Sixteen year-old African-American tennis champ, Taylor Townsend, has just won the first qualifying round at the WTA Memphis Tennis Championships. The young athlete finished out last season as the top-ranked junior tennis world champion. Her keen success led the U.S. to victory in the 2012 Junior Fed Cup team competition. Taylor Townsend is a Chicago […]

PALM CITY, Fla. (AP) — Michelle Obama jokingly says a mid-life crisis is what inspired her new haircut with bangs. The first lady revealed the new hairstyle last month on her 49th birthday, which came a few days before the festivities for President Barack Obama‘s second inauguration. Mrs. Obama was asked about the new haircut […]

Somebody hacked Burger King‘s Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald’s logo. The tweets stopped after a little more than an hour, and Burger King said it had reached out to Twitter to suspend the account. A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond to a phone message […]

Until the latest episode of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta” (RHOA) Kandi Burruss had been relatively low key during season 5. As she concentrates on a new relationship with her fiance’ Todd Tucker and decorating her new home, Burruss hasn’t had time to get caught up in the never-ending drama between the “talls and smalls” […]

Tyler Perry has reached out and grabbed Sweet Brown for his big screen adaptation of his play, ”A Madea Christmas”, according to The Grio. No details have been given about her role in the movie, but surely she’s pinching herself after being asked to appear in the film. According to the report, the movie centers […]

Rihanna left a London nightclub with a bloody knee early Sunday after a heckler threw a bottle at her for getting back together with Chris Brown. The incident went down at Box Nightclub, where she held an event Saturday night to launch her new fashion line, River Island. About 3 a.m. on Sunday, according to […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers’ behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found. The results were modest and faded over time, but may hold promise for finding ways to help young children avoid aggressive, violent behavior, the study authors and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the NAACP said Sunday that even some members of the New York Police Department oppose the city’s policy of street stops, with mostly minorities being questioned. Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the congregation of the Nazarene Congregational Church in […]

Tami Roman is certainly taking notes from NeNe to make sure her fame is extended a few more minutes. The Basketball Wives cast member recently celebrated the launch of her “Spring Love” nail polish collection. She has also tag teamed the nail world with Wendy Williams for an exclusive custom nail polish shade called #WERK. It’s sold  as […]

Keke Palmer has been cast as Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas in VH1’s upcoming TLC biopic. She is the last actress to be casted and joins both Lil Mama, who will play Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and Drew Sidora, who has been cast as Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, in the made-for-TV film. “I am a true fan,” Keke says. “I love these ladies and I always […]

Dominique says she would have been slapping the man who slapped the noisy baby on the plane. Plus, more on the NBA’s All-Star weekend.

Now the star of NBC’s new series “Deception” with Meagan Good, the 38-year-old Afro-Cuban actor from New York has been steadily working his way up for the last decade, finally breaking out into leading man status in “Jumping the Broom.” He’s single with no children, a college degree from Howard and we haven’t seen him […]