Quvenzhané Wallis just made history. With the announcement of the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards this morning, the Louisiana-born Wallis, just 9 years old, is now the youngest ever nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Wallis, who was just 5 when she auditioned for the role in “Beasts of the Southern […]
ONLY A cloud of suspicion prevented Roger Clemens, one of baseball’s all-time greatest pitchers, from being inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. Voters from the Baseball Writers Association of America have the power of bestowing the game’s highest individual honor – and it appears they are raising the bar. Nobody on the ballot […]
Martin Luther King Jr. carried a black leather King James Bible on his journeys as a young pastor starting out in Montgomery, Ala. He turned to this “traveling Bible” for inspiration, his family says, as he fought for freedom and equality. President Obama will put his hand over King’s well-worn Bible at his public swearing-in […]
Two sisters from Bosnia, 88-year-old Tanija Delic and Hedija Talic, 82, found each other after spending 72 years apart. Facebook reunited the sisters who were separated from each other in 1941 during World War II, daily newspaper Nezavisne Novine reported, according to the AFP. The family was fleeing their hometown of Budimlic Japra in northwestern […]
The grandparents a 4-month old girl, orphaned when her football star father Jovan Belcher killed her mother and himself, are locked in a bitter custody dispute over the tiny heiress set to inherit nearly $3 million. Tiny Zoey Belcher is entitled to millions in life insurance, annual payments and retirement funds from the NFL as […]
Rob Parker, the commentator who created controversy when he questioned whether Washington Football Team quarterback Robert Griffin III is a “cornball brother” because he has a white fiancee, has been fired by ESPN. “Rob Parker’s contract expired at year end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to […]
Oprah Winfrey will interview cyclist Lance Armstrong for “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on Jan. 17, her network said Tuesday. The 90-minute interview at his home in Austin, Texas, will be his first since officials stripped him of his world cycling titles in response to doping allegations. “Oprah Winfrey will speak exclusively with Lance Armstrong in his […]
One day, Urooj Khan literally jumped for joy after scoring a $1 million winner on an Illinois lottery scratch ticket. The next month, he was dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office initially ruled Khan’s manner of death natural. But after being prompted by a relative, the office revisited the case and eventually determined there […]
The limited number of tickets available to the public for President Barack Obama’s inaugural ball and parade were snatched up hours before they were supposed to be available, thanks to Ticketmaster mistakenly putting them up for sale hours earlier than scheduled. After signing up with the Presidential Inaugural Committee to receive ticketing information, users were […]
Laurence Fishburne didn’t take well to being accused of squatting in his own home. The Matrix star obtained a restraining order last week against a man who, according to Fishburne’s court filing, showed up at his house and claimed to be its rightful owner—and then left a handwritten letter in the mailbox ordering Fishburne and […]
On the first drive of the BCS Championship Game, Alabama moved the ball like nobody else this season had on Notre Dame’s defense. A 29-yard pass. A 10-yard run followed by a 15-yard penalty. Another Notre Dame penalty. A 20-yard touchdown run by Eddie Lacy. And just like that, it was pretty obvious where this […]
When soul crooner Maxwell returned from his eight year self-imposed exile in 2009, he mentioned his next album BLACKsummers’night would be the first of a trilogy of musical projects. However, four yeas has gone by without any new Maxwell joints. Fret not, R&B fans, Maxwell tweeted the partial tracklist to the BLACKsummers’night‘s follow-up SUMMERS’. There […]