Moore says CityLine producers wanted her to reveal the girl next door, sharing tips for better living while talking to experts. The journalist from Richmond Hill wondered how to pull that off in front of an audience, surrounded by strangers. She says good advice came from an executive producer: “Simply have a conversation.”

“The Cosby Show was the original show I remember us watching as a family. You saw strong black role models on television — being funny!

Nicole Holness is no stranger to music or the spotlight. As a member of one of Canada’s most successful R&B groups, X-Quisite, Holness earned a 2003 Juno Award nomination for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year.

If I wasn’t the first African-Canadian in the Toronto market, I was the second. I was the black man with the exotic name and accent, which was rare at the time. Most people didn’t go into that field, because we didn’t think we could get in.

So I was rolling up TV and film credits, but at the time most actors were making their living through commercials and advertising companies didn’t want to use visible minorities. It’s against the law now, but casting agents back then had no problem saying that they weren’t hiring minorities.

Brandy comes in second on the leaderboard, but was having problems finding her inner sex kitten. Check out her performance and let us know what you think.

Canadian television broadcaster and community advocate Gwyneth Matthew Chapman has partnered with Dr. Carl Mack, executive director of the National Society of Black Engineers; the government of St. Lucia, Goldman Sachs, and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to establish a scholarship program that will allow 29 students from St. Lucia to attend post-secondary studies in the United States this year. Sway spoke to Chapman while she was in St. Lucia.

On Monday the Queen of Daytime surprised her studio audience of “ultimate” fans with plane tickets to Sydney, Australia. “This is really my last chance to do something really big,” Winfrey told the anxious crowd. “And if you want to do something big, you want to take along your ultimate viewers.”

Former pageant queen Candice Bromfield gives us her take on the Miss Universe 2010 pageant.

America’s Next Top Model creator and executive producer Tyra Banks is apologizing for an ad in which she appears to praise a contestant for having the “smallest waist in the world.”