From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment Happy New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer — and ET has you covered for everything in between.LL Cool J has been announced as the host of 2025 MTV VMAs airing September 7 on CBS, MTV & Paramount+. He will be taking the VMAs reins solo for the first time, after previously serving as co-emcee in 2022 with Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow.Due to overwhelming demand, Backstreet Boys have added seven new performances to their sold out Into…
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SAVANNAH – Mrs. Patricia L. Moore Blocker entered eternal rest, Tuesday evening, August 19, 2025 at St. Joseph’s Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She received her early education in Chatham County and graduated with the Groves High School Class of 1987. After high school, Patricia pursued higher education and earned her Registered Nursing license. Later, following her love for beauty and creativity, she returned to school for Cosmetology . She dedicated much of her career to serving others through the mental health field, working with Tideland Mental Health Center, which later became Gateway Behavioral Health Services. Patricia truly loved…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Free-to-play game The First Descendant has been slammed for apparently using fake AI-generated influencers in their TikTok ads, as well as a deepfake of at least one real streamer without their knowledge or consent. The developer has now claimed this was the result of “certain irregularities” found in the operation of its call out for user-created content. Released by MapleStory developer Nexon last year, The First Descendant is a third-person loot shooter in which players fight alien invaders. Like many other online multiplayer games such as Fortnite and League of Legends, The First…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates City Invites Residents to ‘Speak Out’ Again on FY26 Budget Priorities Online Survey Available; Second In-Person Meeting Scheduled SAVANNAH –The City of Savannah’s Office of Management and Budget will be holding the second Speak Out Savannah event, giving the public an opportunity to discuss what their budget priorities are with City staff and officials, and learn how the budgeting process works. The second Speak Out Savannah event will take place at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21 at the JA Colonial Group Discovery Center on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus. Light refreshments…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia A commemorative Forever stamp honoring former President Jimmy Carter will be released on Oct. 1 in Atlanta, the U.S. Postal Service announced Monday. Credit: United States Postal Service Representatives of the nonprofit group Friends of Jimmy Carter and the National Park Service joined the Postal Service in unveiling the new stamp at the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in Carter’s hometown of Plains. “It is difficult to consider a more fitting honoree than former President Jimmy Carter,” said Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s government relations and public policy vice president. “He lent his…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World Blueface before and after Blueface Prison Photos Spark Shock and Social Media Buzz *New Blueface prison photos have fans doing double takes. The rapper looks nearly unrecognizable after months behind bars in California. Once known for his lean build and face tattoos, Blueface now appears bulked up, heavily inked, and transformed in a major way. These new images were shared on Instagram and quickly spread across outlets like The Shade Room and Say Cheese. In the photos, Blueface is seen posing with latex gloves, showing off his muscular frame and more facial…
Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation By Ovia Kalki Sarangan OFA Sun Reporter Intern Brooke Jenkins is our District Attorney of San Francisco, having stepped into the role in 2022 after being appointed by the mayor. She became widely known for helping lead the campaign to recall the previous DA, Chesa Boudin, arguing that the city needed a firmer approach to crime and public safety. Today, I met our current DA through my OFA Academy Journalism internship. She came into the classroom wearing a bright red suit and an even brighter smile. I had the opportunity…
Scientific Research & Expedition: Take A Look At the Globe With Research Study and Innovation There are a great deal of reasons people attach to Teen Line , a Century City-based hotline that links children in circumstance to knowledgeable adolescent volunteers. They call due to the fact that an individual is injuring them or they hesitate of harming themselves. They message because of the truth that a critical link has really completed or an undesirable disagreement has really begun. They really feel disrespected, disregarded, rejected. At the heart of virtually every telephone call, message or e-mail synchronizes cry of discomfort:…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum As much as the Trump administration claims to care for families and wants to encourage having children, you wouldn’t know it from its actions. In its latest move to make life harder for federal employees, the termination of union contracts for roughly 400,000 employees at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs leaves expectant parents in the lurch. Lower courts blocked President Donald Trump’s March executive order purporting to be able to arbitrarily cancel union contracts covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. But federal appeals courts lifted those injunctions earlier this month,…
Health Watch: Wellness, Research & Healthy Living Tips Svalbard saw record-breaking high temperatures in the summer of 2024Xinhua/Shutterstock During the summer of 2024, six weeks of record-smashing heat led to a record-obliterating amount of ice melting on the islands of Svalbard in the Arctic. By the end of the summer, 1 per cent of all the land ice on the archipelago had been lost – enough to raise the global average sea level by 0.16 millimetres. “It was very shocking,” says Thomas Schuler at the University of Oslo in Norway. “It was not just a marginal record. The melt was…