When you’re about to retire, why not go out with a bang? That’s exactly what 60-year-old dance teacher Shirley Clements did with a performance of Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” featuring Bruno Mars, with the dance troupe Outbreak in Surrey, British Columbia. Clements and her dance students showed the crowd that it doesn’t matter how old you are;…

As Suge Knight sits in a cell waiting for his murder trial in the death of Terry Carter to begin, Carter’s wife, Lilian Carter, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Knight. But Carter isn’t only going after Knight—she’s also named Universal Studios, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube as co-defendants.  According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lilian…

Nichelle Nichols, 82, who played Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek TV series and films, suffered a mild stroke Wednesday night, according to a post Thursday on her Facebook page. “Last night, while at her home in L.A., Nichelle Nichols suffered from a mild stroke,” said Zach McGinnis of Galactic Productions. “She is currently undergoing testing…

When many people think about the most memorable moments in black television history, the first storyline to pop into their minds is when Florida Evans read a letter informing her that her husband, James Evans, had died. And of course there’s the scene when Florida had her breakdown in the kitchen, when she could no…

Empire stars Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard are joining forces once again to host Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards, airing June 18 at 9 p.m. EDT. In preparation for the big night on Spike, Henson and Howard have been participating in promos for the cable channel, and the funniest one so far is their…

Rapper Pusha T, from the Clipse, is a Virginia Beach, Va., native, but he says he wasn’t made to feel welcomed in an establishment in his hometown. In a series of Instagram posts and tweets, the rapper put a local nightclub on blast for its “blatant racism.” https://twitter.com/PUSHA_T/status/605588269309562880https://twitter.com/PUSHA_T/status/605590378373386241https://twitter.com/PUSHA_T/status/605592582253604864 Pusha T was denied entry to Venue…

Fifty Shades of Grey wasn’t originally a comedy, but after sitting through the first 30 minutes of the movie, you realize the joke is definitely on the viewer. Sure, it wasn’t meant to be funny, but the best-selling book-turned-hit movie definitely garnered its fair share of criticism and laughs. Now it’s about to become a…

Gabourey Sidibe broke onto the scene in Lee Daniels’ Precious and is currently part of the amazing cast that makes up Empire. But Sidibe did have one interesting part-time job before she hit it big, and she’ll write about it in a new memoir. The untitled memoir is set to be published by Houghton Mifflin…

What do you do when you want to create without being told what and when to create? If you’re Janet— Ms. Jackson if You’re Nasty—you create your own record label. Jackson is readying the release of her untitled album under her new record label, Rhythm Nation. Rhythm Nation will “offer a home to both new…

Hollywood is running out of ideas again, so why not remake something that was once a hit? And that’s exactly what Disney is planning to do with Sister Act. The original Sister Act, released in 1992, starred Whoopi Goldberg and was one of Disney’s most successful movies of that decade, earning more than $200 million…