(Ebony.com) – FOX’s hit show, Empire, is getting bigger by the week. This is evidenced by the millions of viewers that tune in every Wednesday to view the...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mary J. Blige performed for a feverish crowd Tuesday night at the Samsung Supper Club in an...
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Shiek Mahmud-Bey isn’t yet a household name, but has been hailed as one of...
SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — From the Oscars red carpet to the TV smash “Empire,” Dolce & Gabbana is everywhere in Hollywood....
ALICIA RANCILIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jussie Smollett, one of the stars of Fox’s prime-time soap, “Empire,” says he counts his mom as one...
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst was a rich man living free despite police efforts to link him to murder. Adnan...
(The Huffington Post) – Shonda Rhimes proved long ago that she is a force to reckon with. The growing influence she has had in television...
Cory Townes, EBONY (Ebony.com)—This story starts with a conversation in Brooklyn roughly last week. “Yo, you know what this means?” “No, what?” “This time next week,...
Dalton Ross, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (EW.com)—[SPOILER ALERT: Read on only of you have already watched Sunday’s “Spend” episode of The Walking Dead.] Another one bites...
Ryan Book, THE MUSIC TIMES (MusicTimes.com)—Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were certainly responsibly for the biggest copyright infraction decision of the last week, which allowed...
Gail Mitchell, BILLBOARD LOS ANGELES (Billboard.com)—Deitrick Haddon, award-winning gospel artist and a star on Oxygen network’s popular reality series Preachers of L.A. and Fix My...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Gossip in the Air This week in Atlanta it was all about friendships, complicated love and lots of gossip…RHOA’s Kandi...
Borys Kit, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (Hollywood Reporter)—Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the Richard Pryor biopic that Lee Daniels is directing for The Weinstein Co.,...
Hugh McIntyre, FORBES (Forbes.com)—Some people just can’t get enough of the spotlight, can they? In addition to her many upcoming and ongoing projects, global pop...
Julee Wilson, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—Rihanna is officially a Dior Girl! WWD confirmed the exciting news with the famed French fashion house. So what...
LOS ANGELES, March 12 (UPI) — Longtime artistic collaborators Sean “Diddy” Combs and Mary J. Blige are to guest star on the hit sitcom black-ish, ABC announced Thursday. The...
(Entertainment Wise) – Well, it’s certainly been an eventful week at the Lil Wayne household to say the least. Following an elaborate hoax misleading police...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO says “Scandal” star Kerry Washington will play Anita Hill in a film about Clarence Thomas’ 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings....
GISELA SALOMON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Talk show host Rodner Figueroa was fired from Univision after saying that Michelle Obama looks like someone from the...
(New York Times) – Here’s how songs, especially hip-hop and R&B songs, are made today: the framework is built in the studio by a producer, working...
(Reuters) – A report of a shooting at the Miami Beach home of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne was declared a hoax by police on Wednesday...
JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press CHARLES J. GANS, Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — American jazz legend Wynton Marsalis has canceled concerts in Venezuela at a time...
He’s a powder keg of ass-kicking fury that’s about to explode By Cory Alexander Haywood Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Although Hollywood has become...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the eighth straight time, Fox’s music business soap “Empire” pulled in more viewers than it had...
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – Angie Stone, a Grammy-nominated singer who rose to fame with R&B hits such as “Brotha,” “No More Rain” and “Wish I Didn’t...
