With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar play and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only became one of pop music's iconic songs but also the defining work of Hayes' career. Yet the "Theme f
Comedian Bernie Mac's family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said Sunday. However, Je'niece Childress said that as time passed, she and her mother braced for the possibi
DETROIT -- A judge ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a city business trip to Canada and not informing the court.
Bernie Mac remains in an undisclosed Chicago hospital as he recovers from pneumonia. His publicist, Danica Smith, says Mac's condition was unchanged Monday. She released a statement Friday saying the 50-year-old comedian is responding well to treatment an
JACKSON, Miss.–Actor Morgan Freeman is doing well after surgery to reconnect nerves and repair damage to his left arm and hand following a car wreck Sunday night, his publicist said. The surgery Monday night "lasted approximately four and a half hou
An official apology for slavery and Jim Crow from the U.S. House of Representatives provoked mixed emotions in Philadelphia recently. For J. Whyatt Mondesire, president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the NAACP, the apology was a publicity stunt. “It
A native Chicagoan who is now a TV producer in Atlanta will be among the participants in the 79th Annual Bud Billiken Day Parade Saturday. Taking a break as executive producer for the popular TV show House of Payne, which airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on TBS,
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa--John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama on Thursday of playing racial politics a day after the Democratic candidate predicted Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on
LOS ANGELES–Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard.
