The 9th Annual Ford Hoodie Awards went down over the weekend (Sat. Aug 13) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

Hosted by Steve Harvey, the 2011 Hoodie Awards featured appearances from R&B singer Letoya Luckett, actor/BET personality Terrence J, actor/comedian Kevin Hart, gospel singers Tye Tribbett, Marvin Sapp, & Kirk Franklin, actresses Tisha Campbell-Martin & Tichina Arnold, and many more. The show also featured performances by soul singers Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton and Kem.

As hinted by its name, the Hoodie Awards — conceived and developed by Steve Harvey — celebrates the best of the “hood,” ordinary people doing extraordinary things. So instead of celebrities taking home trophies, its every day people that get their time to shine in the spotlight.

Check out 20+ pics from the 2011 Hoodie Awards (as well as the full list of winners) below!

2011 FORD HOODIE AWARDS WINNERS LIST:

Best Fried Chicken – Carey’s Cuisine (Washington, DC)

Best Nail Salon – Salon Couture (Washington, DC)

Best High School Teacher – Glendora Franklin (Washington, DC)

Best Car Wash/Detail Showroom – Shine (St. Louis, MO)

Best Church Choir – Family Worship and Praise Center(Tallahassee, FL)

Best Soul Food Place – Croaker’s Spot, The Soul of Seafood (Richmond, VA)

Best Barbershop – Moon’s Barbershop (Washington, DC)

Best Beauty Salon – Salon Couture (Washington, DC)

Best High School – Cass Technical School (Detroit, MI)

Best Barbecue – This is It BBQ & Seafood (Atlanta, GA)

Best Church – First Baptist Church of Glenarden (Washington, DC)

Best Community Leader – Tony Lewis Jr. (Washington, DC)

Congratulations to all of the winners!

The stars came out for the Belvedere Vodka Launch Party for the new (RED) Special Edition Bottle Thursday night (Feb 10) in Hollywood. Belvedere Vodka recently partnered with (Product) Red to raise money to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Belvedere (RED) will give 50% of its profits to the Global Fund charity.

Some of the celebs who walked the red carpet outside the event, held at Hollywood nightclub Avalon, were Usher (who later performed), Jordin Sparks, Mya, Jay Sean, Laz Alonso, Letoya Luckett, Cheryl Burke, Adrienne Bailon, Paris Hilton and many more.

Check out 15+ pics below!!

Ciara, Keri Hilson, Keyshia Cole, Estelle and more were in attendance for the 5th Annual Black Girls Rock! Awards, held Saturday night (Oct 16) at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx borough of New York City. Keyshia Cole, Fantasia, Keri Hilson, Monica and Shontelle were featured performers for the evening.

Other celebs on hand for the event were Raven Symone, Jill Scott, Nia Long, Keke Palmer and more. The 5th Annual Black Girls Rock! Awards will air on BET next month (Nov 7).

Check out 15+ pics from the red carpet and the show below!!

Here are some more photos from this year’s BET Awards, which were held in Los Angeles this past Sunday (Jun 27) . Check out 20+ pictures below of celebs like Trina, Gucci Mane, Toccara Jones, Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys, Soulja Boy, Gabourey Sidibe, Ciara, T.I. and many more arriving on the red carpet before making their way into the Shrine Auditorium to check out the show…

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Co-stars Common and Queen Latifah posed for a few pictures together at the premiere of their new movie “Just Wright” Tuesday evening (May 4) at New York City’s Ziegfield Theater. The film hits theaters next Friday (May 14).

Other celebs at the movie premiere were Nick Cannon, Toccara Jones, Dwyane Wade, Laz Alonso and more. 10+ Pictures of the folks mentioned and a few others at the “Just Wright” film premiere below…

After spending the weekend of her actual birthday in Atlanta with Nicki Minaj, female rap star Trina partied it up (again) a week later in Miami with folks like Floyd Mayweather, Tocarra and Mya at Biscayne Mia. Rappers Flo Rida and Lil Wayne also came through to help Trina celebrate her 31st birthday for the third time. Continue reading for more pics courtesy of the homie Necole Bitchie!

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The biggest names in hip-hop entertainment hit up the 2009 BET Hip-Hop awards, held in Atlanta, GA this past weekend. Folks like Soulja Boy, Gucci Mane, Monica, Tiny & Toya, Pretty Ricky, Shawty Lo, Plies, Rick Ross and more all walked the red carpet before making their way into the building to enjoy the show, which will air on BET Tuesday, October 27th at 8/7c.

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Rapper Lil Kim took in the festivities during Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride Weekend and performed at Traxx (gay male club) and the GA Freight Depot (lesbian club). Clubgoers at both venues say Kim shut it down! Her friends Toccara Jones (BET/America’s Next Top Model) and MTV personality Anessa came through to support their girl.

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Singer Eric Benet and his girlfriend Manuela Testolini posed for pics as they arrived at the 19th annual NAACP Theatre Awards, held Monday night (Aug 31) at the DGA theater in West Hollywood. Other celebs at the event were Laila Ali, LisaRaye, Tatyana Ali, Tichina Arnold and more. Continue reading for all of the pics!

Here’s a shot of Kanye West and his girlfriend Amber Rose on the red carpet of the 2009 BET Awards, which went down Sunday (Jun 28) in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium. The show itself pretty much sucked. And that’s us being nice. But for the most part, everyone looked good on the red carpet. Continue reading for 80+ pics of celebrities like Beyonce, Ne-Yo, Tyrese, Soulja Boy, Ciara, Mario and tons more!

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Singers Monica and Maxwell stopped for a photo backstage during the BET Networks’ 2009 Upfront media presentation, where they announced 4 brand new shows in addition to a new entertainment and music channel called CENTRIC. The presentation, held at the Nokia Theatre in New York Thursday night, featured special appearances by Mary J. Blige, Mo’Nique, MC Lyte and more.

According to several announcements made at the event, Monica will be getting her own “docu-drama” (aka reality series) titled Monica: Still Standing and Mo’Nique has her own nightly talk/variety show. No word on when the new shows will be premiering yet, but continue reading for more photos from the media event.

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Rapper Juelz Santana and NBA player Tim Thomas celebrated their birthdays with a party at the Hiro Ballroom in New York on Wednesday (Feb. 25th). The guestlist included the likes of DJ Clue, Bobby Valentino, Toccara Jones, Fabolous and more. Continue reading for the rest of the pics.

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BET’s annual fashion show, Rip The Runway, was held Saturday (Feb. 21st) at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York and features appearances and performances from Toccara Jones, Bobby Valentino, The Dream, Joy Bryant (host), T.I. and more. The show airs on BET March 2nd at 9 PM EST. Continue reading for the rest of the pics!

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The Dream and Christina Milian looked pretty comfortable together Wednesday night at Karen Kwak‘s birthday party in NYC. Karen Kwak is the Senior Vice President of Def Jam Records and to peep more photos from her party, you should already know what to do…

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Rapper Kanye West and filmmaker Spike Jonze attended a screening for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in New York. Did you know Yeezy plans on taking a break from hip-hop so that he can move to London to pursue his love of fashion? He wants to intern for Louis Vuitton so that he can perfect Pastelle, his own clothing line. More candids when you continue reading.

Actress Taraji P. Henson also hit up the screening for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night in NYC.

Ciara hit up the movie screening too…

Actor Will Smith and Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith were photographed together at the premiere of Seven Pounds in Charlotte, NC. Shout out to the Panthers for holding it down this season. Superbowl 2009 here we come!

Rapper Jay-Z hit up the 2008 Rocawear Christmas Party at 1 OAK in New York last night.

BET personality Toccara Jones was photographed on the red carpet at Slip-N-Slide Record’s 15th Anniversary party in NYC last night. Besides Trina and Trick Daddy … who else is on Slip-N-Side? How do they make money when their two “biggest” artists don’t even sell albums?

Oh, and speaking of Trina, she hit up the Slip-N-Slide Records Anniversary party too…

Rapper Common signed some copies of his new album, Universal Mind Control, at Virgin Megastore in NYC. Peep GOT’s review of the album here!

Singer Brandy performed at Z100′s Jingle Ball pre-show today in New York. The real thing goes down tonight at Madison Square Garden, and will feature performances from Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, Kanye West, Rihanna, and more.

Singers (and married couple) Kenny Lattimore & Chante Moore, the 21st century version of Ashford & Simpson, performed at the Cotton Club in Tokyo last night.

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COMMON & T-PAIN GIVE EACH OTHER DAP ON THE RED CARPET AT THE 2008 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS

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AIRDATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 2008 ON BET @ 8 PM EST. The 2008 BET HIp-Hop Awards went down in Atlanta over the weekend, and here you can check out the photos from the red carpet. If you haven’t heard yet, Katt Williams was nixed from his hosting duties, and T-Pain filled in for the comedian at the last minute. BET made up some bogus story talking about how Katt bet T-Pain he couldn’t beat him in a break dance battle, and how Katt’s hosting duties were up for grabs to whoever won. It later came to light that Williams had been arrested on the morning of the show. Sound familiar, anyone? *Cough* T.I. *cough* got arrested *cough* last year *cough* and he was *cough* supposed to perform. I’m just saying…

Anyway, follow the break to check out photos of Ciara, T.I., Flo Rida, Rick Ross, and more all on the red carpet at the ’08 BET HIp-Hop awards.

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Toccara Jones is just one of the many American Celebrities featured in the history making all black issue of Vogue Italia. Toccara showed off her post Celebrity Fit Club bod in her four page spread in the magazine. More pics after the jump!

Jay-Z is also doing big things in the all black Vogue Italia issue. Jay represented for American Hip-Hop and did it justice! Jay kept his last album’s American Gangster theme for his four page spread.

Naomi Campbell is no starnger to the pages of Vogue and showed just how comfortable she is by posing nude for some shots in her spread.

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Photos have already started coming in of celebrities hitting the red carpet: Soulja Boy, Musiq Soulchild, Alicia Keys, Keri Hilson, and more! Follow the break for more photos.

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The 2008 BET Awards go down tonight live from Hollywood, and in true BET fashion, you know some parties and events have to precede the ceremony. Automobile giant Dodge and beer producer Coors Light sponsored a pool tournament at Hollywood Billiards this past Saturday in Los Angeles, and a slew of celebrities showed up: Angie Stone, Hill Harper, Paul Pierce (Boston Celtics MVP), my baby Lauren London, and Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade, just to name a few. Check out more photos after the cut!

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Y’all know it’s that time of the year again. Spring Bling 2008, BET’s annual spring break celebration, was filmed this year in Riviera Beach, Florida. You already know this shit is gonna be on repeat for the next couple of months. So until that happens, maybe these flicks will hold you over!

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Tyra Banks presents to you The 1st Annual Fiercee Awards. The award show honors the women of America’s Next Top Model. The show was taped for The Tyra Banks Show at Chelsea Studios in New York on Friday and airs on April 30th.

VH1′s Celebrity Fit Club: Bootcamp Edition recent premiered and a rather shocking clip of model Toccara Jones telling off the judges (Dr. Ian Smith in particular) on an upcoming episode. The clip is obviously unedited, and the version that will be shown on TV will probably be different. But luckily, you can peep the video in its raw form via youtube.

If you ask me, I agree with every single thing Toccara said, and no I do not believe that she was not out of line for cursing those judges out. While I haven’t been following this season, I have seen some episodes from the previous seasons and the judges are a little self-righteous and condescending when it comes to weigh-ins and what-not and it’s about time someone speaks their mind and tells them what’s up. They need to remember that this is Celebrity FIT club and not The Biggest Loser. The object of the show is to learn how to eat healthy and be fit … not to necessarily lose weight.

VH1 thinks their slick. I know they leaked this to get people to watch the show. Well it worked. I’m definitely going to start watching now!

Former America’s Next Top Model hopeful Toccara Jones has been making moves lately. Despite the fact that she obviously didn’t win, she appears on a lot of television specials for BET, has been featured in several print/modeling campaigns for Lane Bryant, participated in the second season of VH1′s Celebrity Fit Club and now she’s featured on the cover of the May 2008 issue of King Magazine. This particular issue hits stands March 12th!

Former plus size America’s Next Top Model nominee Toccara celebrated her 25th birthday last Tuesday night at PM nightclub in New York City. The guestlist included the likes of Jay-Z, Beyonce, Musiq Soulchild, Rich Boy, Remy Ma and some non-celebs we could care less about… And it looks like Jayonce had to leave early because we all know Miss Toccara had to pay Mike Kyser (VP of Def Jam), who hosted the party, $59.99 good money for them to stay their asses a good hour!! Check out more pics from the shindig after the cut!