by Yvette Carnell In a meeting with over 100 community leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Obama urged the mostly African American group to “stay unified”. Unity implies that both Obama and black voters have been on the same page, speaking with one unified voice, up until now. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Until recently, President Obama had been evading African Americans…
November 10, 2011


Your Black World reports: Kyla Pratt, best known for her role as Flex Alexander’s adorably sassy daughter on One on One and as the voice of Penny Proud on the hit animated series, The Proud Family, stopped by BET’s 106 and Park to dish the dirt on joining the cast of BET’s Let’s Stay Together for its second season. After host, Rocsi, provided the obviously scripted segue, Pratt revealed…


Nicole Richie’s fashion resume continues to expand. The reality TV star is expanding her apparel and accessories empire to the television shopping network with a QVC fashion line, reports Usmagazine.com. The collection will reportedly launch in February, to coincide with the premiere of the NBC reality show “Fashion Star,” where Richie serves as a mentor for competing designers. “The line is cute – it can be worn by…

Nicki Minaj is being called a “temperamental diva” after an alleged outburst against a beautician. The Super Bass hitmaker reportedly launched a verbal tirade against Dawn DaLuiseafter having her eyebrows and lip waxed. After giving her a piece of her mind, Nicki is claimed to have thrown money at the celebrity facialist and stormed out of her Dawn DaLuise Skin Refinery clinic in Los Angeles. “After I waxed her eyebrows and…


A California college basketball player went on a drug-fueled naked rampage near his campus after being kicked off his team, police said. Leonard Tyrell Young, 21, tore up his apartment near Fresno Pacific University late Monday night and then ran nude through a nearby parking lot, where he assaulted two women and smashed up several cars before cops showed up, police said, according to the Fresno Bee. Young…

Ashley Billasano did not show up for school at Rosenberg’s BF Terry High School Tuesday morning.Instead, she took to her Twitter page, saying there was so much more she wanted to do.”Its obvious she needed somebody to talk to and thats what I believe those tweets were,” said Chief Craig Brady with the Fort Bend County Sheriffs Department. “She was trying to communicate and trying to get people to talk…

A Minnesota woman caught on camera stealing a fur coat by hiding it in her underwear will spend the next two years in prison. Police say the woman spent three days in jail before handing over the coat. The coat went undetected by officers for days. Video surveillance shows Stephanie Moreland inside the Alaskan Fur Company in Bloomington on New Year’s Eve. She was in the market for a jacket….

More than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims have filed a petition with the United Nations, demanding millions of dollars in compensation for their suffering in an epidemic widely blamed on Nepalese peacekeepers, the victims’ lawyers said Tuesday. The epidemic, which has killed 6,700 people and sickened 485,000, was linked to peacekeepers from Nepal, according to a report released in May by an U.N.-appointed panel of experts. The strain of…

A few days after tweeting that “hardline” Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan “has never been with the real,” Stephon Marbury(notes) (currently playing in China) continued with the attacks on the NBA legend from half a world away via his preferred brand of social media. By the looks of the picture above, maybe it was because M.J. stiffed him on a hug a decade ago? via Stephon Marbury lays…

Jennifer Hudson was among a slew of celebs on deck at the Versace for H&M fashion show in NYC last night. We must say she really is keeping her skinny girl swag in full effect. Fresh off the brink of a failed engagement we guess a girl has got to maintain her sexy. via Jennifer Hudson is Maintaining Her Sexy Rather Nicely | What The Ha-yell!.

Mariah Carey hit up the Rosie Show on OWN looking better than ever. She dropped a ton of her baby weight and revealed her post baby body on the show. Mariah says the weight loss wasn’t easy and she suffered from edema which raised from her legs to her tummy. She lost 40 pounds alone from water weight and the rest from a strict Jenny Craig diet (side…

The executors of Michael Jackson’s estate say they are “disgusted” by MSNBC’s decision to air Dr. Conrad Murray’s documentary just four days after the physician was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and are calling on the network to cancel plans to air the program. Murray went straight to jail following his conviction Monday. A Los Angeles jury found him guilty of administering the fatal dose of propofol that cost the King…