Before Oscar Proud became one of the funniest dads in animation history, he was just a drawing on a piece of paper. ✍🏾
And according to Tommy Davidson, the creators of The Proud Family told him to go home, study the character, and figure out what he sounded like. 🤔
What Tommy brought back became television history.
The screaming.
The panic.
The Proud Snacks delusion.
The way Oscar loved his family so hard that it turned into pure chaos.
It didn’t feel manufactured. It felt real. 🤌🏾
That’s why Oscar Proud lasted across generations and returned for The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder more than 20 years later.
Because underneath all the comedy was something a lot of people recognized instantly:
A loud, overprotective Black father trying his best to hold his family together. 🥰
And Tommy Davidson didn’t just voice that character.
He built him.
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Rihanna is getting defended by parents online after revealing a new tattoo inspired by her kids. The tattoo — a series of chaotic little scribbles inked behind her knee — was reportedly designed by her children RZA, Riot, and baby Rocki, with the original drawing even featuring Paw Patrol stickers and toddler doodles. While some people roasted the tattoo online, plenty of parents rushed to defend it, saying the point wasn’t whether the art looked “good,” but preserving a specific moment in her kids’ childhood forever. “Imagine looking back at it when they will be older,” one person wrote, while another added: “Only moms and dads can understand.”
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Zohran Mamdani appointed Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz — a Black lesbian librarian, archivist, and longtime advocate for public access to information — to lead New York City’s Department of Records and Information Services.
The appointment is getting attention online not just because Smith-Cruz will oversee NYC’s archives and public records, but because it comes amid growing debates over historical preservation, LGBTQ+ representation, and government data access nationwide.
Smith-Cruz, who previously worked at institutions including Barnard College, NYU, and the Brooklyn Public Library, said preserving history means making sure marginalized communities and voices “whose names were not documented or heard” are included in the official record.
Her appointment is also part of Mamdani’s broader push to place more LGBTQ+ leaders in prominent roles across New York City government.
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If you're a straight woman who knows the horrors of dating straight men, you've probably had moments when you've thought to yourself, "Life would be *so* much easier if I were into women. Well, according to Victoria Monét, dating other women isn't that much easier. In fact, she said she finds it "worse."
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FKA Twigs is officially set to play LEGENDARY entertainer and activist Josephine Baker in a new biopic! From Maimouna Doucouré, the director behind Cuties, this movie will trace Baker’s extraordinary life — from becoming a Jazz Age superstar after moving from St. Louis to Paris in the 1920s, to secretly working with the French Resistance during World War II, and later becoming a prominent figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. The film begins shooting this fall and is being made with support from Baker’s family. In a statement, Twigs said Baker’s legacy has inspired her for years, calling her a “visionary, groundbreaking woman” whose story still feels deeply relevant today.
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