By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Control Issues Out of Control My Southern sistahs on Married to Medicine had a hard time this week. Emotions got...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected the idea of revoking Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom because of sexual...
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors officials have met with the leader of a Detroit activist group that wants the automaker to cut financial ties with Kid...
(New York Times) – We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “When our child is killed we feel guilt. We feel like failures,” says the leader of a women’s group...
NEW YORK (Fox News) – Kylie Jenner is being accused on Instagram of cultural appropriation for wearing cornrows in her hair. “Hunger Games” actress Amandla Stenberg...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A ruling upholding a copyright infringement verdict against Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and rapper T.I. over their...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three armed men in masks forced their way into a Los Angeles home owned by Chris Brown, locked the R&B singer’s aunt...
The Richmond Main Street Initiative (RMSI) will present the 14th annual Music on the Main summer concerts Wednesdays, July 22 and Aug. 26, from 5...
Oakland native Tova Ricardo was chosen as the 2015 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, a top literary honor for both the city and its hometown hero....
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Medical examiners found no evidence to prove the allegation that blues legend B.B. King was poisoned before he...
WILBERFORCE, Ohio (WDTN) – Central State University is taking its first step toward removing the Cosby name from one of its buildings. The university confirms to...
Ida Lewis grew up listening to lots of lively zydeco and Cajun music played on accordion in Beaumont, Texas during the 1930s and ‘40s....
By Tayana Lewis Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Rihanna leaves fans cringing in excitement and shock with “B**** Better Have My Money”...
(Bloomberg) – The Grammy-winning rapper known as 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy in Connecticut after losing a lawsuit in a New York court over a...
Kelly Cohen, THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER (The Washington Examiner) — What does it mean to be white in America? A new MTV documentary seeks to answer...
Kelly Cohen, THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER (The Washington Examiner) — What does it mean to be white in America? A new MTV documentary seeks to answer...
Stacy Brown, THE NEW YORK POST (The New York Post) — Bill Cosby’s wife knows her husband is a serial philanderer, but believes his scores...
Natalie Finn, ENTERTAINMENT ONLINE (EOnline.com) — When even those producing the interview call it at times “odd and rambling”… You know that what you’re about to...
Sonalee Singh, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES (International Business Times) — Chadwick Boseman is all set to play Black Panther in a movie focusing on that Marvel character....
(USA Today) – Hollywood has a diversity problem. If you disagree, watch Into the Woods — all 8 seconds of it. Dylan Marron, a 27-year-old actor in New York,...
KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Confederate flag was once a familiar symbol in country music, representing the rural South and the...
LONDON (UPI) – Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester are to star in Peter Moffat’s six-part, political thriller, Undercover, the BBC announced Thursday. To be directed by James Hawes,...
(Reuters) – Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will not be removed, organizers said on Thursday, but other honors given to the beleaguered...
(Reuters) – Rapper Meek Mill scored his first No. 1 album on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, far outpacing R&B artist Miguel...
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