Robbie Ryan/MUBI Barry Keoghan’s latest film is director Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age drama, Bird. It follows Bailey, a young girl who lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad, Bug, played by Keoghan. This marks the actor’s first time playing a father, but it’s something he knows well — as dad to his 2-year-old son, Brando. […]
Disney The new Disney+ short film An Almost Christmas Story is inspired by the true story of an owl who was found inside the Rockefeller Christmas tree in New York City. In this version, the owl can talk, and his adventure is narrated by John C. Reilly. In taking on the role, Reilly, who also performs […]
Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images Jay-Z‘s Shawn Carter Foundation is lending its efforts to students at historically Black colleges and universities. It partnered with Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Toyota North America for an educational financial initiative, Champions for Financial Legacy, which will provide HBCU students with the tools and resources to manage their […]
Bettmann Archive/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The family of Malcolm X, the Black resistance leader who was assassinated in 1965, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, they announced Friday. Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, who represented her family at a New York City press conference, and her lawyers claim that […]
Kash Doll and Mary J. Blige aren’t the only ones who dropped music on Friday. Here’s some of the latest to hit the culture: In addition to gifting fans with love, Jennifer Hudson has blessed them with a new song. The Gift of Love bonus track “Let There Be Joy” is out now via Interscope Records. […]
Halftime Report UT-Rio Grande Valley needs a win to get to even, but right now it’s anybody’s game. They have jumped out to a quick 43-39 lead against Charleston Southern. UT-Rio Grande Valley has yet to string together two consecutive wins, but this may be their chance. For now, things are looking good for them. […]
Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka on Thursday to protest a proposed law that critics say would erode the land and cultural rights of Indigenous New Zealanders. When asked how her party’s representatives would vote during the session, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of […]
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President-elect JD Vance has been working the phones reaching out to senators trying to gauge support for former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz — who Trump named for the attorney general role, according to three sources with knowledge of the calls. Gaetz, who resigned from the House shortly after President-elect […]
ABC News (AUSTIN, Texas) — The execution of Robert Roberson — whose “shaken baby syndrome” murder conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter has come under scrutiny — can resume, according to a Texas Supreme Court decision Friday. Roberson was set to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis […]
Bill Records/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images Much like Texas, it seems like reboots are also forever. According to Variety, Universal Television is working on bringing back the high school football drama Friday Night Lights with a new storyline and characters. The original Friday Night Lights show ran from 2006 to 2011 and centered around the […]
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