LL Cool J

How black is black enough?

2013-01-13 04:00:00

I suddenly find myself concerned about my blackness. It had never occurred to me to worry about it before. Then came the incident last month on ESPN's "First Take" program that initially got commentator Rob Parker suspended and then, last week, fired...

Youman Fullard Sr., Yellow Bowl Restaurant owner

2013-01-04 14:41:45

Youman Fullard Sr., who fulfilled a lifelong dream when he and his wife took over ownership of the Yellow Bowl Restaurant and turned it into one of the city's most sought-after soul food destinations, died Sunday of complications from Alzheimer's...

Blacks and Republicans: an overdue debate

2012-10-21 05:00:00

Quick quiz: What do LL Cool J, The Rock, 50 Cent, Karl Malone, Don King, Lynn Swann, Wilt Chamberlain, Eldridge Cleaver, Peter Boulware, Tony Dungy and Alveda King, (niece of Martin Luther King Jr.) have in common? If you guessed membership in the...

Grammy nominations: Put your money on Adele

2011-12-01 06:58:00

Voicing disappointment over Grammy nominations is similar to complaining to your friends at recess that your 70-year-old teacher just "doesn't get it." In other words, it's pointless, other than feeling slightly better that you made the injustice known to...

'The X-Factor' recap: Praise a higher power, it's the last night of auditions

2011-09-29 12:53:00

[Ed. note: No running diary this time. I was judging a Battle of the Bands for WPOC in Hanover aka doing my best Simon Cowell impression, so I didn't get home until 8:40 p.m. I watched a DVR-ed version. The obvious good news of the night is the auditiions...

Grammys 2012: Stay home if you're not Adele

2012-02-08 00:00:00

Welcome to the Adele show. Just as she dominated radio this past year, Adele will likely walk away with a handful of shiny gramophones on Sunday night (8 p.m., WJZ/CBS). But this is show business - there are no guarantees (except that host LL Cool J...

Newcomer Jones sweeps major Grammys

2003-02-24 00:00:00

New music from troubled divas, other hit makers

2002-09-12 00:00:00

Coming this fall: The Drama of the Troubled Diva. For the next four months, many of pop's juiciest plot lines will feature female singers struggling back from the brink. They include Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera and TLC, all of whom have spent far...

Kanye West receives leading 10 Grammy nominations

2004-12-07 10:31:00

Isaac Hayes

2004-07-15 00:00:00

Isaac Hayes is looking for some juice. Calling from his cell phone, the singer-songwriter walks around a health food store in Memphis, his hometown. His days as a consistent hit maker may be long gone, but the pop-soul legend, who headlines Artscape...

Heritage Festival celebrates third year

2004-06-17 00:00:00

It's only been a few years since Baltimore's ailing AFRAM event was redesigned and transformed into the African-American Heritage Festival, but the new celebration has already developed a huge following and a positive reputation. "It's the combination of...

Grammys 2013 date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

2013-02-10 16:32:38

LL Cool J performs during the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

2013-03-18 09:46:54

Not only a rapper and TV actor, LL Cool J had created a fund to send inner city children from New York to a summer camp in New Jersey. After photographing him with some of the children, I shot one roll of film of him alone..

2013-03-01 10:42:00

Actors Daniela Ruah, left, Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J react as a car is exploded on Ocean Front Walk in Venice during shooting of "NCIS: Los Angeles" in 2010.

2013-02-22 12:03:00