Angelina Jolie covers the September 2019 issue of Elle
Angelina Joliehas portrayed a variety of women in her acting career, but she's particularly famous for bringing one infamous "villain" to life: Maleficent. While fans wait for Jolie to return to the silver screen for the sequel in October, the Oscar winner is tackling a subject darker than Disney.
In an essay penned for Elle's September issue—the cover on which she stars—Jolie explored the history of "wicked women" and how they came to be called such. "What is it about the power of a woman free in mind and body that has been perceived as so dangerous throughout history?" she began her powerful piece.
In discussing the attributes of women deemed "witches," the star found personal similarities. "Women could be accused of witchcraft for having an independent sex life, for speaking their mind on politics or religion, or for dressing differently," she explained. "Had I lived in earlier times, I could have been burnt at the stake many times over for simply being myself."
Jolie also pointed out how societies around the world continue to constrain and persecute women today for the same qualities they did all those years ago. "Since time immemorial, women who rebel against what is considered normal by society—even unintentionally—have been labeled as unnatural, weird, wicked, and dangerous. What is surprising is the extent to which this kind of myth and prejudice has persisted throughout the centuries and still colors the world we live in," she wrote.
"It is startling how often women who run for political office in democratic countries are described as witches," Jolie continued. "Bring together a group of strong women, and before too long someone will brand them a 'coven'—the technical term, to be clear, for a gathering of witches meeting at night to consort with the devil. Women who stand up for human rights in many countries are still labeled 'deviant,' 'bad mothers,' 'difficult,' or 'loose.'"
The famed humanitarian raised the various ways women and girls are controlled and punished, including through genital mutilation, rape or honor killings. "For all our modern advances, the independence and creative energy of women is still frequently seen as a dangerous force to be controlled, often in the name of religion, tradition, or culture," Jolie penned.
"Why is so much energy expended to keep women in a secondary position?" she asked. "Looked at in this light, 'wicked women' are just women who are tired of injustice and abuse. Women who refuse to follow rules and codes they don't believe are best for themselves or their families. Women who won't give up on their voice and rights, even at the risk of death or imprisonment or rejection by their families and communities. If that is wickedness, then the world needs more wicked women."
As the actress concluded her essay, she brought up the importance of a strong mind, a lesson she relays to her daughters. "There is nothing more attractive—you might even say enchanting—than a woman with an independent will and her own opinions," she wrote. "With love to all the wicked women, and the men who understand them."
The September issue of Elle hits newsstands on August 27.
#RHOA: So Now Porsha Williams Is Back Together With Fiance Dennis McKinley?
Why do I think this entire situation is a part of the show?
The couple’s breakup made headlines a month and a half ago, but the Real Housewives of Atlanta star has been spotted with her engagement ring recently — wearing it during an Us Weekly interview, for example — and she just brought McKinley on a RHOA cast trip.
Williams, 38, and McKinley, 39, debuted their relationship on Instagram in June 2018, and she announced three months later that she was pregnant with his child. The duo got engaged in September 2018 and welcomed daughter Pilar in March.
Breakup rumors circulated in May, however, when Williams briefly unfollowed McKinley amid infidelity allegations that he denied. Then, Williams and her daughter were spotted vacationing without him in Florida over Father’s Day weekend, and the reality star unfollowed the entrepreneur on Instagram a second time a few days later. On June 20, a family member confirmed the couple’s split and gave a grim prognosis for their future. “There is a tiny, tiny, tiny chance they would get back together,” the relative said at the time. “[But] likely no.”
Nevertheless, McKinley sent Williams a sweet shout-out on social media in honor of her birthday two days later. “Happy 38!” the businessman wrote.
Williams was previously married to NFL alum Kordell Stewart. The former couple divorced in 2013 following more than two years of marriage.
In 2017, the Dish Nation cohost called herself a “hopeless romantic” in an interview with Bravo’s Daily Dish. “People have seen that through the seasons,” she said at the time. “I’ve lived my life on television like any other girl. You know, we date someone, it doesn’t work out. You put your all into it, it doesn’t work out. It’s happened to me right in front of everyone’s eyes. … So I could be a believer, it just depends.”
#Empire: Do Y’all like Taraji’s Natural Look?
Taraji P. Henson is not messing around when it comes to her hair.
The star of Fox’s “Empire” showed off her natural tresses in a selfie she posted on Instagram which comes more than a year after she ditched straightening her locks.
“All natural and I f–kin LOVE IT!!! can’t WAIT to share my hair care system with you #TPHBeauty coming VERY SOON!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💋💋💋,” Henson captioned the post as she teased her upcoming beauty line.
Henson initially cut her hair in September 2017 and explained to “Extra” at the time that she was done letting her stylist touch her hair with heat after covering Marie Claire for that year’s October issue.
“You know why I [went natural]? I wanted to get my curl pattern back,” the actress who stars on “Empire” as Cookie Lyon said. “I don’t know if you saw the Marie Claire cover. That is the only time I allowed [my hairstylist Tym Wallace] to straighten my hair. I’m not straightening my hair again.”
Henson has actually been natural since the filming of the 2001 coming-of-age drama “Baby Boy.”
“When I did ‘Baby Boy’, I had new growth and I was ashamed,” she told People magazine in 2016. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, my hair is terrible, don’t look at my new growth.’ The young lady who did my hair [for it] asked me, ‘What are you talking about? Your hair is beautiful! Why are you even getting a relaxer? All you have to do is know how to work it.’ So I grew my relaxer out. I was overwhelmed at first, because you go from straight, silky hair, to ‘What is this?’”
But Henson has since completely embraced her natural hair.
“I love it,” she told the magazine. “For ‘Empire’ I use wigs. I keep my hair braided in lots of teeny cornrows, so the wigs fit on my head. When I take them out, I’ll sit under a steamer while I deep-condition my hair.”
#MusicNews: Are y’all ready Ready To ‘Hang’ With Gregory Porter & Friends On His New Podcast
Gregory Porter has built a reputation as one of jazz music's premiere vocalists. Now he is ready to tackle a new frontier with the upcoming launch of new his podcast The Hang on August 8th.
During the 10-episode series, Porter will chat with famous pals like Kamasi Washington, Gilles Peterson, Annie Lennox, Amma Asante and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Actor Jeff Goldblum also drops in for The Hang's debut where he credits Porter with helping him nab his current deal with Decca Records. Porter and Goldblum, who is also a jazz pianist, recount how Porter asked Goldblum to back him during a live performance on The Graham Norton Show in 2017. Goldblum then surprises Porter by stating that that appearance is what caught the attention of his record label, ultimately leading to the release of his debut album, 2018's The Capitol Studio Sessions. The revelation noticeably catches Porter off-guard. "I am the reason why Jeff Goldblum got a recording contract?" he marvels. "I mean, I'll take that snippet and run with it, but it's nothing without you.
"Porter's rich, conversational tone is just as enchanting as his singing voice. Based on the teaser, listeners are in for an insightful and laid-back experience. Press play to check out this sneak peek of The Hang when it premieres on August 8th on your favorite streaming service.
#HipHopVideo from Kash Doll Feat. Big Sean – ‘Ready Set’
Kash Doll does it big time in the celebratory video for “Ready Set,” her collaboration with Big Sean. The Motor City-inspired race-themed clip, which was directed by Jesse Ray Diamond with creative direction from Teyana “Spike Tee” Taylor, finds the Detroit rappers toasting to their wins. Kash Doll burns rubber on the speedway with Sean before linking up with her girls Dreezy and Sevyn Streeter in the stands.
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“‘Ready Set’ is a motivational and aspirational song,” said Kash Doll. “I wanted to let people know if I can make it, despite the things I’ve been through, they can do it too. I’m a D girl so I’m determined.”
#RIP One of America’s Greatest African American Writers has passed Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88!
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Morrison's family issued a statement through Knopf saying she died after a brief illness.
"Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends," the family announced. "The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing."
Few authors rose in such rapid, spectacular style. She was nearly 40 when her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published. By her early 60s, after just six novels, she had become the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, praised in 1993 by the Swedish academy for her "visionary force" and for her delving into "language itself, a language she wants to liberate" from categories of black and white. In 2012, Barack Obama awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningful — a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy," Obama wrote Tuesday on his Facebook page. "She was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page."
Morrison helped raise American multiculturalism to the world stage and helped uncensor her country's past, unearthing the lives of the unknown and the unwanted, those she would call "the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment." In her novels, history — black history — was a trove of poetry, tragedy, love, adventure and good old gossip, whether in small-town Ohio in "Sula" or big-city Harlem in "Jazz." She regarded race as a social construct and through language founded the better world her characters suffered to attain. Morrison wove everything from African literature and slave folklore to the Bible and Gabriel Garcia Marquez into the most diverse, yet harmonious, of literary communities.
"Narrative has never been merely entertainment for me," she said in her Nobel lecture. "It is, I believe, one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge."
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved," she was one of the book world's most regal presences, with her expanse of graying dreadlocks; her dark, discerning eyes; and warm, theatrical voice, able to lower itself to a mysterious growl or rise to a humorous falsetto. "That handsome and perceptive lady," James Baldwin called her.
Her admirers were countless — from fellow authors, college students and working people to Obama and fellow former President Bill Clinton; to Oprah Winfrey, who idolized Morrison and helped greatly expand her readership. Morrison shared those high opinions, repeatedly labeling one of her novels, "Love," as "perfect" and rejecting the idea that artistic achievement called for quiet acceptance.
"Maya Angelou helped me without her knowing it," Morrison told The Associated Press during a 1998 interview. "When she was writing her first book, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' I was an editor at Random House. She was having such a good time, and she never said, 'Who me? My little book?'
"I decided that ... winning the (Nobel) prize was fabulous," Morrison added. "Nobody was going to take that and make it into something else. I felt representational. I felt American. I felt Ohioan. I felt blacker than ever. I felt more woman than ever. I felt all of that, and put all of that together and went out and had a good time."
The second of four children of a welder and a domestic worker, Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, a steel town outside of Cleveland. She was encouraged by her parents to read and to think, and was unimpressed by the white kids in her community. Recalling how she felt like an "aristocrat," Morrison believed she was smarter and took it for granted she was wiser. She was an honors student in high a school, and attended Howard University because she dreamed of life spent among black intellectuals.
At Howard, she spent much of her free time in the theater (she had a laugh that could easily reach the back row), later taught there and also met and married a Jamaican architect, Harold Morrison, whom she divorced in 1964. They had two children, Harold and Slade.
But although she went on to teach there, Howard disappointed her. Campus life seemed closer to a finishing school than to an institution of learning. Protesters, among them former Morrison student Stokely Carmichael, were demanding equality. Morrison wanted that, too, but wondered what kind.
"I thought they wanted to integrate for nefarious purposes," she said. "I thought they should demand money in those black schools. That was the problem — the resources, the better equipment, the better teachers, the buildings that were falling apart — not being in some high school next to some white kids."
In 1964, she answered an ad to work in the textbook division of Random House. Over the next 15 years, she would have an impact as a book editor, and as one of the few black women in publishing, that alone would have ensured her legacy. She championed emerging fiction authors such as Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara, helped introduce U.S. readers to such African writers as Wole Solinka, worked on a memoir by Muhammad Ali and topical books by such activists as Angela Davis and Black Panther Huey Newton. A special project was editing "The Black Book," a collection of everything from newspaper advertisements to song lyrics that anticipated her immersion in the everyday lives of the past.
By the late '60s, she was a single mother and a determined writer who had been pushed by her future editor, Robert Gottlieb of Alfred A. Knopf, into deciding whether she'd write or edit. Seated at her kitchen table, she fleshed out a story based on a childhood memory of a black girl in Lorain — raped by her father — who desired blue eyes. She called the novel "The Bluest Eye."
Morrison prided herself on the gift of applying "invisible ink," making a point and leaving it to the reader to discover it, such as her decision to withhold the skin color of her characters in "Paradise." Her debut as an author came at the height of the Black Arts Movement and calls for literature as political and social protest. But Morrison criticized by indirection; she was political because of what she didn't say. Racism and sexism were assumed; she wrote about their effects, whether in "The Bluest Eye" or in "Sula," a story of friendship and betrayal between two black women.
"The writers who affected me the most were novelists who were writing in Africa: Chinua Achebe, 'Things Fall Apart,' was a major education for me," Morrison, who had studied William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf as a graduate student, told the AP in 1998.
"They took their black world for granted. No black writer (in America) had done that except for Jean Toomer with 'Cane.' Everybody else had some confrontation with white people, which was not to say that Africans didn't, but there was linguistically an assumption. The language was the language of the center of the world, which was them.
"So that made it possible for me to write 'The Bluest Eye' and not explain anything. That was wholly new! It was like a step into an absolutely brand new world. It was liberating in a way nothing had been before!"
She had no agent and was rejected by several publishers before reaching a deal with Holt, Rhinehart and Winston (now Henry Holt and Company), which released the novel in 1970. Sales were modest, but her book made a deep impression on The New York Times' John Leonard, an early and ongoing champion of her writing, which he called "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
Setting her stories in segregated communities, where incest and suicide were no more outrageous then a sign which reads "COLORED ONLY," Morrison wrote of dreamers for whom the price was often death, whether the mother's tragic choice to murder her baby girl — and save it from slavery — in "Beloved," or the black community that implodes in "Paradise."
Like Faulkner, her characters are burdened by the legacy, and ongoing tragedy, of slavery and separation. For Faulkner's white Southerners, losers of the Civil War, the price is guilt, rage and madness; for Morrison's slaves and their descendants, supposedly liberated, history follows like the most unrelenting posse.
"The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind," Morrison wrote in "Beloved," in which the ghost of the slain daughter returns to haunt and obsess her mother.
"And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life — every day was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem."
Morrison's breakthrough came in 1977 with "Song of Solomon," her third novel and the story of young Milkman Dead's sexual, social and ancestral education. It was the first work by a black writer since Richard Wright's "Native Son" to be a full Book-of-the-Month selection and won the National Book Critics Circle award. It was also Morrison's first book to center on a male character, a novel which enabled her "get out of the house, to de-domesticate the landscape."
But the mainstream was another kind of education. Reviewing "Song of Solomon," author Reynolds Price chided Morrison for "the understandable but weakening omission of active white characters." (He later recanted). When "Beloved" was overlooked for a National Book Award, a letter of protest from 48 black writers, including Angelou and Amiri Baraka, was published in The New York Times Book Review, noting that Morrison had never won a major literary prize.
"Beloved" went on to win the Pulitzer and Morrison soon ascended to the very top of the literary world, winning the Nobel and presiding as unofficial laureate of Winfrey's book club, founded in 1996. Winfrey chose "Song of Solomon," ''The Bluest Eye," ''Paradise" and "Sula" over the years and would list all of Morrison's works as among her favorites. Winfrey also starred in and helped produce the 1998 film version of "Beloved."
As with so many other laureates, Morrison's post-Nobel fiction was viewed less favorably than her earlier work. Morrison received no major competitive awards after the Nobel and was criticized for awkward plotting and pretentious language in "Love" and "Paradise." But a novel published in 2008, "A Mercy," was highly praised. "Home," a brief novel about a young Korean War veteran, came out in 2012 and was followed three later by a contemporary drama, "God Help the Child." Morrison herself was the subject of an acclaimed documentary, "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am," which came out this year.
Morrison's other works included "Playing in the Dark," a collection of essays; "Dreaming Emmet," a play about the slain teenager Emmett Till; and several children's books co-authored with her son, Slade Morrison (who died of cancer in 2010). In November 2016, she wrote a highly cited New York essay about the election of Donald Trump, calling his ascension to the presidency a mark of what whites would settle for to hold on to their status.
"So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans have flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength. These people are not so much angry as terrified, with the kind of terror that makes knees tremble," she wrote.
"William Faulkner understood this better than almost any other American writer. In 'Absalom, Absalom,' incest is less of a taboo for an upper-class Southern family than acknowledging the one drop of black blood that would clearly soil the family line. Rather than lose its "whiteness" (once again), the family chooses murder."
She taught for years at Princeton University, from which she retired in 2006, but also had an apartment in downtown Manhattan and a riverfront house in New York's Rockland County that burned down in 1993, destroying manuscripts, first editions of Faulkner and other writers and numerous family mementoes. She had the house rebuilt and continued to live and work there.
"When I'm not thinking about a novel, or not actually writing it, it's not very good; the 21st century is not a very nice place. I need it (writing) to just stay steady, emotionally," she told the AP in 2012.
"When I finished 'The Bluest Eye,' ... I was not pleased. I remember feeling sad. And then I thought, 'Oh, you know, everybody's talking about "sisterhood,'" I wanted to write about what women friends are really like. (The inspiration for 'Sula'). All of a sudden the whole world was a real interesting place. Everything in it was something I could use or discard. It had shape. The thing is — that's how I live here."
R.I.P Queen Morrison!
Queen Rihanna Returns To Barbados For Crop Over Festival
Rihanna returned to her native Barbados for the Crop Over festival.
The singer stunned in a mini dress covered in pink feathers while attending the annual Kadooment Day parade, celebrating the end of the sugar cane harvest. She also sported bantu knots, pink and silver heels, and bedazzled sunglasses, completing the look with a mango, which she carried as an accessory. She waved to fans and blew kisses as she made her way down the parade route.
She was joined by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, as well as family members including her grandfather, brothers, and goddaughter Majesty.
Andy Cohen says There has been a Few People’ Banned From ‘Watch What Happens Live’. They’re ‘Not Worth the Trouble’
Don’t get on Andy Cohen’s bad side! The Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host admitted that he’s banned a few people from his Bravo talk show due to high-maintenance behavior.
“There are a few people,” he confessed to AOL Lifestyle in a piece published on Sunday, August 4. “And you would be surprised, there are a few people who we have deemed ‘not worth the trouble.’ Like, you can’t talk about this and you can’t ask about that. Or there are a couple people who have been on the show that we deem too annoying to come back.”
The TV personality revealed to E! News in April 2018 that Amber Rose was on his list of worst interviews. “She didn’t want to answer any of my shady questions,” he said at the time. “She turned to me, she goes, ‘Am I a horrible guest?’ I go, you are in the running for one of the worst guests we’ve ever had.”
Cohen’s comments also come on the heels of his disagreement with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess last month over his criticism of Eddie Murphy, whom Burgess, 40, worked with on Dolemite Is My Name.
“Did you get to chat with him at all?” Cohen, 51, asked of the Nutty Professor star, 58, on the July 28 episode of WWHL. “I just wonder if you got close at all, ‘cause he was very problematic for the gays at one point when I was coming up.”
“Oh, I see, he wasn’t problematic for Tituss,” Burgess shot back. “And, uh, we had a wonderful time. … Any troubles he may have had with gay people, I guess they’re gone, because he loved me.”
The I Hate Kids star could then be seen looking annoyed while making a hand gesture to someone off camera.
When Cohen asked what Burgess was saying, he quipped, “Keep going, girl. Do your show.”
Burgess later explained his reaction to fans in an Instagram comment. “She can be a messy queen!” he wrote of the Bravo host. “Yes I said it! Don’t care he knows either! He should remember his talk show isn’t an episode of the real housewives of Atlanta! It’s a place where artists come to talk about art and have a little fun. NOT a place to rehash old rumors or bring a star negative press.”
He continued: “Sunday was a display of ratchet behavior by a well connected man having blatant disregard for one of his guests. If only time were taken to know who I am and not assuming that I am the character I play on tv he would know how to conduct a proper interview with at all! … He should rip a page from Anderson Cooper and learn how to do his job.”
The actor also sounded off about the incident during an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show on July 30, telling the Ask Wendy author, 55, that he would “not be trapped.”
“I will not tolerate the dismantling of anyone’s legacy, especially not my own” he said. “And who we were speaking about has done a beautiful job being the comedic giant that he is. And he has a wonderful movie coming out, and I was not going to participate in talking about that.”
Cohen, for his part, told Access that day that he was not feuding with Burgess. “He might be, I’m not,” he said. “He can do whatever he wants, I just don’t want to offend him.”
Ben Simmons says he was denied entry into Australian casino, suggests racial profiling
Ben Simmons recently had trouble gaining entry into an Australian casino and suggested on an Instagram story that racial profiling was at play.
The Philadelphia 76ers guard and Melbourne native posted an Instagram story documenting his experience that was captured on Twitter early Monday.
In it, Simmons, who is black, is with a group of friends, one of them white. He said that he and his black friends got “checked” by security, while his white friend did not.
“I find it so crazy that the only guy who doesn’t get checked to go into the casino is this guy,” Simmons said while pointing his phone at his unnamed white friend. “I get checked, Mike gets checked and Taj gets checked. Thank you Crown Casino.”
Deleted Instagram story of Ben Simmons getting denied entry at crown casino @BleacherReport @espn pic.twitter.com/RO26l1V0zU— Nick (@Nick_Battersby4) August 5, 2019
Simmons also said that he and a black friend were eventually denied entry.
“Wow,” Simmons said. “We’ve got a long way to go.”
Much like the United States, Australia has a history of struggling with racism, with one official recently calling race relations in the country the worst he’s seen in years.
Lauryn Hill Apologizes for Glasgow Disaster that she created!
Over the weekend Lauryn Hill enraged her fans in Glasgow after showing up 30 minutes before the end of her headlining set at the Playground Music Festival
Ms. Hill apologizes for her lateness...
Yeah, Okay!
Kevin Hart will be in ‘Uptown Saturday Night’ Comedy Remake!
Kevin Hart adds yet another project to his already sizable list of movies he’s starring in, producing, or both. Earlier this week, it was confirmed Hart would star in a remake of the 1974 Sidney Poitier-directed comedy Uptown Saturday Night with director Rick Famuyiwa set to direct.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. which will serve as the studio behind the remake; they were also the studio behind the original movie. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, who reportedly wrote the most recent draft of the planned remake, will also serve as co-producer. Additional producers on the project are Will Smith through his production company Overbrook as well as Hart and John Cheng through their company HartBeat.
Uptown Saturday Night was not only originally directed by Poitier, but he was also one of the movie’s co-leads alongside Bill Cosby (in one of his earliest feature film roles). The buddy comedy follows two close friends who got to a luxury, private nightclub and proceed to get robbed while there. Among the stolen items is a winning lottery ticket which the friends then spend all night trying to reclaim. Picturing Hart and another actor (could Dwayne Johnson return for another big-budget team-up?) putting their own modern spin on a comedy is certainly an exciting prospect. Even better, knowing they’re going to work from a Barris-penned script and will be under the direction of Famuyiwa — no stranger to spinning a solid comedy yarn (see Dope for proof of this) — mean this is going to be just plain fun, folks.
Jumanji: The Next Level is headed to theaters in December and Hart is currently filming the upcoming drama Fatherhood. As for remakes, he’s is also set to star in a redo of 1988’s The Great Outdoors, which originally starred Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.
So Mariah Carey ls the Music Superstar Who Wants to Appear on 'Mixed-ish'?
Tracee Ellis Ross brought her upcoming show mixed-ish to the 2019 TCA Summer Press Tour!
The 46-year-old actress and executive producer stepped out for ABC’s portion of the event on Monday afternoon (August 5) at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
She was also joined by her co-stars Christina Anthony, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Arica Himmel, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Tika Sumpter, Ethan William Childress and Gary Cole as well as creator Peter Saji and producer Karin Gist.
During the panel, Karin revealed that Mariah Carey, who sings the show’s theme song, would like to take part in an episode.
“She’s wanting to do an episode, so hopefully that can work,” Karin told the audience.
In a statement, Mariah added, “As a fan of Kenya Barris’ megahit shows, black-ish and grown-ish, I was inspired to connect with Kenya to find a way we could work together. As a biracial woman in the entertainment industry, there was no way I did not want to be a part of ‘mixed-ish,’ especially after seeing the pilot, which I loved. I could not be more honored and proud to be writing and performing ‘In the Mix’ for Kenya and the show.”
Ohio State Rep. Candice Keller Blames Mass Shootings On Obama, Drag Queen Advocates And Marijuana
Ohio Representative Candice Keller claims the recent mass shooting in Dayton that left nine people dead happened because of society’s acceptance of gay marriage, marijuana, and violent video games.
Keller took to Facebook to express her belief that after every mass shooting, “the liberals start the blame game.” She also asked, “why not place the blame where it belongs?”
She attributed the killings to various problems that she said stemmed from the “breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates).” Keller said video games, “fatherlessness” and “the acceptance of recreational marijuana” were other ills that contributed to the shootings.
She even went as far as to say forever President Barack Obama was to blame for the “disrespect to law enforcement,” expressed anger at “snowflakes, who can’t accept a duly-elected president,” and took aim at the “the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders).”
Keller concluded her post, “Did I forget anybody? The list is long. And the fury will continue.”
In response, Butler County Democratic Party Chairman Brian Hester said in a statement to Dayton Daily News, saying, “She loves to fan the flames and play the role of victim here, not the nine people who were killed. She is fundamentally unfit for office. She is an embarrassment to her party, to conservatives, to Butler County, and to the state Legislature.”
Hester continued, “I think we should focus on the ease this killer had to the tools at his disposal for his murderous rampage more than what video games he played as a kid. It is disgraceful this is what passes for Republican rhetoric now.”
According to the Cincinnati Inquirer, Keller is running for the Ohio Senate in Butler County in 2020 against four other Republicans. No Democratic candidates have been announced.
OMG! Pregnant City Girls Star Yung Miami Reportedly Shot At 14 Times Leaving Studio, Twitter In Shock #YungMiami
Yung Miami narrowly dodged bullets Monday night while leaving a Miami recording studio, with details surrounding the shooting still pouring in. The City Girls star is far along in her pregnancy and reports on the ground say she had to run for cover after ducking an alleged 14 gunshots.
According to Instagram page The Neighborhood Talk, Yung Miami, real name Caresha Brownlee, was leaving Circle House studios and inside her G-Wagon when the shots rang off. According to the person who captured the incident via their smartphone, Yung Miami avoided being struck and ran before police arrived on the scene.
“I got the story first because I was standing right there. Caresha new G Wagon was shot at leaving Circle House…YALL need to give her better security! Poor baby was running across the street tryna run b4 police came. Smh wow prayers for her and baby 808’s protection,”
Serena Williams Creates $120 Wrap Dress For ‘Every Woman’s Body’
Serena Williams has designed a size-inclusive dress as part of the latest collection from her clothing line, and it’s nearly sold on outline.
The tennis pro also shared an Instagram video of herself and various women wearing the classic dress, noting that “I designed the Twist Front Dress for everybody and every BODY.”
“No one in the world looks exactly the same,” Williams states in the clip. “We all are different people, we have different personalities, we have different traits. We all look different and we’ve got to bring our personalities out.”
Now 'Rookie' Star Afton Williamson is naming NAMES of The People She Accuses Of Sexual Harassment & Racism
Actress Afton Williamson took to Instagram to announce she will NOT be returning for the upcoming new season of ABC's cop drama, "The Rookie" because of being subjected to sexually harassment by a co-star, along with being bulled and racially discriminated against.
When she made the announcement, she kept the names of the alleged perpetrators quiet. Now, she's revealing who these people are.
In an Instagram post she put up Monday evening (August 5th), she first thanked her fans and friends for all their support following the news that she will not be reprising her role as Officer Talia Bishop.
In the new post, she writes in part:
"I never imagined so many of us have experienced these horrible circumstances and that can NO LONGER GO UNHEARD. We have a voice. ALL OF US. It is our DUTY to use it. I used to fear the word Victim. I scoffed at it because all I was told when these injustices happened to me, was to Survive. Survivor I am. Victim I am also. A victim of injustice. A victim of assault. A victim of abuse and harassment."
She then goes on to name to people who harassed and bullied her. She claims recurring guest star Demetrius Grosse - who is married with kids - sexually harrased her and Hair Department Heat Sally Nicole Ciganovich racially bullied and assaulted her:
"This season on The Rookie, I was sexually harassed by fellow actor Demetrius Grosse. I was Racially Bullied and Discriminated against and Sexually Assaulted by Hair Department Head Sally Nicole Ciganovich. Let’s BE the CHANGE we WANT to SEE."
Neither of the accused have spoken up in response yet. Stay Tunes as reported yesterday. ABC and eOne Entertainment are investigating!
Introducing Nike x Giannis Antetokounmpo’s “Coming To America” Inspired Nike Sneaker
The partnership between NBA player, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nike has produced a shoe inspired by his favorite film, the 1988 classic, “Coming to America.” The Athens, Greece native whose parents originally hailed from Lagos, Nigeria came from humble beginnings. However, he shares a similar “dream come true” experience to Eddie Murphy’s character in the movie, Price Hakeem.
In 2013, Antetokounmpo traveled to Brooklyn, NY with hopes of getting drafted into the NBA. He wound up being the number 15 draft pick for the Milwaukee Bucks that same year and has had an impressive career, landing him as the league MVP in 2019, a three-time all-star and signature sneaker deal.
The Coming To America inspired Zoom Freak 1 is covered with gold accents, and animal print as a nod to the costume Murphy’s character wore when arriving to NYC in the film. The sneaker retails for $120 and is set to be released with corresponding apparel, including hats, t-shirts, jackets, and shorts.
As part of the collaboration between Nike and Paramount Pictures, Nike has recreated the original movie poster with an image of Antetokounmpo. It is unknown as to whether or not Antetokounmpo will make an appearance in the long-awaited sequel of the film, scheduled to release in August 2020.
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘FIG NEWTON’
Cam: I’m headed out to Walmart to pick up a few things.
Friend: Better wear a disguise so nobody recognizes you.
#EGGPLANT NATION Meet Black Bear Keyon!!
Meet Keyon! Well to see more you can GO HERE TO SEE THE PICS! And remember they’re NSWF!
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HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL!
EFREM
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