Rapper, 50 CENT, is said to be developing a cartoon series loosely based on his life as a child in Jamaica, Queens, NY.

According to Deadline, the series, whose name has yet to be revealed, “follows a mischievous but well-meaning boy who often tangles with his eccentric family and neighborhood.

Written by CARL JONES and executive produced by 50, the cartoon series is said to be on the verge of being picked up by Fox.

No stranger being open about his childhood and upbringing, 50 once starred in the autobiographical film, Get Rich Or Die Trying.

Tell us, what do you think of the idea of 50 CENT’s new cartoon?

Lifetime recently announced the premiere of their new family ‘docuseries’, Preacher’s Daughters.

Preacher’s Daughters, is set to chronicle the lives of young women from three separate families as they try to balance the temptation of everyday life while living up to strict expectations of being a preacher’s child.

While the show follows the lives of children born to parent’s of the cloth, the issues discussed throughout the show are issues that most young people can relate to.

Set to appear on Lifetime, Preachers’ Daughters is scheduled to air, March 12th, at 10pm.

Worrying about dropping, scratching, and cracking your touch screen phone is something Juicy ladies without phone cases worry about to no end.

In our latest giveaway, Juicy is teaming up with MapiCases to grant four Juicy ladies the gift of protection with three Orion iPhone 5 cases.

Created with highest premium quality leather, Orion iPhone 5 cases allow phones to be held in various positions while allowing full accessibility to camera flash, ear phone speaker, volume control and lightning battery port.

Orion iPhone cases are extremely versatile and protect phones from scratches, cracks, and other abrasions – and their just so chic!

Two of NELSON and WINNIE MANDELA‘s granddaughters are slated to star in their own reality show, Being Mandela.

Sisters, ZAZIWE DLAMINI-MANAWAY and SWATI DLAMINI, will introduce viewers into their South African lifestyle while displaying their family relationships and career goals.

Slated to air on Cozi TV, Being Mandela will also chronicle the princesses/sisters as they visit Robben Island, the place where their grandfather was imprisoned for 18 years.

Being Mandela, airs February 10th at 9pm.

MICHELLE OBAMA‘s ancestry is and isn’t a big surprise. Her background – Black, White and Native American – is a bold-faced model for how America has evolved.

RACHEL L. SWARNS, a reporter who first tackled this subject in a New York Times article, had her work cut out for her in researching ever nook and cranny of the First Lady’s lineage.

It was well worth the effort. And if it inspires the rest of us to shake our own family tress, then that makes two good reasons to pick up American Tapestry: The Story Of The Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.

ZADIE SMITH, known for ambitious, smart fiction, has written the noel that everybody and their grandma should be talking about.

For NW, she returns to Northwest London, the neighborhood that was prominently featured in her breakout first novel White Teeth.

Here, SMITH follows four young Londoners as they begin their adult lives outside of public housing for the first time. They have dreams and talent, but little else.

How their different lives interconnect and overlap is a moving illustration of how a neighborhood can shape its people and vice versa.

In celebration of Black History Month, Lifetime is preparing to air three new films highlighting the untold tragedies and triumphs of several important figures in African-American history.

R&B singer, MARY J. BLIGE, and renowned actress, ANGELA BASSETT, are slated to star in Betty & Coretta, a film highlighting the friendship that grew between BETTY SHABAZZ and CORETTA SCOTT KING, the wives of slain civil rights leaders, MALCOLM X and MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

The made for TV film, follows the newly widowed women as they struggle with their husbands’ assassinations and work to keep their husband’s legacy alive by becoming civil rights leaders in their own right.

Betty & Coretta is slated to air on Lifetime, Saturday, February 2nd, at 8pm.

SONJA NORWOOD, former mom-a-ger to R&B singers, BRANDY and RAY J can now add author to her resume with the release of her book, Change Starts With Me.

Far from your typical inspirational self-help book, Change Starts With Me, is a program that challenges its readers to find whatever change they desire within themselves.

Change Starts With Me, features a series of assignments and exercises to complete along with reading in order to begin true transformations.

SONJA NORWOOD’s Change Starts With Me  is available for purchase at Amazon.

Whenever the woman of a superstar musician or athlete pens a book, a scandalous and salacious tell-all usually comes to mind.

However, MONYETTA SHAW, fiancee of R&B crooner NE-YO, is set to change the game with the release of her upcoming children’s book series, The Adventures of Maddie.

The doting mother of two took to Twitter to express her excitement as she tweeted, “I’m so excited to introduce my children’s book series to the world really soon!! The Adventures of Maddie COMING SOON!”

While SHAW tweeted the name and the cover for the first installment of the series, an official release date has yet to be announced.