Michael Oher may be the only Super Bowl champion to be more famous for being a character in a movie than, well, being a Super Bowl champion football player. After all, it’s hard to outshine Sandra Bullock. Before Oher spent eight years in the NFL, he was one of the subjects of acclaimed author ...
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21:06 The True Story of Michael Oher and 'The Blind Side'
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10 Shirley Chisholm Quotes That Show Her Determination and Fortitude
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10 Shirley Chisholm Quotes That Show Her Determination and Fortitude
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10 Things You May Not Know About 'The Sound of Music'
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10 Memorable Super Bowl Halftime Shows
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10 Memorable Super Bowl Halftime Shows
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Inside Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Tight Bond – and Tragic Deaths
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Inside Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Tight Bond – and Tragic Deaths
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'Top Gun' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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'Top Gun' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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10 Things You May Not Know About The Weeknd
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10 Things You May Not Know About The Weeknd
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The Unlikely Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune
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The Unlikely Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune
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9 Key Figures of the Harlem Renaissance
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9 Key Figures of the Harlem Renaissance
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How Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi Created the Black Lives Matter Movement
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How Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi Created the Black Lives Matter Movement
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How Mary McLeod Bethune Became a Pioneer in Black Education
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How Mary McLeod Bethune Became a Pioneer in Black Education
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10 Things You May Not Know About Wendy Williams
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10 Things You May Not Know About Wendy Williams
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How Carter G. Woodson's Life's Work Fueled the Creation of Black History Month
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How Carter G. Woodson's Life's Work Fueled the Creation of Black History Month
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How Lonnie Johnson Invented the Super Soaker
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How Lonnie Johnson Invented the Super Soaker
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How Lonnie Johnson Invented the Super Soaker
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Daniel Hale Williams Performed the First Successful Open Heart Surgery During an Emergency Procedure
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Benjamin Banneker Wrote Thomas Jefferson a Letter Challenging the Founding Father's Contradictory Views on Race and Freedom
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Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Bus Seat Nine Months Before Rosa Parks
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Kobe Bryant: The Tragic Death of the Basketball Legend
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How Salt-N-Pepa Went From College Students to Best-Selling Female Rap Group
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10 Memorable Inauguration Performances
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Shirley Chisholm's Historic Run for President
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Inside Kamala Harris’ Early Years and Multicultural Upbringing
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Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin’s Complicated Relationship
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Inside the Long-Forgotten JFK Inaugural Gala
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How Beyoncé Made History With Her Coachella Performance
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The True Story Behind 'One Night in Miami'
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Aretha Franklin: The Powerful Meaning Behind Her Equality Anthem "Respect"
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How Wilma Rudolph Overcame Early Health Problems to Launch a Record-Breaking Career
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Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz Formed an Unbreakable Bond After Their Husbands' Tragic Deaths
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How Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman Transformed Their Instant Connection Into A Lasting Love
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10 Things You May Not Know About Kamala Harris
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Inside Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen’s Sweet, Decades-Long Love Story
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10 Things You May Not Know About Joe Biden
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Rod Stewart’s Breakout Hit Was Inspired By His First Time
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Simon & Garfunkel: The Constant Ups and Downs of Their Relationship
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How David Bowie Created Ziggy Stardust
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Inside Brian Wilson's Mental Health Struggles
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Inside Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' Close — But Often Complicated — Relationship
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Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder's Enduring — and Heartbreaking — Love Story
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Scott Peterson: A Complete Timeline of His Trial for the Murder of His Wife Laci and Unborn Son
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The True Story Behind 'Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom'
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James Taylor Wrote One of His Biggest Hits While in Rehab
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Joni Mitchell: The Heartbreak and Vulnerability Behind Her Iconic 'Blue' Album
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Ina and Jeffrey Garten’s Decades-Long Love Story
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: The Ups and Downs of Their Relationship
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Bob Dylan Was Going to Quit Music But Then Wrote One of His Biggest Hits
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16 Icons Who Passed Away in 2020
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Orson Welles and the Drama Surrounding 'Citizen Kane'
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Paul Simon: The Controversial South African Trip That Inspired ’Graceland’
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How Yolanda Saldívar's Obsession With Selena Turned Deadly
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Selena Quintanilla’s Whirlwind Love Story With Husband Chris Pérez
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Casey Anthony: A Complete Timeline of Her Murder Case and Trial
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Tiger Woods' Sex Scandal: Inside His Fall From Grace and Comeback
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and His Impressive Wrestling Family Tree
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10 Things You May Not Know About Jimmy Fallon's Wife, Nancy Juvonen
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Prince Charles and Lord Mountbatten's Treasured Relationship
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Inside Princess Margaret's Physical and Mental Health Struggles
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Chadwick Boseman's Private and Courageous Cancer Battle
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Carole King: 12 Famous Songs You May Not Know She Wrote
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10 Things You May Not Know About Elon Musk's Mom, Maye Musk
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Before Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and others raised the bar for what Black and female politicians could accomplish in American politics, Shirley Chisholm shined a light on the unexplored path as both the first Black congresswoman and first Black woman to embark on a major-party ...
When Robert Wise’s film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical was released March 2, 1965, probably most of the participants were not dreaming of the kind of extraordinary staying power the movie has exhibited; they were just concerned that it make back its $8 million cost and ...
Since the Super Bowl’s inception in 1960, the championship football game has always included a halftime show, but it took the NFL several decades to find the winning formula for it to become the annual spectacle it is today. In the beginning, college marching bands were the stars of the show, ...
Having conquered the top 40 charts, movies and performed to sold-out arenas, when Whitney Houston gave birth to daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown on March 4, 1993, it appeared to be a culmination of her greatest, most personal dreams. That the course of both mother and daughter’s lives would eerily ...
It was the F-14 engine that could, a tale of adrenaline-soaked dogfights, macho one-liners and heartfelt yearnings set to a mesmerizing soundtrack that grossed more than 20 times its budget and made stars of its leads, along with director Tony Scott. Let's see what the cast has been up to since Top ...
Before hitting the top of the charts with such hits as “Starboy,” “Can’t Feel My Face” and “Blinding Lights,” Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, had to work his way up from the bottom. “It was tough growing up where I was from,” the self-described “street kid” from the Toronto ...
For nearly three decades, educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, often called the “First Lady of the Struggle,” forged an unlikely friendship with another first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. Bethune became a trusted advisor to both Roosevelt and her husband, President Franklin Delano ...
As the Great Migration of African Americans made its way north, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood became a vibrant hotspot for musicians, writers, entertainers and thinkers. The collection of talent, all within a few city blocks, became known as the Harlem Renaissance. Lasting between the 1910s ...
On July 13, 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida acquitted George Zimmerman of murder charges after he’d shot a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin as he walked home from a convenience store. His killing and subsequent verdict sparked protests and outrage across the United States. When the verdict ...
One of 17 children born to formerly enslaved people, Mary McLeod Bethune spent the first few years of her life picking cotton as her family worked to buy the land on which they had been enslaved. At age 10, Bethune became the first and only child in her family to go to school, walking ...
As host and head diva in charge of a popular daytime talk show, Wendy Williams has rarely been shy about sharing the ups and downs of her personal life with her fans, though she's more tight-lipped about some subjects than others. Here are 10 things you may not know about Williams: She was born ...
For the last four and a half decades, every February has marked the celebration of Black History Month — an annual observance that recognizes the achievements and contributions of Black Americans. But without historian Carter G. Woodson, who devoted much of his life to shining a light on Black ...
For the past 30 years, kids (and more than a few adults) around the world have busted out their Super Soakers and conquered their neighborhood water gun fights. The high-power water bazooka is an impressive piece of technology in its own right, but its origin and legacy make it a piece of living ...
When James Cornish stumbled into the recently established Provident Hospital one summer night in 1893, he probably wasn’t thinking about making history or being part of a seminal moment in both American medical advancement and racial politics. Instead, he was more likely concerned with the ...
For all his Enlightenment-influenced ideals, which manifested with the "all men are created equal" assertions of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson harbored complicated views of slavery and the abilities of those forced into lives of backbreaking labor. On one hand, the Founding ...
In 1955, a Black woman refused to yield her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was removed from the bus and arrested, her ordeal sparking legal action that led to the end of Alabama's segregated bus laws and enabled a widespread civil rights movement to pick up steam. You ...
The helicopter may have crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, January 26, 2020, but it was immediately felt around the world. The headline accompanying it was completely surreal: Basketball great Kobe Bryant was dead at the age of 41. The way Bryant mastered the sport, it ...
When Cheryl James and Sandra Denton met as first-year students at Queensborough Community College, school was the last thing on their minds. “We were big time screw-ups,” James told The Guardian. “We never went to class. We’d just hang around in the lunchroom playing cards, and we formed this ...
Ceremonies accompanying the quadrennial U.S. presidential inauguration have changed significantly since George Washington delivered a private address to Congress and danced the minuet at his 1789 inauguration, with festivities later stretching across multiple days and expanding to include each ...
The daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father who moved to the United States to pursue their educational dreams, Kamala Harris’ story is the story of an increasingly multicultural America. Her trailblazing career, which saw her become the first woman, the first Black and the first South ...
Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin were two of the most important writers, thinkers and rebels of the 1950s and ‘60s, and they are now rightly regarded as civil rights icons, the recipients of adulation they rarely received during their own lives. Because history has a way of simplifying ...
On the night before John F. Kennedy made history as America’s youngest elected president — as well as its first Catholic one — a star-studded bash, hosted by Frank Sinatra, helped usher in what many hoped would be a new era in American history. But the event also revealed the deep racial divisions ...
By the spring of 2018, Beyoncé Knowles was no doubt one of the most famous pop culture figures on the planet — a 23-time Grammy-winning artist who had already graced the world’s biggest stages, like the Super Bowl half-time show in 2016. Meanwhile, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival had ...
The idea of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X sitting around a hotel room in the mid-1960s to discuss matters of religion, politics and race sounds like the basis for a work of fiction, and indeed, it found life in the 2013 stage play One Night in Miami by Kemp Powers, who went ...
If there’s one thing that Aretha Franklin will always be remembered for, it’s how to spell out respect. When the then-24-year-old released her rendition of “Respect” in April 1967, audiences immediately grasped onto the confidence and independent spirit that the song’s empowering sass elicited. ...
From the time she was born, the odds seemed stacked against Wilma Rudolph. As the 20th of 22 children growing up in St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, her family came from modest roots, with her dad working as a porter and her mom as a cleaning person. And then when she was 4 years ...
After the shocking assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965, his widow, Betty Shabazz, received a telegram from someone long thought to be one of her husband’s rivals — Martin Luther King Jr. While both were outspoken civil rights leaders of their time, their means to achieve the goals ...
Hollywood and the country music world came crashing together when Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban fell in love more in the early 2000s — and the romance hasn’t stopped since. Kidman and Urban first met at an event in 2005 and quickly got married the following summer. They’ve since welcomed two ...
When Kamala Harris is inaugurated as vice president of the United States on January 20, she’ll be making history as the first female, first Black and first South Asian to hold the office. “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,” the former United States Senator from ...
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have something rare in Hollywood: a marriage that has lasted over a quarter of a century. Even though they've been together for so long, they still make sure to gush about one another publicly. “I’m madly in love with Mary Steenburgen,” Danson told Us Weekly in ...
First elected to office in 1972, Joe Biden has been in the public eye for nearly half a century. Having served in the United States Senate for 36 years, followed by two terms as vice president under Barack Obama, he’s no stranger to American voters, who elected him as the 46th President of the ...
In 1971, Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" became a breakout hit that turned him into a true rock star. The song is told from the point of view of a teenage boy reflecting on his relationship with a predatory older woman. Though Stewart took some artistic license in the lyrics, inspiration for the tune ...
As Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel became the darlings of the folk-rock, countercultural movement of the late 1960s, selling millions of albums and performing sold-out shows across the globe. Privately, their friendship would be strained to the point of breaking time and time ...
Outlandish, confronting and musically gifted, the character of Ziggy Stardust signaled the arrival of David Bowie as a rock star capable of transcending musical genres and inverting the common perception of how a performer should look and behave. Though he would abruptly shed the persona when much ...
Labeled by the press as a musical genius while still in his 20s, Brian Wilson would produce more than two dozen Top 40 hits as a member of the original Beach Boys. Yet substance abuse and mental health issues would force the singer-songwriter-composer to withdraw from the world just as his ...
The mother-daughter pair of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher was the subject of public interest from the moment Fisher was born in 1956, thanks to Reynolds' movie star status. Though Fisher at times struggled to establish her own identity outside of Reynolds' shadow, the two overcame this and ...
Two of the funniest actors of the 20th century, Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder were such a perfect match and so in love that their relationship remains one of the most iconic in Hollywood history. Radner and Wilder met in 1981 on the Manhattan set of the Sidney Poitier-directed comedy caper ...
It's a cornerstone of the American legal system and a virtual literary trope that people are presumed innocent until being proven guilty, but it sure was easy to assume the worst about fertilizer salesman Scott Peterson after his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, mysteriously disappeared in ...
She was known as the “Mother of the Blues.” A brash, brilliant performer who captivated audiences with her moving voice and outsized personae. Ma Rainey influenced future legends like Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith, but it was her own struggle to remain true to herself as a Black artist during ...
James Taylor was only 22 years old when he achieved breakout success as a singer-songwriter, but he’d already experienced the sort of pain, frustration and sublime thrills of someone twice his age. Fittingly, the song that launched him to stardom, the 1970 single “Fire and Rain,” summoned and ...
Joni Mitchell composed and sang all of the songs on Blue, on which she came into her own as an artist. The 1971 album spotlighted her musical genius, became her first album to sell more than a million copies, and earned admirers ranging from Bob Dylan and Prince to Taylor Swift. Per Mitchell, ...
Best-selling cookbook author Ina Garten has a few constants in her life: a love of cooking and serving up delicious meals to close friends, an enquiring mind that has led from a career in policy analysis in D.C. to running a prepared food store on New York’s Long Island, a cookbook and television ...
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been the talk of Hollywood for more than a decade. Kardashian rose to fame in 2007 with the hit reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, while West first made a splash with his 2004 debut album, College Dropout, and cemented his place music history with ...
It didn’t take long for Bob Dylan to become a star, but it required a few very whirlwind and unprecedented years for the folk-rock icon to actually feel like he was doing something worthwhile and in control of his life and career. And if it weren’t for one rambling writing session and an experiment ...
In a year heart-wrenchingly challenging for the entire global community as the pandemic spread around the entire world, life and death became a harrowing part of daily life in 2020. The devastation was accentuated by the loss of some of the most notable figures — from a variety of causes — who ...
When presenter Preston Sturges announced Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles as the joint winners of the 1942 Academy Award for Citizen Kane’s screenplay, neither man was present at the high-profile event. Instead, RKO Radio president George Schaefer accepted the award on their behalf, explaining ...
A bootlegged cassette tape, Saturday Night Live and half of the legendary folk-rock act Simon & Garfuknel seem like the oddest of combinations. And perhaps even stranger, they came together to lead Paul Simon to get on a plane to South Africa — a trip that laid the foundation for his 1986 ...
Yolanda Saldívar began her path down the murderous road when she founded the Selena Fan Club in 1991, before working her way all the way up to a trusted confidant for the singer. But after Selena Quintanilla’s dad, Abraham Quintanilla, found hints that Saldívar was embezzling ...
The life of one of music's brightest rising stars Selena Quintanilla was cut tragically short at just 23, when she was shot by her fan club president Yolanda Saldivar, just days before she could celebrate her third wedding anniversary with Chris Pérez. The couple first ...
In 2008, the world was captivated by the bizarre behavior displayed by Casey Anthony. The then-22-year-old single mother from Orlando, Florida, was revealed to have spun a web of lies to cover up for the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, that summer; the Facebook photos of her ...
Tiger Woods is widely considered one of the best golfers of all-time and undoubtedly the most dominant of the last 40 years. As an astonishingly successful and personable star, who is of Black, American Indian and Asian descent, he was also the greatest ambassador the historically white game of ...
Dwayne Johnson is known today as one of Hollywood's most sought-after actors, with roles in popular film franchises such as the Fast and Furious and Jumanji, as well as the Disney movie Moana. With all of his acting success, it's easy to forget that Johnson first rose to fame as a World ...
Comedian Jimmy Fallon first won over audiences as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and found continued success as the host of Late Night and The Tonight Show, and by his side for more than a decade is his wife, Nancy Juvonen. Usually very private, Juvonen stepped into the spotlight in 2020 ...
Many children look up to athletic stars or fictional heroes as role models, but for the United Kingdom's Prince Charles, there was no need: His hero was the flesh-and-blood Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, his father's uncle, the last viceroy of India and first sea lord of the ...
Queen Elizabeth II of England is the single biggest landowner in the world. Her sister, Princess Margaret, meanwhile, had a lock on the column inches and cover pages of the British tabloids for much of the mid-to-late 20th century. Margaret was in many ways the quintessential modern royal, caught ...
When Chadwick Boseman stepped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War in 2016, a fan asked him what he had in common with his character T’Challa. “I am a keeper of secrets and I think T’Challa is definitely a keeper of secrets,” he said in an ...
A teenaged Carole King and her first husband, lyricist Gerry Goffin, wrote doo-wop and rock 'n' roll songs in New York City in the 1960s, many of which became hits. After that period King continued to pen tunes, both on her own and with other lyricists, and a number of these also became famous. ...
Tech giant and entrepreneur Elon Musk is known for his roles in PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX. But before he began making electric cars and launching rockets into space, he grew up in South Africa with his mother, Maye Musk. Maye, in addition to raising Elon and his fellow successful siblings ...