Usher Raymond IV has found success in the entertainment industry as an
R&B recording star and in business as part owner of the NBA's
Cleveland Cavaliers.
Stevie Wonder was performing on an electronic keyboard and harmonica
before a crowd of about 700 as he and Bill Cosby and Cosby's wife,
Camille, were awarded honorary doctorates at Oberlin College in
northeast Ohio.
The tall thin man strode to the stage at the Tribeca Film Festival and
fielded a few questions about one of the main subjects of the
documentary just screened — himself: Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
For most of his 65 years, street singer Elliott Small was famous only
on a New Orleans corner — until an innovative 2008 Internet video went
viral, bringing the white-bearded, overall clad musician with the
turned up hat brim before a global audience in a worldwide
collaboration performance of Ben E. King's classic, "Stand By Me."
Michael Jackson's fedora, Ella Fitzgerald's yellow dress and Louis
Armstrong's trumpet are together in a Smithsonian exhibit celebrating
the famed Apollo Theater that helped these stars to shine.
The acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil announced Tuesday that it will
put on a live touring show featuring the songs of the King of Pop
starting late next year.
The fire hoses and police dogs. The Montgomery bus boycott. The march
on Washington. You've probably seen scattered footage of these images,
but no project ever connected pictures to context with the tenacity of
"Eyes on the Prize."
Jennifer Hudson didn't gain a huge amount of weight when she was
pregnant with her son, but it was enough to make her do a double-take
when she saw a picture of herself.
A U.S. delegation that includes members of the Black press, elected
officials, performing artists and representatives of such organizations
as the NAACP and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition will be in Senegal from
April 2 to April 4 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that country’s
independence from France and the dedication of the 150-foot-high
African Renaissance Monument.
