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The Recording Academy announced two months ago that at least 30 categories will be either eliminated or modified at next year’s Grammy Awards. Some of those eliminations will be five R&B categories including Best R&B Female, Best R&B Male, Best Urban Alternative Performance, Best Contemporary R&B Album, and Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or […]
BREAKING NEWS: After seven years of marriage, singer, actress and American Idol judge, Jennifer Lopez, and her singer-actor husband, Marc Anthony, are getting a divorce. The TV power couple released the following statement to People: “We have decided to end our marriage. This was a very difficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusion […]
“Sparkle,” a feature film about a musical sister act that’s set in Detroit at the peak of the Motown era, has been approved for $3.1 million in Michigan film incentives. The movie is a remake of the 1976 movie starring Irene Cara, Lonette McKee and Philip Michael Thomas that is set in Harlem and said […]
NEW YORK — Problem solved? It would’ve been embarrassing to overlook Melissa Leo when handing out the Emmy nominations this year. After all, just five months ago, she won herself an Oscar. So on Thursday, she got a well-deserved nod for the HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce.” That got Emmy voters off the hook. In the […]
Tia Mowry made it official via Twitter that she’ll be an author and will be publishing her first book, “Oh Baby!” After recently becoming a mommy, the actress is ready to lend a little advice to the world of expecting mothers and even fathers of what their journey will bring them along the way .Tia […]
Despite rumors of being a homosexual, Tyler Perry has told Ebony Magazine that he had a pregnancy scare with an unknown, unnamed girlfriend. Sister 2 Sister reports: “Back in December, when we thought we were having a kid, I got a little overwhelmed,” Tyler added before confirming that there is a special lady in his […]
LOS ANGELES- Laurence Fishburne, Taraji Henson and Idris Elba have all been nominated for Emmys this year. Fishburne for his role as Thurgood Marshall in the HBO movie, Thurgood, and Elba for his role as detective John Luther in the BBC series, “Luther.” Taraji P. Henson was nominated for her role as Tiffany Rubin in […]
Oprah Winfrey was named on Wednesday the chief executive and chief creative officer of OWN, the cable network she launched earlier this year. Winfrey posted a letter on Facebook today, explaining that Harpo Productions Inc. will join forces with OWN to run the network. The letter read: So as of today… Harpo Team and OWN […]
Emmy Award- Winning Writer, Producer, Director, Keenen Ivory Wayans was moved to tears during his American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Entertainment Icon Award acceptance speech. The event was the culmination of the four day festival which took place July 6 – 9th. Keenen Ivory Wayans To Be Honored At ABFF During his speech he reflected […]
Our sympathies go out to actress/comedian Kym E. Whitley whose mother, Kaysonia “Kay Kay” Whitley, passed away peacefully on July 3. According to a press release, Kaysonia Whitley born on February 6, 1936 died peacefully at 2:15 p.m., July 3, 2011 at University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio as her beloved friends and family accompanied her […]
Most pregnant women have either read or heard of the book “What to Expect When You’re Expecting!” Now get ready for the book to turn into a movie starring Chris Rock, Jennifer Lopez and more! Rock will play the head of a group of expectant fathers who lectures his class on what it’s really like to […]
The Smithsonian’s Museum of African-America History just got hip! The Smithsonian received a donation of artifacts from the TV show “Soul Train.” The items donated included the “Applause” signs, the 10-foot-wide neon “Soul Train” sign, silver African heads from the awards program and the Scramble Board; on which dancers unscrambled word puzzles quickly. The donation came just in time to celebrate the […]