NAACP honors Tavis Smiley

Beverly Hills, Calif. — PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley and Dennis Haysbert, who plays the president on the Fox TV series “24,” were among those honored at an annual awards dinner by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The Roy Wilkins Freedom Fund Dinner took place Tuesday in honor of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the historic ruling that heralded the official end of segregation not only in education but also in areas such as housing and work.

“As one who was a beneficiary of the struggle that Thurgood Marshall and those brilliant lawyers waged on my behalf … it’s humbling and it challenges me now to do some significant work to live up to the award,” Smiley said.

MTV presenters will rock you

Los Angeles — The Rock, Vin Diesel, Paris Hilton and Ice Cube will share the stage as presenters at the upcoming MTV Movie Awards.

Other presenters announced Tuesday by the music channel include Ashton Kutcher, “Friends” star Matthew Perry, Queen Latifah and Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans.

They will join previously announced participants Snoop Dogg, Dave Chappelle, Kirsten Dunst, Eve, Jimmy Fallon, Kate Hudson and Scarlett Johansson.

Lindsay Lohan will be host of the show, which will be broadcast June 10.

Volunteer and make his day

Beverly Hills, Calif. — Clint Eastwood wants you to volunteer, punk.

The “Dirty Harry” star reprised his role Tuesday as spokesman for Take Pride in America, an organization of volunteers who maintain public lands.

Eastwood previously promoted the group in the 1980s.

On Tuesday, he posed for photographers while helping students in a fifth-grade class clean up a hiking trail and paint picnic tables at Franklin Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, adjacent to Beverly Hills.

Take Pride in America is a federal organization that supports volunteers who tend to public parks, forests, grasslands, reservoirs, wildlife refugees and more.