The Color Purple – the Broadway musical based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker – will play its final performance Feb. 24 at the Broadway Theatre, producers announced on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Donda West’s Plastic Surgeron, Dr. Jan Adams, returns to Larry King Live. Read the rest of this entry »
Ike Turner died from a cocaine overdose, according to officials in San Diego, California. The seventy-six year old musician died in his home on December 12th.
Last year, Dawn Robinson, an original member of En Vogue and Lucy Pearl, was planning a reality show with her now ex, Dre, now the two are at each other’s throats. And like all mature adults, the former couple has taken their feud to Myspace. Dre has blasted down as a sexual deviant who boned seventeen men in the span of just one month. More after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
RZA on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Terrence Howard, and Anika Noni Rose pose for photos on the first day of rehearsal for the new Broadway production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” in New York City on Tuesday. The play will be directed by Debbie Allen. Read the rest of this entry »
Hammer plans to rival YouTube later this month with the launch of a website allowing users to share and watch dance videos. Read the rest of this entry »
THE JACKSON 5 will make their highly-anticipated comeback at a New Year’s Eve party hosted by JERMAINE DUPRI, according to the hip-hop mogul himself. The group’s first performance together since their official split in 1990 will be at his New Year celebrations in his Studio 72 club in Atlanta, Georgia. He says, “It’s the Jackson 5 Party. I swear to you, it’s going to be the biggest party this town has ever seen.” And Dupri insists the pop reunion will not be the only highlight of the night. He adds, “At midnight I’m gonna empty the whole club and put everyone in the parking lot and I’m going to light the lot up with a fireworks show.”
Reputed wife beater Ike Turner has died in San Marcos, CA, according to the Associated Press. He was 76. In 1998, he published an autobiography called Takin’ Back My Name.
The AOL Black Voices community has compiled a list of ten women who just can’t get any love from the community. Check out the list of ‘10 Women We Love To Hate’ after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »
