It’s back to brunette for Christina Milian! The previously-blond actress/singer appeared on The TODAY Show Tuesday to promote the upcoming DVD release of her new film, Bring It On: Fight To The Finish.
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Transit officials in New York City have vetoed plans to rename the site of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” music video in tribute to the singer. In 1987, Jackson teamed up with Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese to shoot the 16-minute short film — featuring Wesley Snipes — at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Subway Station in Brooklyn.
Officials at the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have scrapped the plan because they fear tourists and commuters will be confused by the name-change.
“Having Michael Jackson visit and moonwalk at this station was a huge deal not only for Brooklyn, but all of New York in the ’80s. And renaming this station in his honor would put it on the map and help ensure that people don’t forget,” says New York City Councilwoman Letitia James, who is spearheading the campaign for the Jackson subway tribute.
Coach Carter star Antwon Tanner has pleaded guilty to selling more than a dozen Social Security numbers for $10,000.
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In April, authorities charged the 34 year old — who plays Skills on The CW series One Tree Hill– after he sold sixteen Social Security numbers and three fake Social Security cards to undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in a sting operation.
Tanner faces up to a year in prison. He will be sentenced on November 20.
Nelly and Ashanti have called it quits after nearly five years of dating.
The couple managed to keep their romance under wraps until Nelly confirmed that the pair were dating last November, but now the twosome has split amid claims that the rapper wasn’t ready to settle down with Ashanti.
According to The New York Daily News, Nelly has been nursing his broken heart by spending time with Canadian video model Melyssa Ford.
Janet Jackson is writing an explosive tell-all about her world-famous family following the death of her older brother Michael.
“She is going to talk about Michael’s death and how it’s affected her and his children and the rest of the family,” a publishing industry insider close to Janet’s book deal reveals in the Aug. 31 issue of In Touch Weekly. Read the rest of this entry »
Omarion has been dropped by Lil Wayne’s Young Money label less than a week ago .
Less than a week ago, Omarion appeared with Lil Wayne during a tour stop on his America’s Most Wanted Music Festival, where the former boy bander officially announced that he was part of the roster.
The news that the O has been released from his contract came via a Twitter message from Young Money president Mack Maine. Word is Omarion has been dropped because he leaked a track called “I Get It In.”
“ATTN: Omarion is no longer Young Money … the song they leaked ft. Wayne is not official … good luck 2 him in his future…” Maine wrote.
As if her popularity ranking wasn’t already in the toilet, the soon-to-be former Mrs. Usher Raymond is accused of plagiarizing a poignant and touching blog she penned on colorism in the African-American community.
Aisha Curry, who wrote the book Pretty For a Black Girl several years ago, is crestfallen and accuses Foster of intentionally lifting passages of her writing and passing them off as her own.
Read Foster’s full essay here.
If this is true, Tameka fails at life.
“My heart sank into my stomach. All the hard work, all the sleepless nights I had endured was playing back in my head as I read this article written by a woman I didn’t even know,” Curry told Black Voices’ BV Buzz Column on Thursday. “Why did I feel so connected to this article? Suddenly, it came to me. It was my work! It was my work, my voice, but in her words. I was frozen. Tears began rolling down my face as I read line after line after line. I couldn’t believe it. The idea that someone could gain notoriety from an issue that I first brought to the forefront is mindboggling. People were praising her for tackling an issue that had never been exposed. Hello?!? I wrote the book on it and started it years ago. The only difference between her article and my book is she used ‘dark-skinned’ and I used ‘Black.’”
Kim Zolciak will do another woman’s husband — but she “don’t do Black.”
In an interview with Essence Magazine Thursday, the adultress star of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta revealed that she does not date African-American men.
Here’s Kim’s thoughts on not sharing the love with “The Brothas.”
“…I don’t date Black men. I never have. It’s not a prejudice. It’s just a personal preference. People always think that Big Papa is Black. I don’t know why. I’ve never dated a Black man. It’s not to say it wouldn’t happen in the future, but at this time, I never have.”
South Africa’s track and field federation had been asked to conduct a gender test on an 800-meter runner amid concerns that she does not meet the requirements to compete as a woman.
Caster Semenya is the 18-year-old South African runner who is undergoing a series of gender tests to prove she was born a woman. Semenya dominated her rivals and won the gold medal in the 800 meter race at the World Championships on Wednesday, despite revelations that surfaced earlier in the day claiming she was undergoing a gender verification test due to concerns that she does not meet the requirements to compete against female athletes.
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Plaxico Burress, the former New York Giants receiver who was a hero in last year’s Super Bowl, pleaded guilty on a felony weapons charge on Thursday and was sentenced to two years in prison.
The charges stem from a Manhattan nightclub incident last November in which Burress shot himself in the thigh with a gun. His permit to carry the weapon had expired.
Burress pleaded guilty to one count of attempted criminal weapons possession and agreed to the two-year sentence with two years of supervision upon release.
In 2008, The New York Giants won the Super Bowl over New England when Burress caught the winning touchdown toss in the closing seconds. He was released from his contract in April.
