Source: Apega/WENN.com / WENN So sad… Donald Glover Reveals His Father’s Death Donald Glover paid tribute to his late father at a recent concert. The rapper was recently performing at the final stop of his “This Is America Tour” when he shocked fans by announcing that he’d been mourning the death of his dad. According to Donald, his father Donald Glover, Sr. passed away in recent weeks and he’s been reeling ever since. “I lost my father a couple weeks ago,” said Glover. “I wanted to play him some of the new songs, but he didn’t want to hear them, because he was like, ‘I know they’re going to be great,’” Gambino continued, as he appeared to struggle to maintain his composure. “I’m not saying that to talk about music – I say that to talk about trust,” he explained. “That’s what love is. I hope you guys get to feel that kind of love.” He then previewed one of the new songs he wanted to play his father. Source: Frazer Harrison / Getty We’re so sorry to hear about Donald’s dad. We heard so many great things about him and he did a helluva job raising hs on.
Source: SOPA Images / Getty Forever 21 is under fire after displaying a total lack of common sense. On Tuesday, the fashion retailer hit Twitter to promote a Black Panther sweater they’re selling—the only problem is, the model they used to sell the new merch isn’t the slightest bit Black . The young blonde, blue-eyed man stands tall in the top, which reads “Wakanda Forever” across the front. The obvious question is: why wasn’t a Black person asked to model it? Of course, it didn’t take long before the internet blew up with frustration, while others said anyone of any race should be able to wear Wakanda gear. “People got mad because Forever 21 had a white male wearing a wakanda forever sweater… Y’all so aggravating and complain about everything. Like why can’t someone white be showcased wearing that ? Black panther is a marvel character created for any and everyone to enjoy RELAX,” @lunaticshii tweeted, for example. To be fair, most folks aren’t mad he’s simply wearing the shirt…they’re mad that out of everyone, he’s the person they chose to promote the shirt. Key difference. The way Black culture is continuously hijacked by other races while Black people are dumped and forgotten, we’d just appreciate it if Black folks were lifted up and celebrated whenever the opportunity presents itself. And having a Black model sell a Black Panther sweater was one of those OBVIOUS opportunities to show love, which makes us wonder if choices like the one Forever 21 made are intentional? Why deny a young Black king or queen that moment to shine amongst his/her peers? Are these companies really just that tone deaf? Are there no Black models at these shoots? Or, Black employees working the shoots? Eventually, Forever 21 decided to pull the photo and issue an apology via E! : “Forever 21 takes feedback on our products and marketing extremely seriously. We celebrate all superheroes with many different models of various ethnicities and apologize if the photo in question was offensive in any way.” Hit the flip to see some of the backlash the company received.
Source: SOPA Images / Getty Forever 21 is under fire after displaying a total lack of common sense. On Tuesday, the fashion retailer hit Twitter to promote a Black Panther sweater they’re selling—the only problem is, the model they used to sell the new merch isn’t the slightest bit Black . The young blonde, blue-eyed man stands tall in the top, which reads “Wakanda Forever” across the front. The obvious question is: why wasn’t a Black person asked to model it? Of course, it didn’t take long before the internet blew up with frustration, while others said anyone of any race should be able to wear Wakanda gear. “People got mad because Forever 21 had a white male wearing a wakanda forever sweater… Y’all so aggravating and complain about everything. Like why can’t someone white be showcased wearing that ? Black panther is a marvel character created for any and everyone to enjoy RELAX,” @lunaticshii tweeted, for example. To be fair, most folks aren’t mad he’s simply wearing the shirt…they’re mad that out of everyone, he’s the person they chose to promote the shirt. Key difference. The way Black culture is continuously hijacked by other races while Black people are dumped and forgotten, we’d just appreciate it if Black folks were lifted up and celebrated whenever the opportunity presents itself. And having a Black model sell a Black Panther sweater was one of those OBVIOUS opportunities to show love, which makes us wonder if choices like the one Forever 21 made are intentional? Why deny a young Black king or queen that moment to shine amongst his/her peers? Are these companies really just that tone deaf? Are there no Black models at these shoots? Or, Black employees working the shoots? Eventually, Forever 21 decided to pull the photo and issue an apology via E! : “Forever 21 takes feedback on our products and marketing extremely seriously. We celebrate all superheroes with many different models of various ethnicities and apologize if the photo in question was offensive in any way.” Hit the flip to see some of the backlash the company received.
Now I’m an 80’s baby from the midwest – so my heart leaning heavy with Bone on this one! Who yall got? Via | HipHopDX DENVER, CO – As the King of R&B debate wages on, all kinds of artists are making claims about who’s at the top of the pyramid. After Layzie Bone heard Migos insisted they were the greatest group ever, the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony OG jumped on Instagram to send a message to Offset, Takeoff and Quavo. “There’s a lot of things going out here,” he said. “Young niggas talkin’ bout that they the king of R&B. Young niggas talkin’ bout they the best group ever. Best rap group ever or whatever they said. I’m just here to set the record straight. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, we still all five live — Krayzie, Bizzy, Wish, Flesh and myself Layzie Bone — we the best, you dig? READ MORE
Every time a brotha start trying to do right, the world reminds him of how hard it is to stay straight. Check this bs out smh. Via | HipHopDX PHILADELPHIA, PA – Meek Mill has reportedly filed a police report with authorities after a vandal spray painted his grandmother’s house with racist graffiti on Monday night (December 17). The Championships mastermind revealed the news via Twitter on Tuesday morning (December 18). “A white man sprayed a racial remarks on my Grandmom’s house last night in south philly referencing white privileged,” he wrote. “the crazy part is this was a all black neighborhood 20 years ago. It was gentrified and now this! Just don’t let us catch you coward!” READ MORE
The time has come for Atlanta-native, Money Mu to release his highly-anticipated music video for his hit single “Hittin”. The video was directed by up-and-coming director, Terrius Mykel. Rich with new money flare and exotic women – the “Hittin’” video represents the song extremely well. This visual will definitely aid in the spread of the song and the artist’s influence to the national stage. Money Mu is also preparing to release his first full-length project in early 2019. His infectious hit single – “Hittin’” spread voraciously through the clubs thanks to D J Ant Durty and has found a home on the FM stations in Atlanta – thanks to Streetz 94.5’s FlyGuyDC and Ferrari Simmons . If the last month has been any indication of how 2018 will go for Money Mu – this is definitely his year. Social media: Twitter @StillPaidMu Instagram @StillPaidMu
Offset ‘s stepdad has a bone to pick with Cardi B . Michael Woodward (Tony Pla on social media) allegedly came for his “hot-headed” daughter-in-law on Facebook recently. “People do and say hurtful things about my family members daily; specifically my child. While he ain’t perfect, he is mine and as a parent, I have a duty to protect him,” the Alpha Phi Alpha member allegedly wrote on his fraternity’s group page. “Right now, I cannot do that. Like most young adults, he doesn’t always do what he’s advised to do but we are talking about a 25-year-old with an unlimited supply of money, women chasing him, people at his disposal, etc. Couple that with a hot headed female that thrives off of social media attention and is on the same financial level as/above him and it’s a recipe for disaster,” he added in the wake of Cardi’s impending divorce from his stepson. Sounds like he’d like Offset to get with a woman he can control. Besides that, Woodward adds there are issues no one else knows about. He’s also reportedly upset over Cardi posting the first photo of Kulture Kiari . “Psychological issues, depression, and drugs that make the situation worse. You all do not know how that effects the rest of the family from late night phone calls, emergency travel, news, media, etc. I did not sign up for this. Everything I do and say is scrutinized, everyone wants a favor to get close to him or Cardi,” he allegedly wrote, adding “Last week when Cardi posted the divorce video I could not get any work done at work as the phone calls, texts, DMs, etc were non stop. She released the baby picture out of spite. It was supposed to come out in his album. She basically screwed my whole family over that vowed not to release pictures to social media. My whole family is in an uproar right now and I can’t fix it.” Meanwhile, Cardi B has been on Instagram confessing to followers that she misses the D. Photo: Getty
Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix Jim Henson’s been dearly departed for more almost three decades but the man behind some of your favorite childhood muppet shows is about to have another one of his works come to life thanks to Netflix. Decades after the release of the fantasy cult classic The Dark Crystal , io9 is reporting that Netflix is set to drop a 10-episode prequel to the 1982 film, The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance . Set to take place “many years” before the events of the original film, Age of Resistance will once again be played out by puppets and be voiced by an all-star cast including OG sci-fi icon Mark Hammill, Helena Bonham Carter, Anya Taylor Joy, and Keegan-Michael Key amongst many others. According to the plot description, the show is about three young Gelflings (from three of the Gelflings’ seven clans) inspiring a rebellion against the evil emperor Skeksis after learning a terrifying secret about the source of his power. We’re pretty sure many a Millennial won’t be familiar with the original film but trust that this is a big deal to age old sci-fi heads and 80’s babies that grew up on Henson’s imagination and vision. Some pics of the upcoming series were revealed and from the looks of things it’ll remain true to the original while also getting an upgrade in puppet details. Check out what we’re talking about below and let us know if you’ll be checking for The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance when it premiers sometime in 2019. Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix — Photo: Netflix
Source: Diane Macdonald / Getty We don’t know what is going on with 2018, but it seems that this is the year where Black people just living their lives seems to prompt folks to call the police called on us. Case in point: A Cleveland bank called the police on a Black customer because they allegedly believed his paycheck was “too high” and was fraudulent. . @Huntington_Bank employee calls cops on black man because they thought his paycheck was too high #racism #racist https://t.co/dU7YjPpkh1 — Raw Story (@RawStory) December 18, 2018 Paul McCowns claims that while he was trying to cash his first paycheck from his new job at an electric company, he was racially profiled by a teller at Huntington Bank, who refused to cash his check. According to WOIO TV , McCowns said his paycheck was a little over $1,000 and that he followed the bank’s rules of showing two forms of identification and a fingerprint, as required for non-Huntington customers. But for some reason, that wasn’t good enough. McCowns says that the employees began looking at the computer screen, questioning the transaction. “They tried to call my employer numerous times. He never picked up the phone,” he told WOIO. After tellers told him they couldn’t cash his check, McCowns said he left the bank. But when he got the parking lot, he saw the police cars and was instructed to get out his car. He was later handcuffed. Police then told him that the tellers had called 911 on him, a fact he didn’t know. WOIO obtained the 911 call and reported that the teller told the authorities, “He’s trying to cash a check and the check is fraudulent. It does not match our records.” When asked if McCowns knew that the police were being called on him, the teller replied, “No.” Shortly after, police got McCowns employer on the phone who confirmed that he worked for him and that his paycheck was that amount. A bank representative apologized for the teller’s behavior to the news channel, explaining that because of 11 cases of fraud in recent months, their employees were being “hyper-vigilant.” “We sincerely apologize to Mr. McCowns for this extremely unfortunate event,” the bank said in a statement. “We accept responsibility for contacting the police as well as our own interactions with Mr. McCowns. Anyone who walks into a Huntington branch should feel welcomed. Regrettably, that did not occur in this instance and we are very sorry.” However, McCowns isn’t hearing it. He wants for the bank to apologize to him directly for racial profiling. Meanwhile, a bank rep claims McCowns has yet to return their calls. RELATED NEWS: #PoolPatrolPatty: White Apartment Manager Fired After Calling Police On Black Man For Wearing Socks #MowingWhileBlack: Neighbors Call Police On 12-Year-Old Boy Cutting The Grass #PermitPatty: White Woman Calls Police on 8-Year-Old Black Girl Selling Water [ione_media_gallery src=”https://hellobeautiful.com” id=”2999417″ overlay=”true”]
T he in-custody death of a woman who languished in a Texas jail for months over an alleged minor nonviolent offense showed how the cash bail system can tragically kill people. See Also: Fight For Bail And Pretrial Reform Is Steadily Gaining Steam This Year The Bexar County medical examiner concluded that 61-year-old Janice Dotson-Stephens died Friday of natural causes, KSAT-TV reported. She was arrested in July for trespassing on private property and was sitting behind bars ever since because she couldn’t afford the $300 bond. The news outlet speculated that local bail bond companies would have charged her just $30, or 10 percent of her bond, to arrange her release. Dotson-Stephens’ family said they were unaware that she was in jail and believed she was getting treatment at a state hospital for mental illness. “We just felt that she shouldn’t have died as a criminal in the jailhouse. She wasn’t a criminal. She had mental health illness,” her daughter-in-law, Leticia Dotson , said . Anger over her death lit a fire under Alec Karakatsanis , the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps who blamed society for Dotson-Stephens’ unfair treatment because she was poor and Black. “We are all responsible for the injustices of our legal system, and for the suffering inflicted in our name. We must all find out about what our court bureaucracy is doing to poor people and people of color every day, and then we should all organize against it,” he told NewsOne in an email Tuesday afternoon. A woman was held in jail for six months because she couldn’t afford to pay her $300 bond. She just died in custody. This is tragic and exactly why we need to reform our money bail system. https://t.co/FAQEoUQYVp — Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) December 18, 2018 African-Americans have long been disproportionate victims of the cash bail system. Nationally, Blacks get detained in jail at nearly five times the rate as whites. Moreover, African-Americans aged 18 to 29 typically receive significantly higher bail amounts than other defendants. Activists were pushing for bail and pretrial reforms across the nation and some progressive local governments were instituting reforms. In Atlanta, for example, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an ordinance in February that eliminated cash bonds for release from the City of Atlanta Detention Center. The movement received a major boost in July through a federal appeals court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a New Jersey law that reformed the state’s bail system. At the same time, the ruling provided a court-approved reform model that other states could follow. In the New Jersey ruling , judges acknowledged that the state instituted the reforms to address inequalities—also found in other states—that kept poor people behind bars for nearly a year on average while awaiting a hearing because they couldn’t afford to pay bail of $2,500 or less. It appeared that the mistreatment of Dotson-Stephens may run deeper. The court ordered her to undergo a psychological evaluation while in custody, but the results were not reported immediately. SEE ALSO: Twitter Reacts To Old Racist Tweets From Black NFL Player’s White Fiancée This Is Personal! Hakeem Jeffries Targeted By Ocasio-Cortez [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3840429″ overlay=”true”]
