Looking GORGEOUS! Michelle Obama Covers 'Elle''s December 2018 Issue
Michelle Obama is the kind of fashion icon we love best: one who seamlessly combines substance with style. So it was a distinct pleasure to wake up on Monday morning to find her on the cover of the December 2018 issue of Elle, with an accompanying interview conducted by none other than Oprah Winfrey.
The cover image, shot by photographer Miller Mobley, features a radiant Obama wearing Dior. In the interview by Winfrey, the two powerhouses discuss Obama's upcoming book "Becoming," which covers what life has been like for the Obama family since former President Barack left the Oval Office, how important marriage counseling has been for the former president and First Lady, the pressures of being the first Black family in the White House and how Michelle decided that being a lawyer wasn't for her.
Though the interview touches on some tough subject matter, including Obama's fears for the lives of her children, it ends on a note of hope.
"We have a responsibility to be optimistic. And to operate in the world in that way," she says.
#RHoA #TEAMTWIRL: RHOA’s Kenya Moore Shares An Adorable Glimpse Of her New Baby On Instagram
Kenya Moore has shared a glimpse of her baby, Brooklyn Doris Daly, on Instagram. The Real Housewives Of Atlanta star posted a photo of the baby’s tiny hand in an adult hand that’s presumably hers.
Moore filled the caption with hashtags and one of them was “#miraclebaby.” There’s a good reason for that.
As the Inquisitr previously reported, Moore’s road to motherhood was not a smooth one. The 47-year-old former beauty queen previously revealed that she struggled with infertility and opted for an IVF treatment so that she could conceive.
She also suffered complications during the pregnancy. In late October, she shared a picture of her extremely swollen feet which seemed to be a symptom of a more serious problem.
“I made fun of my swollen feet at @cynthiabailey10 party. Next day my tests came back for possible preeclampsia,” she wrote.
“I gained 17 lbs in ONE week due to severe swelling and water retention, high blood pressure, and excess protein in urine. This is NOT normal!”
The Mayo Clinic notes that preeclampsia is a pregnancy-related condition that can endanger the life of the baby.
“I took more tests,” she continued. “Baby is fine but if they come back higher #babydaly will have to come same day.”
Bravo’s The Daily Dish reports that Moore ended up delivering her baby girl early via C-section. About a week after the birth, she posted a video of herself on a motorized cart in Target picking up some items for her daughter
In the caption, she confessed that it’s still difficult for her to walk due to the pain of the surgery. But she showed that she isn’t letting that stop her from fulfilling her mommy duties.
“Needed to get her some preemie items so of course, off to [Target] we went,” she wrote. “My aunt Lisa is so afraid! I’m supposed to be in bed.”
After the birth, Moore received glowing praise from fellow RHOA castmate Kandi Burrus.
“I feel like Kenya’s gonna be an amazing mother. She loves kids — that’s all she ever talked about up until this point,” Burrus said to The Daily Dish. “So now she has a new baby girl to just love on all day..”
Burrus added that she believes Kenya and her husband Marc Daly are “truly in love,” adding that she could vouch for their relationship because she spends time with them when the cameras aren’t rolling.
“This has nothing to do with TV — she’s happy and I’m happy to see it,” Burrus said.
#Empire: Taraji P. Henson Says TV, More than Film, Paved the Way for Black Women Leads
Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson takes the long view. Others might look at a film like “Hidden Figures,” the 2016 Best Picture nominee in which Henson starred alongside Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae and herald its success as proof that Hollywood is finally waking up to the massive market for films starring women of color; Henson wants to look just a little further back.
“We’re starting to see more black women lead films,” she said. “That’s a good thing, but I think that was already happening. … I don’t know if it was that film, but it had started to happen anyway on television. After Kerry Washington and ‘Scandal,’ and then next thing you know here comes Cookie, then you have Annalise on ‘How to Get Away With Murder.’ It just started happening.”
Henson’s other TV examples pre-date the success of “Hidden Figures” by years, and those are just the network shows. Recent years have also seen the introduction of popular series led by black women like HBO’s “Insecure,” Netflix import “Chewing Gum,” OWN’s “Queen Sugar,” and BET’s “Being Mary Jane.” “Once you prove that you can garner an audience on TV …[and] if it’s successful, the industry works like this: They see you can make a buck, and then it’s, ‘Well, let’s do some more,'” Henson said. “There’s been a market for it.”
While “Hidden Figures” may have been her most visible success, Henson was already working on her next steps when the film arrived in theaters on Christmas Day 2016. The change in the industry was “definitely happening because I was still getting movies,” Henson said. “‘Hidden Figures’ was just one of the movies I had lined up that I was starring in.”
Post-“Hidden Figures,” Henson has already led two other, very different films, including the ass-kicking actioner “Proud Mary” and Tyler Perry’s nutty psychological thriller “Acrimony.” (Henson also found time to voice a new character on “The Simpsons” in a two-episode arc.) This Thanksgiving, she’s lending her voice to her first animated feature, “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” in which she stars as Yesss, the high-powered CEO of the internet’s most popular video sharing site. However, she has much bigger plans for what she wants to do next.
“I’m a character actress, so I haven’t played a man before,” Henson said with a laugh. “Something totally transforming, where I have to maybe have a bald head. Something where it doesn’t look like me at all, even though I’ve done it kind of with aging in ‘Benjamin Button.’ Something drastic, like maybe like a Dr. Seuss character or something like that.”
Next year, she’ll star in fact-based political drama “The Best of Enemies” and the gender-swapped rom-com “What Men Want.” That kind of diversity reflects Henson’s own mindset when it comes to picking movies she wants to see, and the way she hopes the industry might keep evolving to serve what its paying audience really wants to see.
“People are so afraid to just display the world as how it is,” she said. “It’s a lot of people in this world. When I go to the movies, I don’t say I want to see a special race group movie like, ‘I want to see a white movie this weekend. I want to see a black movie.’ I look, I see the previews, and it either moves me to want to go spend money or not. The audience is everything.”
Disney will release “Ralph Breaks the Internet” in theaters November 21.
#NewMusic from Christopher Williams ‘Proud 2 Long’
R&B veteran Christopher Williams has just returned with the brand new single “Proud 2 Long”. The confessional type track from the former New Jack Swing star is the first we’ve heard from him in a few years now.
LISTEN HERE
Williams has been working harder than ever in between plays and touring, he’s currently recording his much anticipated, fifth solo album and in the studio with producers such as Ced Solo, Mike City, Da Internz, Carvin & Ivan, Eddie F and 9th Wonder.
#HipHopNews: Meek Mill To Release New Album This Month
Meek Mill is just days away from releasing his new album.
During a visit to Georgetown University for a conversation about criminal justice reform with Professor Marc Howard, the Philly MC revealed that his new album is due sometime in November.
The project is expected to include a song about Colin Kaepernick. According to the New York Post, the powerful lyrics include, “They told Kap to stand up if you want to play for a team, and most of his teammates said the same thing” and “Back in the ’30s you would be killed if you kneeled. They won’t kill you now, they just take you out of the deal.”
At the time, Meek also said that he was planning a surprise album release. “I’m not actually giving out a release date, it’s a surprise album,” he told The Post in September.
It was also revealed that he and Cardi B were in the studio recording a song that has the potential to be a “huge hit.” It’s unclear if the song is for Meek’s album or Cardi’s project.
The album will mark Meek’s first full-length since being released from prison earlier this year, and follows his July EP Legends of the Summer, which spawned the single “Dangerous” with Jeremih and PnB Rock.
The Comic Icon Stan Lee, Legendary Marvel Comics Creator, Has Died At 95
Stan Lee, the legendary Marvel Comics co-creator and publisher, has died at 95. Kirk Schenck, an attorney for Lee's daughter, J.C. Lee, confirmed to CBS News that Lee died at a Los Angeles hospital on Monday.
The beloved "God of the Marvel Universe" was behind superheroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, the X-Men, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Lee was known for his cameos in Marvel movies, as well.
"J.C. Lee and all of Stan Lee's friends and colleagues want to thank all of his fans and well wishers for their kind words and condolences," Schenck said in a statement. "Stan was an icon in his field. His fans loved him and his desire to interact with them. He loved his fans and treated them with the same respect and love they gave him."
Lee celebrated his 95th birthday in December, but showed no signs of putting his career to rest. In 2016, he talked to "CBS Sunday Morning" about his career and said of retirement, "That's a dirty word. ... Well, you know, retired to do what? I'm doing what I want to do. So why would I want to retire from it?"
Last August, he revisited his career with a tribute in Beverly Hills called "Stan Lee: Extraordinary." Ruffalo, Aisha Tyler, Lou Ferrigno, RZA and comics creator Todd McFarlane were among the speakers at the event hosted by Chris Hardwick.
Lee, who was born Stanley Martin Leiber in 1922, grew up in the Bronx during the Great Depression. He started working at a publishing house with a division called Timely Comics in 1939. That's where Lee got his start in storytelling.
"I'd fill the ink wells -- in those days they used ink!" he told "Sunday Morning." "I'd run down and get them sandwiches at the drug store, and I'd proofread the pages, and sometimes in proofreading I'd say, 'You know, this sentence doesn't sound right. It ought to be written like this.' 'Well, go ahead and change it!' They didn't care!"
Lee helped shape characters like Destroyer, Father Time and Jack Frost at Timely Comics. Later, when he joined the army, he found that his skills were best used drawing. He illustrated a poster telling soldiers how not to get VD.
"I drew a little soldier, very proudly," he recalled. "And he's saying, 'VD? Not me!' as he walks in. They must have printed a hundred trillion of those! I think I won the war single-handedly with that poster!" On Sunday, his Twitter account revealed that Lee's official title in the army was "playwright" in honor of Veterans Day.
By the 1960s, Timely Comics became Marvel Comics, and Lee was using his pen to inject social issues into his art. That's when he created Spider-Man.
"I saw a fly crawling on a wall, and I thought, 'Gee, what if a guy could stick to walls like an insect?" Lee recalled. "That sounds good. So I started trying to think of some names. Insect-Man? Nah. Mosquito-Man? Nah. And then I got to Spider-Man. Spider-Man, ooh, that sounds dramatic! And if he has spider power, he can shoot a web also. And he could swing ... oh man!
"And then I figured I'd make him a teenager, and I figured I would do the unthinkable: I'd give him personal problems.
"I ran into my publisher and I said, 'Have I got an idea for you! His name is Spider-Man ...' And I couldn't get any further. He said, 'Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard!'"
Of course, his publisher was wrong, and Spider-Man sparked the "Marvel Revolution."
In spite of Lee's inextricable ties to Marvel, the relationship was a fraught one due to legal issues. Lee never owned the characters, and found himself cut out of many profits.
"I try not to think about it," he said. "I'm having too much fun with the rest of my life. There's no point going back and saying I should have done this, or I could have done that. You know, what does it gain you?" Lee certainly had fun with cameos in Marvel movies, dating back to 1989. In 2018 alone, he appeared in "Black Panther," "Ant Man and the Wasp," "Deadpool 2," "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Venom."
Lee sued Marvel in 2002 and settled with the comic book giant for an undisclosed seven-figure amount. He was also given the title Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Enterprises.
In February, Lee was hospitalized, but a spokesperson for Lee told CBS News, "Stan is doing well and feeling good, he is staying there for a few days for some checkups as a safety precaution."
Last July, Lee's wife, Joan, died at 93. The couple had been married 69 years and shared a daughter, Joan.
#ARIZONA #BLUEWAVE: Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Becomes Arizona’s First Female Senator
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has made history after an extended vote count.
After a delay in ballot counting following last week’s midterm election, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema was officially announced as the winner of Arizona’s Senate race on Monday. She becomes the state’s first female U.S. senator.
Sinema defeated Republican Martha McSally, who was leading on Wednesday with 790,911 votes to Sinema’s 768,737, with about 75 percent of precincts reporting. By Monday, the nearly 1 million remaining ballots were finally counted, and Sinema emerged on top.
In a victory speech on Monday evening, Sinema framed her win as a move away from “petty” politics.
“Arizona proved there’s a better way forward,” she said. “We can work with people that are different than us ... We can embrace difference while seeking common ground.”
In a Twitter post, McSally said she had called Sinema to congratulate her. “I wish her all success as she represents Arizona in the Senate,” McSally said.
Sinema replaces retiring GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. Arizona was set to get its first female senator regardless of the election’s outcome, and both candidates are barrier-breakers in their own rights.
Sinema made history in 2012 when she became the nation’s first openly bisexual member of Congress. McSally is a retired Air Force colonel and was the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat.
The race for the Senate seat was exceptionally close and was viewed as crucial to Democrats’ chances of taking back the U.S. Senate, but losses for a handful of Democratic incumbents ended that possibility. Arizona is a former Republican bastion ― home to Barry Goldwater, the founder of the modern conservative movement ― that has slowly emerged as a swing state in recent years, due in part to a steady rise in Latino voters.
The contest largely centered on health care, an issue of primary importance particularly to the more than 1 million Arizonans who have a pre-existing health condition. In the lead-up to the midterm election, Sinema and Democratic groups emphasized McSally’s votes to repeal protections for pre-existing conditions in the Affordable Care Act. McSally’s campaign approach was primarily to turn voters’ attention to Sinema’s past and ideology, especially her activism against the Iraq War.
Even with Sinema’s win, Republicans will still hold control of the Senate but at a slightly smaller margin. Several other races remain up in the air. Florida’s Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat incumbent Bill Nelson is approaching a recount deadline on Thursday. The Senate race in Mississippi advanced to a runoff after neither Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith nor Democrat Mike Espy garnered more than 50 percent of the vote.
Here’s The New Poster For The ‘Child’s Play’ Remake
MGM and Orion Pictures have released a brand new poster for their forthcoming Child’s Play remake.
Brian Tyree Henry and Aubrey Plaza will star in the remake of the 1988 film about a murderous buddy doll. The script will be written by Tyler Burton Smith and directed by Lars Klevberg.
The film is slated to hit theaters on June 21, 2019.
Actor Viggo Mortensen Apologizes for Using Racial Slur
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Viggo Mortensen has apologized for using a racial slur during a panel discussion about his new film “Green Book.”
Mortensen, who is white, appeared Wednesday at the event with his co-star, Mahershala Ali, and director Peter Farrelly.
Mortensen told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday he was making the point that many people casually used the slur in 1962, when the movie takes place. He says he had “no right to even imagine the hurt that is caused by hearing the word in any context.” He says he intended to “speak strongly against racism” and is sorry he used the word.
In “Green Book,” Mortensen’s character is hired to drive an African-American pianist on a concert tour in the South.
The movie is due in theaters later this month.
Nicki Minaj Shoots Her Shot At Michael B. Jordan At People’s Choice Awards
Nicki Minaj had a blast at the E! People’s Choice Awards on Sunday night.
The Hip Hop star opened up with the show with a performance of “Good Form” alongside Tyga, she scooped awards for Album of the Year and Female Artist of 2018.
But, it was her acceptance speech after winning fave Female Artist of 2018 that has everyone buzzing.
The Queen of the Barbs began her speech by thanking her management team (although she had trouble remembering their names).
She went on to thank all of the artists and producers on her QUEEN album and her Barbs for their undying support.
Lastly, Nicki thanked Donatella Versace for her custom gown and THEN she gave a shout out to Michael B. Jordan, saying:
Shout out to Michael B. Jordan because he’s going to be taking this dress off of me tonight. WATCH
Think Michael will HOLLA BACK at her? LOL!
Rihanna Responds to Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Casting Controversy
Last week, Chief marketing officer Ed Razek criticized press coverage of Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty runway show, arguing that if Victoria’s Secret sent a heavily pregnant model down the runway (a reference to Slick Woods’s appearance at the Fenty show), they would be accused of pandering. Razek and Monica Mitro, the brand’s head of P.R., were asked about the inclusion of transgender and plus-size models in the fashion space.
“If you’re asking if we’ve considered putting a transgender model in the show or looked at putting a plus-size model in the show, we have,” Razek said. Later in the interview, however, Razek seemed to double down. “So it’s like, why don’t you do 50? Why don’t you do 60? Why don’t you do 24?” Razek said, referring to how other brands have expanded beyond Victoria’s Secret’s size range (30A to 40DDD). “It’s like, why doesn’t your show do this? Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show? No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It’s a 42-minute entertainment special. That’s what it is. It is the only one of its kind in the world, and any other fashion brand in the world would take it in a minute, including the competitors that are carping at us. And they carp at us because we’re the leader.”
Ed Razek apologized in a statement Friday for remarks he made in a Vogue interview published Thursday about why Victoria’s Secret hasn’t cast transgender models in their annual fashion show. Click Here if you missed that.
Badgalriri responds….
Over the weekend, a Rihanna fan Instagrammed a screenshot of a tweet by model and blogger Louise O’Reilly that both called out the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’s lack of diversity and praised Savage x Fenty’s inclusive branding and casting practices.
Rihanna herself liked the post, as captured by Buzzfeed.
Lorde Accuses Kanye West & Kid Cudi of Stealing Glass Box Stage Design
Lorde is not happy with Kids See Ghosts. The singer took to Instagram to claim Kanye West and Kid Cudi stole the design for the floating, glass rectangular box they performed in at Camp Flog Gnaw this weekend from her.
“I’m proud of the work I do and it’s flattering when other artists feel inspired by it, to the extent that they choose to try it on themselves,” she wrote on Instagram. “But don’t steal — not from women or anyone else — not in 2018 or ever.” The floating stage was created by Es Devlin and Lord and debuted during her 2017 Coachella performance.
“I built the show with [stage designer] Es Devlin, who I have admired for a really long time. And from the jump, we were just wanting to head towards something that we felt like we hadn’t seen,” she said in an interview with Spinoff in 2017. “It’s hard to come up with stuff that feels new, and with the tank it felt weird and interesting and quite specific to me…The two of us just built it from the ground up, bouncing ideas back and forth. I decided that I wanted the show to follow the arc of an evening in my life and I loved the idea of the show having a narrative – have a peak and having falls and slowly building in the same way that an evening does.”
West has a decades-long working relationship with the artist and designer. However, Lorde’s assertion of theft was quickly met with a mixture of bewilderment and confusion, with many people sharing photos of artists who have also performed in clear parallelograms.
Justin Bieber performed in a clear glass box during his 2016 Purpose tour. Earlier this year, A$AP Rocky was part of the performance installation “Lab Rat,” while promoting his album Testing. Kendrick Lamar’s BRIT Awards performance also included a… you guessed it, glass box. So, either a lot of artists are stealing the sauce or modern artists just like being trapped in a glass case of emotions.
LeBron James’ I Promise School To Be Featured In Documentary
Back in July, LeBron James opened a new school in collaboration with Akron Public Schools and the LeBron James Family Foundation to offer education and support to underprivileged students, as well as new opportunities for their parents and families.
Now, just four months later, Akron Public Schools has approved a deal with a New York City production company to produce a feature-length documentary on the first year of the groundbreaking facility.
According to The Akron Beacon Journal, the new deal is in collaboration with Blowback Productions, which has produced over 20 films, including “Cadillac Records,” “SLAM” and “WhiteBoyz,” most of which have focused on “race, drugs and crime.”
As for the I Promise documentary, which is already in production, the film will look to capture “the successes, struggles and endeavors” of students at the newly formed school.
Fantasia Breaks Her Finger
Last year Fantasia Barrino alarmed her fans after suffering from a horrific burn caused by a freak accident with a humidifier.
Fantasia has hurt herself again...
Over the weekend Fanny showed off her newly broken finger, but assured her fans that the show would go on.
Feel better Fanny!
Northern California wildfire kills 42 to rank as deadliest in state history
PARADISE, Calif., Nov 12 (Reuters) - Search teams have recovered the remains of at least 42 people killed by a devastating wildfire that largely incinerated the town of Paradise in northern California, making it the deadliest single wildland blaze in state history, authorities said on Monday.
The latest death toll, up from 29 tallied over the weekend, was announced by Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea at an evening news conference in the nearby city of Chico after authorities located the remains of 13 additional victims from a blaze dubbed the Camp Fire.
That fire already ranked as the most destructive on record in California, having leveled more than 7,100 homes and other buildings since it erupted on Thursday in the Sierra foothills of Butte County, about 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco.
Honea said the number of people listed as missing in the disaster remained officially at 228, but added that his office had received more than 1,500 requests for "welfare checks" from people concerned about the fate of their loved ones. He said his office had managed to confirm the safety of the individuals in question in 231 of those cases so far.
More than 15,000 more structures remained listed as threatened on Monday in an area so thick with smoke that visibility was reduced in some places to less than half a mile.
The bulk of the destruction and loss of life occurred in and around the town of Paradise, where flames reduced most of the buildings to ash and charred rubble on Thursday night, just hours after the blaze erupted.
The 42 confirmed fatalities marks the largest loss of life ever from a single wildland fire in California, Honea said. It also far surpasses the all-time record number of deaths from aCalifornia wildfire - 29 in 1933 from the Griffith Park blaze in Los Angeles.
Authorities reported two more people perished over the weekend in a separate blaze, dubbed the Woolsey Fire, that has destroyed 370 structures and displaced some 200,000 people in the mountains and foothills near Southern California's Malibu coast, west of Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump on Monday approved a major disaster declaration for California at the request of Governor Jerry Brown, hastening the availability of federal emergency assistance to fire-stricken regions of the state.
The fires have spread with an erratic intensity that has strained resources and kept firefighters struggling to keep up with the flames while catching many residents by surprise.
The remains of some of the Camp Fire victims were found in burned-out vehicles that were overrun by walls of fire as evacuees tried to flee by car in panic, only to be trapped in deadly knots of traffic gridlock on Thursday night.
"It was very scary," Mayor Jody Jones recounted of her family's own harrowing escape from their home as fire raged all around them.
"It took a long time to get out. There was fire on both sides of the car. You could feel the heat coming in through the car," she told CNN. Jones said her family is now living in their mobile home parked in a vacant lot.
Honea said authorities have brought in 13 special search-and-recovery teams to seek out any further victims from the Camp Fire, and have requested additional cadaver-dog crews to assist in the search for human remains.
A Southern GOP Senator Refuses To Apologize For Joking About ‘Public Hanging’ In A State Known For Lynchings!
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) demanded a public apology — for all Mississippians — from Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who drew harsh criticism for a line made while campaigning in early November.
“If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row,” Hyde-Smith is heard saying in a video posted to Twitter by journalist and blogger Lamar White Jr. on Sunday morning.
Thompson released a statement Monday, calling the senator’s comments on public hanging “beyond disrespectful and offensive,” adding that Mississippi’s history includes “one of the highest numbers of public lynching, that we know of, than any other state in this country.”
Hyde-Smith, who in a Sunday statement called the remark an “exaggerated expression of regard,” refused to elaborate Monday when reporters asked for more context. She appeared in Jackson, the state’s capital, with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) — who appointed Hyde-Smith to Congress earlier this year — after accepting an endorsement from the National Right to Life Committee.
“I put out a statement yesterday, and that’s all I’m gonna say about it,” Hyde-Smith said when asked by reporters if she was familiar with the history of hangings in Mississippi. She was also asked if the phrasing was in her everyday vocabulary and to specify why the remark should not be viewed with a negative connotation.
Unable to get an answer from Hyde-Smith, reporters turned to Bryant for answers.
“I can tell you all of us in public life have said things that we could’ve phrased better,” Bryant said, adding, “I know this woman, and I know her heart, and I knew that when I appointed her, and I know it now. She meant no offense by that statement.”
Hyde-Smith, who has been endorsed by Trump, became the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress in April after she was appointed to replace Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who stepped down because of health problems.
She faces Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff to determine who will serve the remaining two years of Cochran’s term. Neither candidate was able to win more than 50 percent of the vote in the Nov. 6 special election.
As wildfires grow in frequency and intensity in California, President Trump is launching false attacks and threats at the state. (Jenny Starrs , Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post)
Espy and Hyde-Smith had the top two vote tallies, each receiving about 41 percent. If Espy were to win, he would be become the first black senator to represent the state since the Reconstruction era. Espy served three terms in the House of Representatives, from 1987 to 1993.
In a statement Sunday, Espy called Hyde-Smith’s comments “reprehensible.” He added, “They have no place in our political discourse, in Mississippi, or our country. We need leaders, not dividers, and her words show that she lacks the understanding and judgment to represent the people of our state.”
Many critics of Hyde-Smith’s comment noted the history of racism and hangings in the state. Statistics from the NAACP show that nearly one-eighth of the 4,743 lynchings between 1882 and 1968 that occurred in the United States took place in Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith is in a runoff on Nov 27th against Mike Espy.
Cristen Hemmins, chairwoman of the Lafayette County Democrats in Mississippi, said the video was “absolutely stunning.”
“With the history of lynching of Mississippi, you just don’t say something like that,” Hemmins said in an interview Sunday. “I can’t even imagine the kind of mind that would come up with a throwaway phrase like that. I’m a Mississippian. Nobody I know talks like that. It’s absolutely unacceptable.”
Hyde-Smith of Brookhaven is a former Democratic state senator and agriculture commissioner. In 2010, she switched to the Republican Party, according to the Clarion Ledger. Last week, she vowed to keep pushing Trump’s agenda, asserting “Republicans are going to keep this seat” and that she would “fight like nobody’s business the next three weeks.”
Trump has been vocal in his support for Hyde-Smith, tweeting in August that she is “strong” on issues such as job creation and his proposed wall on the southern border to help him “put America First!”
He added, “Cindy has voted for our Agenda in the Senate 100% of the time and has my complete and total Endorsement. We need Cindy to win in Mississippi!”
At an Oct. 2 rally in Southaven, Trump continued to stump for Hyde-Smith.
“She’s always had my back,” he said. “She’s always had your back, and a vote for Cindy is a vote for me.”
Republicans are expected to gain seats in the Senate. The majority they held before the election, 51 seats, could rise to as high as 54 depending on races in Florida and Mississippi
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‘JAMAICAN ME CRAZY’
This is what every teenage white girl looks like on their vacation to Jamaica. Just sayin’.
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