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11/23/2024

16-year-old Kaleena Smith is making history as the first high school women’s basketball player to sign an NIL deal with Adidas! The rising star from Ontario Christian High School has already earned a spot as the highest-rated recruit in the class of 2027 and is receiving offers from top universities. With this groundbreaking deal, she becomes a key player in the future of women’s sports under Candace Parker's leadership at Adidas.

11/23/2024

10/25/2024

Black Teen Who Grew Up as an Orphan Earns Electrical Engineering Degree With Honors
📷: Covenant University

10/25/2024

Jackson's company Sony/ATV purchased the publishing company Famous Music for $370 million. This purchase meant that Jackson actually owned all of Eminem's back catalogue - until his death in 2009.

10/21/2024

Ellen and William Craft made a daring escape to freedom in 1848 by disguising Ellen as a young white man traveling with an enslaved servant. Their journey, filled with close encounters, ended safely in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. The Crafts later became abolitionist leaders and opened a school for freed Black students in Georgia.

10/18/2024

🌹REMEMBERING MADGE SINCLAIR
THE ORIGINAL QUEEN OF 'COMING TO AMERICA'
Madge Dorita Sinclair (née Walters; April 28, 1938 – December 20, 1995) was a Jamaican-born American actress best known for her roles in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Convoy (1978), Coming to America (1988), Trapper John, M.D. (1980–1986), and the ABC TV miniseries Roots (1977).
Born Madge Dorita Walters in Kingston, Jamaica, to Jamaican parents Herbert and Jemima Walters, Sinclair studied at Shortwood College for Women. After completing her studies, she worked as a teacher in Jamaica until 1966, when she left for New York to pursue her career in acting. Sinclair began acting with the New York Shakespearean Festival and at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre.
Sinclair also voiced the character of Sarabi, Mufasa's wife and Simba's mother, in the Disney animated feature film The Lion King (1994). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, Sinclair won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series for her role as Empress Josephine in Gabriel's Fire in 1991.
Sinclair was married to Royston Sinclair, a Jamaican police officer, from 1956 until 1969 and had two sons with him, Garry and Wayne Sinclair. In 1982, Sinclair married actor Dean Compton, to whom she was still married at the time of her death. Sinclair died on December 20, 1995, after a 13-year battle with leukemia. Her remains were cremated and her ashes were scattered in her hometown in Jamaica. She was awarded the Order of Distinction, Rank of Commander, by the prime minister of Jamaica.

10/07/2024

Eartha Kitt, Freda Payne, and Jayne Kennedy photographed by isaac sutton, 1974

10/04/2024

A 15-year-old scientist named Heman Bekele from Fairfax, Virginia, has been named the 2024 “Kid of the Year” by Time Magazine 🏆