Angelina Jolie celebrated her 45th birthday on June 4 and marked the occasion by making a huge cash donation. Jolie gave $200,000 to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense Fund, continuing her efforts to give back to the community. The veteran actress released a statement in conjunction with the donation,
Steve Priest, the bassist, and co-founder of the band The Sweet, has died. The sad news was revealed by his longtime handmade, Andy Scott, on Facebook on Thursday, June 4. Steve Priest dies In the Facebook post made to the band’s official page, Scott started the tribute with the sobering words, “then there was one.”
Producer Dick Wolf, the man who created the Law & Order series, took quick action when one of his primary writers made a social media post that promised violence against protesters. The writer was Craig Gore, who was working on the new Law & Order spin-off series with Christopher Meloni called Law & Order: Organized
New charges were filed in the death of George Floyd, and Lady Gaga released a statement that credited “brave citizens” for making their voices heard in the case. Gaga released her statement on social media immediately following the announcement of the new charges. New charges in George Floyd case Lady Gaga has been standing at
The worldwide protests over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement have seen a lot of celebrities in the headlines as they’ve been joining marches and even being arrested. The most recent was Caleb Murray, the son of legendary actor Bill Murray. Caleb was initially held without bail at Dukes County
Social media star Jake Paul was arrested during the Black Lives Matter riots and protests in Arizona and has since released a statement about why he was arrested. At the same time, the police responded by explaining why they detained the YouTube star. My Fox 8 out of Arizona reports that the charges against Paul
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that he is donating $ 3 million to Colin Kaepernick’s legal defense fund. He pledged the donation on Wednesday to Kaepernick’s civil rights organization, Know Your Rights Camp. Kaepernick established Know Your Rights Camp in 2016 to provide free legal services, health, educational and financial services assistance to underprivileged
Leslie Jones was armed with a sledgehammer the first time she participated in a protest march as a young woman, but she won’t recommend that other young protesters follow her example. Jones revealed during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week that many years ago when she was 22 years old, she
Kylie Jenner has topped the Forbes list for this year’s richest celebrity, despite the magazine’s editors questioning the true value of her estate. The reality TV star sits atop the list after experts valued her net worth at $590 million; she is thought to have acquired the majority of that, $540 million before tax, to
Kristen Bell doesn’t care how her daughters identify sexually or what career path they choose, but she is determined to raise them anti-racist. Bell shares two daughters, Delta and Lincoln, with her husband Dax Shepherd and The Good Place star said in an interview with Channel Q recently that they are raising their kids to