Arts

Scandal's Kerry Washington Graces The Cover Of Elle Magazine

Scandal's Kerry Washington Graces The Cover Of Elle Magazine

Source: Maria Puente / USA Today It’s always interesting to learn what the stars might have been had they not become actors, and in the case of Kerry Washington it’s pretty far from her current reality: clinical psychologist. Yes, that’s the career she thought she’d pursue, she tells Elle magazine, where she’s on the cover of the June [...]

Beyonce Talks Career, Family, New Movie And ‘Shock’ Over Reaction To Cuba Trip

Beyonce Talks Career, Family, New Movie And ‘Shock’ Over Reaction To Cuba Trip

Source: ABC News In an interview with ABC News’ Amy Robach on the London leg of her tour, Beyonce talked about her latest role, married life and how shocked she was at the outcry over her recent trip to Cuba. She and her husband, rapper/music mogul Jay-Z, went to the communist Caribbean nation for their fifth [...]

Lauryn Hill Sentenced To 3 Months For Failing To Pay Taxes

Lauryn Hill Sentenced To 3 Months For Failing To Pay Taxes

Source: AP / USA Today NEWARK, N.J.  — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. She was also sentenced Monday in Newark to three additional months of home confinement. The 37-year-old South Orange resident pleaded guilty last year in [...]

Lauryn Hill Pays Bill In Tax Evasion Case

Lauryn Hill Pays Bill In Tax Evasion Case

Source: Eric R. Danton / Rolling Stone Lauryn Hill has paid off hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes she owed on the eve of her sentencing in a federal tax evasion case, her lawyer told Reuters. The singer is due in U.S. District Court this morning in Newark, New Jersey, after pleading guilty last [...]

Singer Lauryn Hill Faces Tax Evasion Sentencing

Singer Lauryn Hill Faces Tax Evasion Sentencing

Source: AP / ABC News Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill is facing sentencing Monday in New Jersey on federal tax charges. Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. A judge two weeks ago said Hill had paid only about $50,000 of more than $500,000 she [...]

Chris Kelly Of Rap Duo Kris Kross Dies

Chris Kelly Of Rap Duo Kris Kross Dies

Rapper Chris Kelly, left, of the duo Kris Kross  (Photo: Paul Natkin, WireImage) Source: AP / USA Today ATLANTA  — Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade’s most memorable songs with the frenetic Jump, has died, according to authorities. He was 34. Investigator Betty Honey of [...]

Detroit Wall That Divided City, Spurs Art (VIDEO)

Detroit Wall That Divided City, Spurs Art (VIDEO)

Many who come across the concrete wall in Detroit’s northwest side are unaware of its history and significance. The wall that once divided whites and blacks in 1940s now spurs art, jobs and discussion. (May 1)

MTV: Lil Wayne ‘Acknowledges’ Emmett Till Family’s Pain In Open Letter

MTV: Lil Wayne ‘Acknowledges’ Emmett Till Family’s Pain In Open Letter

Source: Rob Markman / MTV Despite the months of criticism that Lil Wayne has faced in regards to his hotly contested Emmett Till lyric, the Young Money president has remained silent on the issue, until now. On Wednesday (May 1), Wayne, addressed the offensive rap line in a letter to the Till family. “As a father myself, I cannot [...]

Jackson Looked Like ‘Cancer Patient’ Who Came Home To Die, Medic Says

Jackson Looked Like ‘Cancer Patient’ Who Came Home To Die, Medic Says

Source:  Jeff Gottlieb and Corina Knoll / Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles paramedic who answered the emergency call to the Holmby Hills mansion where Michael Jackson lived said that the condition of the singer resembled that of a cancer patient who had come home to die. Richard Senneff testified Tuesday that Jackson’s body was pale and so [...]

Michael Jackson’s Wrongful Death Trial Opens As Lawyer Slams AEG Live As ‘Ruthless’ For Hiring Conrad Murray

Michael Jackson’s Wrongful Death Trial Opens As Lawyer Slams AEG Live As ‘Ruthless’ For Hiring Conrad Murray

Source: Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News Michael Jackson died in 2009 because a “ruthless” group of concert promoters pushed the drug-addicted superstar and ignored his downward spiral, a lawyer for the star’s heirs said Monday. In his opening statement in the Jackson wrongful death trial in Los Angeles, lawyer Brian Panish said the concert company [...]

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