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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A who’s who of female singers from every music genre are included in the upcoming single “Just Stand Up,” a charity song done in tandem with the forthcoming multi-network television special “Stand Up to Cancer.”
The tune features Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, [...]

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While Jay-Z topped Forbes.com’s inaugural Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year, in 2008 he cedes the throne to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who raked in $150 million over the past 12 months–almost twice what Jay-Z made.
Fitty banked $100 million after taxes on one deal alone when his [...]

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Fox has announced that “The Wendy Williams Show” will follow up its six-week, four-market trial run with a nationwide launch via the Fox Television Stations group in mid-2009.
The daily one-hour talk show, distributed by Debmar-Mercury, will end its preview run Friday in the cities of Los Angeles (KTTV), New York (WNYW), Dallas (KDFW) and [...]

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Samuel L. Jackson on Sunday to discuss the recent passing of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, both of whom co-starred with Jackson in the upcoming film “Soul Men.”
The movie stars Mac and Jackson as estranged members of a legendary soul group who reluctantly reunite to attend the funeral of another member of the group. [...]

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Christina Applegate is cancer-free after a very tough decision.
The Samantha Who? actress chose to get a double mastectomy, rather than undergoing chemotherapy or radiation to rid her body of breast cancer.
“This was the choice that I made, and it was a tough one,” Applegate said on Good Morning America.
She added, “I cry, and sometimes I [...]

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“When I got on, I was only ordered to pay $114 a month because the courts couldn’t determine how much money I was gonna make,” Yung Joc explained during a live interview on V-103’s Ryan Cameron Show. “I was like, ‘What the hell is that? Who can survive on that?’ As far as it looked [...]

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Ray Allen of the 2008 World Champion Boston Celtics and longtime fiancee Shannon Walker Williams got married this weekend in Martha’s Vineyard without shoes. Congrats to them.

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CBS announced Monday that Laurence Fishburne is a go to replace departing actor William Petersen in its top rated drama series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
The Emmy and Tony winner will make his first appearance in episode 9 of the forthcoming 10th season, reports the Associated Press.
“I am elated and delighted to be joining [...]

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