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On this day in Black history, February 14: — In 1867, Augusta Institute was founded in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia. The private historically Black men’s liberal arts school would later become Morehouse College to honor Henry Lyman Morehouse. — In 1965, Malcolm X delivered his “Speech at Ford Auditorium” in Detroit, following the bombing of his […]
Jon Stewart returned to his Daily Show desk after a nine-year break on Monday night. The comedian will host the series on Mondays during the 2024 election cycle. He originally departed the series in 2015, with Trevor Noah taking over hosting duties. Noah left the show in 2022, and the series has continued with several rotating potential hosts since then. […]
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images It’s estimated that more people watched Taylor Swift’s boyfriend win the Super Bowl than watched man land on the moon. Super Bowl 58 is now the most-watched telecast in history, surpassing 123.4 million viewers across all platforms. Not only did it set the record for the most-watched Super Bowl of all time, but […]
Jay Maidment/Marvel Deadpool & Wolverine has claimed the record for the most-watched movie trailer of all time. The first trailer for the third film in the Deadpool franchise has broken global records, garnering 365 million views in just 24 hours. It made its initial debut during Super Bowl 58, which is estimated to be the most-watched telecast in history. This […]
Cooper Neill/Getty Images Three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce is adding film producer to his resume. Kelce is using President Joe Biden’s renewable energy tax credits to finance My Dead Friend Zoe, Variety reports. The indie film is headed to the SXSW festival and stars Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Sonequa Martin-Green. This marks Kelce’s first foray into the film industry. He’ll serve as […]
ABC/Michael Le Brecht II The backstory behind Jon Batiste‘s Oscar-nominated song “It Never Went Away” from Netflix’s American Symphony is a sweet one. It was written as a lullaby for his wife, Suleika Jaouad [Su-lake-uh Ja-wad], who was battling leukemia, he told Billboard. “She is a best-selling author and couldn’t put pen to paper because the medication blurred her vision badly,” […]
L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images When Usher got off the stage after performing for 15 minutes straight during the Super Bowl 58 halftime show, his message was simple: God is great. “God is real, man,” he told Access Hollywood. “The idea that we pray and wonder sometime why things happen the way they do. God’s […]
ABC/Jeff Lipsky Jimmy Kimmel reunited several Barbie cast members in a promo for the 96th annual Academy Awards. In the clip that debuted during Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night, Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling and Helen Mirren got together to promote the upcoming Oscars ceremony. McKinnon reprised her role as Weird Barbie, taking Kimmel on a journey through the year’s nominees for Best Picture on their way […]
ABC Burna Boy has helped out with the latest G-Star Raw campaign by attaching his hit song “On Form” to the brand’s video. The minute-long visual that was released Monday opens up with Burna surrounded by a group of dancers as they all perform his famed stomp foot dance. Throughout the video, different shots are captured of people […]
Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images Lil Jon says performing at the Super Bowl 58 halftime show, where he joined headliner Usher along with Ludacris for their 2004 hit “Yeah!,” took a lot of work. “It was quite a process to do,” Jon tells XXL of putting the show together. “It was a lot of hard work. It was a lot of figuring out the proper […]
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