By: Jahbrielle Henning-Rayford, Your Black World In a recent interview on New York’s Power 105.1, rapper, and former “girlfriend” of the Notorious B.I.G, Charli Baltimore, clarifies why she never saw the 2009 Film, Notorious. The feature-film told Biggie’s life-story, and featured his two leading ladies, ex-wife, Faith Evans and Bonnie to his Clyde, Lil’ Kim. Kim publicly expressed disappointment in how she was portrayed in the film; but Baltimore, as…
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By: Jahbrielle Henning-Rayford, Your Black World Last week, singer Brandy Norwood appeared on the Wendy Williams Show and was asked about collaborating with singer Monica. Brandy told the ‘Queen of Celebrity Gossip’ that there was a “possibility.” Looks like that possibility was in fact a reality! Today, the R&B world is buzzing with news that Monica and Brandy, who recorded the hit song, “The Boy is Mine,” 14 years ago,…
The Indianapolis Colts fired coach Jim Caldwell on Tuesday, the team announced. The Colts hired Ryan Grigson as their new general manager last week and the team said they would have a decision on Caldwell’s future by the middle of this week. Franchise quarterback Peyton Manning missed the entire season after having his latest neck surgery Sept. 8 — a procedure that has clouded his future in Indianapolis. Without him,…
First announced back in August 2011 as a potential 4th ABC/Shonda Rhimes… an update… ABC has reportedly given the green light to a pilot episode of Gilded Lilly, a period drama set in 1895, revolving around the family who owned New York’s first true luxury hotel, the staff who work there and the people who pass through The project is written by K.J. Steinberg (Gossip Girl, State of…
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mild-mannered community activist Albert Knighten found himself in handcuffs last month when police and federal agents raided his home and shut down a pirate radio station he operated out of a spare bedroom. Supporters say his bare-bones operation filled an important niche in a predominantly black section of Fort Myers, a community whose residents often feel overlooked and underserved by commercial radio. The retired Navy air…
Taking a page from the “Eat, Pray, Love” author’s playbook, Tyra Banks took a trip to Asia and found a new love. “It’s a total long-distance romance,” a source reveals to PEOPLE of Banks’s new Balinese love interest. “But it’s a big deal.” Banks, who split with longtime boyfriend John Utendahl last fall, had gone to China shortly before the holidays to tape the latest season of “America’s…
Just as 11Alive’s DeMarco Morgan referred to the eternal flame at the tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta on ‘The Rundown at 10’ Monday night, the flame went out. Not to fear, the flame was back up and burning a short time later. Source.
Funk/disco great Jimmy “The Everything Man” Castor passed away on Monday from unknown causes in Las Vegas, according to reports. Castor, a respected saxophonist, was the leader of the seminal funk/disco band the Jimmy Castor Bunch. The group was behind funk classics like the 1972 smash, “Troglodyte (Cave Man).” Though the group’s popularity faded at the end of the disco era, Castor’s music lived on through hip hop…
If you miss Deelishis (shown above with Trina) from when she was slobbing down Flavor Flav on VH1, you will get to see the booty model turned wife of a Detroit party promoter, Orlando Gordon, in a new upcoming reality show about “prominent” (side-eye) women living in Detroit. Deelishis, aka London Charles, and her youngest daughter, Lexington Brielle, are pictured above. The series co-stars Detroit’s former…
Their relationship has not been short on drama. Now it seems that just one month after giving birth to their son Dallas, Fantasia Barinno is facing rumours that her boyfriend is allegedly cheating on her. RadarOnline is reporting that Antwaun Cook – who is still married to his wife Paula – has allegedly been unfaithful to the American Idol winner. The website claims one of Fantasia’s close friends…
Well it looks like unemployed homeowners will be allowed to suspend or reduce mortgage payments for as long as a year under a new policy announced by mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac on Friday. The new rules take effect on Feb. 1. According to CBS, Freddie Mac will give mortgage servicers the authority to provide six months of forbearance to unemployed borrowers without prior approval, and the agency…
Talking exclusively to Star in her first interview since giving birth, Beyonce Knowles told us she had an “instant connection” with her daughter Blue Ivy. Beyonce gave birth to Blue Ivy earlier this month and the singer admitted the experience was overwhelming. She told us: “Nothing can describe the feeling. You have the instant connection once you know your child is growing inside you, but when you hold…
Nick Cannon chatted with Howard Stern this morning and explained exactly what happened during his recent health scare. On his first day back on 92.3 NOW radio in New York, Cannon said his doctors originally thought he had gotten acute mountain sickness while in Aspen over the holidays with wife Mariah Carey and “dem babies,” twins Roc and Roe. Then they realized it was more serious than that….
Anyone with half a brain would’ve thought that Newt Gingrich and other racial flamethrowers would’ve softened their rhetoric for theMLK holiday. Sorry. No dice. Republican attendees of last night’s FOX debate were seething with delight when Gingrich refused to soften his claim that Obama was a “food stamp” president, and worked themselves into a frenzied mess when Gingrich offhandedly dismissed Juan Williams’ question about poor black kids who lack work…
Black Like Moi reports: Steve Garban, chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees, and John Surma, vice chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees, released the following statement concerning the employment status of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno: “Coach Paterno remains employed by the University as a tenured faculty member,” they said in a statement released Thursday. “The details of his retirement are being worked…