Author: Shekari Philemon

Dana White has spent decades in rooms full of fighters, presidents, and billionaires. In his estimation, Mark Zuckerberg belongs in all of those rooms at once. White, the chief executive of the UFC and a member of Meta’s board of directors since January 2025, described Zuckerberg in a recent profile for Time magazine as one of the most competitive and capable figures he has encountered in any industry. He placed the Meta co-founder in the same category as President Trump, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, and NBA legend Michael Jordan, a grouping defined less by industry than by an unrelenting…

For years, Idris Elba’s name has circulated as one of the most compelling candidates to take over the James Bond franchise. Fans campaigned loudly, headlines repeated the speculation regularly, and the conversation around the Hackney-born actor and the iconic British spy became one of the more persistent stories in entertainment. This week, Elba closed the door on it definitively. Speaking at the premiere of his new film, *Masters of the Universe*, Elba addressed the renewed Bond speculation that has followed Amazon’s search for a successor to the Daniel Craig era. He made clear that his name was never genuinely in…

Khloé Kardashian has built a reputation for candor on her podcast, but a recent admission about her cats has landed her in the middle of one of the more heated celebrity controversies of the moment. The 41-year-old reality star revealed during an episode of her show that she had both of her cats declawed after receiving what she described as poor advice, and the response online was swift and largely unforgiving. Kardashian has two grey cats named Grey Kitty and Baby Kitty, along with a Labrador named Peppermint. She has shared affectionate photos of the cats with her children on…

Shaquille O’Neal has four NBA championships, a Hall of Fame induction, a business empire and now, officially, a master’s degree. But if you ask most people what they will remember about his latest academic milestone, the answer will almost certainly involve Charles Barkley. O’Neal recently returned to Louisiana State University, where he played college basketball before launching one of the most dominant careers in NBA history, to accept his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts degree from the College of Human Sciences and Education. The ceremony took place at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, a building that already carries significant…

Deion Sanders has built a reputation as the father who roasts his kids as openly as he coaches his players. But when he stepped into his youngest daughter’s comment section recently, he walked straight into a trap she was more than ready for. Shelomi Sanders, who graduated earlier this month from Alabama A&M, posted a series of vacation photos on Instagram. She appeared on a boat in a pink bikini, layered jewelry, and an easy confidence that caught attention quickly. Her caption on the final slide described herself as the cherry on top. It was the kind of post that…

Lauryn Hill has never been one to leave things unsaid, and this week she made that clear once again. The eight-time Grammy winner took to Instagram on Tuesday to celebrate the birthday of her former partner Rohan Marley, son of the late reggae legend Bob Marley, and used the moment to address something she felt needed correcting. In a carousel post that mixed older family photographs with more recent images, Hill shared a warm tribute that quickly moved beyond birthday wishes. She described Marley as someone who had served as her protector, her defender, and a devoted father to their…

There are very few entertainers who can walk into a room and immediately change the energy of it. Queen Latifah is one of them. She has spent more than three decades building a career that refuses to be boxed into a single category, moving fluidly between rap, acting, singing and television with a consistency and grace that has made her one of the most enduring figures in American entertainment. So when the American Music Awards announced that she would be taking the stage as solo host for the 52nd edition of the ceremony, the reaction was less surprise and more…

Just as the outlines of a potential agreement between the United States and Iran were beginning to take shape, President Trump added a significant new dimension to the conversation. In a social media post on Monday, he indicated that any deal with Iran should come packaged with a broader regional commitment, specifically a requirement that several additional countries formally join the Abraham Accords, the landmark diplomatic agreements brokered during his first term that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab nations. Trump described negotiations with Iran as proceeding well but made clear that he sees the Iran agreement and expanded…

Retirement gets planned for years. The date gets circled. The savings get counted. The mental image gets refined over decades until it becomes something vivid and specific, a life without meetings, without alarms, without the accumulated weight of professional obligation. Then the day arrives and the first week feels exactly like that. Then the second week comes. Something shifts in the second week that nobody really warned them about. The job is gone, and in the space it occupied, something else shows up. Not freedom, exactly. Not the vacation feeling, which turns out to have a surprisingly short shelf life.…

When a patient enters hospice care, the people around her look for ways to make the time meaningful. For the staff at a Wilmington, North Carolina facility caring for a woman known affectionately as Ms. Etta, that meant trying to do something that sounded almost impossible. She wanted to reconnect with her most famous former student. She wanted, in her own words, to hug his neck one more time. Michael Jordan was not exactly easy to reach. Ms. Etta had spent more than four decades teaching at Laney High School in Wilmington, the same school where Jordan attended before graduating…