News of the films being missed out comes as a shock to the public and those in the film industry.   On Thursday morning, the nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards were announced and there was one huge snub that shocked movie critics world wide … Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Not only was […]

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Aleebo, the bootleg movie reviewer is back on “The D.L. Hughley Show” to share his thoughts on Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. Listen to the…

The American writer Maya Angelou has written and recited a poem in honour of Nelson Mandela, whom she met in the 1960s when she lived in Cairo. In the poem, His Day is Done, Angelou mourns Mandela’s death, praises him as a modern-day David who slew a mighty Goliath and a Gideon, who freed the […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has taken off for South Africa to attend a national memorial service for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. Obama and his wife, Michelle, boarded Air Force One under cold, rainy skies Monday morning for the long flight. The occasion presented an opportunity for a rare get-together of American presidents. Former President […]

  Jennifer Hudson dazzled us as Effie in ‘Dreamgirls’. Now our ‘Idol’ is back as the wife of African leader Nelson Mandela alongside the one and only, Terrence Howard!

A South African community once riven by anti-foreigner violence came together Sunday in the spirit of Nelson Mandela to play a little soccer. The so-called “goodwill games” were among activities around the world marking Mandela Day, which falls on Mandela’s July 18 birthday and was conceived as an international day devoted to public service. Community […]

From the Telegraph: Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie is threatening legal action against the makers of a biographical film about her starring Jennifer Hudson.