Arts & Entertainment

In a public school in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Stephen A. Wilson Jr., founder of TWW Inc. (Talks With Wolves) in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, delivered grim statistics to a group of middle school students.

Michael Jackson fans around the world readied for the singer's last bow Tuesday in a film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer.

Naomi Campbell's new perfume deal doesn't pass the smell test, a cosmetics-marketing company said in a lawsuit accusing the supermodel of cutting longtime associates out of their share of profits from her lucrative fragrance lines.

I didn't need Chris Rock to tell me the sodium hydroxide used in relaxers could harm my scalp.

Shani Davis looks for a place to sit, then decides to just plop down on the lobby floor of the Pettit National Ice Center, where he can get in some stretching while he's talking.

Michael Jackson has a chance to win artist of the year posthumously at the American Music Awards.

Mattel has launched a new line of black Barbie dolls with fuller lips, a wider nose and more pronounced cheek bones — a far cry from Christie, Barbie's black friend who debuted in the 1960s and was essentially a white doll painted brown.

Alicia Keys has influenced many lives with her soulful, heartaching piano-driven songs for almost a decade.

You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House.

Opening night for the Boston Symphony Orchestra will feature a tribute to retiring harpist Ann Hobson Pilot, the orchestra's first and only African-American woman.