Brad Barket/Comedy Central(NEW YORK) — Daily Show host Trevor Noah had a quick and clever response to the U.S. French ambassador who slammed the comedian on Wednesday for saying Africa deserved credit for France’s 2018 World Cup victory due to the large number of black players on the team. Gerard Araud wrote a scathing letter, posted on Facebook…
Photo: An Rong Xu/HISTORY(NEW YORK) — Actor Zachary Quinto became “dear” friends with the late Leonard Nimoy when the former succeeded the latter in the role of Mr. Spock in the big-screen reboot of Star Trek. “We were really close, really good friends in the last decade of his life,” Quinto told Good Morning America…
Marvel Studios(NEW YORK) — The success of Marvel’s Black Panther and its characters is officially spilling back over into its comic books. Marvel has announced that award-winning Nigerian-American writer, Nnedi Okorafor, will write a new standalone comic book series about Shuri, the genius younger sister of Wakanda’s King T’Challa/Black Panther. As you may recall, she…
Courtesy of Love Street FestivalA variety of music stars, including members of The Doors, The Monkees and The Mamas & the Papas, will be on hand for the sixth annual Love Street Festival, taking place this Sunday, July 22, in the Los Angeles community of Laurel Canyon. This year’s event will celebrate the 50th anniversary…
Courtesy of Love Street FestivalA variety of music stars, including members of The Doors, The Monkees and The Mamas & the Papas, will be on hand for the sixth annual Love Street Festival, taking place this Sunday, July 22, in the Los Angeles community of Laurel Canyon. This year’s event will celebrate the 50th anniversary…
ABC/Randy HolmesFormer Game of Thrones star Richard Madden is in talks to join the Elton John biopic Rocketman, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor will reportedly play Elton’s former manager, John Reid, who worked with the pop-rock legend for over three decades beginning in the ’70s. He’ll join Taron Egerton, who is playing Elton.…
Legacy RecordingsThe 2011 Pink Floyd compilation A Foot in the Door — The Best of Pink Floyd will be released on vinyl for the first time on September 28. The album, which originally was only available on CD, features a selection of tunes spanning from 1967 to 1994 chosen by the band’s members. The new…
iStock/Thinkstock(BRANSON, Mo.) — Authorities released the names on Friday night of those who died in the duck boat tragedy at Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri.Nine of the victims came from the same family — the Coleman family — which was from Indiana and on vacation at the time of the accident. Two family members…
Brian Blanco/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — After a grand jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in July 2013, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi created #BlackLivesMatter to start a broader conversation about racism in the U.S.Five years later, issues brought to the national fore by the grassroots organization have become…
peangdao/iStock/Thinkstock(WILMINGTON, Del.) — The pool employee who allegedly told children wearing hijabs that they could not go into a public pool has been reassigned as tensions over accusations in Delaware continue to make waves.The leaders of a Muslim children’s summer camp joined with an advocacy group to sent a cease and desist letter to the…
iStock/Thinkstock BY DR. EDITH BRACHO-SANCHEZ (NEW YORK) — Rates of HIV infection are on the rise in 50 countries with more than 1.8 million people becoming infected in 2017, a far cry from goals established for the near future, according to a new United Nations report.The report, entitled Miles to Go, published earlier this week…
(Courtesy Devon McCabe) Quick thinking by 3-year-old Molly McCabe helped save her father, who was suffering from an undiscovered blood clot inside his brain.(NEW YORK) — When three-year-old Molly McCabe saw her dad fall off the couch and onto the floor, she thought it was just another one of the games they played together.But minutes…
Credit: James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have traced a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella infections to raw turkey products.The CDC says 90 people in 26 different states have been infected with the strain of Salmonella they’ve been tracking. Forty of those people have been…
Creatas/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — High-protein diets are all the rage. Look on grocery shelves and you will probably find protein bars, protein powder or other foods with labels proclaiming that it is “high-protein.”But what exactly does protein do for your body, and how much of it do you really need?Joey Thurman, a Chicago-based celebrity trainer and…
