Month: August 2011

Professor Melissa Harris-Perry gives her honest opinion about the new film, “The Help,” which is a story about black maids working for white women in the Jim Crow South.

Former NBA player Jason Williams’ ex-wife, Tanya Young-Williams sat down with “Good Day New York” to shed some light on their past relationship.

Jason Williams, who is currently serving five years in prison for the shooting death of his limo driver, is scheduled to be released from prison on parole later this month.

Tanya told “Good Day New York” on Wednesday that she would give him a second chance to be a father to their two children. She said that Jayson has not communicated with them since his incarceration. However, Tanya said she believed everyone deserves a second chance.

When speaking on their past violent relationship, Tanya said, “He was just unhealthy on a lot of levels. So I slept with a knife under my bed for a while.”

Watch the interview below:

NBA star Dwight Howard stopped by BET’s 106 & Park and chatted with the lovely and always beautiful Rocsi about appearing in the new “Three Stooges” movie, traveling to Tanzania to to host basketball clinics for kids, being a role model, and the mission of his D12 charity foundation.

Also, Howard took out a little time to do his funny impersonations of Lil Darryl, LeBron James, Charles Barkley, LL Cool J, Biggie Smalls and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Watch the interview below:

Actor Nelsan Ellis made a guest appearance on “The Talk” to chat with the ladies about playing the gay character “Lafayette” in “True Blood” as a straight man and how his mom influenced his flamboyant role.

Watch the interview below:

R&B diva Jennifer Hudson stopped by the WGCI radio station to talk about her Twitter beef with a random fan, rumors of her having liposuction to lose weight and people saying her soon-to-be husband David Otunga being gay.

Earlier this week, Hudson got into a very nasty verbal altercation with a random fan on Twitter. During the heated exchange of words, Hudson’s Twitter follower accused the singer’s husband David Otunga of being gay and said Hudson is starving herself to achieve her new slim figure.

Hudson fired back saying, “Watch what u say cuz I might have to buy a plane/flight n come show u some of my south side then come back to where you’re not!”

Check out the heated Twitter exchange and hear what Hudson had to say about the incident below…

Singer/songwriter Kimberly Locke, best known for placing third on season 2 of “American Idol,” talks to CBSNews.com’s Joyce Lee about her new EP, “Four for the Floor,” and the lessons she learned so far in the music industry.