From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment Mary Rivera, who played Ned’s scene-stealing grandmother in Spider-Man: No Way Home, died at the age of 82. Her family confirmed her death earlier this year with TMZ, which shared that she was proud of her role as Ned’s lola, grandmother in Tagalog, in the film and that her family encouraged her to audition. In the scene, she’s at home with Ned (Jacob Batalon) and MJ (Zendaya) when Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) drop in to explain the multiverse. She asks Ned in Tagalog to ask the Peters to…
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Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights North Carolina A&T homecoming tickets sold out online within five minutes Monday morning, but the rush to secure a seat for the 100th GHOE began hours before sales opened.A limited number of individual tickets were available for in-person purchase at the Brown Hall Ticket Office. Fans began lining up before daylight, with some reportedly arriving as early as 1 a.m.The ticket office did not open until 9 a.m.Online sales for the Aggies’ six home football games also began at 9 a.m. By approximately 9:05 a.m., the ticketing site listed the…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care A few hours after Dr. Anthony S. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right in refusing to answer questions from Senate Republicans last week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media to plug a book he published about Dr. Fauci in 2021, declaring it “the #1 non-fiction hardcover best-seller.”Later that day, Mr. Kennedy went on television to say much the same thing. “I wrote a book about Anthony Fauci in 2021,” he told the Fox News host Sean Hannity. “It was the biggest selling book of 2021. It sold…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward DJI has launched the Mic Mini 2S, an upgraded version of its Mic Mini 2 released in April. While it has a similar form factor to its predecessor, the Mic Mini 2S introduces a few handy new features that were previously only available in the Mic 3. Sadly, it won’t be coming to the U.S. for the foreseeable future. SEE ALSO: DJI Mic 3 review: Ease and versatility for semi-pro producers The original DJI Mic Mini already established itself as a favourite among content creators, making it easy to capture good quality…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education A resurfaced interview with Will Smith about his biggest parenting regret with his daughter Willow and son Jaden has folks online debating whether or not his method produced the right results in his kids. But from where we’re standing, his skills may not be as problematic as he thinks. The clip comes from a June 2025 interview he did with Heart Radio in which he shared that he raised his kids with the “no punishment rule” that essentially meant that they could say and do almost anything—just as long as they were…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Social media posts by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins and his associates have become a target of Sen. Jon Ossoff and his allies. U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, who hopes to unseat Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent, has a history of edgy online posts. The people around him have sometimes crossed a line in their own posts. During the GOP primary, Collins fired a campaign staffer who had mocked the wife of an adviser to a PAC supporting one of Collins’ Republican opponents after she said she had been sexually assaulted. In 2024, Collins…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates Whitaker St. will be closed between Bolton St. and W Park Ave. 7:00 AM until 10:00 AM (daily) Tuesday, August 4th, and Wednesday, August 5th, for paving. Read the full announcement on the official site
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection The modern packing flex reaches its theatrical peak at the gate, where one traveler is wearing a coat, blazer, and two sweaters while attempting to compress a swollen suitcase into the baggage sizer. Carry-on-only travel began as an efficient way to avoid baggage claim and airline fees, then somehow acquired the moral weight of a personal philosophy. Social media packing videos now promise two weeks in Europe from a case roughly the size of a microwave, provided you enjoy folding shirts into increasingly vindictive cubes. The achievement looks less impressive once it requires…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World People take part in an Episcopal Church peace marathon in Monrovia in October 2017, on the eve of the presidential elections. © Issouf SANOGO/AFP Published on August 04, 2026 at 09:00 am (GMT +1) Recently, I had the opportunity of addressing community peacebuilders in Myanmar, reflecting on Liberia’s long journey from conflict to peace. And while every country’s history is unique, the search for lasting peace raises remarkably similar questions. How do societies rebuild trust after violence? How do former adversaries learn to coexist? And what transforms a fragile peace into a…
Science & Discovery: Explore the Globe Via Research Study and Advancement The group also analyzed the remains of 2 young girls discovered at another website, Cerro Esmeralda, formerly believed to have actually died by strangulation. While they weren’t able to determine a precise reason of fatality because of the problem of the remains, the authors concluded that the marks on the two women’ necks were not constant with strangulation and were more likely triggered by fabrics, i.e., apparel. CT scans revealed that the hyoid bones were still undamaged with no proof of cracks and in their right physiological position. Science…