NEW YORK (BACK DOOR MEDIA) — Mary J. Blige,Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton. Alexis Korner, John Mayall and [...] The post Mary J. […]
Calvin LeBrun, known in New York as the legendary DJ Mister Cee, has died at 57. On Tuesday, New York radio station Hot 97 announced the news, citing his family’s confirmation of the DJ’s death. No cause of death was revealed. Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg took to X to pay [...] The post New York […]
NEW YORK (Back Door Media) — Two properties belonging to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, two law enforcement officials [...] The post Feds search […]
GENEVA, Ill. — The lineup for the 2024 Tacos and Tequila Festival has been revealed. The 21+ or older festival will take place on Sept. 21 at Northwestern Medicine Field, located at 34w002 Cherry Lane in Geneva, from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. The event will take you back to [...] The post Tacos and […]
When Tareasa “Reesa Teesa” Johnson shared on TikTok the story of what she says was a marriage gone horribly wrong, she hoped to help others who might be ignoring red flags in their relationships. Revisiting her pain and revealing a tale that might make others question her judgment, Johnson said, [...] The post Reesa Teesa […]
Media Back Door—Halle Bailey kept her recent pregnancy private for good reason. “The Little Mermaid” star was one of the honorees at Thursday’s 2024 Black Women in Hollywood Awards, and gave a speech in which she explained why she protected her pregnancy and the birth of her first child, son [...] The post Halle Bailey […]
CHICAGO (Back Door Media) — An unusual legal challenge may upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would hike a real estate tax on high-end property sales to fund services for homeless people. Such citywide ballot measures are rare in the nation’s third-largest city, but other cities, including [...] The post Chicago ‘mansion’ […]
CHICAGO (Back Door Media) — Chicago police are undergoing fresh training on handling large-scale protests and First Amendment rights ahead of anticipated demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention this summer, Superintendent Larry Snelling said Wednesday. “Everything we are doing is rooted in constitutional policing,” Snelling told reporters at a news [...] The post Chicago’s top […]
Shawn Zanotti, a publicist who began working with Williams in 2021, said the former daytime talk show host would be “mortified” to see the two-part Lifetime docuseries. Wendy Williams, the former daytime talk show host, is the focus of an explosive documentary that some critics are calling exploitative. In the [...] The post Wendy Williams’ […]
LOS ANGELES (Back Door Media) — The estate of Donna Summer sued Ye and Ty Dolla $ign on Tuesday for what its attorneys say is the “shamelessly” illegal use of her 1977 song “I Feel Love” in their collaboration “Good (Don’t Die).” The copyright infringement lawsuit was filed in federal [...] The post Donna Summer […]