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Act Of Kindness Displayed By Black Men In Florida Goes Viral

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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A n act of kindness displayed by three young Black men from Florida has warmed the hearts of people across the nation. According to Yahoo Lifestyle , a video that captured the men helping an elderly couple into their car has gone viral. A police officer in Florida recently saw three young Black men helping an elderly couple, and decided to film them and share it with the world! (The officer told reporters, “I know… https://t.co/oTJShZt2ns — Black News (@BlackNews) February 8, 2019 The men were at a gas station store when they noticed Rose Griest , 89, and her husband David Griest , 100, having a hard time getting into their vehicle. As Griest tried to assist his wife with sitting in the passenger’s seat safely, her legs gave out. The group of men— Freddy G , Marty , and Joc Koe Stoe —stepped in to ensure that she was okay.  “We didn’t even ask if they needed help — we felt comfortable giving them a hand right away,” Marty told the news outlet. “I kept thinking, ‘She could have been my grandmother.’.” Officer Kenesha Carnegie from the Levy County Sheriff’s Office captured the special moment on camera and posted the video on social media. The video has now garnered millions of views. “I look over and three men were assisting the couple — it was a beautiful thing to see,” said Carnegie. “I know these men from the neighborhood, and I wanted them to have that moment to show who they really are.” The elderly couple—who have been married for two decades—were thankful that the men gave them a helping hand. Their family is also grateful that the men were there to help too. Their grandson Tommy Griest came across the video on Facebook. “I was scrolling through and saw my grandmother’s purple outfit. Praise these guys for helping them,” he said. Witnessing acts like the one displayed by these young men restores faith in humanity at a time when our country is so divided. Check out the video of the special moment below. SEE ALSO: Judge Inspires At-Risk Camden Teen To Become A Lawyer Candle Brand Launched By Three Black Youngsters Featured At Macy’s [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3844698″ overlay=”true”]

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Muva Montana: Amber Rose Reveals She Use To Sell Crack When She Was A Young Bud Bul [Video]

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Amber Rose , she spills some more never-before-told tea. On a new episode of Van Lathan ‘s ‘The Red Pill’ podcast , Muva revealed that she use to sell crack back when she was young girl in Philly. “I usually don’t tell people this because I never want to tell a sob story. I tried selling drugs. I tried selling crack in my neighborhood. [The drug dealers] said I was gonna get robbed, I was a girl and I was too pretty. So what i did, I would bag it up for them. And they would throw me some money.” Being a drug dealer didn’t work out for Amber, but she still did what she had to do to provide for herself, her mom and her brother at the time. Starting from the block, now she here.

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Entrepreneur Aims To Open Only Black-Owned Bookstore In Orlando

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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A n entrepreneur is aiming to create a hub for Black literature in Orlando, Florida. Trenessa L. Williams has plans on expanding her online bookstore Kizzy’s Books & More into a brick-and-mortar store which would make it the only Black-owned bookstore in Orlando, Black News reported. Entrepreneur Trenessa Williams currently sells African American books online… But once she launches her brick and mortar storefront, it will be the only Black-owned book store in Orlando, Florida! #blackpreneur #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic https://t.co/qYEjAG7ciE — Black News (@BlackNews) January 4, 2019 Williams initially started the online store as an avenue to promote literacy in the Black community, the news outlet writes. She wanted to create a space that sold literature where African Americans could see themselves reflected in the material that they read. Kizzy’s Books & More also sells different products that capture the essence of Black culture. The store’s moniker was inspired by the character Kizzy from Alex Haley’s Roots . Williams wants the brick-and-mortar store to be built in the historically Black neighborhood of Parramore. The neighborhood—which was hugely impacted by racism that stemmed from the Jim Crow era—is currently being revitalized. Williams believes that it’s essential to have a store like Kizzy’s Books & More in the neighborhood because there is a lack of accessibility to Black literature. She has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to bring her vision to fruition. Throughout the country, there has been an effort to create bookstores centered on Black literature and save ones that have been staples in African American communities for decades. In 2017, a Black couple opened MahoganyBooks in Anacostia. It was the first bookstore to open in 20 years in the Black Southeast Washington, D.C. neighborhood. During the same year, there was a major push to save Hakim’s Bookstore in Philadelphia. The store is the oldest Black-owned bookstore in America. SEE ALSO: Couple Brings Black Literature To Historic D.C. Neighborhood Through New Bookstore Nation’s First Black-Owned Bookstore On A Mission To Bounce Back [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3841941″ overlay=”true”]

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Jesus Take The Attendance Sheet: 32-Year-Old Pretends To Be Teen So She Can Enroll In High School

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Source: Mary Knox Merrill / Getty She Really Tried It A 32-year-old woman was clearly up to no good when she pretended to be a homeless teen so she could enroll in high school classes. According to WNYT.com , Michaelann Goodrich told the Cairo-Durham School District in New York that she was a 15-year-old named Riley Madison. She reportedly attended one day of high school classes and even rode the bus to and from school on December 20th. She was absent on the 21st and then the holiday break began the next week. Authorities arrested Goodrich on the 28th and charged her with offering a false instrument for filing, falsifying business records and criminal trespassing. Investigators are still unsure of how Goodrich was able to enroll in classes in the first place. District Superintendent Anthony Taibi said administrators immediately felt something wasn’t right. “She could’ve gone in numerous different ways to obtain a degree and we actually found out through the investigation and that she has a high school diploma,” he said. “So that just leads to our investigation to try to figure out what exactly her motive was for attending school.” According to Taibi, the district had to admit Goodrich into the school immediately under the McKinney-Vento Act because she was homeless. Parents in the neighborhood were obviously distraught when they found out about the over-aged high school attendee. “It was kind of unnerving, it could’ve been anybody you know you hear about school shootings all that, could’ve been anybody coming in here trying to get plans of the school,” said Joshua Mack, who has a daughter in middle school. “I mean obviously that wasn’t the case but it could’ve been.” Taibi said that the McKinney-Vento Act should probably be re-assessed after a situation where non-teens can slip through the cracks. Mack agreed with the sentiment. “I don’t know maybe they need to look into the act a little better maybe find out–not throw her in school right away, find out where she came from, find out what’s going on with the family and everything,” Mack said. The case surrounding Goodrich is still active and investigators are asking anyone who may have had contact with Goodrich to contact the Greene County Sheriff’s Office.

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Y’all Nasty: Blac Chyna, Remy Ma, Papoose, Julissa And More Talk Bedroom Behavior On New Show ‘Grown & Sexy’ [Video]

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Source: ANGELA WEISS / Getty New VH1 Series ‘Grown & Sexy’ Starring Remy Ma, Blac Chyna, More Sex in your 30’s is very different than sex in your 20’s. You’re seasoned. You know what you like and how you like it. You might even become a bit more adventurous than you were previously. To provide some perspective on this topic, VH1 has assembled Remy Ma, Blac Chyna, Adrienne Houghton, Papoose, Sky (Black Ink), If you wanna hear more freaky tales, you’ll have to tune in tonight at 9:30pm.

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2 Chainz “Hot Wings,” Marvin Bagley III “Look At Me Now,” & More | Daily Visuals 1.3.19

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Hot wings are big business in the hood and whether you get em from your neighborhood Chinese spot or right off of Nicki Minaj’s neck (remember that?), everyone appreciates a well done wing. 2 Chainz rams that notion home in his visual for “Hot Wings” where the rapper that tends to rock way more than 2 chains finds himself inside American Deli where two shorties end up scrapping over an order of lemon pepper wings. Truth be told we don’t know what kind of wings they were but only an order of some lemon pepper wet  would lead to that kind of hysteria. Top NBA Rookie Marvin Bagley III meanwhile has become the latest player to try his hand at rapping and in his clip to “Look At Me Now” spits a positive message for the young generation wishing on a star. Is Shaquille O’Neal still the greatest baller/rapper in Hip-Hop history? Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Ann Marie featuring Osiris, Lil Keed, and more. 2 CHAINZ – “HOT WINGS” MARVIN BAGLEY III – “LOOK AT ME NOW” ANN MARIE FT. OSIRIS – “SECRET” LIL KEED – “WATER BY G” ROD WAVE – “YESSIR” YOUNG PROPHIT FT. THE GENERAL – “DRIP ON ME”

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Laughing While Black: Ohio Pigs Settle $80,000 Lawsuit For Beating Man Who Mocked Them

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Source: SOPA Images / Getty Ohio Police Arrest And Beat Black Man For Laughing Police officers are not to be trusted and we literally have thousands of reasons why. Today, we add yet another reason to that list. According to WKYC , an Ohio man was arrested and beaten by police officers for laughing and mocking them. Robert Spencer was in his front yard with some children from the neighborhood when police rolled past. Let them tell it, Spencer made threats and insulted them when they got out of their car to confront him. The lawsuit claims that the officers confirmed their motivation on videotape: to punish Spencer’s speech. “All you had to do was shut the %#$ up,” one officer said. “We weren’t even going to arrest you.” They told Spencer that “saying stuff to us when we drive by” justified investigation, arrest, detention, beatings, and prosecution—all of which he could have avoided by “keep[ing] his mouth shut when we came out.” After filing lawsuit against the department, a settlement was reached that required police to pay Spencer $80,000 in addition to mandating “adequate training to all active-duty police officers” in regards to the first amendment and civil rights. Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us.

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Trevor Noah Tours His Grandmother’s House “Cribs” Style, Talks Apartheid Memories [Video]

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In Trevor’s special Self-Deportation Edition of The Daily Show, the host returns to South Africa to the neighborhood he was raised in. He then gives an “MTV Cribs”-style tour of his Grandma’s home before chatting with her about apartheid and her memories of Mandela. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images/YouTube

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So Sad: Robin Thicke, Gerald Butler & Camille Grammer Amongst Folks Who Lost Homes In Cali Wild Fires

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

(Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Camille Grammer, Gerald Butler & Robin Thicke’s Homes Burn Down A wildfire that continues to ravage the mountain s in the areas of Malibu and, Calabas and Aventura has destroyed the homes of several celebrities who are sharing the wreckage and empathy with neighbors on social media. Robin Thicke says his Malibu home has shares with girlfriend April Love burned down entirely, according to his representative. The singer said on Instagram that he, April and his two kids are “safe and surrounded by friends and family” and were thankful to firefighters. Actor Gerald Butler shared photos of what was left of his Malibu home, which was barely anything but the frame. “Returned to my house in Malibu after evacuating,” Gerard Butler wrote in an Instagram post next to a photo that showed a burned-out structure and a badly scorched vehicle. “Heartbreaking time across California. Inspired as ever by the courage, spirit and sacrifice of firefighters.” Camille Grammer Meyer of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” also lost her Malibu home on Saturday night, according to CBS Los Angeles. “Sadly my house couldn’t be saved,” Meyer, the ex-wife of actor Kelsey Grammer, wrote in an Instagram post that showed a huge house engulfed in flames. So sad. Celebs like Dame Dash, Torrei Hart and Jada Pinkett sent prayers to their neighbors after their homes were barely spared in the flames. Dame says “every house in the neighborhood burned but ours, sharing shots of the Malibu home.

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Ashley Graham Fat Wet Tits for Vogue of the Day

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ashley Graham is an offensively fat woman who managed to polarize her fatness and make a career out of it, and not the typical career you’d expect a fat woman to have, you know working as a sex worker to black men, or working the bakery at the grocery store, but rather as a model….but like most fat chicks, she’s got fat tits…and like most women…she’s using those tits in VOGUE…a magazine that shouldn’t be featuring her…but that are featuring her because the industry needed a woman to use to pretend they aren’t fat chick haters, even though they are…it’s like the “we aren’t racist we have a black neighbor who we haven’t terrorized out of the neighborhood” logic… If they put a fat chick in their magazine, they aren’t even skinny fetishists…but what I see is negativity. I realize 90 percent of American women are fat, and that companies, mainly a MONTREAL company has tapped into that market by making fashionable fat chick clothing, who Ashley Graham has a million dollar a year contract with, like a Fat Victoria’s Secret model, in the fat fetish scene…but I think it’s irresponsible to say to fat people that it is ok to be fat, here dress in fashionable fat clothes, don’t suffer more than you already do for being fat, like fitting into chairs and that whole diabetes thing….just focus on what matters…dressing like skinny people while being four times their size… THAT SAID…Ashley Graham has been working out to get fit, turning on her fat audience because statitistically EVERY fat person hates being fat….even when it gets them paid and in VOGUE…a dream a little fat girl never thought possible…but luckily the world get into fat people. JOIN THE NEWSLETTER YOU ASSHOLES! The post Ashley Graham Fat Wet Tits for Vogue of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .

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