Janelle Monae is featured on the November 29 issue of The Big Issue in the North, a U.K. weekly with an interesting story. Her official site has scans of the interview.

Janelle Monae joins Diddy as a participant in Flip Video's "Do You Flip?" campaign. Check out her clip below, titled "Walking the Tightrope."

Janelle Monae will be featured in an upcoming public service announcement on behalf of the Big Ten Women's basketball conference. It will premiere on Sunday on the Big Ten Network and will air on that network, CBS Sports and ESPN2 during the 2010-2011 basketball season.

"I appreciate basketball," Monae said in a press release. "I love the teamwork and their rhythm and coordination. When I was making Tightrope, I wanted it to be a very empowering song, and I've always looked at it as an empowering song for those in the sports and music because there are so many highs and lows to what it is that we do and we have to keep our balance in it all."

Check out the spot below.

Janelle Monae just posted an update to Twitter, thanking her followers for buying her life back. At the time the tweet was posted, the effort had raised $180,650.

Initially, the plan had been for a collection of celebrities to stay off of Twitter until $1,000,000 was raised. Regardless of what they reach, charity is charity and it's good that they were able to raise what they were.

Some celebrities, such as Alicia Keys, who led the effort, remain offline.

Vibe has included Janelle Monae's "The ArchAndroid" in their list of the 10 best albums of 2010. She is listed with the likes of Drake, Eminem, Kanye West, Rick Ross, The Roots and more.

The nominees for the 53rd edition of the GRAMMY Awards have just been announced and Janelle Monae has collected two nominations.

In the category of Best Urban/Alternative Performance, Monae is nominated along with Big Boi for "Tightrope." Then, in the Best Contemporary R&B Album, Monae's "The ArchAndroid" received a nod.

Career wise, she now has collected three GRAMMY nomination, following "Many Moons" in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the 51st GRAMMY Awards.

Congrats to Ms. Monae.

According to Janelle Monae's website, Monae will appear on National Public Radio's "World Cafe" on December 22. You can find your local station on their website or listen to the WXPN Philadelphia livestream from 2 PM ET to 4 PM ET.

As I reported on Sunday Janelle Monae is participating in the "Digital Life Sacrifice" from Keep a Child Alive, a charity co-founded by Alicia Keys.

Essentially, Monae, Keys, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Swizz Beatz and others will be logging off of Twitter and Facebook until, hopefully, $1 million donations are reached. The donations will benefit families dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Below, check out her last tweet and testament.


For more information, check out Monae's page on the Digital Death website. As I write, donations are at $1,010.

AceShowBiz reports that Janelle Monae was honored with the Centric Award at the 2010 Soul Train Awards. She had also been nominated in the "Best Dance Performance" category for "Tightrope."

The Associated Press reports that Janelle Monae will be participating in "Digital Life Sacrifice," a new campaign from Keep a Child Alive, a charity co-founded by Alicia Keys.

Participants in the campaign will log off of Twitter on Wednesday and will return when $1 million in donations is reached. They have also recorded a "last tweet and testament" video and will be featured in ads where they are in coffins, signifying their "digital death."

Donations will benefit families dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. The charity aims to paint a contrast between the attention given to the death of one celebrity and the attention given to a much larger number of deaths at the hands of the disease.

In addition to Monae, Keys, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams and Swizz Beatz will also be participating.