R&B singer Bobby Brown celebrated his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown on social media on Monday (July 27), marking the fifth anniversary of her passing in 2015. Brown’s daughter with the late superstar Whitney Houston died after months in a coma after being found unconscious in a bathtub in her home …
Read More »China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
Northwest of Beijing’s Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Near its center is the Institute of Automation, a sleek silvery-blue building surrounded by camera-studded poles. The institute is a basic research facility. Its computer …
Read More »Leslie Jones Announces 2020 Emmy Nominations
On Tuesday (July 26), the nominations for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards were virtually announced by Leslie Jones, Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany. Netflix’s Ozark and HBO’s Succession led drama categories with 18 nominations a piece. In comedy, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel dominated the category with 20 …
Read More »A George Floyd Hologram Will Be Displayed In Several States
The legacy of George Floyd will continue to live on as he will soon be honored with a hologram. Change.org has partnered with the George Floyd Foundation to create the image of the 46-year-old which will be displayed in glowing yellow light along with his name. The image was unveiled …
Read More »Loni Love On Tamera Mowry
Tamera Mowry recently announced that she’ll be ending her run as co-host of The Real, where she’s held a chair since the show’s start in 2013. Now, her co-host and good friend Loni Love, who’s also been on the talk show since day one, reveals how she feels about Mowry’s …
Read More »Florida's Youngest to Die From COVID-19 Is a Little Black Girl
Kimora “Kimme” Lynum and her mother. Photo: Mikasha Young-Holmes (GoFundMe Health officials in Florida say that a 9-year-old girl is the youngest person in the state to die from COVID-19. Kimora “Kimmie” Lynum from Gainesville died from coronavirus complications on July 17. According to a GoFundMe created by her family …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: ‘The U.S. Is Simply Not Ready for Big Films to Return’
Netflix accrued a record-setting number of nods, unseating last year’s top dog, HBO. Below are three of the most-nominated shows—and what our staff writer Sophie Gilbert, chronicler of television highs and lows, thought of them. WATCHMEN (26 nominations) Damon Lindelof’s new series, a long-anticipated “remix” of the cult 1980s …
Read More »Stacey Abrams Voting Rights Documentary Gets Release Date
A sweeping documentary about Stacey Abrams and her fight for voting rights is getting ready to drop on Amazon. All In: The Fight for Democracy will open in select theaters on September 9 ahead of its global launch on Prime Video on September 18, according to Deadline. RELATED: Stacey Abrams On …
Read More »'Umbrella Man' Seen Causing Property Damage During Early Minneapolis Protests Believed to be White Supremacist
Screenshot: YouTube In May, as protests over the death of George Floyd initially got underway in Minneapolis, a video went viral showing a man dressed in all black and carrying an umbrella, smashing windows at a AutoZone with a sledgehammer. After months of investigation, Minneapolis police now believe the man …
Read More »Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular?
“Every day’s a good day when you paint.” —Bob Ross (1942–1995) Staring at the empty canvas on the easel in front of me, I couldn’t understand how this—nothing—might somehow transform into even a rough approximation of the Bob Ross painting we were using as a model. That painting was classic …
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