In everything he did, John Lennon spoke his truth and questioned the truth. An incomparable and uncompromising artist who strove for honesty and directness in his music, he laid bare his heart, mind and soul in his songs, seeing them as snapshots of his current emotions, thoughts and world view. Believing the one quality demanded […]
The Global Down Syndrome Foundation has announced one of the two powerful women who will receive this year’s Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Awards: Grey’s Anatomy star Caterina Scorsone and Spanish model Marián Ávila. Celebrities are showing up in full force to support GLOBAL and honor the accomplished awardees. The awards will be presented during GLOBAL’s […]
1964 – The Kinks “You Really Got Me” was released in the U.S. 1968 – The first Beatles single on their own Apple Records was released in the U.S. The single was “Hey Jude” b/w “Revolution.” 1967 – Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” was released as the opening track on the U.S. release of “Are You […]
“Brown Skin Girl” is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé, Guyanese singer Saint Jhn and Nigerian singer Wizkid, featuring Blue Ivy Carter from the 2019 album The Lion King: The Gift and featured in the 2020 film Black Is King. The song was sent to Top 40/Rhythmic radio on July 23, 2019 as the […]
Yesterday, Elton John celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his career-catapulting performance at the historic Troubadour, in Los Angeles, CA. On August 25, 1970, Elton took the stage for the first time in the United States, a gig that would quickly mark the beginning of his legendary career. Playing to a star-studded, packed house of 300 […]
Malala Yousafzai es una activista paquistaní por la educación femenina y la ganadora del Premio Nobel más joven. Es conocida por la defensa de los derechos humanos, especialmente la educación de mujeres y niños en su valle natal de Swat en Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, al noroeste de Pakistán, donde los talibanes pakistaníes locales habían prohibido en […]
En una demanda presentada ayer en un tribunal federal de Filadelfia, dos jubilados negros de la NFL, Kevin Henry y Najeh Davenport, afirman que la NFL manipuló deliberadamente las puntuaciones de las pruebas de “función cognitiva” de los exjugadores de una manera que hizo menos probable que los ex jugadores negros los jugadores recibirían beneficios […]
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in Philadelphia, two Black NFL retirees, Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport, claim that the NFL deliberately manipulated ex-players’ “cognitive function” test scores in a way that made it less likely that Black ex-players would receive benefits under the landmark 2016 concussion settlement. Davenport, who played seven years […]
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has […]
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum today announced that it will reopen its galleries to the public at 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The day before, Wednesday, Sept. 9, the museum will open at the same hour for museum members. Tours of Hatch Show Print and Historic RCA Studio B will resume […]