The children of Martin Luther King Jr. continue their legal sparring over the direction of the King Center for Nonviolent Change, founded by their late mother, Coretta Scott King.

Dexter King, the center’s chairman, filed a lawsuit Monday against his brother and sister, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, accusing them of establishing foundations in direct competition with The King Center, reports the Associated Press.

The lawsuit also states that King III used the center without permission to meet with then-presidential candidate John Edwards in January 2008.

In July, King III and Bernice King sued their brother in an attempt to force him to open the books of their father’s estate.

After finding much success with his bawdy brew of southern fried hip-hop, Percy Miller – who officially changed his name from Master P last week – is making waves in the television arena, promising something “better.”

On Aug. 15, the former No Limits Records rap sensation announced the launch of Better Black Television (BBTV), described as a family friendly network that will provide positive content for a black and brown culture that will appeal to all races with a goal to bring people of color a choice when turning on their television.

According to a statement the content on the channel will contain a wide arrangement from health and fitness, animation, financial planning, reality TV, sitcoms, dramas, movies, responsible hip-hop music and videos, politics, sports and entertainment news, educational children’s shows as well as teen and family programming. Continue Reading »

News has confirmed Gwen Stefani gave birth this morning. We still don’t know whether it’s a boy or girl, but sources say the baby’s name is Zuma. More details to come as we get them!

Love, angel, music…baby?

An early-morning hospital run for Gwen Stefani has set tongues wagging that the pop star may finally be ready to deliver baby No. 2 with rocker hubby Gavin Rossdale.

Photographers have set up camp outside Los Angeles‘ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after the singer was spotted entering the hospital early this morning, though at least one family member said there’s no big announcement to make…yet.

“That’s not…that didn’t happen today,” the No Doubt frontwoman’s sister-in-law, Jennifer Burke Stefani, told E! News.

When that does happen, it will be the second child for the 38-year-old singer and the 40-year-old rocker, who already have a 2-year-old son, Kingston.

It’s not the first time a hospital run has set off reports of an impending delivery.

On Aug. 7, Stefani also got paparazzi in a tizzy when she showed up at Cedars-Sinai for what turned out to be a simple 30-minute checkup.

Stefani-Rossdale family members have an uncanny knack for serving as reliable mouthpieces for the couple. News of the pregnancy was first broken back in January, when Gavin’s father, Douglas Rossdale, confirmed the bun in the oven.

Not even imprisoned NFL quarterback Michael Vick is immune to today’s real estate slump. His Sugarloaf home is still on the market, and the athlete needs it to move quickly so he can fund his bankruptcy case and pay off his creditors.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cited court documents filed Monday showing that Vick seeks to retain a new real estate company – Braselton-based Funari Reality. His home, located at 2927 Darlington Run in Duluth, had been up for sale with the Waters Reality Group for $4.5 million.

Vick is said to have “substantial equity” in the home and a mortgage for $2,850,000, according to court documents. The sale of the property “would provide [Vick’s] estate with the opportunity to generate revenues for the benefit of the estate and its creditors,” according to the documents.

Funari Reality would be entitled to a four percent commission on the sale of the home, $180,000 if it sells for the asking price, according to the AJC.

The Atlanta Falcons quarterback is currently in federal prison on felony charges related to dogfighting.

While Bobby Brown is on the CMT channel trying to get his country on with Marcia Brady, his former divorce attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the entertainer claiming they’re owed $90,217 in unpaid legal fees.

Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra say Brown signed a contract stipulating that in the event of a dispute over fees stemming from his divorce from Whitney Houston, he would submit to binding arbitration to resolve the matter.

The lawyers claimed to have notified Brown on numerous occasions, most recently in a letter dated June 29, that he was past due in paying the balance, including interest. But attempts to contact him were unsuccessful.

The suit, filed Aug. 15 in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks a court order forcing the reality star to enter into binding arbitration with either the Beverly Hills or Los Angeles bar association to settle the bill.

Usain Bolt could have hotdogged his way into history with the cha-cha, a double-front handspring or even the limbo across the finish line, but he had something better in mind this time.

Keep running.

When Bolt crossed the line, stretching his arms out in triumph, one word flashed across the scoreboard high above the Bird’s Nest.

AMAZING.

Bolt obliterated the field in an electrifying performance for the ages Wednesday night to win the men’s 200-meter gold medal in a world-record 19.30 seconds.

He eclipsed Michael Johnson’s 19.32 set in the 1996 Atlanta Games, sending the crowd of 91,000 into a frenzy. Continue Reading »

U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm while driving her car. She was 58.

The congresswoman died at 6:12 p.m. after suffering a brain hemorrhage that caused an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, spokeswoman Eileen Sheil said.

“Throughout the course of the day and into this evening, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones’ medical condition declined,” Sheil said in a statement from the congresswoman’s family and the Cleveland Clinic, where she was hospitalized.

The liberal Democrat had been driving erratically through Cleveland Heights Tuesday night; her vehicle crossing from the northbound lanes across the southbound lanes, according to a statement from police.

An officer pulled a cruiser across the roadway to warn oncoming traffic. The officer reached her vehicle and found Tubbs Jones in medical distress, the statement said.

Tubbs Jones, elected in 1998, was one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most vocal supporters during the primaries and was to be a superdelegate at next week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver.

She represented the heavily Democratic 11th District and chaired the ethics committee in the House. She was the first black woman to serve on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, where she opposed President Bush’s tax cuts and his efforts to create personal accounts within Social Security.

Janet Jackson says she hopes to have her brand new Pleasure Principle lingerie line in stores by the end of November, which is one month before the launch of her “Discipline” tour in Vancouver.

According to “Access Hollywood,” the singer has partnered with Australian fashion designer Bruno Schiavi for the line of intimates, named after the 1987 hit single from her album, “Control.”

“The collection has been carefully created with some of the finest laces from around the world. You will see a lot of satin and lace combined and rich colors such as burgundy and beige, silver and peach as well as your classic black and white,” Jackson tells host Nancy O’Dell. ”It makes you feel incredible and offers variety as diverse as the women who will wear it.”

The first collection of Pleasure Principle offers 14 designs across a combination of bra styles from balconettes, demi cups to full coverage. Sizes will range from 32A to 44G.

The line will be Jackson and Schiavi’s first domestic lingerie collection with plans to have product in stores as early as November 2008 across America, with Australia, Japan and Europe to follow.

Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, have added another girl to the household.

“Matt and Lucy Damon had a baby girl named Gia Zavala on Wednesday, Aug. 20th. Everyone’s doing great,” Damon’s rep, Jennifer Allen, tells People magazine.

“She is a healthy baby girl.”

Baby Gia joins the couple’s other daughter together, Isabella, 2, and Alexia, 10, Luciana’s daughter from a previous relationship.

Damon, 37, and Luciana, 32, married in December 2005.

Also on Wednesday, Jennifer Garner – who’s married to Damon’s close pal Ben Affleck – confirmed that she’s pregnant with her second child.

Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama is poised to name his running mate, according to The New York Times.

While the paper reports that Obama has yet to inform his prospective vice-president of the nod, the candidate’s focus is primarily on three men: Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and foreign policy expert Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware.

The Times

cited unnamed advisers to the Democratic hopeful as saying Obama had reached his decision last week while on vacation in Hawaii.

As for John McCain, the Republican frontrunner will announce his running mate on his 72nd birthday, Aug. 29, the day after Obama’s acceptance speech before 70,000 people at the Democratic Convention in Denver, reports FOX News.

Those on the McCain list of possibilities are said to include Connecticut Independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.

The United States’ vanquishing of Australia had been over for 45 minutes, the reporters’ questions were done, and still there were four Americans mesmerized in a silent corner of Wukesong Indoor Basketball Stadium.

Chris Paul slouched on the floor, flip-flops on his feet. LeBron James sipped a bottle of Coke. Carmelo Anthony peeled back the earphones on his head. Dwyane Wade set down his shoulder bag.

Above them in the hallway, the clock pushed past 10:35 p.m., and still no one rushed to the bus waiting to whisk Team USA downtown to its five-star hotel. The flat-screen television flickered with Argentina and Greece.

“(Luis) Scola had 35 points the other night,” Anthony said.

Thirty-seven,” James said. “He had 37.”

Eyes stayed entranced, and teammates chatted over sets and plays unfolding on the floor. This was a most telling scene on a telling night at the Olympic Games. Team USA invested itself completely into this tournament, this journey, this mission. It bears itself in so many ways here. They are taking teams and preparations with a stone-cold seriousness. As much as ever, the Americans understand the fragility of international basketball tournaments, the missteps that have cost them in the past. Continue Reading »

Usain Bolt spotted the TV cameraman, darted over and raised his index finger for millions of viewers to see.

“I am No. 1,” he said. “I am No. 1.”

His boast qualifies as an understatement.

.Wednesday night, when Bolt cemented his status as the world’s No. 1 sprinter, he also emerged as track’s Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan. Anyone who disputes that the Jamaican star belongs in that transcendent class better brush up on track history and prepare to lose the argument.

In a space of four days here, Bolt became the first man to break the world record in the 100- and 200-meter sprints in the same Olympics since the Games resumed in 1896. It’s worth noting who doubted it would happen, too.

Michael Johnson, who set the world record in the 200 when he ran it in 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Olympics, spoke to reporters before the finals Wednesday and explained why he thought Bolt was not yet ready to break his record.

“To run a 19.3, he’s going to have to run the curve a lot better, he’s going to have to hold that speed for a very, very long time,” Johnson said. “That’s not the most easy thing to do, even for him.”

Chances are, Johnson was spot-on with his assessment – even though Bolt went out hours later and broke Johnson’s record when he covered 200 meters in 19.30 seconds. Bolt can improve his speed on the curve, which will only fuel his astonishing progression. Continue Reading »

Dave Matthews stood in front of a sold out crowd on Tuesday night to pay tribute to his fellow bandmember and co-founder, LeRoi Moore, who died at the age of 46.

“It’s always easier to leave than be left,” Matthews said. “We appreciate you all being here.”

LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, his rep said.

On June 30, Moore crashed his ATV on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va., but was discharged and returned to his Los Angeles home to begin physical therapy. Complications forced him back to the hospital earlier this summer.

The band went on with its show Tuesday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where lead singer Dave Matthews dedicated the entire show to Moore.

At the Staples Center concert in L.A., Matthews told the audience: “We all had some bad news today. Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave his ghost up today and we will miss him forever.”