With the NBA playoffs weeks away and the Miami Heat fighting to stay atop the Eastern Conference, LeBron James has been battling—the media. The expectations. The on-court matchups. Ebony Nettles-Bey, 16, has been battling, too. Late last summer the student at Verona High School in Wisconsin had trouble breathing. She was diagnosed with stage 4…

Calvin and Zatera Spencer have been having an epic month. On March 12 the Portsmouth, Va., couple won a $1 million Powerball drawing. Then, on March 26, Calvin Spencer won $50,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Pick 4 game. The next day he dropped his wife off at an appointment and stopped at a 7-Eleven in…

The 36-year-old nephew of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta reality actor Ray “Benzino” Scott will be arraigned Monday in Plymouth, Mass., on charges of assault with intent to murder his uncle, the Boston Herald reports. According to several news stations, Gai Scott shot several times into a vehicle that was carrying his uncle, Ray Scott,…

ESPN radio host and TV commentator Stephen A. Smith told Arsenio Hall on his talk show over the weekend that Kobe Bryant was “right on point” in his assessment that he wasn’t comfortable with Miami Heat players protesting in support of Trayvon Martin without knowing all of the facts. Bryant was quoted in the upcoming…

At 27-years-old, three-time-pro-bowl wide receiver Desean Jackson should be in the prime of his career. Coming off his best season with the Philadelphia Eagles and in only the second year of a recently signed five-year deal worth $48.5 million he was cut from the team. Some say he butted heads with new coach Chip Kelly,…

Mammy’s story will finally be told. On Thursday, Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Publishing announced that it had acquired rights to Ruth’s Journey, a prequel to “Gone With the Wind” that tells Mammy’s version. According to New York’s Daily News, the novel, by Donald McCaig, is set to be published this October. It will be McCaig’s second…

A grand jury indicted Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice on Thursday on a charge of third-degree aggravated assault for allegedly knocking his fiancée unconscious last month during an altercation at a casino in Atlantic City, N.J. According to ESPN, conviction on a third-degree charge in New Jersey carries a potential prison sentence of three…

Fashion icon and superstar musician Pharrell Williams is teaming up with Adidas for the first Adidas Originals x Pharrell Williams collection, expected to be launched this summer. “I am truly thrilled to work with Pharrell,” Dirk Schoenberger, the global creative director of Adidas Sport Style Division, told the New York Daily News. “He is a…

It’s only fitting that Aaron McGruder,The Boondocks creator and executive producer, would take to Facebook to bid fans of his hit cartoon farewell, since it was here that they got a peek into what was brewing behind the scenes. “As the world now knows, The Boondocks will be returning for a fourth season, but I will…

Baltimore police are searching for thieves who made off with more than $500,000 worth of Hennessy cognac from a shipping yard in Baltimore County, CBS Baltimore reports. On Sunday just before 5 a.m., police say, the thieves stalked Serve U, a shipping company on the edge of the city, walking past dozens of trucks and…