Tom Joyner

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/36094     The Game” is returning to BET tonight at 10 p.m., and added nine more episodes than last season, expanding this year’s to a total of 22 shows. You know what that means: Expect that things will be more dramatic and crazy than ever. A preview of the first two episodes of the […]

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/entertainment/celebrity/snoop-dogg-hit-with-minor-drug-charge-in-texas   EL PASO, Texas – Rapper Snoop Dogg is facing a minor drug charge in Texas after border agents say they found several joints on his tour bus. Hudspeth County sheriff’s office said in a statement that Snoop Dogg, whose name is Calvin Broadus, was arrested Saturday at the Sierra Blanca highway checkpoint and […]

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/36053   When Aretha Franklin announced that she was engaged to marry her longtime love Willie Wilkerson, people had just one question: Who’s going to sing at the Queen of Soul’s wedding? Not just anybody can sing for Aretha Franklin, which may be why you haven’t seen her paid tribute by BET. (Gladys deserved better […]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/usshowbiz/article-2081875/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-AND-Maria-Shriver-sport-wedding-rings-amid-rumours-reconciliation.html?ito=feeds-newsxml It seems Arnold Schwarzenegger could be living up to his most famous one-liner – ‘I’ll be back’. Today the Terminator star’s estranged wife was spotted wearing what looked suspiciously like her wedding ring for the first time since June of last year. Maria, 56, was quick to remove her wedding band after her husband […]

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/35924     The folks at Aydin and Company in Atlanta have filed suit against the rapper, claiming he owes them thousands of dollars dating back to 2005. Read More At http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/35924

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/35787   It’s been a big year in celebrity. The prominence of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and reality TV kept even marginal celebrities in the spotlight (we see you, Joe Budden and Jim Jones), with tons of bloggers and TMZ ready to blow up even the most innocuous postings. Of course, plenty of celebs are now […]

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/35789     Black America lost a host of the famous and the infamous in 2011, a mix that includes many unforgettable activists, entreprenuers, athletes and entertainers – and the man responssible for the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Here is BlackAmericaWeb.com’s list of the notable, and some little noted but noteworthy, who died […]

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/35583   This is Blair Underwood’s season to sell, however, the reason for the season is more than skin deep, as is everything with the conscientious actor, director, author and consummate business man. As a celebrity who has been reluctant to endorse products or co-brand his image, The BU Collection, exclusively at K&G, is a […]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-museum-slavery-idUSTRE7BI27G20111219   – Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which opened with great fanfare along the banks of the Ohio River in 2004, is struggling with a $1.5 million revenue shortfall this year. The Center’s exhibits memorialize the escape of slaves from the American South. Just across the river from the slave state of Kentucky, […]

http://hellobeautiful.com/songs-videos/shamika-sanders/brandy-bet-the-game/   Brandy may be hard at work on her new album with the talented Frank Ocean, but that doesn’t take up all her time. The young songstress has explored acting roles in Tyler Perry’s “The Marriage Counselor” and “90210.” Now, she opened up to Billboard.com about her character in BET’s “The Game.”

http://hellobeautiful.com/songs-videos/shamika-sanders/maya-angelou-disappointed-with-common-for-using-the-n-word/   Maya Angelou is surprised and both disappointed in rapper Common for using the “N-Word” in a song in which he also uses her poetry. The world renown and influential Pulitzer Prize-nominee feels very strongly about the usage of the negative term and has labeled it “vulgar and dangerous.” “I had no idea that […]

The SAG nominations are among the first major honors on the long road to the Academy Awards and The Help leads the pack with four nods.