Queen Latifah Pays Tribute to Her Late Mother: 'I Watched Her Give Back All My Life'

Queen Latifah made her first public appearance since sharing the news in March that her mother Rita Owens died from complications of a heart condition at the Essence Fest in New Orleans on Friday, and used the opportunity to pay tribute to her mother. During the My Black Is Beautiful dinner sponsored by P&G at the ACE hotel, Latifah told the crowd about her mother who was an Irvington, NJ high school teacher. "While teaching and raising my brother and I, she was being a mom to all of these other...