Queen Latifah is to perform at the Long Beach Pride festival tomorrow (19.05.12).

Queen Latifah is set to headline this year’s Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival, which will be her first engagement at a Pride celebration! EXCLUSIVE: Queen Latifah & Dolly Parton Make "Joyful Noise" Together Long Beach Pride co-president Pat Crosby said: “From hip to R&B;, pop to standards, Queen Latifah is the voice of our generation, and her concert here will be phenomenal. For her to make her worldwide Pride debut here in Long Beach is a tremendous testament to the popularity of our celebration and to the strength of our community.” DETAILS: It's Official: Queen Latifah Is Going To Be A Mommy!! It’s interesting that Queen Latifah is getting involved in the festival, since there has been speculation for years that the 42-year-old could be gay. The fact that she ...

The City Of Brotherly Love is going to have some added fireworks on July 4, as the lineup for the 20th annual Philly Fourth Of July Jam has been announced. Jimmy Fallon‘s Late Night house band The Roots are set to headline the event, which drew a crowd of 500,000 concert-goers last year, and they’re ... More »

Additional performers at the festival include Daryl Hall and Joe Jonas.

Ten years ago this month the music industry lost one of it’s brightest stars: Lisa Lopes. Daring, candid, vibrant and unapologetic; Lisa ‘Left-Eye’ Lopes was the ‘Crazy’ to Chilli’s ‘Sexy’ and T-Boz’s ‘Cool’ in the Atlantic R&B; girl-group that would go on to conquer the music charts and change the way women were seen in a male dominated industry. As the world was still mourning the loss of R&B; superstar Aaliyah in the summer of 2001, initial reactions to the news of the tragic death of ‘Left-Eye’ in Honduras, Central America, was that of disbelief. Although Lisa ...

Mary J Blige was in the house to introduce Starshell to a star-studded A-List crowd as no other new artist has ever graced the world-renowned LIV stage before. People in attendance included: Mary J Blige (host), Queen Latifah, Birdman & YMCMB (also celebrating his Birthday), MC Lyte, Mike...

Queen Latifah and Jill Scott are on board with Lifetime's all-black Steel Magnolia's remake. [DL]Beyoncé will be making her return to the stage this Memorial Day weekend in Atlantic City. [TLL]Toni Braxton was looking fierce, fit, and fabulous on the set...

Queen Latifah and Jill Scott are among the cast in the Lifetime reboot.

brisance \bri-ZAHNS\, noun: The shattering effect of a high explosive. Brisance is a relatively new English word. It started being used commonly in the 1910s, but it can be traced to the Celtic word brissim meaning "to break." St. Patrick's Day Shits Anytime someone has an unusually green shit. Such an act is likely to take place the day after St. Patrick's Day because of the high amount of green food dye consumed. Dude 1: Wow, I dont know what I ate yesterday, but I had a mad case of St. Patrick's Day shits this morning and ...

Queen Latifah is getting in on the talent show fun and launching a new reality TV show with singer Gloria Estefan and country star John Rich. The show will be scouting for talent across the US. The show is called The Star Next Door, and 'Tifah will serve as the executive producer. The premise of the

The CW will launch their own singing competition show later this year featuring Gloria Estefan and John Rich as mentors The program tentatively titled The Star Next Door will be produced by Queen Latifah and Dave Broome the creator of The Biggest Loser on NBC The network has ordered 10...

Premiering this past Sunday on Centric TV, Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D finds a bevy of influential people from the hip-hop community remembering the truly legendary emcee. Mixing interviews from the likes of Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Will Smith and MC Lyte with performance footage, including his last live show at the [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

Is it still too soon, or is it finally time to talk about some hard truths about Whitney Houston? [MRMK]Will Smith, Queen Latifah, and Mary J. Blige will honor Heavy D in an upcoming documentary on Centric. [BB]Nicki Minaj was downright...

Last night, R&B; recording artist Luke James wowed audiences across the country with his first national television performance as a part of BET Honors 2012 on BET Networks. Showcasing his arresting falsetto and dynamic stage presence with his debut single "I Want You," the New Orleans native brought the star-studded crowd at DC's Warner Theatre to their feet with roaring applause, including First Lady M ichelle Obama, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, L.A. Reid, Maya Angelou, Terrence Howard, Aretha Franklin, Kelly Rowland, Common, Queen Latifah, Cicely Tyson, Gabrielle Union, Ledisi, Willow Smith, and original Tuskegee Airmen . He ...

So, it would have been Adele's night - and some sort of irony that a singer whose launchpad was funded, in part, from the Brit Award receipts turns up at the bigger award ceremony and carries off the prizes. It would have been Adele's night, but for the death of Whitney Houston. One room. So many executives who have pushed their talent a little too hard, or turned a blind eye and sent them out working when they weren't fit. So many musicians who know that the difference between "tragic Whitney" and them was luck rather than judgement ...