On more than one occasion, President Barack Obama has cut personal checks to struggling Americans who’ve written to the White House, according to an excerpt from a new book by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow about the ten letters the president reads every day. “It’s not something I should advertise, but it has happened,” the president told Saslow for his …

Don’t take MC Hammer to be a fool. He’s a businessman and he’s making it happen. The rapper and entrepreneur is getting ready to launch a new search engine called WIREDoo. It’s still in the developmental stages and isn’t available to the public quite yet. But he’s willing to be this is Google’s next contender, but with a twist. He …

T.I., recently released from prison, went on the Power 105 Breakfast Club show Thursday morning and dished on quite a few topics of interest. Among the subjects covered were prison hand-jobs (yes, you read that correctly), Atlanta hip hop issues, why women shouldn’t put pressure on their man and why he’s a relationship guru now.  

Everyone is talking about the 2011 Class being the largest class in the History of the Church Of God In Christ (COGIC) and not many of you know who they are so let me introduce the men the will be consecrated as bishop at the 104th Holy Convocation of the Church Of God In Christ. Now here is the official …

  The time has finally come that I step out from behind my pew and report on the status of the Central Georgia Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of The Church Of God In Christ (COGIC).  My first post back in May created an out cry positive and negative from many people that I was not even aware knew who I was or …

Kanye West leaves Bar Pitti restaurant in New York City. (Oct. 11, 2011) Kanye West has broken his month-long Twitter silence to announce the upcoming release of a new compilation from his GOOD Music record label, due next spring. The rapper, who is currently preparing for a US tour with Jay-Z in support of their joint album ‘Watch The Throne,” …

Rihanna and Dudley O’Shaughnessy in the video for “We Found Love” Borrowing a page from Beyonce, Rihanna has reportedly incorporated homages to other work in her newly-released music video for ‘We Found Love.” As previously reported, Bey paid tribute to choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in her video for “Countdown” and saluted the New Edition video “If It Isn’t Love” …

Lil Wayne graces the cover of GQ’s upcoming “Music Issue” (alongside Eminem and Keith Richards) and opens up about a number of topics inside, including how much he misses drugs and his relationship with his biological father. The rapper has often spoken openly of his marijuana usage, and was rumored to regularly take codeine cough syrup. In 2008, he was …

During President Obama’s West Coast trip, he’ll make a pit stop at “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” NBC has announced. Obama, traveling to raise money for his re-election bid and to try to gain more support for his jobs bill, will make his fourth appearance on Leno’s show, and his second since being president, on Oct. 25. He first …

“Star Wars” creator, George Lucas is really taking a chance with his own money. He’s literally betting on black. The director financed the bill of $93 million for his newest film, “Red Tails” based on the story of African American pilots (the famed Tuskegee Airmen) in World War II, betting the movie would be a hit. $93 million is a …