Jay Leno’s touch couldn’t help pal Arsenio Hall make it beyond one season in his return to late-night. After weeks of speculation, CBS Television Distribution has made a decision not to…

(BlackMediaScoop) A Tennessee man is suing a Red Lobster server and the chain itself for a total of $1 million, alleging that a racist receipt that subsequently went viral slandered his name.…

Right as Apple confirmed the official purchase of BeatsByDre headphones, Interscope's Jimmy Iovine announced that he was stepping down. Iovine had served as Chairman and CEO of Interscope for the past 25 years, easily making him the most successful label head in history.…

(CNN) -- A literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent.

Maya Angelou died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Wednesday, said her literary agent, Helen Brann.

The 86-year-old was a novelist, actress, professor, singer, dancer and activist. In 2010,…

Twitter may be in talks to purchase SoundCloud, a large service that is…

CONYERS, Ga. — In a story that seems ripe for a made-for-TV drama, two teenage twin sisters from Georgia's Rockdale County are currently serving time in prison for viciously killing their mother in January 2010. Newly revealed evidence…

A North Carolina family have been…

A 31-woman-year old woman who posed as an East Texas high school student is getting a different kind of education – behind bars.

Charity Anne Johnson enrolled at New Life Christian School in Longview, Texas, as a 15-year-old sophomore under the false name “Charity Stevens.”

She was arrested Sunday night at an apartment after trying to give cops a fake…

It was the kick heard ’round the world, and finally, Beyonce is breaking her silence.Just two days after security footage from inside an elevator at NY’s Standard Hotel leaked, showing Solange attacking Jay Z during a Met Gala after party, we’ve been left with…

By Jimmie Davis, Jr.

Special to the NNPA from the Miami Times

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Upcoming hip-hop artists may find it challenging to get a DJ to play their songs or a mainstream media critic to review their music, but if they belong to Core DJs World Wide, they have nothing…

Popular South Florida radio personality DJ Laz was behind the wheel of a boat involved in a deadly accident over the weekend off Key Biscayne.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed that Lazaro Mendez, know to his fans as DJ Laz, is the owner of the 40-foot vessel dubbed Off The Air and was operating it at…

Could “Beats By Dre” soon be “Beats By Apple”? That’s what Matthew Garrahan and Tim Bradshaw of the Financial Times are reporting: Apple is “closing in” on what would be its largest ever acquisition, a potential $3.2 billion purchase of Beats Electronics.

Beats is primarily…

On Tuesday afternoon, a day after his presence on XXL's Freshman Class cover was revealed, Rich Homie Quan came home to Atlanta to shoot the video for his single "Walk Thru" with LA rapper Problem. Hours later, he was rushed from the set in Piedmont Park to an area hospital after reportedly having two "seizures," falling and "cracking his…