Source: skynesher / Getty According to a news report by WSB-TV , Atlanta’s HIV problem is now being called an epidemic. The cities rampant HIV issue has some scientists comparing Atlanta to third world African countries and says some residents should be taking daily meds to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease. _____ “Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University’s Center for AIDS Research. Del Rio also stated the disease has shifted from one that affected many gay men and drug users, to a something that affects everyone, but African-Americans with limited health care in particular. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT HIV IN ATLANTA According to the CDC if you live in southeast part of the country, you are more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than any other part of the United States In Georgia, risk of diagnosis is 1 in every 51 people. There are approximately more than 35,402 people living with HIV in Atlanta, Georgia. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Award season is here and to kick off the major awards, the nominations for the 76th Golden Globes were announced this morning. “ Vice ,” received six nominations including best musical or comedy, director, actor ( Christian Bale ), supporting actress ( Amy Adams ), supporting actor ( Sam Rockwell ) and screenplay. “ A Star Is Born ” starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga ” and two other movies received five noms. Source: Jay Banks / Jay Banks Regina King received nominations in two categories. The multi-time Emmy Award winner received noms for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (“ If Beale Street Could Talk “) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television( “ Seven Seconds “) “Black Panther,” “ BlackKklansman ” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” join “A Star Is Born” and the Queen/Freddie Mercury Biopic “ Bohemian Rhapsody ” in the Best Motion Picture – Drama category. Source: Emma McIntyre / Getty Spike Lee (Best Director) and John David Washington (Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama) received nominations for “BlackKklansman” Check out the rest of the nominees below. Movies Best Motion Picture – Drama “Black Panther” “BlackKklansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “If Beale Street Could Talk” “A Star Is Born” Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy “Crazy Rich Asians” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Mary Poppins Returns” “Vice” Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Glenn Close (“The Wife”) Lady Gaga (“A Star Is Born”) Nicole Kidman (“Destroyer”) Melissa McCarthy (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) Rosamund Pike (“A Private War”) Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) Willem Dafoe (“At Eternity’s Gate”) Lucas Hedges (“Boy Erased”) Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) John David Washington (“BlackKklansman”) Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”) Olivia Coleman (“The Favourite”) Elsie Fisher (“Eighth Grade”) Charlize Theron (“Tully”) Constance Wu (“Crazy Rich Asians”) Best Director Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”) Peter Farrelly (“Green Book”) Spike Lee (“BlackKklansman”) Adam McKay (“Vice”) Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Christian Bale (“Vice”) Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Mary Poppins Returns”) Vigo Mortensen (“Green Book”) Robert Redford (“The Old Man in the Gun”) John C. Reilly (“Stan and Ollie”) Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Amy Adams (“Vice”) Claire Foy (“First Man”) Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite”) Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Mahershela Ali (“Green Book”) Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”) Adam Driver (“BlackKklansman”) Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) Sam Rockwell (“Vice”) Best Original Score in a Motion Picture Marco Beltrami (“A Quiet Place”) Alexandre Desplat (“Isle of Dogs”) Ludwig Göransson (“Black Panther”) Justin Hurwitz (“First Man”) Marc Shaiman (“Mary Poppins Returns”) Best Screenplay in a Motion Picture Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Adam McKay (“Vice”) Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”) Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (“The Favourite”) Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie (“Green Book”) Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language “Capernaum” “Girl” “Never Look Away” “Roma” “Shoplifters” Best Animated Film “Incredibles 2” “Isle of Dogs” “Mirai” “Ralph Breaks the Internet” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” TV Best TV series – Drama “The Americans” “The Bodyguard” “Homecoming” “Killing Eve” “Pose” Best Performance by Actress in a TV series – Drama Caitriona Balfe (“Outlander”) Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”) Julia Roberts (“Homecoming”) Keri Russell (“The Americans”) Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series – Drama Jason Bateman (“Ozark”) Stephan James (“Homecoming”) Richard Madden (“Bodyguard”) Billy Porter (“Pose”) Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) Best TV series – Musical or Comedy “Barry” “The Good Place” “Kidding” “The Kominsky Method” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series – Musical or Comedy Sasha Baron Cohen (“Who Is America?”) Jim Carrey (“Kidding”) Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”) Donald Glover (“Atlanta”) Bill Hader (“Barry”) Best Performance by an Actress in a TV series – Musical or Comedy Kristen Bell (“The Good Place”) Candice Bergen (“Murphy Brown”) Alison Brie (“GLOW”) Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”) Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television “The Alienist” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” “Dirty John” “Escape at Dannemora” “Sharp Objects” “A Very English Scandal” Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Antonio Banderas (“Genius: Picasso”) Daniel Bruhl (“The Alienist”) Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Benedict Cumberbatch (“Patrick Melrose”) Hugh Grant (“A Very English Scandal”) Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Amy Adams (“Sharp Objects”) Patricia Arquette (“Escape at Dannemora”) Connie Britton (“Dirty John”) Laura Dern (“The Tale”) Regina King (“Seven Seconds”) Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Alan Arkin (“The Kominsky Method”) Kieran Culkin (“Succession Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Ben Whishaw (“A Very English Scandal”) Henry Winkler (“Barry”) Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’) Patricia Clarkson (“Sharp Objects”) Penélope Cruz (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Thandie Newton (“Westworld”) Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Source: Brian To/WENN.com / WENN Yesterday the world went crazy when Cardi B took to social media and announced her and Offset are no longer together. In the her message she said “It’s nobody’s fault.” Related: Cardi B Finally Shares First Picture Of Baby Kulture!! After last nights affairs, we beg to differ. It was no secret that Offset had a problem with “keeping it in his pants”, but you would think after getting caught multiple times that maybe you would learn your lesson right? I guess not because according to Summer Bunni, Offset and her had a thing going on. Related: Hilarious #YallWon Tweets Prove Folks Are Taking Cardi B & Offset’s Split Pretty Well Last night Summer Bunni, took to social media and apologized in tears for breaking up a happy home. Listen to the apology below. Stay up-to-date by following us on Facebook, Twitter and on Instagram at @hiphopdetroit.
Source: Krista Long / Getty If you’re privy to the dance scene going on in New York that has also taken over social media (and made it’s way into White Folks’ home thanks to Ellen Degeneres ), then you’ve probably heard of Emilie Brooklyn . Emilie is very well known in the New York City dance community, specifically when it comes to the lite feet movement. The Copenhagen, Denmark native has danced for everyone from ASAP Ferg to Chris Brown — and with her large social media following plus half of uptown New York supporting her, it’s safe to say that Em is up next. Don’t get us wrong, anyone with raw talent (who can Harlem shake better than some Harlemites) deserves all the clout and respect that Emilie receives. But as a White girl whose upbringing was the polar opposite of someone growing up in the projects of Brooklyn, some things just aren’t acceptable. Like her birthday video to Jay-Z in front of Marcy houses. Not only is the video tone deaf AF, but it poses the question: Are Black folks too welcoming? Are we giving away our culture for free? There are several things about the 16 second clip that would trigger any person of color that grew up in an impoverished community: The setting: Public Housing is not a tourist attraction or a prop. Oppressed people of color were placed STILL live there and some are trying to make it out. Starret City, the largest federally subsidized, was built specifically for low-income, government assisted Black folks in 1974. Now it’s called Spring Creek Towers and was sold to shareholders, including Donald Trump, for $905 million . The Timbs: We’re use to Wypipo jocking our style and calling it their own; i.e. the Kim Kardashian “Boxer Braids”. But we gotta draw the line some where, and Timberland Boots is a good place to start. In the late 80’s and early 90’s before White folks ever thought about making their way to Brooklyn, Timbs were a symbol of the urban NY culture. Legend has it that Drug Dealers made them popular in the 90’s when they wore them to hit the block. But just like most things in Black culture — white folks got a hold of them, then celebrities. Now we cringe every time we see an “Emilie” ditching her uggs for Timbs. The props: If a Black girl came to a predominately White, suburban neighborhood dancing in front of the property with her coat and backpack posted on the gate all willy nilly — the police would have been called before she could finish her harlem shake. The Tags: Really though, Emilie? You just gon’ tag every popular urban outlet thinking they’d praise you for finagaling in front of such a beloved area? Nah. The Dance: As Millennials, we let a lot of things slide when it comes to the arts. “If you’re good at something, why do we have to bring race into the mix?” But just as White folks benefit from their ancestors atrocities with White privilege, Black people bare the brunt of our ancestors pain and suffering with oppression and maltreatment. And just as Jamie Lee Lewis wrote on Instagram , “The Harlem Shake, Light Feet are not dance moves. For us this is culture, it’s how we survive and how we acknowlege that we survived.” By no means are we saying that Emilie Brooklyn can’t dance, cause shorty has moves! But just be more aware. Be more informed. And please, get more Black friends.
Source: Tommaso Boddi / Getty The day after Cardi B announced she was divorcing her husband Offset , the rapper posted on her social media accounts of a full pic of their daughter Kulture —the first time she’s done that since the baby was born in back in July. The “I Like It” rapper captioned the photo with a simple “My heart.” Take a look at this chocolate cutie: Prior her post today, Cardi had been vocal about NOT wanting to full post pics of Kulture, mostly posting pics that hide the baby’s face. “I’m scared of sharing her to the world,” she told Entertainment Tonight last month. “There are too many mean people out there.” She even admitted that she and Offset turned down more than a million dollars to debut Kulture to the world for the sake of privacy. “Me and my husband… We just don’t wanna show our baby right now,” she told Apple Music’s Ebro Darden this October . Adding, “I got offered seven figures [for baby pictures], but I’m just not ready yet.” We guess now she’s ready. BEAUTIES: Isn’t Kulture a cutie? RELATED NEWS: #BlackTwitter Thinks Cardi B & Offset Broke Up Because Offset Was Caught Cheating Again ‘Y’all Won’: Black Twitter Roasts Offset For Accusing Folks Of Conspiring Against His Marriage Welp! Nicki Minaj Says Rah Ali Beat Up Cardi B ‘Bad,’ Offers $100,000 For Video Footage [ione_media_gallery src=”https://hellobeautiful.com” id=”2947267″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Rapper 2 Milly is going forward with his lawsuit against Epic Games, the studio behind the addictive video game Fortnite. The rapper doesn’t want anyone Milly Rocking on any block in the game anymore, unless Epic Games cuts a check. Speaking with TMZ exclusively , 2 Milly admits he didn’t know anything about Fortnite until people started hitting him up on social media telling him his dance moves were jacked and being used in the game. He added his daughter even pointed out the similar dance moves players can make their in-game characters do. The Milly Rock didn’t start showing up in the game till season 5 back in July, and the rapper wasn’t aware his dance move called the “Swipe It” was being sold for use in the game till months after. Per TMZ : “The rapper filed legal docs this week against Epic Games — the company that makes Fortnite Battle Royale — for allegedly using his popular Milly Rock moves in the game without his permission to capitalize on the popular dance craze … and make a ton of cash.” “According to the docs … Fortnite players can purchase the dance — which is called “Swipe It” in the game — for their characters. Problem is … 2 Milly claims “Swipe It” is an exact replica of his Milly Rock, but they never asked him to use it or offered to pay him for it.” According to the docs, 2 Milly is suing Epic for legal fees and damages and wants the dance deleted from the game. The “Swipe It” is no longer being sold but if players already purchased it, they can still use it. The Milly Rock is not the only Hip-Hop dance move in the game, Snoop Dogg’s signature moves from his “Drop It Like It’s Hot” video and Alfonso Ribiero’s “Carlton dance” are also available for purchase and use in the game. 2 Milly’s attorney David L. Hecht of Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP speaking to TMZ that his firm “proud to stand up for African-American creatives whose expression and likenesses have misappropriated. Epic is enjoying record profits off of downloadable content in Fortnite, yet has failed to pay or even ask permission to use artists’ intellectual property and likenesses over many of its popular emote dances.” 2 Milly has a lot of people on his side including fellow Hip-Hop artist Chance The Rapper. Fortnite should put the actual rap songs behind the dances that make so much money as Emotes. Black creatives created and popularized these dances but never monetized them. Imagine the money people are spending on these Emotes being shared with the artists that made them — Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) July 13, 2018 While he has allies, history isn’t on his side, and this might be an uphill battle. There is no case law surrounding the copyrighting of choreography. We wouldn’t be shocked if Epic and the rapper reached some sort of settlement. We wish him luck in getting his coins though. — Photo: Johnny Nunez / Getty
Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty We all saw them! The pics that hit the internet that had everybody thinking Travis Scott was steppin out on Kylie Jenner with some other girl in the islands. But nah that’s not the case! Get Breaking News & Exclusive Contest in Your Inbox: Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit A Youtuber by the name of Christian Adam has confessed that it in fact was him in the pictures that everybody thought was Travis Scott! Adam said that he staged the whole thing as a social experiment on the internet. Adam is a native of The Bahamas and posted on his Instagram page that “This video was NOT made with the intent to ruin someone’s relationship or family.” In the following video Adam also states that the internet is so gullible and posed the question if the internet even cared about the truth or researching the truth, lies are more entertaining. Obviously upset big sister Kim Kardashian West took to Twitter to state her discuss with the “social experiment” I hate that I am bringing attention to this but this is absolutely disgusting that you would find this funny to mess with Travis & Kylie who just started a family together. This is really damaging to relationships, families and is just so wrong! pic.twitter.com/KtodBpmiHR — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 6, 2018 Now that all that is settled we just really want to know if Kylie and Travis are really married. He keep calling her wifey so….. [ione_media_gallery src=”https://mycolumbuspower.com” id=”3226812″ overlay=”true”] The Latest: ‘Empire’ Recap: Kingsley’s Threat To Andre Has Us Nervous AF Travis Scott Cheating Pics Are Fake! Here’s The Proof Michelle Obama Always Has George W. Bush Smitten, Here Are The Pics To Prove It Leah’s Lemonade: Cardi B Shares First Picture Of Baby Kulture Amid Break Up [Photo] Rickey Smiley Speaks On How ‘Gaslighters’ In Your Life Can Manipulate You Vitamin of The Day: Stay Away From People Who Tell You To Stay In Your Lane Toni Braxton’s Ex-Husband Speaks Out After What Was Said About Him On “Red Table Talk” [VIDEO] Rickey Smiley Prays For 16-Year-Old In Need Of A Kidney Transplant With Brian Kemp Gone, Georgia Holds Runoff Elections Without Widespread Voter Suppression Family Of Mac Miller Requests Late Rapper’s Financial Asset Info
Source: Matt Dinerstein / Fox It’s the fall finale of Empire and you can expect to feel a lot of feels! Tonight’s episode moves season five’s storyline forward in a major way and of course, we get left with a major cliffhanger. We pick up this week’s episode with Bella pointing the gun up at her chin. Thankfully, she doesn’t shoot herself as Hakeem manages to diffuse the situation. Cookie and Lucious take this as their chance to respectively lecture the former lovebirds. Cookie apologizes to Tiana for encouraging the toxic ride or die mentality. Lucious tells Hakeem that he shouldn’t even feel the need to carry a gun because he’s the only one in the family that doesn’t have blood on his hands (ironically) and should stay that way. Lucious points out that there will come a time when he and Cookie may have to face a lot more karma they have coming to them and he may be the one who has to take over the empire for real. The best thing to happen on tonight’s episode is that Andre finally got Quincy out of prison! He got another inmate who was never going to see the light of day again to confess to the crime that Quincy was falsely accused of. So that’s that. Quincy’s mom wants to pursue a relationship with Andre but he’s understandably afraid and fate may just not allow it. Now it’s the holidays and everyone is in Christmas mode, especially Cookie and Lucious. The best gift ever is when Kai drops his report about how Kingsley has been selling people’s data, via Empire, to the highest bidder, including the FBI. Cookie and Lucious are thrilled while Kingsley is pissed and Giselle and Becky are nervous. Patel is pissed because this is messing with his other businesses and he tells Giselle and Kingsley they better figure out who’s going to fall on the sword. Kingsley decides it’s going to be Becky. He claims to have video chats that prove she was working with Lucious and makes a spectacle of having her escorted out, but this is part of a larger plan. Becky is furious and says this isn’t true. Now, we all know what she did for Thirsty, but this ain’t that. Kingsley is trying to scapegoat her for a larger plan because when Giselle asks to see the footage, Kingsley tells her, “Sink or swim” and that’s enough to shut Giselle down for a minute. Plus, Thirsty said the USB he gave Becky was untraceable and we all know Thirsty’s plots are airtight when it comes to covering tracks because he’s the real MVP. Not all heroes wear capes. Kai informs Jamal that he got some more intel about criminal activity that happened at Empire under Lucious. He wants to release it, being the journalist that he is, but he won’t for now. Plus, his producers in London want to give him a full-time spot. Basically, this means he’s not sure where he and Jamal’s relationship stand and we’re all super confused. Like, did you two not just get engaged? Anyway, let’s cut to the Lyon Family Management showcase. You already know everything goes down at the showcases! So, here we are. It starts off all-good. Hakeem, Blake, and Tiana perform their song. Cheers to their truce. Meanwhile, in an office upstairs, Lucious comes face to face with Kingsley and snaps. He starts beating the breaks off of Kingsley and probably would have killed him had Giselle not stepped in and told him that Kingsley is his son. Lucious is stunned and only manages to eek out, “That’s impossible.” From there, Lucious takes a break from the showcase to visit Kingsley’s mother, Tracy, in the hospital right quick. Tracy, in the hospital and we flashback to the 80s. It’s what we already know: He was her dealer, but she also liked “hanging out” with him. Back in the present, Tracy wakes up and tells Lucious that she knew he’d come back. Lucious is still in denial about Kingsley being his son, claiming that they only “hung out” a couple of times. We all know that it really only takes one time, but at the same time, you get the feeling that there’s a chance that Lucious isn’t the father. Tracy encourages him to take a DNA test. There’s also flashback information that shows us that Tracy actually brought Kingsley to Lucious’ home once when Andre and Jamal were really young. She mentioned that she was clean but didn’t have the heart to tell Lucious that Kingsley was his son since he wouldn’t let them in the house and was generally acting shady. Cookie also startled him because she shouted out wanting to know who was at the door, which got him shook enough to tell Tracy to go away and not to come back. That was also the day Tracy got hooked back on drugs (Lucious gave her the money and encouraged her to get taken care of). Trigger much? Lucious manages to get back to the showcase in time for Giselle to tell them what Kingsley is trying to do to Becky and to make a deal to save her own shady arse. Giselle says she has more information that can help get Kingsley out but they must agree to make her co-partner when/if Lucious takes control of Empire again. Lucious says he’ll think about it. Cookie really just wants them to move forward, but the allure of getting Empire back is strong for Lucious. Lucious also has to tell her about Kingsley, but he gets derailed when Porsha summons her to the stage. Cookie starts off with a nice speech about their victory, but Kingsley crashes the party and blows up Lucious’ spot. Everyone is stunned when Kingsley reveals that Lucious is his father and that he used to sell his mother drugs. Cookie, the ridiest ride or die chick there ever was, is so disturbed that she walks off stage. Finally, Andre confronts Kingsley and says he will end him but Kingsley’s chilling reply is, “Not unless I end you first baby bro, bring it!’ Then we cut to three months after that and we see Andre flatlining on a gurney. That doesn’t mean that Andre is the person who died, but it doesn’t…not mean that either. We know what show this is. We can expect anything to happen but one thing that’s certain is that the flashback storytelling is over and everything will move forward from here. See you in March. RELATED POSTS ‘Empire’ Recap: The Rift Between Cookie And Lucious Is Getting Bigger ‘Empire’ Recap: Cookie And Lucious Kill Kingsley With Kindness
Text “RICKEY” to 71007 to join the Rickey Smiley Morning Show mobile club for exclusive news. ( Terms and conditions ). Rickey Smiley is dropping knowledge on us today and you need to take a listen because it will change your life. Do you have a ‘gaslighter’ in your life? Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit Before answering that question, let us give you the definition of a ‘gaslighting.’ According to the dictionary, “Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity.” SEE ALSO: Rickey Smiley Prays For 16-Year-Old In Need Of A Kidney Transplant Rickey mentioned that there are people like this in our life that manipulate us and we don’t even realize it. They also make us question ourselves on a daily basis about things. He recalled a time where a family member was talking about another while fixing up something and said, “You know how he is.” Rickey mentioned that the gaslighter in this situation wanted to make someone else feel bad because they like their home a particular way. Moreover, Rickey believes that certain people in your life aren’t good for you especially ‘gaslighters.’ You should never be questioned or feel bad about something just because someone else doesn’t agree with it. Don’t let these people get to your mental and make you change who you are. Make sure you listen to the full “Rickey Smiley Unleashed” to make sure the ‘gaslighters’ in your life don’t get to you. See photos of Rickey Smiley visiting Tuskegee University below! ALSO TRENDING ON RICKEYSMILEYMORNINGSHOW.COM : Cardi B Says She And Offset Aren’t Together Anymore But Twitter Isn’t Totally Buying It! NeNe Leakes Admits Snitching On Kandi & Says She’s Done Trusting The Ladies Of ‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Snatched! Sherri Shepherd Sheds 25 Pounds Giving This One Thing Up [PHOTOS] [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1944876″ overlay=”true”] Follow @TheRSMS
