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Don’t Be Scared: Monyetta Shaw Talks Her New Book & Says THIS Is Why She Forgave Ne-Yo After She Had Her Tubes Burned

For your listening pleasure… Monyetta Shaw On Bossip’s Don’t Be Scared Podcast On the latest episode of “Don’t Be Scared”  David, Danni and Jah chat with author  Monyetta Shaw. While joined by Bossip’s managing editor Janee Bolden, the hosts grill Monyetta on her new book “Bigger Than Me” that details the life lessons and maturation she earned while engaged to Ne-Yo. On being misquoted in The New York Post  about her feelings on Ne-Yo and his new wife Crystal Renay: I don’t know what the heck happened, it was insane. She [the author] came to me like, girl you know our hearts go out to you. How does it feel that they’re getting after your ex [Ne-Yo]? ‘ It was all bad, I didn’t write any of that. […] We’re in a  good place, we’re coparenting productively and the way that someone could word something could mess up our whole family unit. On Ne-Yo’s reaction to the Post article: It was very uncomfortable and I had to go back to, ‘you know me, why would I do this now?’ You of all people you’ve been misquoted so you know what it is. It was a hard one, I didn’t sleep for three days because of it. On forgiveness after having her tubes burned: Honestly it’s an every day process. It was a very pivotal moment in my life and decision that I made thinking that the outcome would be what we thought it would be at the time. I would’ve moved differently if I would’ve known the outcome, but that’s life. It took a minute to get to a good place, you just have to work at it and fight through the feelings and continue to put what’s first first which is our kids. Regardless of how I feel on my good days, bad days, it’s bigger than me. It’s not an easy situation to go through, a lot of my fans and supporters are like, ‘girl how you doing it?!’ But it is what it is, you can’t act on it. They have things called mugshots […], I don’t want my kids to see that. On people pitting her against Crystal Renay: Let me say this, it’s good to see that I have support but to trash another woman, that’s not cool. It’s not what I want. Let’s just say the internet has no chill, social media has no chill and they’re definitely going to voice their opinions. I’m not everybody’s cup of tea clearly and she’s not, he likes what he likes obviously and he don’t care. That’s whats’s up. Even when I first started dating him it wasn’t all peachy for me. […] When I first started dating him people started putting me with people I never even met before, I think it just comes with the territory. And then just stepping into his life at the time she kind caught it bad because everybody thought we were going to get back together—hell, I know I did. That’s why, it’s not really good but it comes with the territory. To even be in a relationship with a celebrity you have to have thick skin. Listen to Monyetta on Bossip’s “Don’t Be Scared” podcast interview below. @BossipDBS @HipHopObama @DanniCanada @DavidDTSS @MonyettaShaw

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Jesus Take The Wheel: Father, Mother, And Adopted Son Each Diagnosed With Cancer

Entire Family Diagnosed With Cancer A North Carolina family has somehow managed to stay strong and positive through each member facing cancer diagnoses and harsh treatments over the past 17 years. Through dating, marriage and eventual adoption , it seems that the disease has followed the family every step of their lives together. Via People : If it weren’t true, it would be unbelievable. Three family members – a mother, father and their son – all diagnosed with cancer. Jay Siltzer is the morning anchor at WLOS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina. The 48-year-old was first diagnosed with testicular cancer in January 1999. He had surgery and radiation and was doing well until the cancer came back and wrapped around his spine. This time, doctors were less sure of his prognosis. Again, he had surgery and radiation. He also had chemotherapy treatments. Siltzer, who was treated by Lance Armstrong’s doctor, was warned that it would be probably be tough for him to have children. The possibility that he couldn’t have kids worried him, but he didn’t dwell on it. He’d only been dating his then girlfriend, Kelly, a few months. The couple married in 2000 and life was good – for awhile. They tried desperately to have kids. “We hit a wall at every turn,” Siltzer says. Five years later, they met and fell in love with Malachi, the little boy they would adopt from Ethiopia. Everything was happy for the new family for some time — until Kelly was stricken with a rare form of luekemia in 2011. Unfortunately after a three-year battle of surgeries and radiation, Kelly passed away in 2014, leaving Jay a single father to Malachi. But then, news got even worse for the family. In another cruel twist of fate, just as the father and son were adjusting to a new normal, Malachi woke up last November with a headache. An MRI showed it was a grade-three brain tumor – a large mass on the left side of the little boy’s brain. Malachi has had two brain surgeries to remove the tumor, radiation and ongoing weekly chemo treatments. His speech is slowly coming back, but he still hasn’t learned to read again. When asked about the incredible fact that all three family members were diagnosed with cancer, he says, “I don’t let myself go there, that would be a dark place. I suppose I could ask, ‘Why me?’ but the answer is ‘Why not?’ I’m a person of faith, and I trust good will come from this.” WOW. It has to take some incredible strength to go through all this family has and still stay positive and pushing forward each day. Send some prayers up for Jay and Malachi. People.com / Jay Siltzer

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Music And Mayhem In The Motherland: 10 South African Music Festivals You Gotta Check Out!

From Lake Malawi to Zanzibar, and from jazz to hip hop, the African continent is alive with many of the world’s most electric and eclectic music festivals.

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In White Folks News: Curiously Popular Comedian Amy “Kettle” Schumer Blasts Fan Who Took Her Photo On IG

Amy Schumer Blasts Fan On Her Instagram Page That Asked For A Photo Unfunny Comedian Amy Schumer says she done with taking photos with fans after one run-in with some seemingly devious dude who refused to put his camera away while she walked on the side-walk. In a mature act, Amy took the guy’s photo and bashed him to her Instagram followers. The photo has attracted thousands of comments both agreeing and disagreeing with Amy’s post. Many are saying that she is “asking” for attention as a celebrity. There are also comments from people who claim they were there and she is lying about what actually happened. We don’t know what to believe from a woman who stole the jokes from a dead comedian. Do you think Amy was right to put dude on blast like this?  

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Who Looked More Bangin’ At The White House Correspondents Dinner?

For your viewing pleasure…. White House Correspondents Dinner Photos Last night a bevy of celebs took to Washington D.C. for the final White House Correspondents Dinner of Obama’s Presidency. And while President Obama delivered a speech with one-liners about Trump before dropping the mic , several stars shone on the red carpet. Seen on the scene were buddies Kerry Washington and Tracee Ellis Ross… Jada Pinkett Smith…. Gabrielle Union… and La La. YOU tell us; who looked more bangin’???   More photos on the flip. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Splash News

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Beyonce’s Lemonade Promo Took Over Times Square And It Was Magical

Beyonce Builds Even More Suspense With ‘Lemonade’ Takeover In Times Square In case you’ve never been to Times Square in New York , it’s a filthy yet magical place full of frustrated, rushing New Yorkers, pushing their way through tourists, scalpers, international shoppers and mixtape pushers. Needless to say, Times Square is the place millions of tourists visit to experience the “city that never sleeps” vibe they’ve always dreamed of. Due to the extreme amount of foot traffic, Times Square just so happens to be an enormous – and very expensive – advertisement space full of billboards and video screens. As if the Queen Bey didn’t have us hanging on the edge of our seats already… she’s did it again when she took over the city last night with a magical reminder about her Lemonade video premiering on HBO tonight at 9pm. Tourists gathered in the square to watch and snap Queen Bey’s takeover!  

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Racist Clemson Student Popped After Threatening To Lynch Black Student Protestors

Twitter Racist Student Popped After Calling Student Protest A “Slave Auction” And Much Worse Students who are protesting the defacing of an African American History Banner at Clemson University were met with threats instead of support from one white student and now that student has been arrested. 21-year-old Jamie Reece Moore was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a cellphone after posting threatening messages on the app “Yik Yak” according to The Root . Here is what happened to spark student protests, as reported by the Associate Press . In four years at Clemson University, the rotting bananas hanging from an African-American history banner on campus weren’t the most racially offensive thing biology major Brendan Standifer has seen. They were just the latest. Standifer said a quiet racial schism runs through the campus. “The only time you see true unity is on game day,” he said of the university’s football team which made it to the national championship game in January, but lost. Standifer, who is black, joined a few dozen other students Monday on the steps of Sikes Hall, Clemson’s administrative building, for the sixth day of a protest demanding more diversity at South Carolina’s second largest university. The protest was still underway Wednesday.  Just 6 percent of Clemson students are black in a state where nearly a third of the people are African-American. None of South Carolina’s 13 public four-year colleges and universities has a smaller percentage of black students, and Clemson’s African-American enrollment is behind most major Southern universities. The University of Mississippi is 13 percent black. University of South Carolina students are 10 percent African-American, while Auburn University, founded in circumstances to Clemson by agricultural interests unhappy with their state’s flagship university, has 7 percent black enrollment. The Root reports that Jamie Reece Moore, 21, who was fed up with the protests decided to post the following racist massages for other student to see on Yik Yak according to a police report. * “What time is the lynch mob tomorrow? I got a couple hundred feet of rope.” * “Let’s do to the Clemson protesters what Ohio did to the Kent State student protesters 40 years ago.” * “Drive by at Sikes?” * Slave auction tomorrow morning at 8am @ Sikes Hall. Lots of good protest workers. Get them while they’re mad!!!” * “So have they started lynching protesters yet?” SMH, why is this white student so BOTHERED by what a small amount of black students are doing?? Oh yea, racism.

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That’s Love: Minneapolis Streets Flooded With Prince Fans To Recreated “Purple Rain” Final Scene [Video]

Thousands Of Minneapolis Residents Gather To Sing Prince’s “Purple Rain” Together Many of us are still reeling from the news the Prince Rogers Nelson is dead. While his hometown of Minneapolis is certainly a part of that group, Thursday night, they took their pain and channeled it into one great big flashmob of “Purple Rain” crooners… R.I.P. to the legend. There will never be another. Image via WENN

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So, What Does Rob Kardashian Have To Say About His Chyna-Bae And Sister Kylie’s Newfound Friendship?

Rob Kardashian Weighs In On Blac Chyna/Kylie Jenner Friendship As you probably already know, Blac Chyna and Kylie Jenner have squashed their former fiancee/baby mama vs. new underage chick beef over Tyga — now that Chyna is marrying Kylie’s brother and joining the family for good. However, Rob apparently wasn’t there for the peace treaty summit Kim called for her former bestie and her baby sis…so the news came a little delayed for the reality bro. But unsurprisingly, he approved this message: Awww, one big happy highly dysfunctional family! Actually, it was only a matter of time before these two became cool anyway. After all, Kylie has done her due diligence to morph into Chyna over the past few years: Hardly any detectable difference in this face swap, right? Instagram / SnapChat / WENN

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How Old Are You? 30-Year-Old African Popped At High School Balling Up Dudes In Basketball [Video]

SMH… Jonathon Nicola is was a Canadian high schooler who moved to the country six months ago after emigrating from South Sudan on a student visa. Since his arrival in Canada he’s become a bit of a prep basketball prodigy, which may have to do with the fact that he’s 6-foot-9, or may have to do with the fact that he’s as old as Chris Paul. That’s what is being alleged after Nicola was arrested by border officers for “allegedly contravening the Immigration Refugee Protection Act,” though they really didn’t specify what exactly that meant. Before he was arrested, Nicola was living the good life as a star on Windsor’s Catholic Central basketball team. He was home staying with the squad’s head coach who had previously offered lofty praise for Nicola when he told the Windsor Star that he thought he had a shot in the NBA. You got to think at some point this con would be exposed as an NBA team would’ve found out. But, then again, Greg Oden ended up going No. 1 overall, so honestly who knows?

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