We often hear about Oprah Winfrey’s “daughters” who attend her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, but did you know she has “sons” too? They are the men of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. This week, Oprah paid them a visit to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program – a US $12…
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Oprah Offers University Education to African Women Who Want to Improve Their Communities
Oprah Winfrey is once again using her influence to empower and educate women. The media queen’s foundation has launched a fully-funded fellowship for women from African countries to study at New York University’s Wagner school of public service. It includes full tuition, housing, travel to and from the United States as well as a bunch…
Pharrell Promises Internships to Over 100 Kids
The class of 2019 from the Promise Academy in Harlem not only graduated from high school recently, but also scored a summer internship, thanks to Pharrell. The Grammy-award winning superstar was invited to the school to give an inspirational speech at last week’s graduation ceremony. He surprised the 114 teenagers – who have all been…
Soccer Aid Raises Over $12 million for UNICEF
It’s the world’s biggest charity soccer match (or football, if that’s more your thing) and it certainly didn’t disappoint this year. Full of big names including Sir Mo Farah, One Directioner Niall Horan and Olympian Usain Bolt, it’s no surprise Soccer Aid managed to raise a whopping AU$12 million for UNICEF. Oh but what was…
Sophie Perry Builds School in Malawi Named After Dad, Luke Perry
Well that was quick! It was literally just a couple of weeks ago Sophie Perry, the teenage daughter of late actor Luke Perry, decided to make the most of suddenly being thrust into the spotlight, posting a crowd-funding campaign on Instagram to build 10 new preschools in rural parts of Malawi. Today, the 18-year-old announced that…
Sophie Perry To Build Preschools in Rural Malawi
It’s been nearly 6 weeks since Sophie Perry was thrust into the spotlight. Her famous father Luke Perry passed away in early March after suffering a stroke and as if that isn’t hard enough for any 18-year-old to deal with, in the midst of it all, Sophie began to receive a lot of online attention. We’re…
Remembering Nipsey Hussle: More Than a Rap Star
The Twitterverse is full of kind words about Nipsey Hussle today, a young rap star shot dead outside his Marathon clothing store in L.A. He was only 33, and boy did he have an impact on everyone who crossed paths with him. You see, Nipsey, whose real name is Ermias Davidson Asghedom, wasn’t just an…
The Bit We All Missed in Joe Rogan’s Interview With Elon Musk
So there’s this GREAT bit we all missed in Joe Rogan‘s recent interview with Elon Musk. You know, the one where they smoked a joint and sent Tesla shares falling? I can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if THIS was the bit the media had picked up instead: View this post on Instagram Amazing…
CEO’s Donation to Suicide Prevention After Death of Anthony Bourdain
A post shared by Xi’an Famous Foods (@xianfoods) on Jun 8, 2018 at 8:37am PDT This is the story of Anthony Bourdain and Jason Wang, the CEO of Xi’an Famous Foods. The mini-chain that sells Chinese food in the US recently donated more than $73, 000 to America’s National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in memory of the…
The Chocolate That’s Fighting Global Hunger
Note: Two of my favourite things are people who are making a positive difference in the world… and chocolate. So when I heard there was a chocolate making a difference in the world well, I HAD TO FIND OUT MORE…. This is the story of That Chocolate Movement and its inspiring founder Emma Bailie. Not an ad…
Gifts that give back: Top 8 KIND presents.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead With the silly season just 7 WEEKS AWAY *gasp*, we’ve decided to put together a list of our favourite “KIND” gifts. These are stylish, useful and fun presents for the…
Amal and George Clooney giving Syrian kids an education
Right now, there are more than one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon – 200 thousand of those are kids who don’t get to go to school. They’ve seen violence, they’ve seen poverty, they’ve seen what it’s like to be forced to leave their homes. What they haven’t seen, is a classroom. Doesn’t seem right, does it?…
And the Oscar goes to…
So they read out the wrong winner at the Oscars…..meh. There was something else that happened on Oscars night and it was BEAUTIFUL. It was SO beautiful, FOR THE LOVE OF OPRAH, we need to talk about it! Copia founder Komal Ahmad, actress Freida Pinto at the Women In Film event, Oscars 2017. Photo with…