Rickey Smiley's 6 Kids: All About His Sons and Daughters (Including How the Comedian Honors His Late Son Brandon)

The radio personality learned he was the father to twin daughters in January 2024 ...
Wall Street Journal

The Shockingly Large Business Behind the Iconic Smiley Face

EVERYONE KNOWS the ingredients of a smiley face: the egg-yolk circle, the black oblong eyes, the curved grin. It has pervaded pop culture since the 1960s, when hippies stickered it onto VW buses and ...
Essence

Rickey Smiley Is Using His Platform To Speak On The Opioid Crisis — And His Grief — Following Son's Accidental Overdose

Comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley is committed to finding a silver lining in a tragic situation. His 32-year-old son Brandon died of what was revealed to be fentanyl and ethanol toxicity in ...
New York Post

Tavis Smiley ordered to pay PBS $2.6M for sexual misconduct

A judge has ordered TV host Tavis Smiley to pay $2.6 million to the Public Broadcasting Service for having multiple affairs with his subordinates. A Washington, D.C., jury found in March that Smiley ...
Los Angeles Times

In Jane Smiley’s rock ’n’ roll novel, does good sense make good fiction?

Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four J’s.” ...
AZFamily

Will there actually be a smiley face in the sky on Friday morning?

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There have been some pictures circulating around social media showing a “smiley face” in the night sky that supposedly will be visible on the morning of April 25. In reality, this ...