McKinley School, in North Bergen, New Jersey, worked all February on their “Read Across America” campaign, which included a social media blitz and a number of YouTube videos. The school put in a good effort to get talk show celebrity Ellen DeGeneres to contribute to the campaign by reading aloud on video. Unfortunately, DeGeneres declined […]
Dressed in a black leotard fitted with white glitter and gems, with a bejeweled headdress and gold-headed cane, Beyoncé’s two-hour performance at Coachella was historic. No other black woman soloist has headlined for the California music festival. Guest appearances in her performance included her sister Solange and her old group-mates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. […]
For those who follow celebrity news, the news that Amber Heard (former wife of actor Johnny Depp as of August 2017) donated the entirety of her $7 million divorce settlement to battered women is not fresh. But on Monday, April 9th, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was the first recipient to confirm her statements to that […]
Homelessness is a massive problem in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the average rent is between $3,000 and $4,000 a month. A comfortable minimum salary to live in the neighboring city of San Jose is $87,000 a year, or $42 an hour, but precious few make that much. Food service in the area pays […]
Imagination Library is a nonprofit founded by Dolly Parton in 1995, with the goal of giving free books to children. It began in Sevier County, Tennessee, where Dolly was raised by a father who could not read. In its early stages, the organization sent one free book a month to every child registered from birth […]
Stealing the show in Disney’s hit movie Black Panther is Shuri, a tech savvy princess who lives in the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Fans can’t wait to see her invent circles around Tony Stark and Peter Parker, but they also want her to affect the real world, too. There are few scientist role models for children […]
Richard Appiah Akoto is a junior high school teacher in Ghana who had a major obstacle. His students will have to pass an exam including computer skills questions, but his school hasn’t had any computers since 2011 due to budget shortfalls. He has over 100 students between 14 and 15, and only one of them […]
Four donations totaling $2 million are on the way for March for Our Lives, a planned demonstration to take place in Washington D.C. and across the United States on March 24th. March for Our Lives is a protest against the political inaction allowing gun violence to continue to become a regular occurrence in schools across […]
John Williams, the famous composer of grand, sweeping movie scores, attended Juilliard in 1955, working as a jazz pianist in New York to help supplement his Air Force pension. That was a long time before he began scoring blockbusters like Star Wars and Jurassic Park, but he calls his time in the performing arts academy […]
During the making of James Bond: Spectre, carmaker Aston Martin made one hundred 2014 Vanquishes. One of them, body number 007, was gifted to Bond actor Daniel Craig. It’s blue and immaculate, and now it’s up for sale. Craig is auctioning off his personal limited-edition car for charity through Christie’s auction house, as announced on […]