Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Comedian Katt Williams went on an extended rant during a comedy show in Phoenix Saturday, taunting a heckler of Mexican descent.

Williams was responding to insults by an audience member, whom he learned was of Mexican origin.

After the initial taunts, Williams unleashed a more than seven-minute tirade in which he stated: “if y’all had California and you loved it, then you shouldn’t have given that mothaf*cka up. You should have fought for California, goddamnit, since you love it…” referred to Mexicans as “landscapers” and condemned those who he said “think they can live in this country and pledge allegience to another country… do you remember when white people used to say go back to Africa? And we’d have to tell them we don’t want to? So if you love Mexico, bitch, get the f*ck over there!.”

LOS ANGELES –– Janet Jackson says she will not attend a tribute concert honoring her brother Michael later this year because it coincides with the trial of the doctor charged in the King of Pop’s death.

Janet Jackson says that the timing of the show would make her appearance too difficult.

She joins brothers Jermaine and Randy Jackson, who also have said they will not attend the Oct. 8 show planned for Cardiff, Wales because it will happen during the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray.

The show has received support from family matriarch Katherine Jackson and other siblings of the late singer.

Opening statements are scheduled to begin in Murray’s trial on Sept. 27.

DETROIT — Esther Gordy Edwards, who helped build Motown Records alongside her brother Berry Gordy Jr. and led efforts to turn its original Detroit headquarters into a museum, has died. She was 91.

Edwards died Wednesday surrounded by family and friends in Detroit, the Motown Historical Museum said in a statement.

Edwards was a Motown executive for nearly three decades, holding numerous leadership positions within the music company whose artists included Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and The Four Tops. Motown Records, which Berry Gordy started with a family loan in 1959, churned out scores of global hits from the building it dubbed “Hitsville, U.S.A.” in Detroit. The company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.

Edwards served as senior vice president, corporate secretary and director of Motown International Operations, where she was charged with exposing the famed “Motown sound” to international audiences.

Vogue Italia has apologized for posting a fashion editorial on large metallic hoop earrings that they described as “Slave Earrings” after protests from consumers.

They’ve replaced the description with “Ethnic Earrings,” and maintain that it was a mistake due to an improper translation.

Lil Wayne is set to do big numbers this week for his latest project Tha Carter IV, now that Billboard predicts it will sell over 700,000 copies.

Now with physical copies of the album in stores, he’s expected to have a huge sales boost, one that could put him close to the 1 million mark.

If Tha Carter IV indeed hits the 700,000 mark, it will become the second highest selling album of the year behind Lady Gaga’s 1.11 million debut with Born This Way.

Beyonce Knowles has confirmed that she’s pregnant.

The singer and wife of Jay-Z made the announcement on the red carpet of the 2011 Video Music Awards by showing off her baby bump to photographers.

PHOENIX — The rapper known as DMX has been arrested for speeding in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Carrick Cook told The Associated Press that the 40-year-old rapper was arrested Wednesday night and bonded out of jail Thursday morning. The highway patrol pulled DMX on a highway in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa after he was clocked on radar driving at 102 mph.

DMX was cited for criminal speed, driving on a suspended and revoked license and reckless driving.

He was released from an Arizona state prison last month after his probation was revoked for failing to submit to drug testing and driving on a suspended license.

Rapper Nelly has found a positive way to put his money from becoming a star entertainer to good use, by giving back to the community that launched his career to stardom.

According to reports, Nelly is teaming with Vatterott College to open a new recording school in the rapper’s hometown.

“We’re not just building the most advance recording studio St. Louis has ever seen, but we’re helping students learn recording and production the old fashion way, hands on,” said Nelly in a promotional video.

The school is scheduled to open in October and the program has already been approved by Missouri’s Department of Education.

We’re not quite sure how the melee started, but comedian Katt Williams was involved in a fight with a promoter during a Young Jeezy concert in Arizona last night.

The incident was caught on tape, and although the cameras didn’t catch Williams throwing any punches himself, members of his entourage did bust heads, while Katt Williams jumped around, smack talked, and beat on his chest in the background with his shirt.