Somebody said his beard not 100% Ginuwine pic.twitter.com/cL931POAAK — (@cantguardshad) January 2, 2019 The Internet Vs. Ginuwine (AGAIN) We’re only three days into 2019 and Ginuwine is already acting up with what appears to be a Sharpie-scribbled Rent-A-Beard that he flaunted on Instagram (just a day after Ursher’s fly auntie perm went viral) in a genuinely baffling moment that stirred up hilarious slander across the internet. This is a memory foam bath mat. pic.twitter.com/cdldaazyJU — Bi Fieri (@CreoleBabyBritt) January 2, 2019 Peep the hilariously petty Ginuwine slander on the flip.
Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty President Obama Just Landed A Spot On The Billboard Charts Barack Obama has just scored a spot on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. Y’all’s lil president could never. The Hawaii native debuted on this week’s list for his contribution to the new gospel-inspired arrangement of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton hit “One Last Time (44 Remix),” according to Billboard . Obama’s contribution to the song (unfortunately) doesn’t include any singing, but he delivers his rendition of George Washington’s farewell address on the track–which also features original Hamilton cast member Christopher Jackson and gospel star BeBe Winans. The song is a variation on the original song from Hamilton and debuted at No. 22, one slot above the John Legend’s holiday hit, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.” Lin-Manuel Miranda released the track on December 20 as his last “Hamildrop” of the 2018, and of course, its title is an obvious nod to Obama being the 44th U.S. president. President Obama’s history with Miranda dates back to 2009, when the he held “An Evening of Poetry, Music & Spoken Word” at the White House. Miranda rapped a song from what he was calling his “Hamilton Mixtape,” and the performance garnered tens of thousands of views online. That event is what helped inspire the full-blown 2016 musical that went on to win the New Yorker’s musical 11 Tony awards, as well as the 2016 Grammy for best musical theater album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The entire cast visited the White House in 2016 and Miranda once again returned in 2017 to perform “One Last Time” as a tribute to Obama at the end of his second term.
Source: Noel Hendrickson / Getty South Carolina Mother Crushed To Death Pushing SUV Extremely sad way to start 2019 . According to WTLX 29-year-old mother of 2, Leisa Bonique Johnson, was killed in front of her 3-year-old and 5-year-old daughters while attempting to push her broken down SUV out of the road at 1 a.m. on Monday. When the truck stopping running in the middle of a Spartanburg, South Carolina road, Johnson attempted to push the car to the shoulder and in the process became pinned under the vehicle with the girls sitting inside. The panicked children used her cell phone to call police, but clearly there was nothing they could do to help their mother. Johnson’s aunt and uncle say the car ran out of gas as she was driving to the emergency room, potentially to deal with blood pressure and blood sugar issues. The girls reportedly got out of the car three times and witnessed their mother’s death says Leisa’s aunt Sheila Rookard: “They managed to get out the car three times to see their mama up under their car,” said Rookard. “It’s going to be a struggle, you know, from the beginning, especially with them kids seeing that with (their) mom and stuff,” Rookard said. “Y’all just pray for us.” Here’s where things get a bit shady, in a story on WSPA, one of the daughters reportedly told a family member that a police officer pulled up and told Leisa to get the car out the road. Then left. A woman. With 2 small daughters. To move a car. Alone. At 1 a.m. Reporters are working to confirm the validity of that claim. If true, could spell BIG trouble for said officer and the police department. Rest in peace, Leisa Johson. Those poor girls…
Source: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency / Getty Dubai’s NYE Fireworks Show Happy New Year ! Folks from around the world are celebrating another revolution around the sun. Many cities across the globe continued their NYE traditions, but folks can seem to stop talking about how Dubai flexed on the rest of us. Folks in the United Arab Emirates rang in 2019 with a blinding light and fireworks show that illuminated the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and also set a Guinness World Record for largest LED illuminated facade. The show reportedly cost around $6 million. How impressed would you be if you saw this in real life???
Source: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images/Amanda Edwards/WireImage / Getty Mahershala Ali And John David Washington On ‘Actors On Actors’ Mahershala Ali And John David Washington sat down to talk about their careers and experiences navigating Hollyweird on Variety’s ‘Actors On Actors’ series. That’s a lot of beautiful Blackness on one screen.
Source: Raymond Hall / Getty Saint West Spotted At The Mall Playing A woman on Twitter is claiming her nephew had a not-so-nice run-in with Kim and Kanye’s middle seed , Saint. In a tweet, Sila said that her nephew told her that a little boy spat at him while playing in a mall play area. When the appalled auntie went to investigate, she recognized the tot right away! It was Saint West. Saint was accompanied by his sister Chicago West and an older woman who seems to be taking care of them. Kim and Kanye were nowhere in sight… My nephew told me some kid spit on him at the mall playground today and his mom showed me pics of the kid who did it and it was…. Saint West. Thank you for the spit Mr. West my nephew probably deserved it My nephew told me some kid spit on him at the mall playground today and his mom showed me pics of the kid who did it and it was…. Saint West. Thank you for the spit Mr. West my nephew probably deserved it pic.twitter.com/UPOS6L3ppk — sila (@siLASAGNA) December 28, 2018 Folks were unmoved, joking that Saint was spewing Holy Water at kids. Sila didn’t seem upset either, but her tweet has obviously gathered attention and she’s asking folks to not snitch on Saint! “pls don’t make this go viral i don’t want Kanye to see this I’ll cry” pls don’t make this go viral i don’t want Kanye to see this I’ll cry — sila (@siLASAGNA) December 28, 2018 Hopefully, Kanye did see it and had a little talk with Saint about kind behavior. Nonetheless, isn’t he adorable?!
Source: RHONA WISE / Getty Boca Raton Cop Fired Over N-Word Gets Second Chance The lengths that cops will go to in order to protect one another is pretty sickening and it’s almost always at an innocent person’s expense. Crazy how that works. A Sun-Sentinel article details how Boca Raton cop Jeremy Codling was fired earlier this year after it was revealed that he used the n-word and frequently told racist and offensive jokes in the presence of Black officers. Initially, only disciplinary action was taken in the form of demotion, pay reduction, and a written letter of apology. Nine days after his demotion, it was discovered that Codling lied about his behavior under oath in addition to storing several pornographic images and websites on his department-issued computer. After being fired on March 5, somehow this d-bag with a badge has been granted a second chance to be an officer of the law. Codling has been given a “last chance,” she said, because significant disciplinary action was taken, he had no previous complaints of racism and if he messes up, he’ll be out of a job, again. “The final part of the discipline is a legal document in which the officer and city agree that that if the officer exhibits any similar behavior in the future, he will be terminated,” Gibson said. Translation: He used to be such a good boy prior to his racism that we just HAD to give him another chance. Peep this sorry a$$ excuse for an apology letter: “I want you to know that I am sorry for offending you with anything I may have said or done; It was never my intent to upset you,” Codling wrote. “Hopefully we can both move forward and have a good working relationship at the Boca Raton Police Department.” That’s how you apologize to a Black man for saying the n-word huh? SMFH. F**k Florida as a whole and definitely f**k the Boca Raton Police Department specifically. They still have the nerve to act indignant and offended when we say “f**k the police”. Tuh.
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Source: 5m3photos / Getty Racist Chinese Student Arrested For Poisoning Black Roommate Black folks have it hard enough living in a world where sometimes the only place that feels safe is home, in this case, the enemy was sleeping in the same room. According to NBC New York , a 22-year-old Chinese national student, Yukai Yang, at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged the attempted murder of his unidentified Black roommate. Yang was previously accused of drawing racist graffiti on the roommate’s belongings. While police were investigating the crime, they noticed that the roommate had been sick for quite some time and called emergency assistance for uncontrollable vomiting. The victim told police that he had been drinkign from a bottle and his tongue began to burn. A blood test revealed that there were high levels of thallium in the victim’s blood. Thallium is a poison designed to kill rats and other rodents. Yang admitted to buying the thallium and says he was going to use it on himself if his grade began to slip. Says D.A. John Morganelli: “This was over a period of time with … thallium being added to foods and drinks in the refrigerator,” Morganelli said. “He was getting worse all the time.” Word from the CDC is that thallium causes nausea, painful limbs, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, kidney damage and nerve damage. Yang is sitting in the can until his trial begins.
Source: MICHAL CIZEK / Getty Alabama Cops Blame Devil On Rising Homicides Sigh. A police department in rural Alabama is under fire for a Facebook post that intertwines religion and government says an opposition group. According to AL , the Freedom From Religion Foundation charges that the Opp Police Department (what a PERFECT name for a group of cops, the opps) is violating the law by using their platform to endorse a religious belief. Two firearm-related murders in two days prompted the department to take their frustration to Facebook: THIS PAST SUNDAY, A YOUNG MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN KINSTON. MONDAY NIGHT, A MOTHER WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN NORTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY. THERE HAVE BEEN FIVE MURDERS IN COVINGTON COUNTY IN 2018. THESE MURDERS HAVE BEEN DONE BY OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. THIS IS HAPPENING BECAUSE WE HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM GOD AND EMBRACED SATAN. WE MAY HAVE NOT MEANT TO DO SO BUT, WE HAVE. IT IS TIME TO ASK FOR GOD’S HELP TO STOP THIS. IT IS TIME TO BE PARENTS AND RAISE OUR CHILDREN, NOT HAVE THEM RAISE US. IT IS TIME TO FULLY SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND STAND BY THE OFFICERS AND DEPUTIES THAT ARE FAR TOO OFTEN HAVING TO WALK INTO THESE DANGEROUS SITUATIONS AND CLEAN UP THE MESS. FRIENDS, IT IS TIME TO STAND UP AND BE RESPONSIBLE, GROWN UP LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY. BOTTOM LINE, THERE ARE SHEEP; THERE ARE WOLVES AND THERE ARE SHEEP DOGS. WHICH GROUP DO YOU BELONG TO ? Maybe they figured that since they were in the Bible belt that the community of 6,500 would be amenable to such a characterization. But maybe, just maybe, if the Opp cops were better at their job then the murders wouldn’t have happened in the first place, or maybe the Opp cops ARE the devil. *shrug*
