NaturallyMoi.com Posted May 13th 2013   (LENA HORNE, BILL ROBINSON ‘STORMY MONDAY’)   Please note:  Lena Horne did not die recently, but social media is pretending that she did.  Millions of people on Twitter and Facebook are mourning her death again as if it happened yesterday.  Actually, Horne died three years ago, and the title [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted May 12th 2013   After 12 years, Randy Jackson is leaving “American Idol,” the longtime judge told E! News. After more than a decade of “pitchy” comments and “yo, dawg’s,” Jackson is leaving quite an “Idol” legacy behind. “Yo! Yo! Yo! To put all of the speculation to the rest, after 12 years [...]

NaturallyMoi.com By BoWatkins Posted May 8th 2013   Don’t pretend that this didn’t surprise you.  Grammy Award winning artist Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for  failing to pay her taxes.  In addition to three months in federal custody, Hill will do another three months in home confinement for her crimes. [...]

MovieFone.com Posted May 2nd 2013   At a “White House Down” press event in New York City, star Jamie Foxx (who plays a president who comes under fire when some very bad dudes take over the Executive Office) and director Roland Emmerich (“2012,” “Independence Day”) were on hand to discuss the similarities and differences between [...]

NaturallyMoi.com By Maria Lloyd Posted May 6th 2013   This news will probably be challenging for Janet Jackson fans to stomach, but the legendary icon has decided to put her entertaining days behind her. According to entertainment columnist Rob Shuter, the famed performing artist has grown tired of the entertainment industry and is moving to [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted May 5th 2013   Chris Kelly, one-half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, died Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose, The Associated Press reported. He was 34. Kelly, who was known as “Mac Daddy,” and his partner Chris Smith (a.k.a. “Daddy Mac”), were only 13 years old in 1991 when they were [...]

TheOjays.com Posted May 3rd 2013   The O’Jays are living legends…American treasures. The term “living legend” is often overused and abused, but with The O’Jays, well, there’s little argument that the honorable tag truly applies. With their place in modern music secure, The O’Jays could have cruise-controlled to that comfy hammock on a sandy beach, [...]

YourBlackWorld.net By Asa Lovechild Posted May 3rd 2013     Lately African American actresses and singers have been outspoken about embracing who they are. Brandy and Kelly Rowland recently spoke about how they learned to love the skin that they were in. Gabrielle Un ion wrote a letter to her younger self in Essence magazine [...]

Ebony.com By Kelly Carter Posted May 2nd 2013   In spite of it all, Eddie Levert smiles. And laughs. He does this a great deal, actually. True enough, the legendary soul singer and O’Jay’s singer has had the types of career ups that anybody in the music business would love to add to their own [...]

NaturallyMoi.com By Asa Lovechild Posted April 29th 2013   In the April issue of Allure Magazine, actress and former Ms. USA, Vanessa Williams, sat down to discuss aging. In their anti-aging survey Allure found that black women felt that they age the best. Williams who just turned 50 told Allure, “I think I have grown [...]