Vanessa Bell Calloway In The Company Of Friends Season #2 Must Watch!

Season 2 “Ladies Tea” promises to deliver fun and fabulousness with an all new cast! Join Vanessa as she entertains her friends Loretta Devine (Grey’s Anatomy andWaiting To Exhale), Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill andIndependence Day), Shanola Hampton (Shameless and Things Never Said), Edwina Findley (Treme and The Wire), Nichole Galicia (Django Unchained and Love Don’t Cost A Thing), and Robi Reed (VP of Talent and Casting for Original Programming at BET, Emmy award winning director and producer).

To see a preview of Season #2 visit http://inthecompanyoffriends.tv/season-2-ladies-tea-promo-reel/

Wow! Attacking Floyd Mayweather Reading Is Major News?

Floyd Mayweather

It is sad to see the blog sites and internet blowing up on a radio drop that Floyd Mayweather which implied the man can't read. Well there are many artists who are good at radio drops and some who suck because the microphone can make one nervous, some forget the lines or in some cases the mind goes blank. For real, is this really news or information for the dumb down listeners,haters and readers who have nothing to gain by reading negative information. If you wake up in the morning listening to negative music and reading negative info on the internet, then you only cater to those who are hopeless, have low self esteem and feel there is no way out and they base their lives on being negative.

Ok, let's say if Mr Mayweather can't read, we all know he can count the millions he has made in the ring after fighting other boxers and getting hit up side his head. Some may not even understand what that even feels like if you are not a professional boxer. Swelling on the brain which affects your thinking ability with some boxers. Ot how about the black athlete  who go to college and end up playing in the NBA or NFL and can't read. That was a subject not to long ago on ESPN. Where are we dong about that. Ebonics has cause this to be a major problem as well.
 
Floyd never lost a fight however he has been hit by the hand of a professional boxer.  If a professional boxer hit a regular person who is not a boxer, their hands would be considered a lethal weapon. Some may say Floyd has never been hit, well yes he has been hit to the head  the last 20 years. Win or Lose. Everyone's who is making fun of him or thinking he can't read has never been in a real fight or boxing ring.

Look at how many boxers that have fought wars who now can barley talk let alone read because of the blows to the head from the sport of boxing. The same guy you are putting down is the same guy you will be watching at his next fight cheering or betting against him.

Have you ever noticed how many boxer's speaking patterns have change over the years? Boxing has affected their reading and thinking.  Look at Muhammad Ali who was once a quick-witted talker.  Now he is suffering from Parkinson disease where his speech pattern was changing especially after fighting Joe Frazier.  Now he can barley talk let alone read and you want to make fun of this matter?
 
Who knows if Floyd can read or not.  Only those in his inner circle know what is really going on with him personally. I say making fun of one is nasty, negative, and a corplantation move. You work for the plantation and the plantation pays you a check to put one down. GOOD JOB! HOUSE NEGRO IN 2014!
 
We don't know what or if anything is wrong with Floyd Mayweather, but if this is major news to make fun of him because he couldn't read a radio drop, it's a sad day in America.  Right now we have issues with the police killing our brothers for no reason. Tell me where you stand as a Man, Not a Black Man, Just a Man.
This make me think of how far one will reach to make one look silly or show no remorse of what they have done.
Is this the Amos & Andy featuring Kingfish Era?

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Thank You Orlando Jones for s strong and positive message!

Exclusive Interview with Eboni K Williams (CBS NEWS Correspondent)

 EBONI K WILLIAMS
Political Strategist For The People
By Belinda Trotter-James

This has got to be one of the most important political interviews that I've done in a long while.  Eboni Williams is one of the brightest young political stars to rise up from the ashes in a long time. I watched several of Eboni's CNN news clips along with a few of the FOX News clips and you really have to know your political history plus be abreast of world news and politics in general.  The seasoned pros you see on the news broadcasts have been doing this for a long time, therefore how can someone with a young, fresh spirit prepare to have an intelligent, spirited dialog? "It's a lot", says Eboni.  "I just try to make it my business to know everything and education is probably the biggest passion of my life"

Eboni is the first person in her family to finish a four year university and move on to a professional law degree. "I didn't come from very much financially", remembers Eboni.  "My mom was very serious about getting a full education. She didn't have that many resources, but she was very, very serious about my education. She didn't play around when it came to school and grades. She was my advocate and was very involved in my school activities, my teachers and my schoolwork.  My mom probably got on my teachers nerves because she was always there and was constantly at the school asking questions to find out how I can do better."

Eboni also said that her mom did whatever she needed to do to get her to the next level.  Of course she knew she didn't have $60,000 or whatever it costs at the time to send her to college. So she's did what any mom would do.  She's made sure her daughter got a full scholarship to the university of North Carolina. She got her undergraduate degree for free. Eboni always took school very seriously.  "I wasn't perfect, but I always understood the correlation between high academic achievement and long-term success.  This is where some of our young people today miss that understanding," explains Eboni.

The political arena can be a beast and for a young woman such as Ebony she is definitely swimming with the sharks and holding her own. Eboni must have been a child prodigy or maybe her mother made her watch CNN news when she was a baby.  That's the only way I can see the mind of Ebony Williams being able to retain all that political chatter.  She laughs and says, "My first memory of being involved with politics was when Harvey Gantt, the former/first black mayor of Charlotte ran for the United States Senate. My aunt took me and that was my first exposure to the political process. What I learned is that there were a lot of people that didn't know each other coming together from different nationalities.  It fascinated me to see the process of all these people from different walks of life coming together to support a specific person for a specific agenda of what an activity should look like. I thought it was a pretty cool process."

The political bug hit Eboni again when she was in Law school when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.  "I was right there," remembers Eboni.  "I finished my law degree and interned with the New Orleans City Council and I worked at the Attorney  General's office in Louisiana. That's when I saw for the first time from the inside out the political process. I started to get ideas about how I can make an impact though being an attorney as well as a political advisor and really learning everything.  However, when you get on the city level, that's when you really get with your constituents and because that was my intern experience I got a lot of experience dealing with people and their individual concerns and how they rely on government to make things better for them."

Government has an enormous responsibility and that's why Eboni has such a passion for politics. She knows that there are people that don't have to rely on government for things and that's wonderful, but then they are people who do and  government has to do their part for those people. When you watch enough of Eboni's videos you will see that she is not some super left-wing person that feels people should fully be reliant on government instead of helping themselves get to a position where they don't have to be dependent on government. Eboni revealed that it's very much a twofold process.

If you do get a chance to watch her videos or see her in action, she can keep up with the political news heavyweights such as Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Ryan Girdusky or Bill O'Reilly.  She doesn't miss a beat with her fabulous smile. No one discussing political agendas with her will see her sweat.  You will also not catch her off guard and call her an black angry woman. "You know it's so funny you should mention that because that is something I was very aware of when it comes to the progressive commentator," states Eboni.  "Most people believe everything they see and hear on the news.  When it comes to television I'm very cognizant on the way images are shaped and the preconceived notions that the viewership seems to have about black people/black women.  I knew from the first time I went on Fox News that I would never play the angry black woman. The minute you do that any common sense or good thing that comes out of your mouth is null and void. All they will see is another angry black woman and so it defeats the purpose of your responses.

I don't go on any of the shows to waste my time. You're on the shows to promote your brand or your ideology. I'm not on the show because writing a book or anything now, but it really meant a lot to me to have a platform to show these viewers a different type of black person and a different type of ideology.  I'm not going to let a few people  get away with stereotyping us and lumping us all together and believing we are all just poor ignigant, ignorant angry folk that are mad because Uncle Sam is not taking care of us.  I refuse to push that narrative and I felt like I was given this platform. I felt very privileged to be able to open up that dialogue and push for a different type of narrative."

Well,  Eboni is definitely doing an excellent job at staying cool, calm and confident. They never see her sweat while firing rapid dialogue on important world issues.   When it's time to speak, Eboni's spit-fire, rapid dialogue comes right back at them with an explosive response that's right on the money with a smile. Has it ever been a time when she didn't have an answer? I'm sure it happens to the best of them. "I'm still a work in progress," says Eboni.  "When I started working at FOX News, the format was more like a debate so there was more of a strategy behind it. When I started out I didn't necessarily have the proper answer or the best thought out answer, but you learn. Anything you do often enough you learn how to do it better. And now I have a real rapport with Bill O'Reilly and part of that is because I do my research," explains Eboni.

Part of Eboni's research is watching YouTube clips and other clips of Bill O'Reilly in action so that she would know exactly how to handle herself in front of a heavyweight like Bill. Now when she goes on the show with Bill she can almost anticipate how he is going to think about an issue or what questions he is going to ask. If you think about it, it's similar to what you would do as a trial attorney. You might be representing the defendant but your job is to anticipate what the prosecutor is going to ask. Unless you actively understand the way the other side is thinking, you would have failed before you started.

Since this is television you do not have hours to get your point across. Sometimes you have to say what you need to in 30 seconds or less. "Yes", laughs Eboni. "They love to cut you off the minute they see you will not fall for the trap. Some platforms are not as fast pace and I can have a chance to take my time to give a well thought out answer.

The political arena is dominated by men however, women today are still faced with many challenges because they are women.  Eboni recognizes two of the challenges and does not let it affect her ability to do a good job.  "Well two of the challenges are being young and female and you can also throw in being a black woman. Overcoming the youth factor is one because people seem to think that young people are apathetic and ignorant as to what's going on in our political landscape", explains Eboni. "The other is overcoming being pigeon-holed because I'm a woman.  Every producer and even sometimes the host will think that they already know where I stand on an issue. Let me give you an example,  I did a show a couple of months ago where we were talking about racism among the GOP and they said, 'Eboni why is it okay for Harry Reid to call Barack Obama articulate?' I responded, "I'm not ever going to say what Harry Reid said was wise. As a matter of fact, I thought it was ignorant. Furthermore, there are many examples of our Vice President, Joe Biden  making very racially, ignorant statements about being articulate and using racially coded language and its no better to me than the racially viewed things we've heard from the Republican Party."

That spit-fire answer took them off guard because they were probably already thinking she was going to support any and every Democratic elected official. "That has been one of my greatest challenges which is to break that mold of left-wing ideology and open up a space for something more broad, fluid and something that deals more with policy concerns", explains Eboni.

It has been very challenging and difficult for the networks to think she's only a Democratic strategist. Eboni does not want to be called a Democratic strategist. Correction, she is a political strategist. "I'm not going to sit on a network and carry a banner for all democratic officials. I am registered as an independent even though I can fall left on most issues.  However, I would like to get everybody to talk about the issues and the policies. That has been my greatest challenge," says Eboni.

For those who are not interested in politics Eboni brings a fresh new perspective on political issues. She makes it interesting enough so that you will want to watch, listen and learn about how politics work in the United States of America. She is very appreciative of the platform she has with Fox News and CNN. This is not just a hobby for her it's her career. Being on the Fox News Channel was an awesome way for her to cut her teeth with Bill O'Reilly and others. Her radio show allows her to spread her wings so that people can see she can do more than just political bantering back and forth. "I am really in touch and in control with a lot of social justice issues", begins Eboni.  "I can also talk about some of the supreme court decisions in depth and give legal analysis on how it will affect us as women and as people because it's not just about birth control. What we really need to be concerned about is the underlining rulings where the courts have said corporations can be deemed people. That's the biggest part of the ruling that people are missing because that opens up the space for a lot of different corporate interest to take the forefront over some individual interests. We've never seen a court say that before and that can be very scary. Now these corporations will have equal footing, equal standing in getting what they want in lieu of what individuals want and that's a big concern.

In order to follow in  Eboni's foot steps you have to be passionate about politics and go to law school. "Do what you're passionate about.  I know that's common advice, but I say that with this caveat, I'm still a realist and know that people want to live well and be able to support themselves and their family.  I'm not saying don't be concerned with those issues. I tell every young person to become so good at what you do that you cannot be denied. I promise you the money and the success will come. That is what I know from first-hand experience. It might be delayed or it may be linear which is something else I had to learn the hard way. I always had the expectation of when you do something and do it well you get compensated for it in that order. However, what I have learned is that it's not always in that order. Success doesn't always take a linear form and that's where faith comes in. My faith in God is a huge part of who I am and what I do. That's when your faith kicks in and you have to believe in things not seen and know that it is coming.

You can keep up with Eboni on her Twitter https://twitter.com/EboniCBS  She reads all the positive as well as the critical correspondence that comes her way; it's an important way for her to grow. She says she will never reach a point in this business where she feels maximized.  "I don't believe in feeling maximized.  I believe in constant growth and constant evolution", says Eboni. Don't look for her on Fox News anymore; she's got a new gig coming out in September. Stay tuned so that we can reveal who snatched up this political superstar!

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VIDEO-Kajieme Powell Killed & Shot 12 Times by cops in St Louis

Again it's killin season on black men. Let's ask this question when was the last time a black police officer killed a white man in cold blood?

Black Teens Create 'Five-O' App To Help Document Police Brutality (VIDEO)

Meet the teens who are taking on police brutality with a little digital innovation.
Inspired by the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the three high schoolers from Decatur, Georgia, built "Five-O," a mobile app that empowers citizens "to record and store data from every encounter with law enforcement." Those incident reports can then be shared and used by the community to rate individual officers and police departments as a whole.
"We’ve been hearing about the negative instances in the news, for instance most recently the Michael Brown case, and we always talk about these issues with our parents," 16-year-old Ima Christian -- who created the app with siblings Caleb, 14, and Asha, 15 -- told Business Insider, explaining the inspiration behind the program. "They always try to reinforce that we should focus on solutions. It's important to talk about the issues, but they try to make us focus on finding solutions. That made us think why don't we create an app to help us solve this problem."

In addition to the Yelp-like police rating system, the app includes a "know your rights" section, complete with information from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Ima told The Atlantic's CityLab she and her siblings learned to code through their involvement in online programs like MIT's +K12, Scratch and AppInventor. Ima has also taken lessons through Codecademy.
The teens are keen to note they want to focus on the good parts of law enforcement, too.
"If someone has a positive interaction with the police … for example, an officer saved your cat, or was very courteous and professional, we want people to be able to document that too," Ima told Buzzfeed. "We hope that law enforcement agencies with positive reviews can help by functioning as role models.”
WATCH a video for Five-O, below. (Warning: Unless you like police sirens, you'll probably want to mute.) You can download the app for Android devices, here. As of Sunday morning, approval from Apple's App Store was pending.
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Exclusive Interview With Christina Johnson (Atlanta Exes)

MEET CHRISTINA JOHNSON

Inner Peace Triumphs 

 by Belinda Trotter-James

Congratulations are in order for Christina Johnson, the ex-wife of Cee-Lo Green on joining the cast of VH1’s Atlanta Exes.  The creators of the show got in touch with her to see if she would consider being on the show.  Christina said that before she makes any decisions regarding working on a project it has to be Godly. “When they called me about doing the show, I prayed about it. We stayed on the phone for about two hours. By the time we got off the phone I knew it was confirmation that this was an opportunity for me,” said Christina. She had been offered at least 6 to 8 opportunities to do reality TV and turned it down.  She chose this particular franchise because she had already seen Hollywood Exes and liked the format of the show. She is definitely a fan of the show.  "What I love about this franchise is that it’s real life.  You are going to have conflicts however, one must understand that there isn't a conflict that you can't resolve. So there is no one throwing bottles, no jumping over tables or fighting another person,” explains Christina.

When it came to the other cast members, she didn't know them before joining the cast. So she did what any concerned cast member would do… she took a trip out to L.A. to meet them.  "We started meeting once a week for lunch every Friday,” explained Christina.  “We just talked and from the beginning there was a mutual respect for one another and trust. We shared everything with each other about our relationships and what we were dealing with at the moment.  We also talked about our children and whatever we were dealing with that week.  By the time the show started taping the following year, the girls and I were already close and we already had a genuine relationship. It definitely helped to have a relationship with the girls.”  

Christina revealed that relationships are hard and it really helped to have someone to talk to that is dealing with the same type of situation.  “There are so many things that you have to deal with that comes along with having a relationship with an entertainer or an athlete. It's 1 million times more that you have to deal with,” explains Christina.  She goes on to say that you also have to deal with other women coming on to your husband.  “You don’t have to worry, but you're just faced with a lot of other things that are magnified when you're married to an entertainer.  That's why it's good to have other women to bounce things off of who have really been through the same thing and married to the same type of men who have the same type of careers.

All exes must navigate themselves through an emotional roller coaster that can be like a death in the family.  To get through the emotional toll it takes on one’s mental state, you must have a strong will to survive from being a wife to now being an ex-wife. "First and foremost it was my faith that got me through, then prayer and then my writing.  I've been journaling since I was a teenager,” begins Christina.  “When I am going through things it's just automatic for me to write about it. So between all those things and my strong support system which is my family and friends that's how I was able to get through it.”

Christina was very fortunate to not have a horrible separation from her husband.  Her break up with Cee-Lo wasn't as painful because they did everything privately through mediation to decide who gets what.  Every little, tiny detail was not dragged out in the media for all the public to see. “We did everything quietly through mediation,” recalls Christina.  “We did it that way for our children and Cee-Lo felt like if this information becomes public, all the wolves will start to come out and he didn’t want me to dodge people who may try to use me. So it was a little bit easier than some of my other cast mates who have been through divorce and had every single thing publicized from what happened in court to how much you're getting in child support.  However, with us we tried to keep everything confidential and kept it close to the family so that our children wouldn't suffer or have to answer a whole bunch of questions.”

Anyone who has been through a breakup or divorce will understand just how painful it is. Remembering the pain of divorce also brought back memories of her turbulent past.  “I have  had an abusive past and I grew up around abuse, but this divorce was one of the hardest things I have ever went through in my life,” reveals Christina. “It was like a death with a grieving stage that was very, very tough. I think because I was raised in the church and my faith in God was so strong, that was how I was able to get through it.

If you read Christina’s Instagram, it will say that she has been through hell and back. From the abuse she grew up in plus the abuse she suffered as an adult we will see through the show how she got another one of life’s challenges thrown her way when she got the news of being diagnosed with Graves’ disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid.  This will all play out in the show. "Women have to understand that we go through a lot. It starts out with the understanding that when we go through these tests that's the good stuff. That's where your resilience, your strengths, your patience and your power comes from,” explains Christina.  “I remember when my Graves’ disease was getting really bad. I was getting large tumors. I had one that was so big that it began pushing my organs out the way.  If you have surgery when you’re not stable, you can go into cardiac arrest. I was very small and I lost lots of weight.  I was having these severe fevers and I didn't know if I was going to live.  The doctors’ didn’t know what was happening.  I remember saying, ‘I'm going to go through this with my eyes wide open. I know that God is going to carry me through.’  Then I remember being on Facebook sharing it and saying, 'I want you guys to watch what God is about to do to my life.'  I knew that He was going to bring me out and He was going to heal me.” 

For those of you who are getting ready to take that same trip through hell Christina advises to stay strong and don't give up. One of her Facebook friends who had been reading her posts said that she really needed to read the post because she had been going through tough times and felt like she wanted to give up however Christina insisted that the young lady not give up. "Don't give up,” Christina insists.  “The moment you give up is when your breakthrough comes. Don't give up.  One of the biggest things you can do is to stay true to your faith.”

Christina used several things to get her through. It didn’t just take one thing…  Daily prayer and meditation were things she did to get through the fire.  Every morning she would be in front of the mirror doing affirmations. “I would speak things that I want in my life and speak them as though they already exist.  Whatever works for you do it and stay strong. The power and strength that I have is because of what I've been through. The hardest times is what equipped me for everything that came.”

OMG! What a testimony.  Now that she is back from hell she looks fabulous and everything in her life is falling into place. She's in the process of creating a website to show off some of her talents as an interior designer.  She started Inner Piece Designs while she was married. "It's been over 12 years. It's my passion. I've done things for Ludacris for the past 10 years and athletes; it's my bread and butter. Her creativity doesn't stop there; she is launching a makeup line called Butterfly EFX with her best friend Toni who is a celebrity make up artist.   "We are just about ready to launch it and I am so excited about it," says Christina. "We didn't want to do the private label thing. A lot of companies just get a product and stick a label on it.  We really have been working with the manufacturers in New York and China to make sure this product is beautiful for all women.  How the color looks in the tube is how it will look on your lips. It's very concentrated so it doesn't take much, but it's beautiful. On the show you will see me wear the lip tattoos. The one I will wear in the season finale is red with black tiger stripes,” reveals Christina. The lip tattoos last for about seven hours. She will also have beautiful shades of lipsticks and lip gloss'.

The first time I laid my eyes on Christina was while watching MTV, My Super Sweet 16 reality show with her daughter, Sierra. She was only 14 at the time but she could not wait to do the show and celebrate. I enjoyed watching her on the show and Christina says that she is now a 24 year old makeup artist with a handsome five year old son.

Through it all the one word Christina used to sum up her life at this time is gratitude. "I’m so grateful for everything God has brought me out of.  I'm grateful for everything he is doing and is about to do in my life. If I had to sum it up, that's what it would be; I'm just a ball of gratitude.   Christina also mentioned that when she talks to God she truly hopes that He understands just how truly grateful she is at this time in her life. It's almost difficult to put into words the amount of gratitude that’s rushing through every cell and every fiber of her being. To thank him is not enough so she hopes that God can just feel how grateful she is.  "That's the way I felt when I was ill. Every time I would get a fever I would just say, ‘Thank you God’,” remembers Christina. "I know this just isn't about me. I know it changed some things in me and it made me reevaluate the way that I live.  It also made me feel like this would bless a lot of other people.”

You can follow Christina on twitter http://www.twitter.com/innerpiece and book her for your next event.  Send your requests to Monopolyatl@aol.com We will also keep up with Inner Piece, Butterfly EFX and Atlanta Exes on Who’s That Lady Entertainment.