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T he hour-long documentary  Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty  (2003) features interviews on Dandridge with Halle Berry who played her in the biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge  (1999), the great dancer Fayard Nicholas to whose brother Dandridge was married when very young, Joe Adams who was Dandridge's friend & played Husky Miller with her in Carmen Jones  (1954), Brock Peters who co-starred with her in both  Carmen Jones  &  Porgy & Bess  (1959), Laurence Fishburne, & others. It's hosted by Obba Babatunde who played Harold Nicholas in the Dandridge biopic. Vintage footage & clips remind the audience who Dorothy Dandridge was & what a magnetic personality she conveyed from the screen. She'd been an entertainer from childhood with a sister act. Her mother's lesbian lover Geneva Williams coached them in singing & dancing managed the act, allowing the girls nothing of a normal childhood. The girls were on the r...

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Terrence Jenkins  can now add  author  to his résumé.  The actor and  E! News  coanchor has just announced his brand new book deal with HarperCollins' It Books, and we've got all the details! Starting with the fact that his first offering,  The Wealth of My Mother's Wisdom , is due to be published in September. "During the process of playing the mama's boy in Think Like a Man, I took an in-depth look at my own mother and her extraordinary journey of raising me while still a teenager herself," Jenkins says. "I know that many of the successful moments in my life, personally and professionally, have been in part because of the lessons that she taught me, and I am proud to share her words of wisdom to inspire others." "Because  of the decisions she made and her wisdom, I was able to not only stay off the streets and stay out of jail, but I was able  to go  on to college and be successful in my  career ," he said today o...

The family of  Michael Jackson  is one step closer to holding AEG Live partially liable for the death of the beloved pop icon. A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday ruled that lawyers for the Jackson clan have shown enough evidence for their wrongful-death suit against the promoter to proceed to a jury trial next month. The decision came after the Jackson team presented an alleged "smoking gun" email purportedly demonstrating that AEG had supervised Jackson's personal physician, Dr.  Conrad Murray , who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and is currently serving a four-year prison sentence after administering a fatal dose of the hospital anesthetic propofol and sedatives to the "Thriller" singer. The family claims the intense pressure the company put on Murray to have Jackson ready to perform at rehearsals for his 2009 This Is It concert comeback at London's O2 arena despite his exhausted condition is what ultimately killed him. Michael Jackso...

B-13 PEER REVIEW  WHERE YOU HEARD IT FIRST She’s pigeonholed herself as a hopeless romantic thanks to a ton of hit songs about her relationships, but  Taylor Swift  insists she’s not as bad as everyone thinks. In her new interview for the April 2013 issue of  Vanity Fair , the “I Knew You Were Trouble” songstress confessed, "If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people.” "The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red  carpet  or met for lunch or wrote a song with. . . it's just kind of ridiculous." T. Swizzle also noted, "For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated -- a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way --that's taking it and turning it and twisting it int...

Wissam Al Mana and Janet Jackson 'Last year we were married in a quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony," Jackson says of her hush-hush ceremony to Wissam Al Mana. B-13 PEER REVIEW  WHERE YOU HEARD IT FIRST If you read somewhere last week that  Janet Jackson  was about to marry her longtime boyfriend Wissam Al Mana and you were totally going to run out and buy the happy couple  a gift , hold that thought.  You missed it. Turns out the pair got married on the hush-hush last year in a quiet ceremony that managed to evade press coverage. "The rumors regarding an extravagant wedding are simply not true," read a joint statement from the pair released to  Entertainment Tonight .   "Last year we were married in a quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony. Our  wedding gifts  to one another were contributions to our respective favorite children's charities. We would appreciate that our privacy is respected and that we are allowe...

B-13 PEER REVIEW  WHERE YOU HEARD IT FIRST The No Limit Family legacy continues on as Master P’s daughter Cymphonique has become heavily involved in Dance for Change Unite: A Day of World Peace. The initiative is dedicated to world peace as professional dance choreographers and dancers come together with inner city youth. In promoting world peace and education through their mutual love for the art of dance, hundreds gathered to experience the many cultures of dance from Bollywood to Hip-Hop, salsa and modern dance. While she is only 16-years-old, Cymphonique acts as CEO of Prestige Performing  Arts Academy . Her mission is to promote peace through dance and will take her across the country to cities like New York, D.C. and part of Florida. “It’s an honor to be surrounded by so many people who share the same passion for dance as me. Dance unites people of all ages and cultures, it brings people together. Our mission is to help  educ...

B-13 PEER REVIEW  WHERE YOU HEARD IT FIRST Nick Cannon might not have been old enough to drink milk alone when convicted drug kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross was at his height, but now he will be able to see what is like to be a  major  dealer in a  new film . The charismatic comedian/rapper/actor/host will depict the street legend in the “real Rick Ross’” upcoming biopic. While on the surface some may believe Nick Cannon seems like an odd choice to play a drug lord, the man born Ricky Donnell Ross believes it was perfect. “I chose Nick based on a few factors. The role is 17-25 in age, many of our award-winning actors are much older than that range. Nick is a guy who captures my character when I was in custody in San Diego.” More shocking than the fact that the former Nickelodeon star was Ross’ own choice is the fact that he made that choice over 15 years ago. In a YouTube clip with him and Cannon announcing the partnership, Ross says he ...

B-13 PEER REVIEW  WHERE YOU HEARD IT FIRST Lee Lorch was born in New York City in 1915 and graduated from Cornell University in 1935. He did his graduate work at the University of Cincinnati, obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 1941. After some time in mathematically related war work, he joined the US army and saw service in India and the Pacific between 1943 and 1946. His first academic position was at the City College of New York and his most recent is at York University (in Toronto Canada) from which he retired officially in 1985. Lorch has been a tireless fighter for human rights and educational opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities. His long, courageous and continuing struggle for civil rights and for equal educational opportunities for minority groups was carried on at great personal cost including blacklisting which forced him to move to Canada in 1959 as a political refugee from the United States. For example, in the late forties, the Lorches attem...

Exclusive: Eve details her mentor work with Big Brothers Big Sisters and taking control of her career in the age of viral Hip Hop artists. It’s human nature to become disoriented with the unfamiliar, but Philly rapper  Eve  is of an extraordinary sort. When she fell back from the spotlight after 2002’s Eve-Olution , there were a number of female emcees that emerged in her absence. She’s indifferent to the newbies though. With her new Sony Red distribution deal and imprint, From the Ribs Music, Eve is beyond battling for a sole femcee spot. She is the emcee you want to watch. Who’s to say that there’s only one spot though? This industry is no longer what it was when Eve debuted. The self-proclaimed “pitbull in a skirt” has made it her priority to return to Rap, just in time to represent the past, present and future all at once. Here, Eve speaks to HipHopDX about the changes she’s had to get used to and her own industry rebirth. Eve Explains Her Hiatus And Movin...