Black Celebrities

From Deadline.com: I hear Fox is canceling The Wanda Sykes Show Wanda Sykesafter one season.

DETROIT (AP) — What could be better than New York’s own Jay-Z playing the first concert at the new Yankee Stadium?

From TheRoot.com: HBO Films announced that it has acquired the rights to Rebecca Skloot’s non-fiction bestseller “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and will develop a film for HBO based on the book.

From Gawker.com: Retired-model-turned-Oprah-wannabe Tyra Banks is writing her first novel, Modelland. It will be part of a trilogy, since Random House signed her to a three-book deal. Oh, goodie! The details sound scary and fierce, like Tyra in a jumpsuit. The book takes place in a make-believe world called Modelland, “where ‘Intoxibellas’ are trained. Intoxibellas […]

From NYDailyNews.com: There was a new police camera high above 45th St. and Seventh on Sunday, southwest corner, a few yards from where Faisal Shahzad, who clearly did not graduate first in his class at bomb school, had left the Nissan Pathfinder a week ago, waiting for it to go off. The camera was at […]

From BlackVoices.com: Terrence Howard has been tapped to play opposite Jennifer Hudson as South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela in the movie titled ‘‘Winnie.’

From S2SMagazine.com: Steve Harvey held a black-tie affair last night in New York to support young men.

From BlackVoices.com: Lionsgate has announced that director-producer Tyler Perry will reprise his signature role as the straight-shooting Madea in ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family.’ The film is adapted from his new stage play, ‘Madea’s Happy Family,’ which is currently on tour in the United States. “It’s very important to me to make movies that […]

From BlackVoices.com: Jackson clan matriarch, Katherine, has apparently had enough.

From EOnline.com: If you’ve already bought wedding and baby presents for Usher, you might as well return them.

As I happened to be visiting the state of Georgia this week, I became aware of a controversy involving the rapper T.I. (a.k.a. Clifford Harris) and whether or not he should be allowed to visit with local school children.  T.I., one of the top selling artists in America, does regular visits to schools to discourage […]

From WashingtonPost.com: The president’s official schedule for today is pretty thin. He takes off from LAX at 8:40 a.m. Pacific time to return home from his Los Angeles fundraising trip. He lands at Andrews Air Force Base at 4:05 p.m. Eastern time. That’s it. That’s the schedule.