There are a few things we usually don’t talk about in polite company – politics and religion top the list. Being considerate about tricky topics is a good thing. Avoiding uncomfortable issues helps people feel at ease, but sometimes you have to get comfortable talking about unpleasant things. After watching a “Black-ish” rerun recently, it reminded […]

Santa Claus is known the world over for acts of compassion, but what Eric Schmitt-Matzen did in a Knoxville hospital recently may be the jolly old soul’s greatest gift of love ever recorded.The call came in from an acquaintance: a 5-year-old boy was clinging to life after battling an unspecified illness and hoped to see […]

Will Smith’s new movie, Collateral Beauty was filmed while his father, William Carroll Smith, was dying. He sat down with Ellen DeGeneres on Ellen Thursday to discuss the tough time and, ironically, how it helped him heal: “What was really interesting was that I got the screenplay right when my father was diagnosed. So I have this screenplay and I’m doing all of […]

Radar Online is reporting that Mariah Carey’s brother Morgan Carey is saying that the singer is a witch. During an interview with the UK’s The Sun, Morgan said, “She probably spends more on dog food than it would cost to make sure her sister gets properly cared for. Your sister is dying and she is struggling and where are you? […]

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  African American males in Detroit between the ages of 15 and 24 are dying at a rate that is roughly seven times higher than the rest of the Detroit population. If they were dying at the same rate as everyone else, there would be one death every three weeks. Instead, there are two black […]