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Social media star Alysha Burney, who amassed more than 5 million followers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, died while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with her family. She was 24.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson is one of Americas best known celebrity scientists, an astrophysicist from New York whos been hailed as the pop culture heir to Carl Sagan. He grew up in the Bronx, with an interest in astronomy. Even though Sagan tried to talk him into going to Cornell, DeGrasse Tyson went to Harvard for his first degree (1980), followed by graduate degree from the University of Texas (1983) and a doctorate from Columbia University (1991). No stranger to public performances -- he was a wrestler and competitive dancer in college -- Tyson first made his mark outside the realm of research with a column he started in 1995 for Natural History magazine. Since then hes been all over the place: presidential commissions, lecture tours, TV appearances, radio shows and all the hottest spots of the internet. As a scientist, hes been an instructor at Princeton and the University of Maryland, as well as the director of New Yorks Hayden Planetarium. Charismatic and opinionated, Tyson has fans who love his unabashed enthusiasm for science, and detractors who deride his unabashed delight in self promotion. His television shows include PBSs Origins (2004) and 400 Years of the Telescope (2009), The History Channels The Universe (2007) and Fox TVs Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
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The Astron Energy company has assured the surrounding communities of its Milnerton site in Cape Town that there is \"no danger\" to the area.
After airing the ninth episode of its History 101 documentary series, Netflix removed it after angry protests from Haitian Americans on Saturday.
A lack of salary transparency and little to no data around earnings of smaller influencer accounts can lead to pay discrimination, especially among Black influencers.
As more people are finding fame, notoriety and lucrative careers through “content” creation on platforms like Instagram and YouTube, the idea of what fame is — and who gets to be famous — has drastically shifted.
Particularly stars who ― unlike Gen Z celebs, including Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X or Timothée Chalamet, who grew up with social media and understand it more intuitively ― are pivoting to influencer-ship after creating more traditional, more remote personas.
Unlike so many of the celebs who are flailing as they try to produce relatable content during this pandemic, he has mastered his online persona as effectively as he mastered his “Will Smith: Movie Star” persona during the height of his acting career in the 1990s and 2000s.
In 2016, Forbes put Smith number two on its list of most-overpaid actors ― recent movies like “Concussion” and “Focus” had cost millions of dollars but failed to make decent returns, especially for a big star.
But for every Will Smith or Cardi B. (a little messy but endlessly entertaining on social media, where she initially became popular), there’s an Ellen DeGeneres complaining about how quarantine is like prison from her LA mansion.
The Canadian rapper appeared on Weezy’s ‘Young Money Radio.’
A criminal charge has been laid against Simone Abigail Kriel for allegedly posting antisemitic and inflammatory messages on her Instagram page on 16 May.
According to the SA Jewish Report, Kriel, 28, lives in Pretoria and is relatively well-known in fitness circles.
David Saks, associate director of the SAJBD, told News24 that Kriel was given a deadline to remove the comments and apologise for it, which she refused to do.
Saks said the comments came \"out of the blue\" and that Kriel had previously dated a Jewish man, and had at one point considered converting to Judaism.
Kriel reportedly said the videos infuriated her and that she now believed \"the Holocaust was a set-up, executed by Hitler's men, at the cost of millions of Jewish lives\".
Michelle Obama will let her own voice be heard on a new podcast. The former first lady will host “The Michelle Obama Podcast” on the streaming service, the Obama’s Higher Ground and Spotify announced Thursday. The podcast will exclusively debut on Spotify on July 29. “My hope is that this series can be a place […]
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Bonnie Pointer, a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, passed away on Monday, June 8 at age 69 in Los Angeles, California.
“It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the fans of the Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died this morning,” said Anita.
But earlier this year, she and Anita released the song “Feels Like June” to honor their sister June Pointer, who passed away from cancer in 2006.
Bonnie Pointer is survived by sisters Ruth and Anita and brothers Aaron and Fritz.
“The Pointer Sisters never would have happened had it not been for Bonnie,” said Anita in her statement.
Through hard work, determination and balance, Kendra Grissom and Jasmine McClam have excelled and achieved high honors during their academic careers.
Now, Grissom, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and McClam, a native of Missouri City, Texas, can add valedictorian and salutatorian to their long list of academic achievements.
Even though Grissom was never one of her students, Dr. Hite’s mentorship helped shape her intellectual life at Spelman.
McClam credits professors like Jeanne T. Meadows, Ph.D., associate professor of international studies and director of the International Affairs Center, with helping her throughout her Spelman career.
Dr. Meadows expects that through her work, McClam will bring to life Spelman’s mantra, “A Choice to Change the World.”
Bonnie Pointer, a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, passed away on Monday, June 8 at age 69 in Los Angeles, California. She reportedly died from
Mental health issues, the delay of 'Donda' and late filing all cast shadows over the rapper’s US presidential campaign.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore on The Passing of Larry Aubry
It is with great sadness that I heard the news of the passing of Mr. Larry Aubry.
Mr. Aubry and I have met on several occasions throughout my law enforcement career.
Since becoming LAPD’s Chief-nearly two years ago-Larry attended several community meetings and he would challenge many decisions and policies of the LAPD.
He wanted to ensure the decisions of law enforcement was fair to everyone-particularly to those within the African American communities.
Wesley Snipes is an American actor, producer, martial artist and entrepreneur. He was born on July 31, 1962 in Orlando, Florida to Wesley and Maryann Snipes, and grew up in the Bronx, New York. He was inclined towards becoming a dancer at first but later changed his mind when he took acting classes and began to enjoy them. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing but moved back to Florida and graduated from Jones High School in Orlando. He then attended the State University of New York where he graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 1985. He also attended Southwest College in Los Angeles, California.
After working in local theatre productions, Snipes was discovered at the age of 23 by an agent who got him a role in the 1986 film “Wildcats” starring Goldie Hawn. Snipes is a trained fighter and has a 5th degree black belt, along with Brazilian martial arts training. He often took on “tough guy” action roles in movies and performed his own stunts. One such role was that of a drug dealer named Nino Brown in the 1991 crime thriller “New Jack City” for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
Snipes starred in Michael Jackson’s music video for the song “Bad” in which the director Spike Lee spotted him and cast him for the part of Willie Mays Hayes in the film “Major League”. He also starred in the film “Mo’ Better Blues” opposite Denzel Washington in 1990 and then scored the lead in the romantic drama film “Jungle Fever”. Some of his other prominent roles include the films “King of New York” starring opposite Christopher Walken in 1990, “Passenger 57” in 1992 and “Demolition Man” with Sylvester Stallone in 1993. In 1997, he played the role of Max Carlyle in the film “One Night Stand” for which he won the Best Actor Volpi Cup, the principal award given at the Venice Film Festival.
Snipes’ biggest commercial success to date has been the Blade franchise, in which he played the lead role of a human-vampire hybrid based on a Marvel Comics
The production company founded by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tarik “Black Thought” Trotter of the hip-hop collective The Roots signed a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio and Universal Television.
Under the three-year deal, Thompson and Trotter’s production company, Two One Five Entertainment, will develop scripted, unscripted, and special programming across NBC’s television and digital content platforms.
“This deal is very important to us as we’ve been content producers and storytellers for our entire career,” said Thompson in a statement sent to BLACK ENTERPRISE.
“Many of our initial projects have been music-centric content, and one of our goals is to become the premiere hub for music storytelling – a safe space for these stories to be shared across a variety of platforms,” added Trotter.
“The Roots are innovators and cultural tastemakers whose breadth of musical knowledge is unparalleled,” said Meredith Ahr, President, of NBC Alternative and Reality Group.
British social media influencer and YouTube star, Nicole Thea, has died. The 24-year-old was expecting her first child and was... View Article
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JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian authorities said Tuesday they 'no longer hope to find survivors' of a landslide that swept away homes in a residential area almost a week ago, killing seven people. Three people are still missing from the Dec. 30 disaster that destroyed at least nine buildings with more than 30 apartments in the village of Ask, located 25 kilometers (16 miles) northeast of Oslo. The landslide was among the worst in modern Norwegian history. 'It is with great sadness that I must say that we no longer have any hope of finding […]
The post Norway: 'No longer hope' of finding landslide survivors appeared first on Black News Channel.
Virtual adventures in the South Rupununi take centre stage in Inside REEL 2, which environmental filmmaker Alex Arjoon is releasing today.
The article South Rupununi adventures await as new Arjoon documentary series premieres appeared first on Stabroek News.
The news was announced during the 2020 NFL Draft.
Last week it was announced Hip-Hop had lost one of the most unique talents to ever grab a microphone. Two of his peers have saluted in the most fitting way.
NBA star, Lebron James, and his long-time business partner, Maverick Carter, have secured $100 million in funding to grow their new media company. The company, SpringHill Entertainments objective is to empower black and marginalized audiences. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company was formed on March 11, the same day the NBA suspended its season after...
The post Im incredibly excited LeBron James secures $100m to empower black voice appeared first on Face2Face Africa.
A series of cryptic Instagram posts by LaKeith Stanfield prompted an outpouring of concern for the actor's well-being.
August Alsina is catching heat from Black Twitter after he read KeKe Palmer for filth over a simple misunderstanding. It... View Article
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