INTERVIEW COURTESY OF CLUTCH MAGAZINE

Her upcoming releases include the 2009 Lionsgate drama “Shrink”, in which she is cast alongside Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams, and her own television show on Nickelodeon, “True Jackson VP”, in which she plays a pubescent burgeoning fashion mogul. Right before stepping on the set for her show, Keke chatted with Clutch about life, her career, and dating in Hollywood (hint: Momma Palmer isn’t having any of it).

Clutch: Keke, what’s going on?
Keke: Nothing much. I’m on the set for my new TV show on Nickelodeon called True Jackson VP.

Clutch: How long have you filming for that?
Keke: Um, this is the first episode after the pilot.

Clutch: How is the television industry different from movies, or is it different for you?
Keke: It is different, probably because the show is in California, where I live. It’s a lot more stable for me. I know what I will be doing and when I will be doing it. It’s much easier than movies because there is more structure in doing television. It’s not as organized doing movies.

Clutch: Where are you originally from, Keke?
Keke: I am from Chicago, the suburbs outside of Chicago called Robbins. It’s down past the Southside.

Clutch: How did you get started in the business?
Keke: When I was nine, my parents took me to an audition just from reading it in the newspapers, for the role of Nala in The Lion King off Broadway. I went down to the top 15, and then I was out. I was upset, but at the same time I was like this was cool and I want to try it again. My parents saw that, and said “We can put you in it and if you really like it, maybe you can do it.” I said, “I wanna do it, I wanna do it!” So they got me an agent and I got my first audition, which was Barbershop 2, playing Queen Latifah’s niece and . . . I got the part.

Clutch: [As an actor] Do you find yourself missing the typical things that a teenager enjoys, or is that something that you’re taking in stride?
Keke: Sometimes I do miss it, but most of the time I’m like “Hey, I’m doing so many good things and securing my future and having fun right now.” Hopefully, I can have a normal senior year, like a regular 18 year old. But if that doesn’t happen I think that I will be all right because I’m doing a lot of great stuff right now.

Clutch: Do you engage in typical adolescent activities of teenagers?
Keke: I go to movies and hang out with friends, hit up amusement parks, kick it at my house. Things like that.

Clutch: Do you plan on attending college?
Keke: Of course. I want to attend Howard University.

Clutch: Who is your support system?
Keke: Definitely my family and friends.

Clutch: Do you have any big brothers in the industry who look out for you?
Keke: A lot of people [in the industry] say they’re my big brothers, but we don’t really talk that much. Just mainly my family.

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Picture #1 - Bailey Sisters (featured in Meet the Browns/ Tyler Perry)


BIG BOI N SON


CHILLI, TRON

Picture #4 - Tashawnya Menefee (Founder of Show Me the Way Foundation), Jermaine Dupri and Daughter

Q PARKER ,WIFE, LIL Q

Photo credit: George Butler.

Look we love to get our readers the celebrity events that you never would know about…. The new event -Runway Red fashion show hosted by Chilli of TLC and her son Tron on July 26th at the Americas Mart.

If you ever thought super stars don’t pay attention to their kids you have another thing coming. I like when I get to post positive information about black celebrities…..

This show was given by the "Show Me The Way Foundation”, proceeds from the fashion show went directly to children infected with HIV and AIDS.

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TheNYPOST story explains some of the implications of why the JACKSON’s are Flat Broke. Who would have guess that the family from [singing] 2300 Jackson Street, is not the black royalty family anymore.
Like their days growing up in hardscrabble Gary, Ind., the Jacksons are approaching poverty. Tough times have the clan recalling how the six boys and three girls shared a shingled home with a two-car garage, when Joseph worked in a steel mill and mother Katherine, 77, scoured thrift shops to clothe her brood.
THEIR home now, called Hayvenhurst, sits on more than five acres and is adorned with Michael's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, statues of animals, a lush flower garden, a dollhouse and a four-car garage with the word "Welcome" written above it.
But the beauty belies the family's dark fiscal troubles - workers often go months without a paycheck, and Janet Jackson, 41, the new breadwinner in the family, purchased a Vegas home for her mother in anticipation of her eventually losing Hayvenhurst.
"It was better in Gary, Indiana," Jermaine said a couple of years ago.

Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett and Denzel Whitaker


Oprah & Denzel

Holly Robinson-Peete & (Husband) Rodney Peete

WHEN IS HOLLY ROBINSON GOING TO DO ANOTHER FILM?? BY THE WAY ...CAN SHE EVEN ACT?


Jennifer Hudson

HEY JHUD, WHEN IS THAT ALBUM COMING OUT? RIGHT AFTER YOU WON THE OSCAR THEY SAID YOUR ALBUM WAS COMING OUT IN 2 MONTHS....BLAH BLAH BLAH !


Denzel & Sam L (and their wives...LOL)

LOL...ENOUGH SAID!


Tyler Perry


Wesley Snipes


Tia Mowry

Looking at the state of Hip Hop and the way death has become so prevalent in the Hip Hop Community-you would think ‘Beef’ would stop. Recently Lil Wayne had an interview with Complex magazine and pointed out some people that has been taking subliminal shot at him[Lil Wayne]. In this video Pusha T[One half of the Clipse] addresses the forceful words said by Lil Weezeana !


Watch the interview here……PUSHA T says…..“First time he ever touched a gun, he shot his G*d damn self”…


Looking at the state of Hip Hop and the way death has become so prevalent in the Hip Hop Community-you would think ‘Beef’ would stop. Recently Lil Wayne had an interview with Complex magazine and pointed out some people that has been taking subliminal shot at him[Lil Wayne]. In this video Pusha T[One half of the Clipse] addresses the forceful words said by Lil Weezeana !


Watch the interview here……PUSHA T says…..“First time he ever touched a gun, he shot his G*d damn self”…





In Other News

Ginuwine doing Bachorlette parties Now… What a shame !


Def Jam Lay Off Massive…..Rumors are saying it is because of ‘American Gangsta’..?

This is Funny as hell .....

Now we know that freedom of speech is a B*tch ! and Black bloggers have take it to a new level.

As far as we are concerned we try to stay credible because we have journalism backgrounds but the average reader does not care about fact checking..... they want to know if Sanaa is dating Ludacris... they want to know is Nia Long really slept with anyone on the set of Love Jones. It does not sell papers but it gets hits . This blogging world has created an entire different source of income for black american....


Thanks to the good folks at Rhymes.... Read what the ladies that grace the cover of Essence Magazine has to say about black bloggers.


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Gabrielle: Just last week somebody gave me a baby. This isn’t Perez Hilton or the White gossip people, these are women of color, specifically Black women who, for whatever reason, don’t like the company I keep.
Sanaa: She’s talking about the gossip sites.

Essence: The blogs.

Sanaa: That are run by Black women.

Gabrielle: And now because everyone is clamoring for celebrity tidbits, the bigger gossip sites and even mainstream entities are picking up on it. No fact-checking, no nothing. And in one week’s time, there were like five different dudes, a baby—I’m a homewrecker. In literally seven days. I can’t point the finger at the White media. They don’t care about us. Paparazzi are not staked out in front of any of our houses. They are not going through our garbage because they don’t care about us in that way. So when you hear crap about us, it is coming from our own community, which hurts.

Nia: We are some of the few Black actresses whose passions are rooted in our community.

Gabrielle: There is this idea that there is integrity in journalism; if it’s written it has to be true. But that’s not the case. When blogs or any of the magazines get it wrong, there’s no accountability. In the next breath, they’ll complain on the blogs that we don’t have enough Black stars. Well, you rip us to shreds every two seconds from our nose to the weave to the clothes to the shoes to the ashy ankles.