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Rest In Heaven Famous Amos🙏🏿🕊🍪
15/08/2024

Rest In Heaven Famous Amos🙏🏿🕊🍪

Wally Amos, Founder of ‘Famous Amos’ Cookies Has Died at 88. 🙏🏽
Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Amos built his beloved brand from one bakery in Hollywood, California in 1975 and family recipe. He was a great American success story. He is survived by wife Carol, his children Sarah, Michael, Gregory and Shawn. 🍪 🕊️

13/08/2024

USA Gymnastics appears to be fighting tooth and nail for Jordan Chiles to keep her bronze medal in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics. ➡️ bit.ly/3yyLQ3i

Congratulations USA
11/08/2024

Congratulations USA

Not Like U.S. 🇺🇸

11/08/2024

The USA 4x400 Women's relay team are INSANE 🔥

Look how much they won gold by 👏

Dominant.

10/08/2024

So technically beautiful

Congratulations 🎉 🎊 👏🏿
10/08/2024

Congratulations 🎉 🎊 👏🏿

10/08/2024

Team USA was really in fourth place when Sha'Carri Richardson received the baton 😳

We know what happened next: GOLD 🥇

Congratulations ladies
09/08/2024

Congratulations ladies

The U.S. won its 12th gold medal in the women's 4x100M relay 🥇

All other countries combined have won this event 11 times.

Rest In Peace Queen👑🕊🙏🏾
09/08/2024

Rest In Peace Queen👑🕊🙏🏾

‘Black Panther’ Actress Connie Chiume Has Died 🕊️

09/08/2024

Team USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
wins Olympic gold and shatters world record in 400-meter hurdles ✨ ❤️🤍💙
Event of the Night tonight!

09/08/2024

Quincy Hall won gold rocking a FULL GOLD GRILL in his mouth 🥇

TOUGH. 🥶

08/08/2024

Raytown South alum Quincy Hall breezed past competitors in the men's 400-meter semifinals today. Tomorrow, he goes for gold in the finals. NPR sports correspondent Becky Sullivan joined Up To Date from Paris to share the latest on the Summer Games.

06/08/2024

JASMINE MOORE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO WIN AN OLYMPIC MEDAL IN THE TRIPLE JUMP!!!
Jasmine Moore made history as the first African-American woman to win an Olympic medal in the triple jump. She achieved this milestone at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she secured the bronze medal in the women's triple jump event.

06/08/2024

An Olympic First 🤸🏽 🤸🏾🤸🏾
Three Black Women sweep the medals in the gymnastics floor finale- silver medalist Simone Biles🥈 and bronze medalist Jordan Chiles🥉show love to gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil 🥇
❤️🤍💙

05/08/2024

Fatoumata Sylla made history by becoming the first athlete from Guinea to represent the country in archery at the 2024 Olympic Games. Her participation marks a significant milestone for Guinean sports, highlighting the country's growing presence on the international stage in disciplines beyond its traditional strengths. Sylla's achievement not only showcases her individual talent and dedication but also paves the way for future athletes from Guinea to pursue competitive archery at the highest levels of global sports.

05/08/2024

Historic night for Noah Lyles and Fred Kerley. 🇺🇸

05/08/2024
05/08/2024

UNREAL 🔥

The 4x100m medley relay sets a new world record at the .

04/08/2024

SAINT LUCIA TO THE WORLD ‼️

🇱🇨's Julien Alfred storms to the Olympic 100m gold medal with 10.72 🤩

That's the first medal in the history of the Olympic Games for her country.

🥈 Sha'carri Richardson 🇺🇸
🥉 Melissa Jefferson 🇺🇸

Congratulations 🎉 🎊 👏🏿
02/08/2024

Congratulations 🎉 🎊 👏🏿

WORLD RECORD!!!!🔥🔥

The US 🇺🇸 mixed 4x400m quartet of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon & Kaylyn Brown broke the World Record in the heats at the Olympics!

They clocked a time of 3:07.42, broke their own World Record and won by over 30 metres.

Congratulations🎉🎉🎉
02/08/2024

Congratulations🎉🎉🎉

CONGRATULATIONS!!! HISTORIC!!! SHE DID IT!!!
LAUREN SCRUGGS FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO WIN GOLD IN FENCING!!!

29/07/2024

HISTORY MADE! 🇸🇸👏 South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, wins their first-ever Olympics men's basketball game, defeating Puerto Rico despite Jose Alvarado's 26 points!

Just 14 years ago, this country didn’t exist.

28/07/2024

Axelle Saint-Cirel, sang the French National Anthem at the 2024 Olympic Games.

27/07/2024

16-year-old track Olympian Quincy Wilson linked up with members of USA Basketball at the Opening Ceremony 🔥

Wilson is the youngest ever male track Olympian for Team USA 🇺🇸

(via _quincy_wilson/IG)

27/07/2024

Sending a postcard from .

27/07/2024

Noah Lyles 🤝 Coco Gauff

📺: NBC Olympics & Paralympics & Peacock TV

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26/07/2024

HAPPY 68th BIRTHDAY to DENNIS HAYSBERT!!
Career years: 1978 - present
Born Dennis Dexter Haysbert, American actor. He is known for his roles as baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, Secret Service agent Tim Collin in the political thriller film Absolute Power, Sergeant Major Jonas Blane on the CBS action drama series The Unit, God on the Netflix show Lucifer, and President David Palmer on the first five seasons of 24. He has also appeared in the films Love Field, Heat, Waiting to Exhale, and Far from Heaven, as well as the science fiction series Incorporated.

Early life -
Haysbert was born Jun 2, 1954 in San Mateo, California, the son of Gladys (née Minor), a homemaker and house cleaner, and Charles Whitney Haysbert, Sr., a deputy sheriff and airline security guard. He is the eighth of nine children, having two sisters and six brothers. His parents were from Louisiana. Haysbert was raised Baptist.

Haysbert graduated from San Mateo High School in 1972. After high school, being 6 ft 5 in tall, he was offered athletic scholarships but instead chose to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career:
Television -
Haysbert has been acting in film and television since 1978, starting with a guest role in The White Shadow. His television guest starring roles include Lou Grant, Growing Pains, Laverne & Shirley, The A-Team, Night Court, Dallas, The Incredible Hulk, Magnum, P.I., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Duckman and Brooklyn 99. In 1993, he had a featured role in Return to Lonesome Dove as outlaw Cherokee Jack Jackson. In 1999, Haysbert starred with Eric Close in Now and Again, which was cancelled after one season.

In 2001, Haysbert rose to prominence when he was cast in 24 as U.S. Senator David Palmer, who served as the first black U.S. President (in the context of the show) during the second and third seasons. He also returned as a guest star in the last six episodes of season 4 and the first episode of season 5. He was nominated for a Golden Globe and for a Golden Satellite Award in 2002 for this role. Haysbert stated in an interview for the show that the three men he admires most—Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Colin Powell—collectively embody his idea of what a President should be. Haysbert believes that his playing of David Palmer on 24 helped Barack Obama—whom Haysbert supported—to win the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Haysbert was the first actor to portray DC Comics character Kilowog, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, in a medium outside of comics. He provided the voice of Kilowog on various episodes of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. On March 4, 2006, Haysbert guest-starred on the Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Natalie Portman as the host of a live-action/animated TV Funhouse cartoon called "Belated Black History Moment." In his role, Haysbert paid homage to fictional short-lived Saturday morning cartoons featuring black characters, such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Outer Space. He also portrayed Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana (also released under the name The Color of Freedom). Haysbert portrayed the lead character Jonas Blane in the CBS military action-drama The Unit. He hosted and narrated the Military History Channel presentation of Secrets of Pearl Harbor, which documented his scuba dives with a film team on World War II-era Japanese and American warships in the Pacific Theater. In March 2013, Haysbert narrated the documentary The World According to Dick Cheney on the Showtime television channel. On May 19, 2014, Haysbert also featured in the fifth episode of the fourth season of The Boondocks as Reverend Sturdy Harris. In 2015, Haysbert played Detective John Almond in Backstrom.

Since September 6, 2015, Haysbert has been the opening voice introducing NBC's Meet The Press.

In November 2016, Haysbert began his co-starring role in Incorporated. Set in a dystopian future run by corporations, Haysbert plays Julian, a ruthless security head working for one of the larger corporations. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are co-executive producers on the series, which was shot in British Columbia, Canada, and airs on Showcase in Canada and Syfy in the U.S.

He has also been cast to play God for the second half of the fifth season of Lucifer.

Film -
In 1989, Haysbert made his first major role as Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo-practicing Cuban refugee baseball player, in Major League. Haysbert followed that up with a role in 1990's Navy SEALs, which also starred Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn, before moving on to another baseball movie, Mr. Baseball with Tom Selleck. In 1991, he also starred in K-9000, where he played a police officer named Nick Sanrio. In 1992, he co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field, a film about a series of events occurring contemporaneously with the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. In 1994, Haysbert reprised his role as Cerrano in Major League II. This was followed by minor appearances in Waiting to Exhale, Heat, and Absolute Power. In 1998, Haysbert made another appearance as Cerrano in Major League: Back to the Minors. In 1999, Haysbert played a police detective in three films: The Minus Man, The Thirteenth Floor, and Random Hearts. In 2000, Haysbert played the role of Zeke McCall in Love & Basketball.

In 2002, Haysbert played the role of gardener Raymond Deagan in Far From Heaven. He won three awards (Satellite Award, Black Reel Award, and Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award) for Best Supporting Actor for that role. In 2005, he had a supporting role in Sam Mendes's film, Jarhead. In 2007, Haysbert returned to the big screen to portray Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana and an FBI agent in Breach. In 2012, he voiced General Hologram in Wreck-It Ralph and served as an official judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival. He replaced the deceased Michael Clark Duncan as Manute in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). In 2014, Haysbert played the role of Dean Fairbanks in Dear White People and General Lyons Dead Rising: Watchtower.

In December 2018, it was announced that Haysbert was to star in the Netflix psychological thriller Secret Obsession. The film was released on July 18, 2019.

Commercials -
Since 2003, Haysbert has appeared as the official spokesman for the Allstate Insurance Company. His commercials typically end with one of the two Allstate Corporation official slogans, either "Are you in good hands?" or "That's Allstate's stand." However, his commercials have combined the two with "That's Allstate's stand. Are you in good hands?" He has also appeared in Spanish-language commercials with the line "Con Allstate, Estás En Buenas Manos." (With Allstate, you're in good hands.) In 2009–2010, Allstate used the Neil Sedaka song "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" in television commercials to promote Allstate's car insurance. Breaking up is hard to do, the ads averred, unless one has an Allstate agent to undertake the deed for the customer (switching from another insurer to Allstate). The viewer learned that "breaking up is easy to do" as reassured on the screen by Haysbert. In his role as spokesman for Allstate, Haysbert officiated the coin toss prior to the 2007 Sugar Bowl between LSU and Notre Dame.

In 2008, Haysbert was featured in national television ads to raise public awareness about lending discrimination. The ads were commissioned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. In one of these ads, Haysbert warns consumers about lenders' targeting minorities for inferior loan products.

For the 2006 college football season, Haysbert did voice work for ticket sales promotions for Brigham Young University. He did it as a favor to his younger brother Adam, who played wide receiver at BYU in the early 1980s.

Haysbert also voices the Military Channel's commercials with their official slogan: "The Military Channel. Go Behind the Lines."

Video games -
Haysbert has also done voice work for various video games, such as Irving Lambert in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, the narrator in Call of Duty: Finest Hour and reprising his television role of David Palmer in 24: The Game.

Theater -
In June 2010, Haysbert joined the cast of David Mamet's Race on Broadway as character Henry Brown, performing alongside actors Eddie Izzard, Richard Thomas and Afton Williamson. The play ran until August 21, 2010.

Personal life -
Haysbery has been married twice:
Elena Simms (m. 1980; div. 1984)​
Lynn Griffith (m. 1989; div. 2001)

He is the father of two children.

Haysbert announced in April 2009 that he was starting a production company. His first project was to be a documentary for HBO about an up-and-coming boxer.

25/07/2024

LeBron James and Coco Gauff were chosen as the U.S. flag bearers by their fellow Olympic team members 🙌

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