The department of health in Massachusetts has announced that HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for African-American women in the state. It was also found that more than half of all AIDS cases there consist of black women specifically — most of whom became infected by their intimate partners. Dr. Bela Bashar, a clinical […]
Thandie Newton Reveals Affair She Had At Age 16 With 39-Year-Old Film Director In a recent interview, “For Colored Girls” actress Thandie Newton opened up about a relationship she had with a film director, who was 23-years older than her, that began when she was 16. Thandie Newton has recently opened up about a devastating […]
Snoop Dogg wants to launch rap’s answer to “American Idol.” He rapper has been pitching a TV series to discover the next hot hip-hop act. We hear that Oxygen, Bravo and NBC aren’t biting but that E! and MTV have shown interest. Sources say Snoop is saying that the show could be as popular as […]
Jaden Smith may be only 12 years old, but he could have fooled us with his style and his personality. From his tweets to this recent black and white photo shoot, Jaden is clearly growing up fast and taking the industry by storm. Already prepared to be the youngest male in a GQ photoshoot. Jaden […]
How many problems can one Houston have? Reports are that Whitney Houston has opted for additional rehabilitation after completing a 30-day program last week. Little is known on the nature of the additional rehab, although an anonymous source says Houston has a round-the-clock life coach on hand. Houston, who has publicly battled with alcohol and […]
The Supreme Court has turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley Snipes to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned. The high court refused Monday to hear an appeal from Snipes, convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income tax returns. Snipes started a three-year term […]
In the June 2011 issue of W Magazine, Alicia Keys reflects on the 10-year anniversary of Songs in A Minor and why she’s glad she never compromised her artistic integrity. In the latest issue of W Magazine, Alicia Keys reflects on her entry into the music business saying, “I just wanted to be who I […]
In the July 2011 issue of Essence Magazine, Beyonce wrote her own cover story (her very first one) for the first time, where she discusses her fourth studio album 4, and the year that changed her life. Hmm….I wonder what year that could be? Her story is titled Eat, Play, Love—and in her own words […]
The upcoming documentary Dark Girls explores the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color that are experienced particularly by dark-skinned women, outside of and within African-American culture. While the issue certainly isn’t brand new, this approach appears to be. Colorism traditionally arises in an adversarial fashion: Someone accuses someone else (a director, a magazine editor, […]