By Audrey J. Bernard The soul of American Culture — The Apollo Theater — turned the 60th Grammy celebration up a notch by hosting a Pre-Grammy Uptown Luncheon on Friday, January 26, 2018 that had some award show attendees riding the famous A Train […]
Dennis Edwards, who joined the Temptations a/k/a “The Tempty Tempts” in 1968 and sang on a string of the group’s hits including “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Ball of Confusion” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” in an initial tenure that stretched to 1977, […]
By Audrey J. Bernard Women’s Editor Janet Jackson had the whole town buzzing about her surprise appearance at the ESSENCE 9th Annual Black Women in Music event in New York City at the trendy Highline Ballroom. This year’s event honored celebrated Grammy award-winning rapper, singer and […]
By J. Zamgba Browne Chief Correspondent Media mogul Russell Simmons has been slapped with a $5 million lawsuit by a woman who accused him of raping her in his California home – an incident that her attorney says occurred after a separate sexual […]
By Mark Savage BBC Music reporter Bruno Mars won six Grammys in total – including the top three prizes. Mars and Kendrick Lamar stole the show, and most of the awards, at the 2018 Grammys. Mars provided the night’s big upset, taking the Album of […]
Compiled By Don Thomas “Gospel Singer Edwin Hawkins, the four-time Grammy Award-winning leader of The Edwin Hawkins Singers’ 1969 million-seller, “Oh Happy Day,” died January 15th, 2018 at his home in the Bay area, after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was […]
