the screams stop.. Trayvon lays dead on the sidewalk [...]
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A Virgina student, Jordan Shumate recently found himself feeling singled out after having his teacher instruct him to read a Langston Hughes poem ‘Blacker”. Shumate, 14 was sitting in his ninth grade English class reciting Langstan Hughes “Ballad of the Landlord” aloud in class. As Jordan read the poem he spoke very clearly and in perfect English. [...]
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A Virgina student, Jordan Shumate recently found himself feeling singled out after having his teacher instruct him to read a Langston Hughes poem ‘Blacker”. Shumate, 14 was sitting in his ninth grade English class reciting Langstan Hughes “Ballad of the Landlord” aloud in class. As Jordan read the poem he spoke very clearly and in perfect English. [...]
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