Author: Shekari Philemon

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…

It started with a tweet and a set of music streaming statistics. On May 22, a post on X placed Lizzo’s streaming numbers alongside figures from several other tracks, framing the comparison in a way that suggested a clear winner and a clear loser. The implication was loaded, and it did not take long for the internet to run with it in the worst possible direction. Lizzo, 38, saw the post and responded with a simple question, asking what it meant. That single reply opened a door that certain corners of the internet rushed through. Someone responded with a bold…

It sits in nearly every wellness cabinet, gets stirred into morning lattes and shows up in supplement form with claims that range from reducing inflammation to supporting joint health. For millions of people, turmeric has become a daily ritual, and the assumption underlying all of it is that something natural must also be safe. That assumption, experts are now warning, deserves a serious second look. The concern is not with the spice itself when used in cooking. It is with the concentrated supplements that deliver far higher doses of curcumin, the active compound in turmeric, than anything that would appear…

Thursday’s episode of The View got off to an unexpectedly entertaining start before the first topic was even introduced. Whoopi Goldberg, barely through her opening welcome to the studio audience, was stopped in her tracks by a face in the crowd that gave her genuine pause. The man, seated among the live audience, bore a striking resemblance to former President Barack Obama. Goldberg spotted him almost immediately and could not move past it without saying something. She turned to her cohosts and drew their attention to the man, visibly caught off guard by the resemblance and clearly delighted by the…

There is catching a partner cheating and then there is being physically present when it happens. Khloe Kardashian knows the difference between those two experiences, and in a recent podcast appearance she walked through the latter in detail, describing a confrontation that left visible marks and a much longer lasting impression. Kardashian, now 41, married former NBA player Lamar Odom in 2009 in what quickly became one of the more high-profile celebrity unions of that era. The marriage, which played out partly on reality television, ended in 2016. But years before the formal conclusion, there was a night that Kardashian…

The Little Miss Drama Tour has barely cooled down and Cardi B is already thinking about getting back on the road. Less than a month after wrapping the 35-date North American run, the Grammy-winning rapper has signaled that a second leg could be coming as early as September, with a preference for finishing by November so she can take the final months of the year off for personal time. She has been deliberate about the timing. A fall window would allow her to step away from touring before the holiday season, a period she clearly wants to protect for herself…