The Miami Takeover Festival will host the largest Black standup comedy & R&B music festival of the Summer. The lineup ...

Danny Simmons Jr., a poet and abstract painter who coined the term “neo-African Abstract Expressionism” and brother of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Joseph "Rev. Run" Simmons, has died. He was 72.

Martin Lawrence's Netflix tribute story about being shut down for a photograph by Eddie Murphy is even funnier considering that the two stars are now, literally, family with a new shared granddaughter ...

Martin Lawrence honored his idol at The AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy, which debuts on Netflix on Sunday. In an exclusive clip from the ceremony, Lawrence recalls Murphy ...

Grammy award-winning record producer Rick Rubin, 63, says his success comes down to discipline and showing up. On Sunday's episode of the "David Senra" podcast, Rubin reflected on the work ethic of ...

Rick Rubin, 63, says his success comes from discipline and showing up even when he doesn't feel like it. "I'm a lazy workaholic," Rubin said. "I have to force myself to do it. But I do force myself." ...

SCHENECTADY - Comedian and actor Martin Lawrence will bring his “Y’all Still Know What It Is!” tour to the M&T Bank Center in Schenectady on Aug. 8. Lawrence first rose to prominence in the 1990s and ...

Jasmin Lawrence and Eric Murphy recently welcomed their first baby together, a daughter named Ari Skye Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Martin Lawrence’s family expanded in April 2026 when his eldest daughter, Jasmin Lawrence, welcomed her first baby with husband Eric Murphy, the son of Eddie Murphy. “They just had a baby girl,” Eddie ...

Eric Murphy, the son of comedian Eddie Murphy, and Jasmin Lawrence, the daughter of comedian Martin Lawrence, have welcomed their first child together. The couple are the proud parents of a newborn ...