'I dare not be quiet': What climate activist Ndelika Mandela learned from her granddad

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1697 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Nelson Mandela. His activism against apartheid sent him to prison for 27 years. After that system of racial segregation came to an end and Mandela was released, he went on to become president of South Africa. Today, he is survived by 17 grandchildren. The eldest is 58-year-old Ndileka Mandela, a former ICU nurse leads the Thembekile Mandela Foundation, which focuses on health, education and youth development in South Africa's rural villages. [Read More]

A Ted Prequel Series Is Happening

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  181 words  |  Martina Birk

Thunder buddies for life. On Thursday, June 10, Peacock revealed that a Ted prequel series is heading to the NBCUniversal streaming service. Of course, the new series will be based on the 2012 comedy, which followed the hijinks of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) and his best friend Ted (Seth MacFarlane), a teddy bear brought to life by a wish. However, the teddy bear is no sweet children's toy as, after growing up with John, Ted is one swear-loving character. [Read More]

Does Dustin Diamond Have the Net Worth To Support Him During His New Health Crisis?

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  549 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Reports that actor Dustin Diamond from Saved by the Bell is hospitalized and possibly facing a cancer diagnosis provides a multi-dimensional fight for his health, but also his finances. “It’s serious, but we don’t know how serious yet,” his representatives told EW. “He’s at an undisclosed hospital in Florida and will probably go home after treatments. We just want him to get well soon.” Unnamed sources told TMZ Diamond’s medical team are concerned he has cancer and doctors are performing a biopsy. [Read More]

One of TikTok's earliest stars and an original Sway House member was caught punching a security guar

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  458 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Redeem now TikToker Bryce Hall has been cited by police for fighting with security at a Las Vegas nightclub, TMZ reports. The incident, which was captured on tape, occurred after he was reportedly kicked out of a Calvin Harris performance. This isn't Hall's first brush with law enforcement for fighting. Bryce Hall, the troublemaking TikToker who rose to fame as part of the now-disbanded Sway House collective, was cited by Las Vegas police on Friday for battery and trespassing, TMZ reported. [Read More]

Rachel Smith - Exclusive Interviews, Pictures & More

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  30 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

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Remembering Country Music Hitmaker Norro Wilson

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  461 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Country music lost one of its most well-known collaborators yesterday. Norris Wilson — whom most just called "Norro" — was a singer, songwriter and producer capable of taking on pretty much any job in the Nashville music scene that needed doing. He died Thursday at age 79. Sometimes, when you're writing a song, all you really need is a solid lick, or guitar phrase. That's what happened in the first hit song that Wilson co-wrote — " [Read More]

Theater Review: Its Daniel Radcliffe vs. the Irish Stereotype, in The Cripple of Inishmaan

 Posted on February 29, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  962 words  |  Martina Birk

Pat Shortt and Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Who’s the worst Irish on Inishmaan? The competition is fierce. There’s the “newsman” Johnnypateenmike, who extorts food for his paltry gossip while trying to kill off his ancient and hideous mammy with drink. There’s young Helen, as nubile as she is vicious, who enjoys kicking grown men in the bollocks for no reason and pegging eggs at clergymen. (“If God went touching me arse in choir practice,” she blithely explains, “I’d peg eggs at that fecker too. [Read More]

Yo Gotti Back Onstage Less Than A Week After Brother Big Jook's Death

 Posted on February 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  296 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Play video content RETURNING TO THE STAGE Yo Gotti's already back onstage ... surprising fans at 42 Dugg's concert -- less than a week after his brother Big Jook was killed in Memphis. The rapper pulled up at Little Caesars Arena on Friday night and dapped up 42 ... before performing his hit song "F-U" for the packed crowd. Getty Check out the vid ... Gotti's looking iced out with the chains and an angelic, all-white 'fit -- going about his business despite the very public tragedy he's coping with. [Read More]

Adwoa Aboah on acting, recovery and her racial awakening: I am a Black woman. I have a lot to say

 Posted on February 28, 2024  |  15 minutes  |  3149 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

ModelsInterviewAdwoa Aboah on acting, recovery and her racial awakening: ‘I am a Black woman. I have a lot to say’Hannah J DaviesShe is one of the world’s most in-demand models, but it wasn’t always this way. As she gets her big acting break in Top Boy, she explains how she got through a tumultuous decade A few weeks ago, Adwoa Aboah experienced what she describes as “a sombre moment”. “I was at my mum and dad’s, clearing out my childhood room,” she says, her voice a little shaky. [Read More]

Australia Day plane crash: Endah Cakrawati last moments

 Posted on February 28, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  436 words  |  Aldo Pusey

A woman who died in a plane crash on Australia Day shared her haunting last moments on social media. Endah Cakrawati, 30, was killed alongside her partner Peter Lynch, 52, when the plane he was piloting plummeted into Perth's Swan River on Thursday. Ms Cakrawati posted a video on Instagram from inside the cockpit just moments before the tragedy. 'Wish me luck,' she could be heard saying.  Endah Cakrawati, 30, posted a video on Instagram from inside the cockpit just moments before she was killed alongside her partner Peter Lynch, 52, when the plane he was piloting plummeted into Perth's Swan River on Thursday [Read More]