Wow… In an effort to open discussion about immigration policy in the US, Orange is The New Black star Diane Guerrero shared her own personal story of how deportation tore her family apart and forced her to live on her own at age 14. Via TalkingPoints : In an interview with CNN on Monday, “Orange Is The New Black” actress Diane Guerrero was brought to tears on-air as she described the deportation of her family when she was a teenager. “I got home, and their cars were there and dinner was started and the lights were on, but I couldn’t find them,” Guerrero told host Michaela Pereira. Guerrero explained that at age 14, she had arrived home from her performing arts school only to find her parents had been removed from the house. They were eventually sent to Colombia. The actress broke down when she said the separation had caused her to feel alienated from her own family. “It’s tough, it’s like we’ve been separated for so long, I feel like sometimes we don’t know each other,” she said. “It’s difficult because I’ve grown up without them, and there’s things about them that are new that I don’t recognize, and it just — it hurts.” Guerrero also recently wrote about the ordeal in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times amid speculation over possible executive actions on immigration by President Obama. “Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me,” she wrote. “No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.” She’s lucky her life turned out as well as it did! At 14, alone without her family in a foreign country…things definitely could have taken a tragic turn.
Do you agree? Mary J. Blige recently opened up about how she and husband of 11 years, Kendu Isaacs, have made it through the rough terrain of maintaining a happy matrimony-dom and a working business relationship (Isaacs is still her manager to this day). Among their tactics is each making sure the other has no friends of the opposite sex — Kendu is only permitted to socialize and hang out with other men, while Mary respectfully does the same with other women. As she explains to Stella Magazine : The couple live in a $12 million mansion beside the Hudson River in New Jersey and will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary next month. “It definitely feels like an achievement. I never thought I’d last this long in a marriage,” she admits. What are the benefits of marrying one’s manager, I ask. “He always has my back – he’s going to fight to the death for Mary J Blige. The downside is that there’s no separation – it’s on all the time. When you don’t feel like answering to your manager, he’s still your husband,” she says, laughing. How do they negotiate that? “If one of you doesn’t want to talk about something right now, you have to respect that. And you have to respect each other’s space.” They have separate groups of friends. “All females for me, all guys for him,” she says, sternly. “There’s none of that, ‘Oh, that’s my female friend. Oh, that’s my guy friend.’ No. Not in a marriage, I’ve never seen that work.” But being a wife has changed her in ways she didn’t expect. “Being a single person and an artist, there’s a lot of selfishness that you don’t even know you have,” she says. “Being a wife, it’s not all about me.” Damn, what happened to trust? What do you think, Bossip Fam? Can wives and husbands maintain friendships with members of the opposite sex without sacrificing their relationship??
Black Twitter Vs. Thirsty Solange Stans Shea buttery princess Solange broke the internet with her stunning wedding photo that’s destined to be recreated for eternity by attention-thirsty stans who will try (and fail terribly) to match the sheer Godliness of that classic pic. Hit the jump for the best of Black Twitter vs. the thirsty Solange fans.
Is Tamar’s hubby Vince stepping out on her?? Gloria Govan Speaks On Vincent Herbert Mistress Allegations Remember when we told you that rumors were swirling that (newly single) Gloria Govan was taking comfort in the arms of (very married) Vincent Herbert ? As previously reported: When news broke several weeks ago that Gloria Govan and Matt Barnes were headed for splitsville, nobody seemed surprised by the idea that Gloria may have cheated. Now BOSSIP is exclusively reporting that Gloria may be the source of another woman’s marital woes — as several sources close to the former “Basketball Wives L.A.” star claim she has been getting it in with Tamar Braxton’s entertainment executive HUSBAND Vincent Herbert! An inside source tells BOSSIP exclusively that the relationship started as a business venture but became much more: “Gloria REALLY wants to get back on reality TV since she’s no longer doing “Basketball Wives” and Vince was supposed to be helping her with that,” BOSSIP’s source said of the reality TV starlet. “She’d been wanting to work with him for awhile and things just escalated from there.” To add fuel to the fire, BOSSIP was able to confirm the rumor with a second source also close to Govan. “It’s true,” Gloria’s pal told BOSSIP. “She’s mentioned before how much she thought he’d be able to help her. Money and placement are always a motivation for her.” Well Gloria’s since responded to the story and is confirming whether or not Tamar Braxton’s man is dibbling and dabbling in her lil basketball wife booty. Hit the flip to see what she said…
This may be the last remaining taboo in our supposedly colorblind society . Black Women Face Interracial Dating Taboo When Online Via NY Post reports: A New York City woman — beautiful, educated, successful and single — accepted a challenge presented by an online dating service that aimed to fix her up with available men. “I’m not desperate to get married,’’ said Jacque Reid, who co-hosts the “New York Live” lifestyle show on WNBC-TV News Channel 4, serves as a correspondent for the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” on the radio, and is the editor in chief of SingleandLivingFab.com. “I’ve met some good men. I’ve met some bad men and dated very bad men,” laughed Reid, a fitness enthusiast and never-married Atlanta, Ga., native who lives in Manhattan with her pet Shih Tzus — a boy named Sugar-Shane and a girl named Zoe. “I’m happy being single,” said Reid, who declined to give her age. She said, “I’m excited about” the Web-based matchup service. “It will be fun — and I’ll get some dates.” But two days after we spoke last week, a WNBC spokeswoman informed me that Reid no longer planned to accept the dating service’s challenge because she was “busy.” A friend told me that she’d changed her mind about it. Why? The answer may be found in the dating service’s name: InterracialDatingCentral.com. Reid, who is African-American, had opened herself up to the possibility of going out with men who are not. Reid had talked about the challenge on the radio and publicly accepted the service’s offer. She agreed to be featured in a news release announcing that she would go on a series of blind dates with four New York-area bachelors of all races, including African-Americans. Then the pushback began. In this day and age, some people are vehemently against the idea of a woman of color going out with men of other backgrounds. And the opposition comes from within the black community. How can this be? “Black men date or marry interracially at more than double the level women do,” she said. “They are given a pass. They can date anyone they want to — black women, white women.” The purpose of the dating challenge, she said, was to expand a woman’s choices. Black women are up to 50 percent more likely than their male counterparts to graduate from high school, reports the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and The Schott Foundation for Public Education. About twice the number of black women attend college as black men, according to the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation. And the Pew Research Center determined that black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be serving time in prisons and jails in 2010. Meanwhile, said Karazin, the rate of out-of-wedlock births to black women is 72 to 80 percent — up to 100 percent in some communities. Some of the ills facing black men, particularly high incarceration rates for relatively minor crimes, are unfair to them. But Karazin does not believe that black women should be limited by race when choosing partners. She’s right. Skin color should not matter when it comes to love. Discuss….
Yet ANOTHER reason to just say no… Bra-Wearing Man Arrested For Blocking Customers From ATM In Florida There are a couple of ridiculous things you can do that will get you instantly arrested and one Florida man found that out the hard way. via Huffington Post You don’t see this everyday. Police in Florida encountered a man wearing a jacket and brassiere, and riding a bicycle in front of a bank branch that prevented customers from using the ATM. Fort Pierce police asked Gregory Herndon to empty his pockets and, though it got him into trouble, the 33-year-old allegedly agreed. Out came a pair of women’s undergarments, a crack pipe, two needles for drug use, a pill bottle and brass wool, according to Off the Beat, which recently obtained the Nov. 3 arrest affidavit. Records from the St. Lucie County sheriff’s office says Herndon faces charges of possession of drug equipment and resisting an officer without violence. Bond was set at $15,500. Herndon has landed in jail previously for allegedly manufacturing meth in his home and attempting to flee from cops during an ill-fated cocaine purchase. SMH.
Chris Brown’s Painting Collaborations Shown In LA Gallery Apparently when he’s not busy singing, dancing , and typing up Instagram rants , Chris Brown is a rather talented visual artist. Going under the artist name “Konfuzed,” Breezy has long been known to do graffiti-style art, but last night he ventured into the high art world through a collaboration with photographer Karen Bystedt for her “Andy Goes Street” Exhibition. Breezy painted over one of her famous photos of the late artist Andy Warhol in his own street art style: Nice! Hit the flip for more pics of Breezy’s brush with art…
Damn they got Quavo and them! Migos Robbed At Stadium Strip Club The Twitterverse is currently ablaze with rumors that Atlanta rappers Migos were assaulted and robbed for their chains at Washington D.C.’s Stadium strip club. Photos have been circulating online of their stolen jewelry… including a photo from Chief Keef who may or may not have had something to do with it considering their beef with GBE’s Fredo Santana . SMH…this story is still developing. What do YOU think about this latest chain snatching/rap beef???? Baller Alert/Prince William ATLPics
Well damn ! Stripper Attacks Bartender With Stiletto A South Carolina woman is in police custody after authorities say she attacked a bartender at the club where she pole pops with a clear plastic high-heeled shoe. The Smoking Gun reports: A stripper wielding a “clear plastic high-heeled shoe” attacked a fellow employee early today in a South Carolina club, leaving the victim with puncture wounds in her scalp and other injuries, according to a police report. The 2 AM stiletto assault occurred in the bathroom at Chez Joey, a Myrtle Beach gentlemen’s club. Ashley Michaels-Hoder, 24, told cops that she was grabbed by the hair by Carolyn Wright, 22, who allegedly then “began striking her with a clear plastic high-heeled shoe that was in her left hand.” Michaels-Hoder, a bartender at the strip joint, said that she was unable to defend herself since Wright was holding her head down. Michaels-Hoder said that when she managed to lift her head, “the offender struck her multiple times in the face with the same shoe,” police reported. Michaels-Holder, who was interviewed while being treated at a hospital, suffered a swollen left eye, swelling to her forehead, and two puncture wounds that a doctor said would require staples. Wright has not been arrested in connection with the incident, which police have classified as aggravated assault, a felony. Wright has been arrested twice this year, for disorderly conduct and assault. She served short jail sentences in both cases. SMH…so Carolyn Wright is clearly about that life. Do better!
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