According the RollingStone.com, the band had just finished their first song when the unnamed man called McCoy a “fucking ignorant nigger.”

“Travis invited him onstage with the intent of calling him out in front of the crowd, with absolutely no intention of a physical altercation,” said the band’s manager Bob McLynn. “When he tried to help him onstage, the guy hit Travis in the knee area, forcing Travis to defend himself. At this point, a scuffle broke out.”

McCoy’s defense of himself reportedly included breaking his microphone over the man’s head. The entertainer immediately apologized to the crowd, saying, “I’m sorry. But when someone calls you something that ignorant and that offensive, you have to bash their head in with a microphone.” The crowd cheered as the unknown man was escorted away by security.

The frontman was arrested by police onstage at the end of the set, reports Rolling Stone. He was release on $500 bail then following morning.

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“I’m shaking,” Banks, the talk show’s host and executive producer, said as she took the stage to collect her prize.

“I have such a strong history with daytime television. My mama… Where’s my mama? My mama’s crying like a baby! Hi Mama,” Banks said, explaining how she spent many days when she was growing up, watching soap operas and talk shows with her grandmother while her mother worked two jobs.

“To be here on this stage, Grandma Fanny, this is amazing!” Banks said. - more

Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.- more

Tyra Banks in one of photographs taken for Italian Vogue’s July issue that features all black models.

Alarmed by the lack of non-white models on the catwalk, Vogue Italia will feature black models almost exclusively in the July issue of what’s often called the world’s most influential fashion magazine.

“This idea came about as a reaction to the models of today,'’ commented Franca Sozzani, Vogue Italia’s editor. “I go to a fashion show and every girl is blond and blue-eyed and they all walk the same and look the same. There are so many beautiful black women not being used.”

Sozzani said the time also seemed right for an all-black issue now that Barack Obama will soon become the first black nominee for president of the United States.

The July issue, which comes out next week, will feature a wide range of women of all ages and will include actors, models, and singers such as Naomi Campbell, Tina Turner, Jody Watley, and Iman.