Inside Broadway with Caroline Stefanie Clay of ‘The Little Foxes’: Actress and Playwright Shares How She Made It Up I-95

*As the feisty maid in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s (MTC) Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Caroline Stefanie Clay is celebrating a seventeen-year working relationship with the award-winning theater company. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, The Little Foxes features a star-studded cast: Laura Linney, Cynthia Nixon, Darren Goldstein, […]

Michaela Coel Serves Up #BlackLove in ‘Been So Long’ Musical

“Chewing Gum” creator Michaela Coel is already being praised for her newest project — a black love story musical — and the film isn’t slated for release until 2018. Coel stars alongside Arinzé Kene in “Been So Long” — which is described as “a neon soaked, modern day romance set on the streets of London’s […]

BLIND ITEM: War Continues Between Solo Singer and Former Group

*According to a MR X Blind Item posted on CDNA, gone are the days when the members of this former hit group would jump over humps and hurdles to please their demanding leader singer. The war continues between this now solo singer and her former group. They release photos of the band without her and […]

Lee Boyd Malvo (‘DC Sniper’) Gets 2 -Life Sentences Tossed Out by Federal Judge

*Remember Lee Boyd Malvo, who along with another man, killed 10 people and wounded three over a three-week span in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia? Well, on Friday, a federal judge threw out his two life sentences. U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk said Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after […]

Angela Bassett Opens Up About Her Mother’s Death

*Angela Bassett is opening up about losing her mother – Betty Jane – in 2014 to heart disease caused by type 2 diabetes. The 58-year-old actress, wife, and mother to two tells Essence: She had a very, very strong constitution so I know that if she was able to get that under control she’d be […]

Inside Scoop: After 7 Member on Mystery Behind Babyface’s Brother Leaving Group

*R&B group After 7 were founded in 1987 by brothers Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, and Keith Mitchell. The Edmonds brothers are the siblings of pop and R&B singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. This dynamic creative team delivered such enduring hits as “Heat of the Moment,” “Ready or Not,” and “Nights Like This.” Melvin officially left the […]

Mel B’s Estranged Husband: Tapped Out/Homeless; Wants Her to Support Him

*Boo hoo! If you haven’t heard, Stephen Belafonte is crying the blues about being broke and homeless and he wants Mel B to basically pay for his livelihood. Dude filed legal documents in his divorce case saying that since he was kicked out of the family home, his situation has gotten so raggedy that he’s […]

The Ferguson Uprising Story Told in ‘Whose Streets?’ – WATCH TRAILER

*Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing […]