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When Chuck D Speaks the true voice of Hip Hop it's time we all listen! Rappers are making their voices heard in song and on the ground in
Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of Michael Brown's shooting death,
channeling hip-hop's earlier roots when the genre worked as a voice for
the oppressed and spoke out against injustice. "It's really
important to see hip-hop's role of being some grown-ups and doing some
really stand-up, grown-up stuff," Public Enemy's Chuck D, one of rap's
most powerful voices, said in a recent interview. "These people have
actually stood up ... and that has to be saluted." The Rock and
Roll Hall of Famer said he's impressed with rappers such as J. Cole, who
released a heartaching, tearful song called "Be Free" inspired by
Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot to death by a Ferguson
officer on Aug. 9. Others in rap also have lifted their voices:
Talib Kweli, like J. Cole, marched in Ferguson and spoke out about
injustice; David Banner appeared on CNN; Nelly started a scholarship for
teens in honor of Brown; and Lauryn Hill dedicated her song "Black
Rage" — which uses some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "My Favorite
Things" — to the Ferguson community. "When the dogs bite, when the
beatings, when I'm feeling sad I simply remember all these kinds of
things and then I don't feel so bad," she sings. The largest
hip-hop gesture for Brown, who was an aspiring rapper, came Wednesday
when the Game released the song "Don't Shoot," in which he's joined by
all-stars like Diddy, Rick Ross and 2 Chainz, among others. Sales from
the song will benefit the Mike Brown Memorial Fund on GoFundMe, which
has raised nearly $300,000 in two weeks. "I wanted to do my part
in bringing awareness to it, so that at the end of the day that I can
sleep well knowing that I used my voice correctly," the Game said in an
interview Thursday. Other black entertainers have spoken out
including Kerry Washington, Jesse Williams and Spike Lee, who attended
Brown's funeral on Monday. At a concert last week where he performed
Marvin Gaye's seminal "What's Going On?" at the Hollywood Bowl, John
Legend wore a shirt that said "don't shoot." While a number of
members of the rap community have come out in support of Ferguson —
including Russell Simmons, Killer Mike, Young Jeezy and Wiz Khalifa —
others have wondered if hip-hop's most prolific and popular stars will
chime in, from Jay Z to Pharrell to Kanye West to Lil Wayne. "I
don't believe everyone has a role for this, and I also don't believe
quantity takes over as quality. I think we have a quality combination in
there," Chuck D said. Though hip-hop has been criticized for
glorifying sex and violence, its musicians have a history of standing up
against perceived injustice, especially in the genre's early years,
with songs like "Fight the Power" and "The Message." A more recent
example came after Trayvon Martin's death in 2012. Last week, T.I.
released the song "New National Anthem," which he wrote after the July
2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Martin.
He says he hopes to start a dialogue between the community, city
leaders and police. "This is not to divide race, color,
generation, region. This is not to incite or encourage people to go
against to the police. This is to bring about change by way of creating
awareness of the current status in America in these inner city areas for
our young black men and young black people," the rapper said in a
recent interview. T.I. said songs like his and J. Cole's can serve as a voice for those who don't have a platform like famous rappers. "We
are the voice for those without a voice," he said. "Our messages reach
the ears of people that most common men in America can't reach, and I
think that has to be used to the advantage and the greater good of the
masses." ___ AP Entertainment Writer Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.
Beautiful fashion shouldn't be "Exclusive". M.Michele Designs allows
every woman, the privilege of high-fashion and timeless pieces. Too often, quality fabrications, cut, and design, have had price tags to match. Being stylish shouldn't cost women a fortune. A sense of style and an appreciation of all things elegant have no
regional or social-economic exclusivity. All women can achieve their
"inner-fashionista", if high fashion is created to be affordable. Our closets should contain a wardrobe that is interchangeable and
timeless. Who desires to make a purchase each and every time there's an
event, special occasion or change of season? Clothing should accompany
our lives, not the other way around. Everyone has the ability to look and feel beautiful. Clothing can be
transformationalÂ. We women have mastered the art of nurturing others;
often leaving ourselves yearning for our own little pleasures. Those
innocent pleasures have often included, browsing and desiring the latest
blouse, shoe, or dress. It should not create a financial debt in the
process. Lastly, but certainly not least of all: First impressions are lasting
impressions. Fashion has the ability to speak volumes without the utter
of a spoken word. We should wear the clothes. The clothes should never
wear us.
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Now Who's That Lady Entertainment is a permanent place to spotlight
products, services and upcoming projects from those who give their lives
to the business we call entertainment.
Our upcoming Sista Girlfriend tour will be a spectacular meeting of the
minds to mentally, spiritually and physically push each other to the
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I am so inspired with all the women on Who's That Lady Entertainment.
However, I could not resist telling you about some of our phenomenal men
who are also doing great things. Girls, wait until you see some of the
fine hunk of talented men included on our site. It sends chills up and
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If these stories don't move our readers into action to live life to the
fullest, I don't know what will. It seems as though celebrities go
through the greatest challenges because millions of God's children are
watching and going through the same thing and may give up. However, when
they see their favorite celebrity go through life's challenges and rise
up victoriously, they realize life is precious and you never give up.
Christina Johnson said it best when she told her fans while going
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A controversial video documents the St. Paul resident being harassed and tased.
So a man waiting to pick up his kids from school sits for a few
minutes in a seating area where he reasonably thinks he has a right to
be, private security asks him to leave, he thinks they're harassing him
because he's black, and they call police. This is where the video
begins, and that conflict is already over. The man is walking away from it and toward the nearby school where he is to pick up his kids.
So problem solved? It could have been.
Instead, this happened:
The Furious 5 formerly known as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5, the 1st Hip Hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, The group that gave you "THE MESSAGE" WHITELINES, IT'S NASTY, FREEDOM plus many more historical hits.
The group that paved the way for all in Hip Hop recorded this song 20 years ago, so there no need to post any new song regarding on what going on today because it was already said before from the heart not the pockets or publicity.
SUN DON'T SHINE IN THE HOOD relates to all problems we are facing today from Fergurson to an ghetto in America.
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So we all know she was working on her new song and here her video from Momma Dee Single release Party. But here the kicker Momma Dee will be granting us at Who's That Lady Ent with an exclusive interview real soon.
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In the '90s, the ladies of SWV—Cheryl “Coko” Clemons, Leanne “Lelee”
Lyons and Tamara “Taj” George—were on top of the music world. From the
streets of New York to superstardom, they had a string of top ten
R&B hits including “I’m So Into You,” “Right Here,” “Downtown,”
“Weak,” and “You’re Always On My Mind.” With over 15 million albums
sold, a Grammy® nomination, an American Music Award nomination and 11
Billboard Music Awards nominations, SWV was unstoppable. But while they
seemed to have it all, the drama behind the scenes tore the group apart.
It didn’t just end, it ended badly; and in 1998 the members of SWV went
their separate ways.
After marriage, kids and other endeavors, the trio decided it was time
to reunite for a chance to recapture their fame. 1n 2012, their sultry
sound was introduced to a whole new generation of fans with new album I
Miss Us, which earned a Grammy® nod in 2013 for “Best Traditional
R&B Performance.” SWV REUNITED follows these three strong and
talented women as they figure out how to trust again—on and off the
stage—and perform with each other. The premiere episode follows SWV on
the first stop of the comeback tour at Wembley Stadium in London, but
new secrets about Coko’s health threaten the rehabilitated bond of the
group.
This season, SWV begins to record a new album, but shocking secrets from
the past, management drama, health emergencies and devastating personal
problems threaten the future of the group.
The mother of Delano Wilson, a 6-week-old baby boy who was kidnapped
at gunpoint in Indianapolis Wednesday, has made an impassioned plea for
his safe return.
"Please, just please bring my baby back," the boy's mother, Taniasha Perkins, told reporters on Thursday. "He's just one month old. I love my child. I just gave birth to him. He is my one and only son, my first born."
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department issued an Amber Alert
following the kidnapping, which happened around 12 p.m. Wednesday, in
an alley in the 1400 block of Henry Street. The child is believed to be
in extreme danger.
According to police, 23-year-old Willie Wilson
was walking in the alley holding Delano when an unidentified white man
and an unidentified Latino female approached him.
I just like to say thank you to all you that decided to make a song using the term"Nigga" and try to explain it does not mean the same as it did years ago. Wrong. The police are killing us left and right, every hateful person damn near called out POTUS the N- Word and we continue to not understand what is really going on. They got some of us dumbdown, yes dumb down from the Music to the T.V Shows. But this is just an trail basis of what they really want to do and all we do is continue to feed into how stupid alot of us can be..
The Egyptian newspaper Youm7 shocked and disgusted readers Thursday
with its front page headline that uses extremely racist language to
describe the issue of African gangs in Cairo. WARNING: This article contains explicit language that some readers may find offensive.
As the nation continues to grapple with police discrimination in America, a number of incidents are now surfacing more than ever thanks to the power of social media.
One recent encounter took place in Beverly Hills Friday, Aug. 22, during Emmy Award weekend between local authorities and television producer Charles Belk who said police arrested him
as he was walking from a restaurant where they reportedly accused him
of “armed bank robbery and accessory to robbery of a Citibank.” Belk penned a post on Facebook
describing the “life altering experience,” saying his only crime was
fitting the description of a “tall, bald head, black male.”
Nadia Crow is the first African American news anchor for
Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah, Utah? That's
the question many family and friends asked her prior to accepting the job. Nadia has worked in Indiana and the
cornfields of Iowa. Strange for a former
Chicagoan, but Nadia has accepted the experience as a part of her journey that
has led her to the wonderful career that she has today.
LENELL: You have
moved around a lot as a child. Tell us a
little about your life growing up.
NADIA: I grew up
primarily in the suburbs of Chicago. I went to Downers Grove Public High School
and I finished at what is now Plainfield Central High school. I spent a little time moving around when I
was younger. I was born in Texas and spent
about six years of my childhood in Norfolk, VA; my dad was in the Navy. I lived
in Missouri for a little bit, and then settled in the suburbs of Chicago. I’m
used to the cold, windy weather.
LENELL: What really inspired you to pursue a career in
journalism?
NADIA: My older sister, Latasha and I would start our day
watching court shows on TV like Matlock and The People’s Court; then we would
watch the news. We would watch 20/20,
Oprah and different entertainment and talk shows and I thought,
“Ok, that looks like something I
want to do. The hosts would interview
really great people and they got a chance to do really fun stuff like ride in a
helicopter and try new foods in the
cooking segments. So, I just thought if people can do that every day and get paid
to do it; sign me up. My sister is now a
lawyer and I am an anchor reporter. We
both went into the very careers that we said we were going to do when we were
little kids; that almost never happens.
LENELL: That is
wonderful. I’m sure your parents are
ecstatic.
NADIA: They are;
they seem pretty proud along with my grandparents. When I got into college, I
thought that I would be a magazine reporter. The show, “Living Single”was one of my favorite shows. Kadijah’s character owned “Flavor” magazine
and I wanted my life to be like “Living Single”. However, as I got into school and I understood
the power of TV and media, I realized there was a lack of representation for women
of color in general, especially positive role models in the era of booty shaking
videos. That’s how people viewed Black women on TV. That didn’t reflect the Black women that I
grew up with which included my mom, my grandmother and other Black women who
were important in my life. I knew then that
I wanted to be a broadcaster. I grew up watching Tamron Hall when she was on
Fox Chicago and Soledad O’Brien for many
years and it really left an impact on me. I finally settled and said, “TV news, yep,
that’s for me.”
LENELL: What was your experience like as being the first
Black anchor in Utah?
NADIA: When I took
the job I didn’t know that I would be the first. It did cross my mind to think
Utah, what’s in Utah? Are there people who are going to look like me? When I was being interviewed by the person
who is now my boss, I remember asking him, ‘When I go to the grocery store,
will I see people who look like me? Will
I be able to find a place where I can get my hair done? Not everybody can do
our hair.’ They were really simple
questions that I was really concerned about.
I knew that there would be a small percentage of Black people in
Utah. Later I learned that there is a 2%
population in the entire state which is not huge. I lived just outside of Chicago which has a
huge African American population. When I
came here people kept saying, ‘I think you’re the first African American anchor’. However, I later found out that there were a
few Black women before me. There was one
woman who was a weekend anchor and another who did fill-in work, but I am the
first primary weekday anchor. It’s much different from having a weekend anchor
job when you’re just on two days a week or days when you have fewer viewership
versus having a primary anchor spot when you’re only representing really 2% of
the population.
It was a huge deal that I didn’t realize was going to be
such a big deal until I got here and then Essence called. I remember calling my
mom and my grandmother saying, ‘I’m going to be in Essence magazine!’ Then I
thought, ‘Oh no, what if this is a prank.’
When you think about black families growing up, you had three magazines
on your coffee table; Essence, Jet, and Ebony. To be in one of those magazines
was an honor. I remember my grandmother
started crying. I left a message for my dad, and he called back saying, ‘I
think you said you were going to be in Essence.’ He said, ‘Did you get cut off or did I not
hear that message right? It was really
cool.
Many people write letters, send emails, write me tweets
and hit me up on Facebook just to say they are so happy to have me here. Utah
needed this. Black people, Hispanic
people, just people across the board, and every generation as well have been
supportive. You never know what’s going
to happen especially with the older generation that’s a little more settled in
their ways and they are used to seeing
things how they see them. I didn’t
expect all of this when I first moved here. I didn’t know what it would mean when I took
the job. I have had nothing but really
great feedback. I was really nervous
about it, but it has been good.
LENELL: We live in an age where woman have really made
their mark on the world of journalism like Barbara Walters and Robin Roberts.
Previously you mentioned Tamron Hall and Soledad O’Brien inspired you; were there
other influences?
NADIA: I think my biggest influence initially growing up
was probably Oprah. Knowing that she was just in downtown Chicago was great. I
remember my dad and grandmother pointing out Harpo Studios. It just seemed so
close, but yet so far away. Oprah was definitely an influence because she can
do whatever she wants because it’s the Oprah show. She had fun and she got to
do really cool things. She had shows that
were really indepth and investigative pieces covering topics that made people
uncomfortable. I just loved watching it.
My grandmother was Oprah’s biggest fan.
I could always talk to her about what was happening on the show and that
made me feel like I could do it. It showed me that I could be smart,
intelligent and funny as well as be serious and be taken seriously all at the
same time. I think that was really important for me growing up to see all that
through Oprah.
Once I got older and really started watching the news, I
saw Tamron Hall on Fox Chicago. I remember thinking, ‘Man, she is so good at
her job.’ I felt like I knew her. I felt like she was almost a member of our
family because you watched her every single morning. I remember seeing her at the Chicago Auto
Show. She was doing a live report that day and I can remember standing there
and staring at her telling my dad, ‘That’s Tamron Hall.’ I whispered because I didn’t want her to see
me. I was so happy and nervous. She was like this
larger than life figure and I followed her career on MSNBC and the Today Show.
It’s been awesome; I feel like I have been there from the start. I
would be remised if I didn’t mention Soledad O’Brien. I met her in college. It was my freshman year at Syracuse
University and I was just starting out in the Journalism program. Meeting her brought me to tears. I had just sat down and listened to her
speech about returning from Guantanamo Bay.
After her speech, she came to a meet and greet where she was able to
speak with a lot of the students and I can just remember being so awestruck. I
can meet any celebrity or actress in person and be like, ‘Who’s that?’ However,
meeting one of my role models in person really shook me. She sat down and told me that I can do this;
I can have a family, and I can do this business. If I wanted to be on CNN one
day I can do it. Just offering those words of wisdom and that advice really
meant a lot to me especially when I was starting my first year of school in the
journalism program. I still have that picture with her and my micro braids.
(Laughing)
LENELL: In the
wake of the controversy with the Michael Brown situation, do you find yourself
uncomfortable with stories that have racial substance especially being in an
area like Utah? Does that personally affect you?
NADIA: We talk about it here. A lot of producers would say, ‘Hey read this
story. What do you think?’ Recently, I was asked to be a part of a documentary
from some filmmakers here in Utah called, Two Percent. They are looking at the history of the 2% Black
population in Utah. They are looking at the history of how Black people got to
Utah and at the ones who are making history now. So we started talking about the documentary
and I told my news director that this is really important. This is such a small population of the state,
but they have a voice and they have a history. Black people have been dated
back in Utah since 1847, 1848 with the Mormon pioneers and most people don’t
know that. However, the Black population has always remained at 2% and hasn’t
grown like the other ethnic groups.
I do think that when you talk about any story when it
comes to race, the thing that I struggle with the most is making sure that I’m
not speaking for my entire race. I am one person, I am one human being, I have
my own thoughts; I have my own opinions, but I do not speak for all Black people
around me. If you put ten people from my
family in one room, we wouldn’t agree on everything. If you put me and my sister in a room, we
would have our own opinions. So when people in my newsroom ask me, ‘Hey Nadia,
what do you think about this?’, I struggle to answer because I don’t want them
to think, ‘Well if Nadia says or feels this way, all Black people may feel the
same.’ Since I am one of three black
women in the entire building and the only on-air person at the station, what I
do and say becomes what all Black people do and say. It becomes almost a
burden. You may find that coming into any job.
I also find myself as an educator more than what I
thought I would be. The questions of, ‘Do you tan?, Do you get sunburn?’,
allows me to teach people that skin is skin and at some point it can burn. Those are some of the simple things that you
have to teach people.
The Michael Brown story is a very delicate situation, no
matter if I was an anchor in Detroit or an anchor in Salt Lake City. We don’t
have all the facts; we weren’t there.
When you add in race, a lot of feelings and emotions get into that. So I
try my best as a journalist to make sure that I am non-biased and to make sure
that I’m reporting all the information as I know it. People will call me out on
twitter and say, ‘Nadia, the police should have did this or the police said
that’. It’s not my job to interpret what happened. My job is to relay the facts
and say this is what happened. This is
what the police said. This is what Michael Brown’s family said and that is for
any story. I let my viewers make their
own decisions. So when it comes to a Michael Brown story, a story that is
racially charged I have to keep my own feelings and emotions out of that.
LENELL: Outside of being a journalist what does Nadia do
for fun?
NADIA: It is so funny when I said, ‘I‘m moving to Utah.’ My family said, ‘What? Utah, Utah?’
Or, ‘Utah, Florida?’ I said I was going to be a Utahan through and
through. Utahans ski, camp, hike and do all those things I never thought that I
would do; I have done. I‘ve gone skiing for the first time this past season.
I’ve been hiking. Utah has five national parks, which is unlike any other
state. I’ve been to two of them so far.
I’ve done some crazy hikes. There’s one called Angel’s Landing and
that’s in Zion’s National Park, down in Southern Utah where you are hiking up,
holding onto chains because the trail really isn’t a trail. You’re actually climbing up rocks and there
is a 1400 foot drop off on each side of you. People have literally died on this
trail. It is scary.
LENELL: Oh My God!!!!!!!
NADIA: I said I’m going to do it, why not; I’m going to
do it. I did it, and I have never been so proud of myself. When I got to the top and looked down, I
thought, ‘Man, to accomplish this is so cool.’ When I went skiing and posted a picture on
Facebook, my dad wrote, ‘Dear Lord, watch over my child.’ He just thought, ‘What
are you doing? What is going to happen
to you?’ It’s been really, really fun. I
can honestly wholeheartedly say that when I look back over this period of my
life, I know that I would be able to smile, laugh, look at pictures and say, ‘Wow,
I was so crazy and I thought I was invincible.’
That’s what you do when you live in Utah. When I lived in Indiana and
Iowa, I embraced the experiences. You go out; you do what the locals do and
just kind of take it all in. Surprisingly, I love hiking and camping and I
never thought I would. However, I do not like skiing. I will not do that again.
LENELL: What does the future hold for you, personally and
professionally?
NADIA: That’s such a tough question. We just had our
summer interns come to the station and that was one of the questions that a lot
of them asked, but I have never been able to answer that question definitively
because I have always left it up to chance or fate. When I look back over the
stations I have worked at, I never thought that I would live in Indiana. Iowa
wasn’t on my radar and never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would call
Salt Lake City home. Yet, here I sit.
When I was at Syracuse, I thought I would be an International Journalist. I would work for the BBC or for Sky News. I
studied abroad in Spain and traveled all over Europe and Northern Africa and I
just thought I am never coming back home.
I’m going to stay over here and be an International Reporter.
That was my goal and then life kind of hit me. I missed
my family; I missed some funerals while I was in Europe because the tickets
were so expensive that you just couldn’t fly back on short notice. I got a little homesick and just wanted to be
around my family. My grandparents were
getting older, and so that changed my dreams.
I thought for sure that I would just want to be a reporter and work my
way up through the networks. Halfway through, I decided maybe I just want to
try this anchoring thing out. It’s too hard for me to say, I‘m a little bit of
a free spirit. I like to take on adventures and challenges. Today, I may think
one thing; tomorrow I may wake up with an epiphany and think this is what I’m
supposed to do.
LENELL: What advice would you give an aspiring journalist
who may be faced with a challenge like accepting a position far away from
family and friends? How do they prepare
themselves?
NADIA: I’ve moved around many times. This is my fourth
station. As I moved around the country, following my career, following my
dreams, I tried to embrace wherever I lived. So when I was in Iowa, I went to
the Sweetcorn Festival. I did stories at different farmsand I tried to learn
as much as I could about agriculture. Iowa was really cool because I got a chance
to be a part of the first Caucus. It really affected the political shape of the
country. I wasn’t really into politics before I got there, but I sure
researched it, learned and interviewed all the key players when they came to
town. I really dug into that assignment.
My advice to people would be that if you get your first
job in Idaho Falls, Idaho or North Dakota, go there with a smile on your face.
Make the best of each day because you may be there for six months or six years. Tell yourself that you are going to walk into
the newsroom to learn from the people who are here. Do your best every single day so when you
look back, you can be proud of yourself. Think of all the adventures that you
were able to do. There are so many
things that I was able to do because of my job and live in places many of my
friends may never experience.
LENELL: I’m sure this is the question that everyone wants
to know… Where do you get your hair done in Utah? (Both laughing) Inquiring
minds want to know.
NADIA: Everybody at the station who is on air goes to one
stylist. That’s where we have our trade agreement. I went to him and said, ‘Can you do my hair?’ He says, ‘Oh no, I can’t do your hair.’ I thought, ‘Oh, well neither can I. Now we are both stuck. I am not a stylist; that is not my thing.’ He referred me to another salon. I went there once or twice, but wasn’t really
happy with their work. A woman actually reached out to me on Facebook and
stated her husband does hair. His name is Tim Muir, (Alter Ego Studio Salon-
South Jordan, UT). He does great work; please check him out.
At this point I was living in Utah for eight months. When I visited my sister out in Los Angeles,
I would get my hair done at the salon she goes to. I knew I could not keep flying back and forth to LA every time I need
to get my hair done; I have to find somebody in Utah. So I went to Tim Muir and he is phenomenal.
He is the best hairdresser that I have ever been to and I’ve had my hair done
in LA, Chicago, New York, Syracuse, and Madrid. I have had my hair done all
over the world and he is the best.
Regina Belle is a virtuous woman and she has lived her life and career with an integrity that has
always been apparent in her music. After the chart-topping success of the traditional, foot-stomping
record “God is Good” from her gospel debut, Love Forever Shines, Belle is prepared to take her
integrity to another level with her newest gospel opus HIGHER (Pendulum Records/Walker Davis
Entertainment).
“What happened with ‘God Is Good’ on the first project was just surreal. I knew that I wasn’t going
to have to start to the bottom because I do have a name and a very blessed career, but I had no
idea that the church would be as receptive to my music as they were. I guess they felt safe
because my (R&B) music has always maintained the decency factor and there was always integrity
in everything I sang about in my songs.” The intention of her debut into gospel music was
important, since Belle was raised in church singing gospel from the age of 8. “ I was purposeful
in making sure that the music fans and people who were seeking God, that might not have
been churchgoers, were able to see that God was using the same person—Regina Belle.”
For the last several years, radio host Tom Joyner has had a family convention and expo called the Tom Joyner Family Reunion that is full of entertainment for his radio listeners and fans during Labor Day weekend in Orlando. The event has brought out over 12,000 families in years past and continues to get bigger. Most recently, the event
has been held at the Gaylord Palms. The entertainment at the 2014 event
will include some of the top R&B, hip hop, jazz artist, and
comedians. The 2014 lineup features Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, The
Jacksons, Chubb Rock, Kid n’ Play, Kurtis Blow, and many more.
2014 Event
As in previous years, the 2014 event will be held during the extended weekend of Labor Day, August 28th, 2014 through Monday, September 1st, 2014 at the Gaylord Palms Resort. The event website has the phone number of 407-248-9191 listed to find out more information about the event.
This will be my only East Coast performance this year – don’t miss it!
Get your tickets today – don’t delay. It’s important to get advance
ticketing to avoid cancellations (nervous promoters), to get the best
seats and to plan ahead. Concert promoters monitor these things closely –
so let’s pack this place out! Also on the bill Lillo Thomas for the
ladies.
The 'Baby Got Back' MC tells some of the back story to Nicki's new single.
Nicki Minaj’s new single, “Anaconda,” has a bit of a musical forefather in the form of “Baby Got Back.” The ubiquitous 1992 hit from Sir Mix-A-Lot
is sampled in the beat for the Young Money rapper’s new song, which
dropped on Monday (August 4), and some of his iconic lines — “My
anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun;” “Little in the
middle but she got much back;” “Oh my gosh, look at her butt” — are used
throughout.
“Initially, it was more the music, and she was trying to weigh out a
chorus,” Sir Mix-A-Lot told MTV News, adding that her managers at first
reached out asking to sample the song, and he and Universal cleared the
move. “Next thing I knew, she was feeling good about it. And the
‘Anaconda’ version, I never heard until she was done; I heard it with
everybody else.”
Former Death Row Records CEO is reportedly undergoing surgery following
the shooting at an unofficial VMA pre-party
Suge Knight, the onetime Death Row Records CEO, was reportedly shot
multiple times early Sunday morning (August 24) at West Hollywood
nightspot 1 Oak. The imposing former label boss apparently was able to
walk out of the unofficial pre-VMA party hosted by Chris Brown but was
led to an ambulance by police, according to TMZ.
Details are few but the site broke the news, reporting that four
shots were fired around 1:30 a.m. PT inside 1 OAK’s Los Angeles outpost
on the Sunset Strip. In a 61-second video obtained by the website, a man
resembling the exec (born Marion Knight Jr.) is seen being wheeled out
on a stretcher by emergency workers; a number of police vehicles are on
the scene. Knight’s family and sources close to TMZ seem to confirm his
injuries were not fatal and that he was undergoing surgery in the
pre-dawn hours.
At 9 p.m. PT on Saturday, Brown — an MTV VMA nominee
at tonight’s show — posted a promo for the 1 OAK bash on his Instagram,
adding the anticipatory caption, “We bout to turn the [f--k] up!!!!”
But by Sunday morning, Brown had taken to Twitter
to vent about the aftermath of the shooting, writing, “It’s
disappointing that we as a society can’t have fun or enjoy ourselves
without any altercations sometimes. Miss me with the bullsh–!!!”
TO READ MORE http://www.mtv.com/news/1908991/suge-knight-shot-twice-pre-vma-1oak/
Protests continue following the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown
by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The marchers, though, are not
just protesting Brown's slaying. They are also voicing pent-up anger at
an old problem: police violence, often directed at black and brown
people.
The horrific beating of Rodney King by five police officers in Los Angeles in 1991 -- and the subsequent acquittal of his assailants -- sparked the L.A. riots of 1992,
leading to 53 deaths, some at the hands of police. It was also a video
introduction to police brutality for those in America who may have
doubted its severity.
Twenty years later, a police beating or shooting has a decent chance
of getting caught on camera -- either the one on the phone in
everybody's hand or the surveillance camera pointing down at the street.
The latter captured Kelly Thomas,
a schizophrenic homeless man, being beaten to death by authorities in
Fullerton, California, after being mistaken for a suspect in a series of
car break-ins in the area. They, too, were acquitted.
TO READ MORE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/23/police-brutality-michael-brown_n_5700970.html
When actress Garcelle Beauvais first arrived in Massachusetts from
Haiti, it was the first time she felt different from those around her.
"When I went to school, I was the only black child, and the kids would
touch my skin and feel my hair because they hadn't seen someone like
me," she told parenting site Elizabeth St. "I never thought of myself as different until then."
Beauvais
is drawing on that experience and that of raising three children,
including bi-racial twin boys, in the first of a series of children's
books entitled "I Am Mixed."
"[The
book] is an invaluable teaching tool that all children from all races
can learn from,” actress Halle Berry wrote in the foreword.
Like
Beauvais' twins, "I Am Mixed" tells the story of siblings Jay and Nia as
they explore the thoughts and emotions of being of mixed ethnicities.
It's a topic Beauvais says she broached with her sons at a very young
age -- 2 1/2. "I didn't want them to be asked why is your mommy brown
and daddy white and not have them understand it themselves," she said in an interview with Lifetime's celebrity parents blog.
"I wanted them to know that they're the best parts of us put together.
What I wanted most of all is for them to be proud of who they are and
celebrate themselves.”
"I Am Mixed" is the first in line of a
larger series called I Am, which will tackle the issues of divorced
parents and adoption in the coming months.
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