Source: Ann Hornaday / The Washington Post CANNES, France — In 1995, Will Smith begged producer Jerry Bruckheimer to let him go to the Cannes Film Festival to promote “Bad Boys,” despite the parent studio’s insistence that a black actor would not get any traction with the international fans and journalists thronging the city’s beach-side [...]
Barbara Walters announced her retirement on ‘The View’ Monday morning. Walters said her television career will come to an end in the summer of 2014. (May 13)
Source: AP / The Huffington Post ATLANTA — Mourners are set to gather for the funeral of former Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly in Atlanta. Kelly’s funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at Jackson Memorial Baptist Church. The 34-year-old was found dead May 1 of a suspected drug overdose. Kriss Kross was introduced to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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)
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