Lencia Kebede appears as Elphaba in the Broadway musical “Wicked” in New York on March 1, 2025. (Joan Marcus via AP) Kebede, a first-generation Ethiopian American from Los Angeles, spent five years touring with “Hamilton,” most recently in the role of Angelica Schuyler. Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first…
Source: YouTube / Youtube After a video of LeBron James confronting Stephen A. Smith courtside went viral, Smith used his ESPN platform to discuss their encounter, and the normally argumentative television personality handled himself well. The Los Angeles Lakers hosted the New York Knicks for an overtime thriller on Thursday night, and a clip surfaced of…
FILE – Tetyana Bobina and her daughter Aleksandra receive humanitarian aid provided by UN World Food Program and ADRA charity organisation for the residents of the region and internally displaced persons at the distribution center in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) U.N. agencies have been scrambling to revise their operations,…
Shoe maven and ’90s pop star Jessica Simpson has unleashed her fury in her new single “Leave,” offering fans a raw description of enduring a cheating partner even as her marriage to Eric Johnson is failing in real life. The song, released on Friday, March 7, is part of her upcoming “Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1”…
Source: Wiggins Family / Instagram D’Wayne Wiggins, a talented musician and member of the legendary Oakland-based band Tony! Toni! Toné!, has passed away. He was only 64. Wiggins’ family announced his untimely passing on March 7, 2024, revealing he had been battling bladder cancer for the past year. View this post on Instagram A post…
SELMA, ALABAMA – MARCH 06: People march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with placards bearing the image of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, for whom the most recent voting rights bill is named, during commemorations for the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” on March 06, 2022 in Selma, Alabama. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)…
A New York City police detective is stirring controversy online over her appearance in a rap music video where she’s seen twerking and pole dancing. According to the New York Post, the video for the song “Doin’ That” by rapper S-Quire features NYPD special victims detective Melissa Mercado. Melissa Mercado, an NYPD detective, went viral…
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 13: Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street is repainted following the removal of the lettering for a construction project on May 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The words “Black Lives Matter” was painted on the two block section of 16th Street last year in the wake of the George Floyd…
“Shark Tank” investors and business owners who appear on the show have one thing in common: They each want to make a deal. Real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran and venture capitalist Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary have even been known to take one for the team to ensure a product measures up to the promise its…
Nearly 160 years after slavery was abolished in the United States, House Democrats Jasmine Crockett and Hank Johnson suggested President Donald Trump could bring back slavery with his education and anti-immigration policies. The comments came during the inaugural State of the People address, a 24-hour livestream that brought together Black civil rights activists, scholars, politicians,…
