If you’re already thinking about making plans for the 2012 Coca-Cola sponsored Essence Music Festival, have we got news you can use. We’re talking Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Fantasia, and Keyshia Cole as just a sample of the artists that are already lined up to take the stage at the Superdome on the Fourth of July weekend in N’awlins. …

  Will and Jada Pinkett  Smith are the darlings of the entertainment world and have allowed the public into their private lives maybe a little too much.  The recent rumors of separation or divorce between the couple have been confusing and even more rumors about why they might be splitting are in the air.  One of those rumors have to …

Dr. Sharon Malone speaks during the ‘Slavery By Another Name’ panel during the PBS portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour held at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on Jan. 4, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif. Imagine this… You do some research into your family tree and discover that your uncle, who was born nearly 30 years after slavery, was …

Kris Humphries has been very quiet since Kim Kardashian filed for divorce, ending their 72-day marriage. Either Humphries is the strong silent type or he signed an iron-clad prenup that prevents him from uttering a harsh word against his soon-to-be-ex. If that’s the case, it seems he can still send cryptic messages on Twitter. During the Jan. 8 episode of …

(L-R) Gayle King, Charlie Rose, Erica Hill and Chris Licht of the television show “CBS This Mornning” speak during the CBS portion of the 2012 Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on Jan. 11, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif. You know you asked this at some point, perhaps privately, among friends. Three days after “The …

Actress Angelina Jolie (L) and actor Brad Pitt (R) are seen the Oval Office of the White House after a meeting Jan. 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama hosted Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the White House today. The dynamic duo was in town to screen Jolie’s movie “In the Land of Blood and …

Grammy award winning rapper Queen Pen appeared on “The Bill Cunningham Show” Tuesday to reveal she endured years of physical abuse at the hands of her boyfriend. “I had two children with this man,” Penn recalls, “but that was not enough to stop the abuse.” Pen said her boyfriend inflicted her with bruises, cuts, kicks, punches and emotional violence for …

Nick Cannon is out of the hospital after suffering from what wife Mariah Carey called “mild kidney failure.” The “America’s Got Talent” host was hospitalized in Aspen, Colo., last week after he fell ill while the couple was on vacation there. He was transferred to a Los Angeles hospital a few days later. Carey said he was suffering from a …

Beyoncé, Jay-Z and baby Blue Ivy Carter have reportedly checked out of New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital early Tuesday morning and are now home. According to the New York Daily News, the couple managed to dodge the paparazzi horde by fleeing in a motorcade of black SUVs, which rolled out of the Upper East Side medical center’s side gate …

An arrest warrant has been issued for Kid ‘N Play rapper Christopher Reid’s after he failed to show up for a court-ordered progress hearing on Thursday, according to reports. Reid was arrested for driving drunk in July, 2010, and pleaded no contest. He was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to take an alcohol education program, attend counseling and …