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James Wall, Captain Kangaroo’s neighbor “Mr. Baxter” on the children’s show and longtime stage manager for CBS News, has died. He was 92. CBS News says Wall died Wednesday in New York City after a short illness. The former vaudevillian joined the popular children’s show in 1962 as a stage manager before persuading the show’s […]

CHICAGO (AP) – Oprah Winfrey is again taking on sexual abuse in a pair of shows she calls “two of the most phenomenal” she’s ever done. Harpo Productions said Thursday that each of 200 men in “The Oprah Winfrey Show” audience will hold a photo of himself at the age when he says he was […]

By Nicole Balin What do you do when you are the first African American to win an Oscar for “best adapted screenplay?” A year ago few knew the name “Geoffrey Fletcher.” But after nabbing a 2010 Oscar for the film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, the 39-year-old now has enough clout to […]

Mariah Carey is going to have to add lullabies to her repertoire. The superstar singer confirmed on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday that she and husband Nick Cannon are expecting their first child. Carey says the baby is due in the spring.

CHICAGO (AP) — Hip-hop artist Common will be joining Barack Obama at a weekend rally for Democratic candidates in the president’s home state of Illinois. Campaign officials announced details about the Chicago rally Tuesday night, saying Common will be performing.  The rally will be held Saturday afternoon at the Midway Plaisance park on Chicago’s South […]

Rapper Common and Actress, Rosario Dawson are hosting a new poetry show on HBO. The show premiered last Saturday and is called “Brave New Voices” RELATED STORIES BP Group Spotlight: Underground Poetry Slam on BlackPlanet Group Saves Langston Hughes’ Home From Foreclosure Share this post on Facebook! CLICK HERE: Jay-Z to work on President Obama’s […]

Model Jessica White, who has appeared in Sports Illustrated and was once linked to actor Sean Penn, was arrested in New York last weekend.

Police were called to The Plaza Hotel just after 2 a.m. where they found a highly intoxicated and naked Charlie Sheen amid a trashed hotel suite, sources said. Tables and chairs had been thrown around the room, causing hotel security to call 911, sources said. A chandelier was also damaged. Read more at NY Post […]

Michael Jackson’s drawing power in death leaped off the charts, vaulting him to the top of Forbes’ latest list of the top-earning deceased celebrities.

NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones had two questions he needed answered before agreeing to join the Broadway production of “Driving Miss Daisy.” He called up the director, David Esbjornson. “I said, ‘OK, am I going to have to dye my hair a little blacker?'” “Nope,” said the director. Pleased, Jones asked his second […]

Jawn Murray, a contributor to AOL Black voices and the Tom Joyner Morning show used his Twitter account to criticize people who were doubting Tyler Perry as a director for Ntozake Shange’s play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” as a movie. All those militant-nappy headed #AngryBlackWoman who didn’t […]

Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican reggae singer whose smooth style earned him the nickname “Cool Ruler,” has died at the age of 59. The BBC reports that Isaacs died Monday at his London home. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer. His wife Linda said Isaacs was “well-loved by everyone, his fans and his family,” and […]