Image via Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Image DeAndre Harris’ Charges Dismissed After Charlottesville Attack Some you may remember DeAndre Harris . The man who’s beaten and bloody face went viral after he was attacked by cowardly tiki torch terrorists in Charlottesville, Virginia last August. When the aforementioned douchebags accosted him, DeAndre banged one of them in the dome with a flashlight prior to being attacked. DeAndre was subsequently charged with assault. Welcome to America. According to NYDailyNews , today, a judge dismissed DeAndre’s charge as IT WAS A CROCK OF BULLS#!T TO BEGIN WITH. He was facing a year in prison and large fine if convicted. Here is a Black man who suffered head wounds and a severe spinal injury fighting for his freedom because he was fighting for his life. Ain’t THAT ’bout a b!tçh? White supremacist filed a police report against DeAndre. Lil’ ho. Here’s what DeAndre’s lawyer, S. Lee Merritt, had to say on Twitter: DeAndre Harris found not guilty! Now prosecute his assailants! — S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) March 16, 2018 Yeah. That way.
Image via Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Image DeAndre Harris’ Charges Dismissed After Charlottesville Attack Some you may remember DeAndre Harris . The man who’s beaten and bloody face went viral after he was attacked by cowardly tiki torch terrorists in Charlottesville, Virginia last August. When the aforementioned douchebags accosted him, DeAndre banged one of them in the dome with a flashlight prior to being attacked. DeAndre was subsequently charged with assault. Welcome to America. According to NYDailyNews , today, a judge dismissed DeAndre’s charge as IT WAS A CROCK OF BULLS#!T TO BEGIN WITH. He was facing a year in prison and large fine if convicted. Here is a Black man who suffered head wounds and a severe spinal injury fighting for his freedom because he was fighting for his life. Ain’t THAT ’bout a b!tçh? White supremacist filed a police report against DeAndre. Lil’ ho. Here’s what DeAndre’s lawyer, S. Lee Merritt, had to say on Twitter: DeAndre Harris found not guilty! Now prosecute his assailants! — S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) March 16, 2018 Yeah. That way.
Academy Award-nominated costume designer Ruth E. Carter, who recently worked on “Black Panther,” shares inspiring stories with high school students Saturday, March 10, 2018, during a panel discussion of Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE Magazine at Epcot in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 11th annual Disney Dreamers Academy, taking place March 8-11, 2018 is a career-inspiration program for distinguished high school students from across the U.S. (Todd Anderson, photographer) “Black Panther’s” Ruth Carter Spoke About Her Process To Kids At The Disney Dreamer’s Academy She’s the biggest star of “Black Panther” that you’ve probably never heard of. Ruth Carter is the woman behind the intricate Africana-inspired attire that adorns the cast of black blockbuster “Black Panther.” The veteran costume designer – behind such films as “Selma” and “School Daze” – has spoken about how she infused the costumes with both black pride and Afro-futurism. “‘Black Panther’ was an opportunity for us to bring African culture to the foreground,” Carter told high school students last weekend at the Disney Dreamer’s Academy at Walt Disney World , hosted by Steve Harvey and Essence Magazine. “The first part of my journey is to research and understand the culture, because Afro-futurism is culture.” Carter said she travelled around Africa for inspiration for her designs for the film. Carter said she wanted the movie’s clothes to help African-American viewers identify with their origins in the motherland. “The Black Panther suit itself, it has these triangular patterns on the suit – I call it the Okobongo pattern – because I wanted the Black Panther to not only be a superhero, I wanted him to be an African king,” Carter explained. “So when he’s walking around, and having conversations without his helmet on, you could see the patterns and feel it’s from Africa.” Carter said she was initially intimidated by the “Black Panther” opportunity, but said she was thrilled that she took it any way, and was able to add her own personal touch to what has become of one the biggest blockbusters in movie history. “So going into Marvel, and being really intimidated because I’m at Marvel Studios, and because they have the smartest people with the best ideas…I actually brought something to the table. So now that it’s all out, I feel fantastic because I was part of it, and I contributed to it, and I got over my fears.”
they leaked the video of Tory Lanez tryna run the fade on Travis Scott pic.twitter.com/Am1SRcr0NZ — Trashvis (@Trashvis) March 13, 2018 Tory Lanez Vs. Travis Scott Sparks Twitter Hilarity It’s deliciously ironic that two Rap stars (fun-sized crooner Tory Lanez and Kardashian-knocker-upper Travis Scott) accused of stealing waves from other artists beefed over stealing waves from each other and fake almost fought in dated footage that recently leaked onto the internet and sparked hilariously petty chaos across Twitter. Tory Lanez: Let’s handle this like men and shoot the fade one on one Travis Scott: pic.twitter.com/3g1RhHjlgm — vinny (@vinny2NlCE) March 13, 2018 Peep the hilariously petty reactions to Tory & Travis’ almost kerfuffle on the flip.
Johnny Nunez/WireImage Rapper Craig Mack Has Passed Away Craig Mack, the rapper who hailed from Long Island and started the foundation of Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment, has died at age 46. The news was confirmers by his producer to Daily News . Mack’s major claim to hip-hop fame was his smash hit remix of “Flava in Ya Ear” in 1994. The rapper died of heart failure at a hospital near his home in Walterboro, South Carolina on Monday. Alvin Toney, who produced Mack’s debut album “Project: Funk Da World” said he saw his dear friend one last time last week while trying to film a documentary. He said that is when Mack told him that he had been ill for quite some time and that, “he was prepared for whatever comes, to go home to the Lord.” Mack is survived by a wife and two children, who are now both adults, according to Toney.
Getty Images Black Ink Crew’s Phor Arrested In Indiana Phor , one of the stars of VH1’s Black Ink Crew: Chicago , got cuffed right along with his whole crew last week. The incident happened after a police officer pulled them over because clouds of smoke were visibly billowing out of the group’s limo van. According to reports from TMZ , the tattoo artist was arrested in Gary, Indiana along with 6 friends, and is now facing criminal weed charges. According to the police report, an officer pulled over Phor’s Mercedes limo after he both heard loud music and smelled pot. Apparently, the driver told the cop they were heading to a club in Gary–which is only about 25 miles from Chicago–and tried to get the officer’s sympathy by saying, “Look bro, I have a celebrity in the back.” Um, tread lightly there, Mr. driver… Unfortunately for Phor and his crew, the cop didn’t care about his reality celebrity-dom. On top of that, the driver allegedly didn’t have ID or registration for the vehicle, and because it stunk like weed, they were all taken into custody for weed-related offenses.
Pap Nation / Splash News Saint West Photographed With Nanny Outside Hair Appointment How cute is Sainty? Pap Nation / Splash News ‘ KimYe’s middle kiddo was photographed hanging with his nanny outside of a kid’s salon in LA. He’s growing up so quickly riiiiight?
Splash News Man Gift’s Kimmy Cake Stan With Life Size Birthday Cake British artist and cake design Debbie Wingham says s he received a commission from the boyfriend of a “Kim Kardashian lookalike” for a lavish birthday party, and he requested she replicate the reality star’s world “famous” cakes. Wingham kept the identity of the couple secret, but says the boyfriend added a REAL diamond necklace to the baked up figure, adding a whopping $1.7 million to their bill. Do you think she did a good job on it??? Splash news The cake itself, used 85 boxes of Rice Krispies, 33 pounds of fondant icing, 30,000 baby marshmallows and 13 pounds of chocolate according to Splash News. Debbie says the Kim K West cake-alike took ten days to make. The couple who ordered the item says they were “blown away with the result” and she quoted the boyfriend to say: “It’s unreal, such a likeness to my beautiful partner and the curves too, the tiny waist curvy hips and derriere. We even measured them both side by side and it was more or less exact.” Splash News Ummm, okkkkayyy. Would you do this for your significant other’s birthday?
Image via NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Lisa Bonet Speaks About Bill Cosby’s Energy The dozens of sexual assault/rape accusations against Bill Cosby has put those who knew him professionally in the spotlight as many want to know if there were signs of his criminal proclivities back in the day. During an interview with Net-A-Porter , Lisa Bonet , who played his daughter Denise Huxtable, made it pretty clear that she always felt that there was something off with “Americas’s Favorite Dad” Have the revelations about Bill Cosby’s alleged sexual misconduct tainted her memory of those years? She looks evenly at me. “No, it’s exactly as I remember it,” she says. But did you have a sense that anything was happening? “There was no knowledge on my part about his specific actions, but… There was just energy. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed.” You sensed a darkness? “Always. And if I had anything more to reveal then it would have happened a long time ago. That’s my nature. The truth will set you free.” But that wasn’t all… At the time, Bonet was branded a rebel who tested the patience of the most popular sitcom dad in the country. She showed up late on set and posed topless in Interview magazine, contrary to his wishes. Cosby famously opposed her role in Angel Heart, in which she performed a nude sex scene with Mickey Rourke. “I don’t need to say, ‘I told you so’,” she says about Cosby’s current situation. “I just leave all that to karma and justice and what will be.” The folks at Merriam-Webster have to put Lisa Bonet’s face next to the definition of “dry snitchin’”
Leon Bennett/Getty Images for BET Friday Will Be Michael Smith’s Last Day On SportsCenter Michael Smith is set to leave his role as ESPN’s SportsCenter 6 p.m. ET host, and his last day will be on Friday, March 9. Smith’s departure comes a little over a month after his former co-host, Jemele Hill , left the program to join ESPN’s website, The Undefeated . Smith has not yet announced where he will be going after leaving SportsCenter , but Sports Illustrated reports that he–just like Hill–still has multiple years left on his ESPN contract, so it’s assume that he will stay within the brand in one capacity or another. According to New York Post reporter Andrew Marchand, the most likely replacements for Hill and Smith will be Sage Steele and John Anderson, who are the currentl hosts of SportsCenter at night. As @sportsrapport tweeted, I was told last week that Sage Steele and John Anderson were favorites to be new 6 pm SportsCenter team. As @richarddeitsch reported, Michael Smith will no longer do SC. This was a when, not if, situation. — Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) March 9, 2018 In September of last year, ESPN Executive Vice President Norby Williamson took control of the SportsCenter franchise, and immediately instituted changes to the show that greatly affected how Hill and Smith did their jobs. He himself admitted that there was “probably an element of truth” to claims that Hill left the show at least in part because of the changes he implemented–and the same could probably go for Michael, as well. As for next moves, Smith himself hasn’t commented on anything in particular, but Williamson said in a statement , “Michael is a talented commentator, and we greatly appreciate and value his contributions and creativity. We are in the process of discussing with him potential next ESPN assignments.” Good luck to Smith on his next endeavor!
