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Will Smith dusted off his black suit and Ray Bans for a surprise
Will Smith dusted off his black suit and Ray Bans for a surprise performance at Coachella. The actor and musician made a cameo during J Balvin’s Sunday night set at the music festival, singing his 1997 hit “Men in Black” from the film of the same name. Smith, who starred in three “Men in Black” movies, showed up toward the end of Balvin’s extraterrestrial-themed set, sporting the iconic look that became synonymous with the alien-fighting agents in the film. With green aliens dancing in the...
Less than 24 hours after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Florida as he returned home with a bag of Skittles, then-President Barack Obama addressed a rattled nation. Standing among a group of Chicago-area teens, he announced the launch of My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative to address the persistent
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Six San Francisco men have been sent to federal prison for their involvement in a string of killings that terrorized the city’s Mission District for years. All of the charges related to criminal activity in the 19th Street/16th Street Sureños gang between 2006 and 2013, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement this week. Outside of seven cold case killings, the gang-affiliated crimes included shootings, robberies and drug dealing during that period. “This Sureño criminal enterprise has...
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"Black Men Everywhere!" discusses the lives of Black men and the terror they face
Will Smith made a surprise appearance onstage with J Balvin on Sunday night, dressed in his full “Men in Black” suit and sunglasses and performing the title track of the 1997 film. The appearance was brief but memorable, capping a UFO-themed set and concluding with Balvin being dragged off by black-suit-clad dancers as Smith pulled
Will Smith made a surprise appearance onstage with J Balvin on Sunday night, dressed in his full “Men in Black” suit and sunglasses and performing the title track of the 1997 film. Balvin’s The show had a heavy UFO theme, opening with a mock-1950s newsreel about an alien invasion (in English, with Spanish subtitles), eventually […]