Wendy Williams TV Host & A Real ‘Home’ Girl
Wendy Williams has made a living sharing her boisterous, raw personality with her listeners and viewers. As the host of her own TV show, the nationally syndicated Wendy Williams Show, Williams talks about anything — the juiciest celebrity gossip, her new wigs or squeezing her size 11s into eye-catching high heels.

However, when she’s done recording her live show every weekday, the former radio personality enjoys the solitude of her home in New Jersey. “Being a family woman at this particular juncture, with my career, it is the one thing that absolutely holds me together and keeps me totally focused,” says the 45-year-old Williams of her husband, Kevin Hunter, and 9-year-old son Kevin Jr. “My business is in New York, but my life, the salt of where I’m from, is here in Jersey.” 

NBA Star Honors Single Moms
Dallas Mavericks All-Star Shawn Marion remembers how difficult it was growing up in a single-family home.  That’s why, in honor of Mother’s Day, he will be hosting a spa retreat for 20 single mothers in the Dallas area this year. “I know what my mother went through to raise me and my (three) sisters,” Marion said. ”It’s hard work and they need some help … so why not pamper them a little bit.” Marion, nicknamed The Matrix, has established himself as one of the NBA’s premier talents – and he gives all the credit to his mother, Elaine Marion. “Seeing my mom work two and three jobs grounded me a lot. It taught me you have to work hard to get what you want,” he said. “

Dream Of “Kissable” Lips
Like most entrepreneurial endeavors, it started with a dream. Celebrity Makeup Artist AJ Crimson told his client and friend, Keisha Whitaker, that he wanted to design a line of lipsticks. In response, Whitaker said she always wanted to create a cosmetic line.  The result two years later was a luxury cosmetics line aptly branded, Kissable Couture. “It’s the marriage of beauty and fashion,” says Crimson.  “It’s the focal point, not the accessory.” The company initially chose to focus only on lip-glosses and developed a set of seven shimmery, smooth shades. “We really did our research,” said Whitaker, a former fashion model.

Healing Mother With Song
The group Voices Of Glory has much to sing about. The young siblings from New York – Michael, Avery and Nadia — have a blossoming career as professional singers, a new CD of inspirational music and a new home in Branson, Mo., the vibrant entertainment hub where they will have their own stage show. But the trio's music offers more than entertainment. It's brought strength and healing to their family. In 2005, their mother, Felicia, was involved in a head-on collision with a drunken driver. She was in a coma for eight months. The children sang together for her. "Our dad told us to sing to our mom to try to lift her up in the spirit," says Nadia, 10.

Dorothy I. Height: 'A Driving Force Behind Social Justice' 
Civil rights heroine Dr. Dorothy Irene Height once revealed how she hopes America and the world will recall her legacy. “I had a commitment to social justice and I tried to achieve it,” she told JET last year. “My legacy is more that I have stayed by my purpose from my youth to today.” Height, chairwoman and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), recently died of natural causes at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., just 27 days after her 98th birthday.  She was the oldest active civil rights leader, with a career in public service that lasted about eight decades. 

Kirk Whalum Taking The Lead At Soulsville
When Kirk Whalum is not on tour performing tunes from his latest CD, The Gospel According to Jazz: Chapter III, he’ll be in his new office in Memphis. Whalum recently was named president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Stax Music Academy and the Soulsville Charter School. “It’s like coming home,” says Whalum, 51, a native of Memphis. “Stax is a place where I can offer the most as a follower of Christ. I hope to be able to impact the lives of kids as well through music. Music is a very powerful force for young people in so many different ways.”