Erykah Badu paid a $500 fine to the city of Dallas for her nude stroll through the city’s Dealey Park in March as featured in her controversial video for “Window Seat.”

For the fourth consecutive year, U.S.News & World Report has produced a ranking of the undergraduate education at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). These colleges were compared only with one another for these rankings. How did we choose the schools to be part of the survey? In order to be on the list, a […]

Remember when Jermaine and Janet broke up late last year right after her brother Michael’s death? Well, according to mediatakeout.com insiders, JD cheated on Janet with a stripper from Atlanta’s legendary gentleman’s club Magic City – and got her pregnant. And the stripper is about to give birth any day now. Why would you cheat […]

Robert Wilson, the bassist for the funk and R&B group the Gap Band, has died. He was 53. His death was confirmed by Karen Lee, publicist for his brother and Gap Band singer Charlie Wilson. Robert Wilson had been touring over the past few weeks, including a stop in his hometown of Tulsa, Okla. The […]

After landing in the hospital after overdosing on aspirin and sleep aids a week ago, Fantasia has announced that she’s ready to get back to work. The “American Idol” winner will return to the spotlight on Aug. 24, when she performs on ‘Good Morning America,’ and then spend the next couple of weeks making other […]

Shirley Sherrod has emailed an open letter defending herself and the NAACP, while attacking conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart and the Tea Party. Here is the letter: Back in March, I delivered a speech to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet in my home state of Georgia. I drew on my personal life story to urge poor […]

From the AJC.com: A Hall County couple were among the 130 people who survived a plane crash in the Caribbean. The couple, Carolina and David Bellino of Flowery Branch, were on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday. “I have a fracture in my back and I cannot move,” Carolina said, “and my husband has a fracture […]

Over the weekend, Jazmine Sullivan performed at the 19th Annual Stone Soul Picnic in Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. This was Jazmine Sullivan’s first performance since she has been working on her new album and she rocked it. Check out the video here: Atlanta singer Bobby V hit the stage as well. Here’s a bit […]

According to TMZ, Montana Fishburne finally spoke with her father Laurence Fishburne about her decision to be an adult film star and predictably Furious Styles was none too happy.

Just days after announcing their breakup Vivica Fox’s young cub, Slimm, says the couple is now working out their issues. Here’s what Slimm had to say about the breakup: I want to clear the air about the rushed statement released yesterday about Vivica and I breaking up. Sometimes a person may act out of anger […]