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Vanity Fair On Vibranium: Di Bleck Pentha Chadwick Boseman Covers Epic Hollywood Issue

Vanity Fair Finally Nails Their Hollywood Issue Cover We’ve been dragging Vanity Fair for YEARS over their lack of inclusion on the covers of their Hollywood Issue, so it’s only right we applaud them as they’ve really nailed it with this year’s cover stars — beginning with Chadwick Boseman who is smack dab on the front page, not tucked into the fold unlike so many black actors before him. Boseman shares the front cover with Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet, two of today’s most acclaimed young stars. The inside cover features Nicholas Hoult, ‘Roma’ breakout star Yalitza Aparicio, Rami Malek and the QUEEN herself Regina King… but the diversity continues with John David Washington, Tessa Thompson and Henry Golding joined by Elizabeth Debicki. Interestingly enough, the cover also mentions inside features like an oral history of the original Hollywood Issue — which did include Angela Bassett, and a celebration of Cicely Tyson by Viola Davis and Annie Leibovitz. So yeah. Vanity Fair you get KUDOS! Keep up the excellent work. John David Washington even acknowledges the power of his presence in the issue saying, “I realized it’s not about me,” says John David Washington—photographed here with Tessa Thompson—about being on the cover of V.F.’s Hollywood Issue. “It’s about somebody who looks like me in Kansas or North Carolina, Middle America or in the South, who sees a cover like this and will be inspired to change their environment.” Hit the flip for more great moments from the magazine

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#TrumpShutdown: Airports Are A Mess As TSA Comes Down With “Blue Flu” Rather Than Work For Free

Source: Spencer Platt / Getty #TrumpShutdown Leads To TSA Call-Outs Causing Long Lines At Airports Most people are already underpaid, the idea of working long, hard hours for FREE is completely out of the question. According to DailyMail , hundreds of TSA workers have called out of work “sick” with “blue flu” rather than work for free during Donnie Trump’s b!t¢h fit shutdown of the government. The result is huge lines that create 90-minute waits at major airports like LaGuardia and JFK in New York. There were so few employees that even the TSA Pre-Check was closed completely. At JFK, it is reported that 170 agents called out every day last week. Long, long lines at LaGuardia. #TrumpShutdown pic.twitter.com/mDq1uvt73G — Andries W. Coetzee (@andries_coetzee) January 6, 2019 At Dallas Fort-Wort airport the TSA call-outs are up 200%-300%. In North Carolina, call-outs at two airports staff are 10% higher than usual. Unreasonably long lines have also been reported at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Utah’s Salt Lake City airport and the Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. Add this to the fact that if the government doesn’t open soon, tax returns will NOT be sent out. Bottom line is, Trump is going to make America suffer for his lil’ f**ka$$ wall, that’s not “great”. Continue reading

The Bachelor Season 23: Meet the Suitors!

The day is nearly here. The Bachelor Season 23 will premiere on Monday, January 7 at 8/7c (see The Bachelor spoilers for ALL the scoop on the new season). In the opening episode – which will be three hours long – we will meet the amazing women vying for Colton Underwood's heart. Only two of them are over the age of 30. One says she has never been kissed, something Colton may be able to relate to. Another, meanwhile, lists her job as “Cinderella.” And a full one-third of the suitors hail from the Golden State of California. What are their names, ages and jobs? And who among the Bachelor spoilers ' favorites will be left standing at the end? Let's meet the cast below! 1. Alex B. She’s a a dog rescuer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and she hopes to maybe be done doggy style by Colton someday. 2. Alex D. She is 23 years old and is from Boston and, no joke, her official ABC bio says she is “a sloth.” 3. Angelique Angelique, 28, is a marketing salesperson from Hamilton, New Jersey. 4. Annie Annie, 23, is a financial associate from New York, New York. 5. Brianna She often goes by Bri and is 24 years old and is a model from Los Angeles, California. 6. Caelynn Caelynn, 23, is a Miss North Carolina 2018 from Charlotte, North Carolina. She’s very pretty. View Slideshow

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Blackity Black In Love: This Spectacular Wedding Entrance Will Make You Turn All The Way Up

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty LITTEST Wedding Entrance EVER We knew North Carolina gem Winston-Salem State University was lit but this spectacular wedding entrance was a next-level LITuation that blended HBCU excellence with Blackity Black love in the greatest way ever. Like, EVER ever . Much love to ESPN’s Cornell W. Jones and his beautiful bride. You can follow them here and here .

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The Cookie Momster: NC Mother Charged With Stealing $1600 Worth Of Girl Scout Cookies From Daughter’s Troop

John Moore/Getty Images North Carolina Mom Ordered $1600 Worth Of Cookies From Daughter’s Troop And Failed To Pay In another “epitome of a trash mom” moment, 31-year-old Noel Hines was arrested for theft in North College Hill, NC this week after allegedly accepting a large order ($1600!) for Girl Scout cookies to sell for her daughter’s troop last March but failing to pay up to the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio… According to Daily Mail reports: Girl Scout officials and police say they attempted to contact Hines over a period of six months to procure the $1600 owed, but were not successful — SO, when Hines was arrested last week on unrelated charges, she was also charged with theft at the North College Hill Mayor’s court. Hines has been arraigned and is scheduled to appear in court on November 28. The Girl Scouts of Western Ohio said situations regarding theft in their troop are ‘infrequent’ and ‘unfortunate.’ ‘When we have evidence that an adult misuses troop funds, we pursue vigorously and, when appropriate, contact law enforcement to recover as much money for the troop as possible. This is not something we take lightly,’ the company said in a statement. Peep the Facebook post that the North College Hill Police Department put up regarding Hines: The Girl Scouts Of America cookie manual prices the cookies at $4 per box, which would mean Hines made off with about 400 boxes of cookies. SMH!

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The Cookie Momster: NC Mother Charged With Stealing $1600 Worth Of Girl Scout Cookies From Daughter’s Troop

The Cookie Momster: NC Mother Charged With Stealing $1600 Worth Of Girl Scout Cookies From Daughter’s Troop

John Moore/Getty Images North Carolina Mom Ordered $1600 Worth Of Cookies From Daughter’s Troop And Failed To Pay In another “epitome of a trash mom” moment, 31-year-old Noel Hines was arrested for theft in North College Hill, NC this week after allegedly accepting a large order ($1600!) for Girl Scout cookies to sell for her daughter’s troop last March but failing to pay up to the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio… According to Daily Mail reports: Girl Scout officials and police say they attempted to contact Hines over a period of six months to procure the $1600 owed, but were not successful — SO, when Hines was arrested last week on unrelated charges, she was also charged with theft at the North College Hill Mayor’s court. Hines has been arraigned and is scheduled to appear in court on November 28. The Girl Scouts of Western Ohio said situations regarding theft in their troop are ‘infrequent’ and ‘unfortunate.’ ‘When we have evidence that an adult misuses troop funds, we pursue vigorously and, when appropriate, contact law enforcement to recover as much money for the troop as possible. This is not something we take lightly,’ the company said in a statement. Peep the Facebook post that the North College Hill Police Department put up regarding Hines: The Girl Scouts Of America cookie manual prices the cookies at $4 per box, which would mean Hines made off with about 400 boxes of cookies. SMH!

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These Saucy Snack Packs Looked Gooder Denna Cook Out Tray At NC A&T’s Homecoming

Baddest A&T Homecoming Baes We waited allll Homecoming SZN for North Carolina A&T’s “greatest Homecoming on Earth” that FINALLY popped off this past weekend with seas and seas and seasssss of saucy snack packs who flocked to Greensboro in their flyest ‘fits for (arguably) the littest Homecoming weekend of the year. Hit the flip to bask in the A&T Homecoming deliciousness.

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So Sad: A Fistfight Between Two Students At A North Carolina High School Ends With A Fatal Shooting

Getty Images High School Fight Ends With One Student Shooting Another In Hallway One fistfight between two North Carolina high school students took a terrible turn on Monday after one of them pulled out a handgun and fired at his classmate in a crowded hallway before the start of classes, according to authorities. The alleged shooter was identified as a male student at David W. Butler High School in Matthews–a suburb southeast of Charlotte–and was quickly taken into custody, police said. “There are no other threats or dangers to any of the students or staff, or anyone in the area of the school,” Captain Stason Tyrrell of the Matthews Police Department told reporters near the school. “I can just tell you that the shooter was taken into custody by Matthews Police Department, and his family is aware as well,” he assured students and the community. Following the horrific incident, the school briefly went into a lockdown as the wounded student (who was also not identified by police) was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. The student died there a few hours later. Surveillance video shows the two students getting into a fight before the shooting happened, according to Tyrrell. “From what I’ve seen and the information I’ve received, our school resource officer was very nearby when it took place, and the situation became under control very quickly,” he added. Clayton Wilcox, Charlotte Mecklenburg School Superintendent, said that the school did not have a policy of searching every bag that enters the school prior to this incident, but added that all security procedures would be reviewed following the shooting. “I don’t know how a young person gets a handgun in the state of North Carolina,” Wilcox said to reporters. “But we are going to look into all those things, and we will do our best to make sure that this never happens again.”

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#Late: Caitlyn Jenner Says She’s No Longer A Trump Supporter

splashnews.com Recent Trump News Seemed To Have Changed Her Mind After a good two years of the trashiest of trash platforms for LGBTQ issues , Caitlyn Jenner finally had the epiphany that Trump was horrible. She addressed the orange-marinated pres’ in an op-ed for The Washington Post.  She said she was regretful of believing 45 could support the transgender community. “Believing that I could work with Trump and his administration to support our community was a mistake,” she wrote. The 68-year-old brought up all the very unsupportive things Trump has done since he’s been in office, like the recent memo suggesting an infant’s sex at birth should be permanently linked to their gender identity or the rollbacks Trump made against  Obama-era protections for trans students. Now it seems Jenner is finally seeing the light. She explained her process to get to this point. At first, she thought the Republican Party would be “fertile ground” to change minds and hearts. “Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to claim to support this valuable, vulnerable community, and I was encouraged by the applause he received when  he said at the Republican National Convention  in July 2016 that he would stand up for the LGBTQ community,” she said. Too bad Jenner missed the memo that Trump was the leader of liars and nothing he says holds weight. “This is politics at its worst,” Jenner said. “It is unacceptable, it is upsetting, and it has deeply, personally hurt me.” Jenner ended her piece by saying she was determined to be a leader of change. “I will still work with anyone who is committed to help our community,” she said. She also acknowledged that her “unique position of privilege” gives her an advantage to help. Considering Jenner’s bad calls for the last two years, it’s not certain the trans community will rally behind her. But time will tell if the forever late Caitlyn will make meaningful change.

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BaeBurg: Meet The Melaniny Slayettes Who Sizzled South Carolina State’s Homecoming

Baddest SCSU Homecoming Baes There’s an HBCU gem nestled in the comforting confines of Orangeburg, South Carolina with one of the prettiest stadiums in the nation–Yep, you guessed it: South Carolina State that rivals North Carolina A&T’s GHOE as the littest, most melaniny delicious Homecoming in the Carolinas. Hit the flip to bask in the SCSU Homecoming deliciousness.

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