LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children $7.3 million on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create "Blurred Lines," the biggest hit song of 2013.
Former Chicago White Sox star Minnie Minoso has died.
The White Sox didn't release details of the Minoso's death.
Baseball-reference.com lists Minoso's age as 89.
"Selma" director Ava DuVernay says she's disappointed that star David Oyelowo's performance as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wasn't recognized with an Oscar nod.
Jennifer Hudson will make her Broadway debut in the fall when the musical The Color Purple returns.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kanye West almost pulled another Kanye at the Grammy Awards.
Funk legend Sly Stone was awarded $5 million last week in a breach-of-contract suit that claimed his business partners and his own company cheated him out of royalties.
By: Deborah Bayliss - February 4, 2015 4:51 p.m.
If you are looking for a chance to take part in an off Broadway production of an award-winning play, then the opportunity might be waiting for you at South Suburban College (SSC) as the SSC PLAYHOUSE of South Suburban College recently announced auditions for its production of John Guare’s, Tony and Pulitzer-Prize winning 1990 American classic, Six Degrees of Separation.
By: Deborah Bayliss - January 30, 2015 4:42 p.m.
Given her level of fame and fan adoration, it’s no wonder mega entertainer, Beyoncé, is a case study at some universities, including, the University of Illinois at Chicago where the Gender and Women’s Studies department is offering a new spring semester course titled, “Beyoncé: Critical Feminist Perspectives and U.S. Black Womanhood.”
Willie Nelson, Usher and Coldplay’s Chris Martin will pay tribute to Stevie Wonder at a concert next month.
By: Lee Edwards - January 14, 2015 4:58 p.m.
The Jackson Action Coalition (JAC) in collaboration with other community organizations recently held a private screening of the major motion picture “Selma”, at the ShowPlace ICON movie theater, 1011 South Delano Ct., in Chicago.
Alicia Keys gave birth to son Genesis Ali Dean early on Saturday morning. It’s baby number two for the Grammy-winner and her husband, producer-rapper, Swizz Beatz, who are also parents to 4-year-old Egypt Daoud.
Chris Rock filed for divorce from his wife Malaak Compton-Rock, a statement from his representative confirmed last Sunday.
A cast member on VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” has been ordered to spend 30 days at a drug rehabilitation center after prosecutors said he repeatedly failed cocaine and marijuana tests.
Bill Cosby’s wife rejected sex assault allegations against her husband of a half-century on last week, saying the man being accused by at least 15 women of drugging and having sex with them is “a man I do not know.”
In a statement issued Monday, Camille Cosby dismissed accusations that date back as far as the late 1960s.
Solange Knowles shared several photos from her Brazilian honeymoon on Instagram over the weekend.
