(Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) Trump Suggests Death Penalty For Drug Dealers Trump spoke at a White House summit earlier this week on the opioid abuse epidemic in America, and he suggested that dealers receive the death penalty for killing thousands of people with drugs. He explained, “We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people. If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These people can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them.” He also added, “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty — the ultimate penalty — and by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do.” Watch the rest of Trumps summit below:
8-Year Old Boy Says School Staff Member Put Hands On Him An 8-year-old boy says he was injured by someone who works at his school in Harlem. The staff member was suspended but the mother is still unsatisfied with how the whole situation was handled and she wants someone to be held accountable. Watch the video as the son explains what transpired and what the school did after everything unfolded.
(Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Essence) Lena Waithe, Tessa Thompson, Danai Gurira and Tiffany Haddish Honored At ESSENCE Women In Hollywood Luncheon ESSENCE Magazine hosted their annual Women In Hollywood Luncheon Thursday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. This year’s honorees were Lena Waithe , Tessa Thompson , Danai Gurira and Tiffany Haddish. Rich Polk/Getty Images for Essence Janelle Monae presented Tessa with her award. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Essence) Danai got hers from Lupita (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Essence) Lil Rel Howery, who played Tiffany’s ex-husband on “The Carmichael Show”presented her award. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Essence) And Angela Bassett did the honors for Lena (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Essence) Chloe and Halle performed. Hit the flip for more photos Continue reading →
Shae Harmony Wins “Fresh Cuts Showcase” If you’ve been keeping up, you already know that Snow Hill, NC native Shae Harmony is the winner of our latest Fresh Cuts showcase. Her journey to becoming the champion wasn’t easy, she actually is a return contestant who claimed the crown this year after coming close in last year’s competition but falling just short of the crown. “I almost didn’t want to try again,” Shae Harmony tells BOSSIP of her decision to re-enter the contest. “But the feedback the judges gave last year was very helpful. That down-to-earth critique gave me something concrete to focus on and I knew I had grown in the time from the last one so I decided to give it another go.” Courtesy Shae Harmony Shae, who works full time as a third-grade teacher in Atlanta’s public school system says she’s glad she came back, because she had a real connection with the other contestants, especially Triumph who hails from her same city in North Carolina. “Triumph’s dad David Payton was an accomplished playwright,” Shae recalled. “I actually sang Beyonce’s “Listen” in his play “You Betta Put That Woman First” when I was in high school so it was really good to reconnect with her.” Another bonus to the competition was the African Pride sponsored makeover — something that helped her feel at ease on stage. “I loved the makeover, everything about the wardrobe was so ‘Shae’,” the singer tells BOSSIP. Shae admits her biggest battle has always been nerves. The southern beauty says she’s always been one to sing around the house, but her shyness held her back from fully shining when she was young. Shae Harmony “I guess I was probably 8 or so when I did my first performance for church,” Shae recalls. “I was so shy, but after that the y MADE me join the choir.” “My family really pushed me to use my gift growing up and constantly reminded me that my God-given talent shouldn’t be wasted.” She may have gotten her start in the church, but both her look and sound has been amplified with a confidence and sex appeal she wasn’t afraid to show. Nerves may have gotten the best of her in last year’s competition but there was no stopping her this time around! “I just really worked on being comfortable,” Shae said, revealing that the battle round was another tough challenge. “Songwriting is something you either have or you don’t. I just tried to think about what black love, which was my theme, meant to me. I definitely did my best but that was one of the things I wasn’t sure about because the competition was really strong as well.” With the competition behind her, Shae’s got her sights set on even bigger challenges. Her first single “Be Careful” is currently on iTunes and she’s planning to shoot a video in March that will also be released this month. Shae also says she’s at work on her first EP which she hopes to release this spring. Check out Shae Harmony’s single “Be Careful” on iTunes and Spotify Follow Shae Harmoney Online: Instagram Twitter Facebook
While Jenelle Evans doubles down on guns in the wake of the latest mass shooting, Briana DeJesus is stepping up and sharing some much more sensible views. In particular, she’s trashing the idea of arming teachers, and targeting the Florida legislature’s move to do so in particular. In a world where the President is a reality star, it’s not so surprising to hear a Teen Mom 2 star making some salient points about public policy. On February 14th, a tragic and terrible shooting at a Florida high school left 17 dead. The survivors have become a rallying point for common sense gun control legislation. Noting a failure of government leadership, a number of major businesses — starting with Dick’s Sporting Goods — have announced that they’re enacting their own measures. In the mean time, Trump has suggested arming teachers with guns, an idea that’s been widely lampooned online. And the Florida legislature, to the surprise of no one familiar with the exploits of Florida Man and Florida Woman , decided to pour $67 million into a plan to arm teachers throughout the state. Briana DeJesus took to Twitter to speak out: “Stupidest thing ever to give teachers guns … what is the point of safety patrols on campuses then??” She’s referring to school resource officers — police who spend time working security on campuses as a measure that people hope will keep students safer. Briana DeJesus gets very real about the role that racism plays in schools and in countless shootings. “I have a child of color and knowing 10 teachers in her school will carry a gun terrifies me.” With guns everyone, it just takes one racist person on one bad day to end a child’s life. “As a parent I know I won’t be able to protect my kids every second go the day. And I would want their teachers to love and protect like I would.” But Briana lives in real life, not in fantasy land where everyone’s a trained marksman. (Though we should note that many combat veterans have spoken out about how dangerous arming teachers could be) “But giving teachers guns just isn’t right and spending 67 [million dollars] is crazy.” The amount that the legislature was willing to conjure up out of nowhere is a sticking point for many people. “They won’t ever spend 67 million on education but for guns … it’s okay?” Someone challenged her, suggesting that arming teachers — who are not trained to be armed guards and are not paid to be armed guards — would be a great way to protect students. “I’m all for protecting kids but there’s no reason to give TEACHERS guns.” She’s already addressed the expense and the fact that not all teachers would be safe with a gun. But she clearly doesn’t want to argue. “But whatever. Let’s see how this plays out. I hope for the best!” Trump, of course, announced his “policy proposal” just as he announces his other bad ideas — with his little orange thumbs. “What I said was to look at the possibility of giving concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience — only the best.” His version of “best” is famously laughable — just look at the turnaround in the White House. “20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to.” Trump then makes some weird sports analogies that perhaps golf players will understand. A real man of the people. “I want highly trained people that have a natural talent, like hitting a baseball, or hitting a golf ball, or putting. How come some people always make the four-footer and some people under pressure can’t even take their club back, right? They can’t even take their club back.” He seemed to lose himself on a sports tangent. Briana did not mention that even highly trained marksmen are considered to be doing “very well” if they have 40% weapon accuracy in live fire simulations. So even if teachers are having a shootout with some gunman, where are the other 60% of the bullets going? Some of them are going into students. Of course, Trump said that he wanted to take away guns, and then pivoted because he doesn’t actually know what he’s saying at any given time. He now plans to meet with video game executives, because surely those violent video games are to blame, even though Canada and the UK and Australia all play the exact same games without the shootings. Briana didn’t get into all of that. That’s okay — she’s a reality star, not a politician. But even she knows that children don’t need to be around guns. Which is more than we can say for certain people. View Slideshow: Jenelle Evans Lets Toddler Play With Gun in All-Time Low; Could She Lose ALL Her Kids?!
Well, the day so many Teen Mom 2 fans have been waiting for may have finally arrived. After weeks of rumors and years of alienating viewers, it's beginning to look as though MTV and Viacom have reached the decision to fire Jenelle Evans from the show that made her famous. Jenelle's husband, David Eason, was fired last month, and just as Evans' army of haters was beginning to use hope that the Carolina Hurricane would also be kicked to the curb, Jenelle started dropping hints that she will not be returning for another season. Join us for a complete rundown of recent developments in the life of the (probably) newly-unemployed Ms. Evans: 1. Come At Me, Fans! For years, Jenelle has been wilfully antagonizing Teen Mom 2 fans. But at the end of the day, she was good for ratings, and as such, producers kept her around. With her latest scandals, however, Jenelle may have finally gone too far. 2. The Night of the Gun It all started when David Eason posted this photo on Instagram. It appeared on his page just after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida that claimed 17 lives. Fans implored David to take it down – and that’s when things got even uglier. 3. Hateful Dave David responded to criticism from fans by going on a homophobic tirade and hurling slurs at followers who dared to suggest it might not be the right time for such a post. Needless to say, that didn’t turn out well for him. 4. A Brief Experiment With Employment Like most Teen Mom baby daddies, Dave wasn’t exactly a top earner before he landed a spot on the show, and now it’s back to the unemployment line. But hey, at least he’ll have company. 5. Trimming the Fat These days, it seems Teen Mom producers are done tolerating diva behavior and are all too aware that there are no indispensable stars on ensemble reality shows. In the past two months, they’ve canned Farrah Abraham and David Eason. And now it looks as though Jenelle’s days as a ratings magnet have come to a close… 6. Farewell, Jenelle Jenelle’s drug use, violent behavior, and apparent neglect of her children have long made her an object of scorn amongst Teen Mom fans. Petitions to have her fired from the show have even been circulated by her own co-stars. And now it looks as though the public will finally get its wish… View Slideshow
It looks like those rumors that Kim Kardashian aims to take down Kylie Jenner aren’t going away any time soon. If anything, it looks like this sisterly competition is heating up. So, remember how apparently Kylie Jenner got a $1.4 million Ferrari as a ridiculous “push present” after giving birth to Stormi Webster? It looks like Kim is out to one-up her baby sister with a fancy, pricey new car of her own. Kim Kardashian, for over a decade now, has been the Kardashian — she’s the face of the family and their brand. (While Kris is the mastermind behind most of it) On top of her success as a reality star and a branding icon, her video game for phones that came out a few years ago was a tremendous success. But Kylie Jenner, at an astonishingly young age, is on the rise. Kylie Cosmetics is worth a sicking amount , and is projected to be worth one billion dollars within just a few years. Which of these successful sisters will win the race to a billion dollars? We won’t know who wins the race to the top for years, most likely. But Kylie sure is enjoying her status now. Though it’s not clear where her brand new Ferrari actually came from, it’s believed to be a gift from baby daddy Travis Scott as a thank-you for, you know, giving birth to Stormi. Push presents are normally sentimental jewelry or some sort of home redecoration thing. They’re not really supposed to cost a small fortune, but … Kylie and her family live on another level than the rest of us. There’s one problem with Kylie’s $1.4 million push present … you can’t fit a carseat into it. Whoops. But that’s not why Kylie’s family thinks that it’s ridiculous — they reportedly think that Kylie’s fondness for flaunting her wealth with expensive cars is tacky and childish. Now that she’s a mom (at 20), they hope that she’ll mellow out. At the same time, however, Kim seems to have her eye on the prize. So long as the “prize” means outshining Kylie Jenner’s fancy new car with one of her own. Over the course of several days, including just a matter of hours ago, Kim Kardashian has been pointing out super expensive, fancy, largely impractical cars on her Instagram. She’s written things like: “I want …” and, days later “I want this too …” Does a taste for needlessly expensive vehicles that are jarringly low to the ground (but maybe they don’t care because they’re short anyway?) run in the family? Or is this a competition? Some fans were quick to comment, wondering why in the world Kim would be posting about wanting these particular items when, you know, she could just buy them. But it’s easy to connect the dots. If Kylie really got her car from Travis Scott as a push present, as is widely believed, then Kim buying herself one wouldn’t be a match for Kylie. For Kim to match Kylie, she’d need it to be a push present from Kanye, her own baby daddy. And husband. Of course, some would point out that Kim and Kylie are sisters, who likely have convergent tastes in many areas. There’s so similar that they both had babies within a couple of months of each other. Chicago was Kim’s third and Stormi was Kylie’s first, and Chicago was born via surrogate, but those are just details. So maybe they have similar tastes in cars because they’re similar people. For that matter, maybe they’re both in the makeup business and both wildly successful because they have similarities in their personalities? It can be fun to pit sibling against sibling, but we shouldn’t let that narrative cloud our perspective. We don’t know what’s going on in their minds. View Slideshow: Kylie Jenner Gives Birth, Reveals Shocking Pregnancy Secrets & Photos
Taylor Hill/Getty Images Kim Kardashian Has Another Show In The Works Kim Kardashian is set to executive produce yet another reality show, along with E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians and her new Lifetime show about beauty bloggers, Glam Masters . You Kiddin’ Me is going to be a comedy prank series that involves both kids and celebrities, and if Kim has anything to say about it, it’s sure to be a viral hit. The series will consist of 10-episodes and is going to be produced by Lionsgate. According to reports from Deadline, the show will air via the Facebook Watch video platform. Lionsgate has said about the project that the “new series peeks into the family relationships of Hollywood stars as children prank their famous parents and an unsuspecting public.” Kim is an executive producer along with Jennifer O’Connell, Brian Tannenbaum, Peter M. Cohen, and Melissa Stokes. Apparently, You Kiddin’ Me will recruit people on Facebook to participate in the pranks, which is what the producers and celebrity kids will use to crowdsource the best prank ideas. There is currently no word on whether Kim will appear in the show at all, or when the series will actually begin production. Continue reading →
Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images Amara La Negra Flaunts Her Body, Reveals Her Hair Secret Amara La Negra recently gave fans a good glimpse at her copious chocolate culo in all its glory. The Afro-Latina banger recently posed on Instagram in a curve-hugging dress with ties on the side exposing her cakes. “Yo future baby mama or not,” she captioned the photo. Ay dios mio Amara! Amara also recently revealed on Instagram the secret to her trademark afro. According to the proud Dominicana Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk keeps her coils and curls intact. “Wash your hair and shampoo really good, then you moisturize,” said Amara about the conditioner. She also recently revealed that while her afro is real, she adds extensions for fullness. “My hair is mine. I do have a natural Afro. I embrace it. I love it,” said Amara. “I do enhance it by wearing extensions because it’s hard for maintenance to have a perfect Afro 24/7, but I did decide to still rock my ‘fro because it’s the style that I feel that’s closer to representing who I am.” More Amara La Negra on the flip.
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