Uh-oh… Morehouse College, one of the nation’s oldest historically black institutions recently enacted a controversial ban oncross-dressing. Did we forget to mention that Morehouse — which boasts prestigious alumni like civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and director Spike Lee –just happens to reside in ole Atlanta, the gayest Black male city in America?
Whitney Houston narrowly avoided a wardrobe malfunction when she took the stage on the British reality talent competition The X Factor Sunday night, wearing a floor-length silver dress that threatened to get caught on the heels of her stilettos.
With a hem several inches too long, the comeback diva had to keep hoisting the frock up to avoid falling on her face as she belted out the lyrics to “Million Dollar Bill.” Whitney even had to deal with the garb’s back fastening coming apart.
Despite the wardrobe malfunction, Whitney championed through her performance, telling host Dermot O’Leary: “I sang myself out of my clothes…”
Three employees with the New York Department of Correction resigned from their posts on Friday, several months after being accused of allowing rapper Foxy Brown to have a photoshoot — and other forbidden perks — while the star was incarcerated on a probation violation, The New York Daily News reports.
According to the tabloid: Besides allowing Foxy Brown to conduct a jailhouse interview, the dismissed guards also allowed Orthodox Jewish prisoners to have parties. Chief of Department Carolyn Thomas and Frank Squillante, assistant chief of special operations, both turned in their resignations effective Oct. 31, sources said. George Okada’s resignation as warden of the Manhattan detention complex is effective the middle of next month, sources said. Rapper Foxy Brown, who was serving nine months on Rikers Island for beating two nail salon manicurists in 2006, did a jailhouse interview with a hip-hop magazine.
Mase is free as a breeze. The rapping pastor crashed Dirty Money’s interview at Atlanta’s V103 radio station over the weekend with a pen and paperwork that would free him from his contract with Diddy — which the Bad Boy boss signed. Who ever said there was no way out of Bad Boy?
Beyonce Knowles has postponed a planned concert in Malaysia, following accusations by Islamic conservatives that the show would be immoral.
The “Sasha Fierce” star been scheduled to perform at a Kuala Lumpur stadium on October 25, but the show “has been postponed to a future date to be announced shortly”, Malaysian entertainment company Marctensia said in a statement Monday.
Alicia Keys’ new album, The Element of Freedom, debuts Dec. 1. Here’s the official video premiere for the album’s lead single “Doesn’t Mean Anything.”
“The music is really strong, and the drums are really aggressive, but my voice is vulnerable and delicate,” the multiplatinum-selling recording aritist said in a statement about the album.
On Friday’s Oprah, boxing legends Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield reunited to speak for the first time since the infamous ear biting incident during their 1997 match-up in Las Vegas.
Sickle cell anemia may have played a significant role in the death of Ashley “AJ” Jewell, the ex-fiancé of Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burress, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday.
Fulton County Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Kelly Rose has revealed that preliminary autopsy results led her to believe that AJ, who died two weeks ago after a brawl in the parking lot of an Atlanta strip club, suffered from the life long blood disorder that inhibits oxygen flow to tissues in the body.
“…It’s most likely that Jewell was worked up from the fight — and because of his condition, it’s probable that he couldn’t replenish the oxygen he lost during the incident … which the Dr. says could have fatal consequences.”
The father of six suffered severe head injuries during the fight at Body Tap. He was rushed to Piedmont Hospital, and later died.
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Diddy lost one of his diamond-studded rings — worth $20,000 — after it flew off his finger and into a crowd of fans during a taping of BET’s 106 & Park on Tuesday.
The NY Post claims the mogul accidentally flung a diamond-studded ring into a raucous crowd as he hurled bundles of cash off a stage at CBS Studios in Midtown Manhattan yesterday afternoon. After noticing that his ring was gone, Diddy ordered his security tpsearch all 160 audience members — mostly teenagers –after filming wrapped.
The search came up empty.
“Ok diddy lost his ring . . . and now there frisking all the kids like this is rikers lite,” a user named PWillzNYC posted on Twitter later. Another Tweeter, named dbaumz, tweeted, “[W]hen it was over, diddy held us hostage lookin for his lost ring. dont like him no more!!!”
One spywitness chuckled: “He ain’t getting’ it back. Someone pocketed that, and they probably took it to the nearest jeweler.”
Hip-hop pioneer Roxanne Shanté has apologized for lying about earning her Ph.D.
In August, The New York’s Daily News published a story about the legendary femcee convincing her former label home, Warner Music Group, to pay for her college “for life.” Shanté claimed she received an undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College and a Ph.D. in psychology from the prestigious Cornell University. About a week later, Slate.com published a piece exposing Shanté’s fiblet. In fact, she doesn’t have a degree at all! Read the rest of this entry »
