One of the more avant garde movies showcasing Black Americana in the 1990s was “Hav Plenty,” starring Chenoa Maxwell and Hill Harper. The film, made in conjunction with the collective called Wanderlust Pictures, made some noise at the Acupulco Black Film Festival and more importantly, ushered in a phase of modern, serious nonstereotypical black filmmaking in ...
Ah, marriage. Ball and chain. Few things are as summarily booed and cheered equally as holy matrimony. When you add the world ‘celebrity’ to that mix, you get an explosive hodgepodge of flashing lights, baby bumps and more. Of course we all know about Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz upcoming nuptials, but Popwife has rounded up for you a ...
The Old Spice man has been, well, everywhere these days, but he just got a run for his fragranted money with this New Spice video. “He’s on a cart.” Tweet This Post
The Obama administration has finally gotten tough with BP, getting the company to fork over $20 billion to pay for victims of the oil spill. The government still has to define language that would define what “victim” is, because, well, it’s complicated. I mean, if you enjoy going to the beach to watch bikini-clad women or sun-chiseled ...
Adding for soulful splendor to its pages, photographer Greg Lotus shot models Ayan Elmi and Sedene Blake for the latest issue of Vogue Italia. Blake, who is from Jamaica, and Elmi, a Canadian by way of Somalia, are the most recent models to be featured in Vogue Italia, which is more bold than its U.S. counterpart. Can ...
Under the glossy mags and split-second commericals, billboard advertisements and music videos is a war simmering. Models, and even celebrities, are starting to see how they’ve been snookered into believing that you have to be thin to be “in.” Women are challenging the post-WWII norms of what a woman should look like — and it’s about time. Starlets ...
From Hollywood to the Empire State, everybody’s doing it. And if you’re a celebrity, you’re pregnant. Right this minute. Halle Berry. Alicia Keys. Mariah Carey is rumored to have a bun in the oven (which they deny, so far), and the list goes on. Even non-celebrities like Khloe Kardashian (Mrs. Odom if ya nasty) are claiming to be preg ...
Following in the footsteps as such luminaries as Ted Bundy, Osama Bin Laden and Snoop Dogg, music artist Chris Brown has been banned from Britain because of his criminal record. Brown, who pleaded to lesser charges in 2009’s Beatdown Heard Round the World, has had to cancel a planned tour overseas. Britain’s Home Office, in a statement ...
His Purple Badness, Prince, talks to Ebony Magazine in the new edition on shelves in July. Ebony was invited inside Paisley Park (have you even heard that name since, like, 1999?) to talk to the Miniature One. The 52-year-old talks about what it means to be old school in music today, his new protege Bria Valente ...
The sisters are taking over: Eighteen-year-old Rose Cordero has landed the coveted cover of the March 2010 cover of French Vogue.Big deal? Tu che?Born in the Dominican Republic, like these sisters, Cordero has turned humble roots into superstar status.What is it with the Dominicans and producing models? Cordero is young but her fierce looks are ...
The Skittle-wigged superstar Katy Perry was recently interviewed by Youtube. The Santa Barbara, California native shared some very insightful...
When entertainers change their name it is done usually to make a statement or get out of a contract...
In the late 1990s, after simmering under the surface of New York City rap for a few years, Foxy...
Bad Boy recording artist and Diddy protege and rumored girlfriend, Cassie, was out doing marketing and promotion in conjunction...
Cassie Ventura’s long-delayed Bad Boy album, “Electro Love,” was supposed to surface sometime in 2008, but was shelved because...
