To mark National Homeless Youth Awareness month, legendary rap group Public Enemy, featuring Flava Flav and Chuck D, took a tour around Washington yesterday, boarding a flat-bed truck and throwing copies of their CD to the crowd on the way to Lisner Auditorium.
The event — billed as An Evening With Public Enemy: Concert to Fight Youth Homelessness –benefited the Sasha Bruce House, a homeless youth shelter in the District where Flava Flav and Chuck D hosted an early Thanksgiving dinner earlier in the day.
Is former American Idol Fantasia Barrino a hubby humper? Say it ain’t so, Fanny! Star Magazine has blown the lid off of the Grammy-nominated powerhouse’s secret romance with a married father of two! And if that isn’t scandalous enough, a snitch in Barrino’s camp claims the cell phone salesman has dumped his wife and young children and moved into the “Truth Is” singer’s $1.3 million mansion in Charlotte’s upscale Piper Glen suburb.
“I’m not going to deny that the word ‘homewrecker’ is floating around,” a friend of the singer reveals in Star’s Nov. 30 issue. …on the edge of your seat? Keep reading!
Janet Jackson says her entire family recognized her brother Michael had a drug problem, and tried to help, but she insists the King of Pop wasn’t ready to acknowledge he had a problem.
“You can’t make ‘em drink the water,” Jackson tells ABC News in an interview airing Wednesday.
Michael Jackson passed away June 25 after a powerful overdose of the prescription drug Propofol.
The mothers of rappers T-Pain, Lil Wayne and R&B singer Ne-Yo are joining forces to launch their own television talk show inspired by ABC’s Emmy-winning daytime series The View, AllHipHop.com has learned.
Aliyah “Mama Pain” Najm (T-Pain‘s mother), Jacida Carter (Lil Wayne’s mother), and H. Loraine Smith (Ne-Yo’s mother) are hoping to enhance their viewers “educationally, economically, socially and culturally” with discussions on current events, important topics, interviews, and feature segments, according to a statement issued Tuesday.
“Our vision is to be a premier talk show that delivers a creative and informative format that assists viewers in educating and solving challenging issues,” Najm told AllHipHop. “There are situations in our communities, cities, states and even nationwide that people have made us aware of and they want to resolve the issues, but they just don’t know where to get help or how to properly handle certain issues,” Najm said.
Dinner Table Discussions is scheduled to premiere next year. Producers are currently in discussions with several networks interested in picking up the program.
With slugger Sammy Sosa’s appearance as the Dominican Casper still making headlines more than two weeks after the baseball legend’s startling appearance at the 2009 Latin Grammys, more people are examining the ideals that have made the skin lightening a multimillion dollar industry.
Jennifer Hudson is set to star in Winnie, a film exploring the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman), Variety reports.
The American Idol star, who won an Oscar for her role in the 2006 box office hit Dreamgirls, will play the South African personality in the movie, which will begin shooting in South Africa in May next year, .
Winnie — directed by veteran South African filmmaker Darrell J. Roodt — will be shot on location in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Robben Island – where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years before becoming the country’s president.
Karrine Steffans’ alleged Buss It Baby has been tapped as the next Malcolm Winters: Entertainment Weekly has learned that former child actor Darius McCrary – best known for playing Eddie Winslow on the long-running ABC sitcom Family Matters – has inked an multi-year deal to assume the role of Malcolm Winters on The Young & The Restless beginning Nov. 18.
The actor steps into the role originated by Emmy-winning Criminal Minds star Shemar Moore in 1994.
“We are thrilled to have the character of Malcolm back on Y&R,” according to a statement from Maria Bell, Y&R’s co-executive producer/head writer. “Malcolm, Neil Winters’ brother, has always been a catalyst to exciting stories. He’s coming back to town to see his brother and to reunite with his biological daughter, Lily Winters, as she fights for her life. Malcolm is a photographer … someone who lives on the edge and who always pushes the envelope.”
Daytime’s Top Trash-Talkin’ Tranny has a gig through 2012! On Tuesday, FOX renewed popular daily gabfest The Wendy Williams Show through the 2011-12 season.
Ratings have improved drastically for the show in recent weeks, network bosses said in a statement to Broadcasting & Cable on Wednesday. Wendy’s viewership has increased by 23% in households, 43% among women 18-34, and 37% in women 25-54.
“There was no question that we wanted to renew The Wendy Williams Show given what we’ve seen thus far in both content and ratings,” said Frank Cicha, Fox’s Senior VP of Programming. “We anticipate even further growth as the show continues to emerge as a key building block, and Wendy as a key personality, of our daytime landscape.”
