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Mariah Carey Tells Oprah A Childhood Story About Getting Spit On In Racist Attack On A School Bus!

It’s sad that people would act that ugly… Mariah Carey Tells Story Of Getting Spit On In Racist Attack Via Yahoo! Mariah Carey wasn’t about to close her eyes to the past when discussing racism and the making of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Monday, also attended by Oprah Winfrey and the much of the film’s ensemble cast. Carey recalled she was riding on a Long Island school bus when a student spit on her when she was a child because of the color of her skin. And the foul memory came flooding back while she was making “The Butler.” In the movie, Carey plays the mother of Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), a character based on the White House Butler Eugene Allen, who served presidents for 34 years and retired in 1986. In the early scene of the sweeping period drama about America’s tumultuous racial past as seen through the butler’s eyes, a dissolute plantation owner’s son rapes Mariah’s Georgia sharecropper. Immediately afterwards, the rapist shoots her husband dead in front of their son, Cecil, who has goaded his father to protest the violence against his mother. As traumatic as Mariah’s scene and its aftermath is, what apparently disturbed the singer/actress most was the recreation of the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter sit-in located in North Carolina in 1960. In that emotional moment in the struggle for racial equality, a white woman spits on a black college student (Yaya Alafia) simply for asking to be served at the whites-only counter. “That actually happened to me,” Carey said on Monday. “I know people would be in shock and not really want to believe or accept that, but it did. … That right there, that was almost the deepest thing to me in the movie because I know what she went through — and it happened to be a bus as well. It was a school bus.” Winfrey: “Where somebody spit on you?” Carey: “Yeah. In the face and in the same way.” The daughter of a white Irish American mother and an African American/Venezuelan father that raised her in “safe” suburban Long Island, Carey, 43, still didn’t grow up protected from racial bias. The song lyrics for “Close My Eyes” echo this experience: “I left the worst unsaid; Let it all dissipate; And I try to forget.” In the past, Carey has discussed the fact that her mother Patricia’s family disowned her for marrying a man of color in 1960. It was a rejection that Mariah felt very deeply. The racial tensions also had a negative impact on her parents’s marriage and they divorced when Mariah was three. Words can be hurtful, but there is nothing more disrespectful than spitting on somebody. Image via YouTube Continue reading

Terrence Howard Allegedly Beat Up Ex-Wife

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  While Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard is busy promoting his upcoming film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” his ex-wife is telling the police that he assaulted…

Terrence Howard Allegedly Beat Up Ex-Wife

2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S II: Me Time Cover Art [PHOTO]

September 10 will be here in no time; in turn, 2 Chainz has much to between now and then to properly roll out his new album, B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time. To further build anticipation, the rapper returns today with the official artwork for his sophomore effort. Chainz enlisted DONDA to handle the art yet again for this project. This could explain why the cover plays on the Def Jam MC’s name very similarly to what we saw on his solo debut (also created by Kanye West’s brainchild)… [ HipHopWired ] A-ROID APPEALS SUSPENSION AND CALLS PAST SEVEN MONTHS “A NIGHTMARE” Alex Rodriguez decided to show face at a post-suspension news conference, according to ESPN. A-Roid is marinating in suspension misery after being banned from the field through the end of the 2014 season due to doping allegations. The Dominican Yankees star is being targeted for allegedly using performance enhancement drugs and being involved with the anti-aging clinic Biogenesis, but Rodriguez plans to appeal his suspension… [ Lossip ] SURPRISE, SURPRISE: KARLIE REDD TO STAR IN UPCOMING CHRIS ROCK MOVIE If nothing else, we’ve learned two things about Karlie Redd during the first two seasons of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: 1. She’s really messy 2. She’s determined to become a star. While we can’t say for sure whether or not Karlie’s big dreams of stardom will come true, we can say that her surprising new gig is placing her on right track.The 40-something-year-old reality star recently announced via her Twitter page that she will be starring in Chris Rock’s new movie, which is currently being called, The Untitled Chris Rock Project. Her character’s name is Rhonda… [ MadameNoire ] Tika Sumpter Glows On ‘The Butler’ Red Carpet, Heads To Beyoncé Concert A good amount of stars were in town this week to promote Lee Daniels’ new film, “The Butler.” The film, due August 14, has generated a lot of buzz due to the many big names involved. Joining the ensemble cast for the New York premiere, was Tika Sumpter who is not in the film but was clearly excited about it… [ StyleBlazer ] USHER’S SON HOSPITALIZED IN ICU After Pool Accident[ TMZ ] Linsday Lohan Jokes About Rehab[ StarPulse ] DOJ Sues Bank Of America Over Mortgage-Backed Securities[ HuffingtonPost ] K. Michelle Slams Erica Mena For Calling Her a ‘Battered Bitter Dog’[ VibeVixen ] Love And Hip Hop Atlanta Web Exclusive: K.Michelle’s Love Letter To Old No-Neck Benzino[ VH1 ] Chris Brown Is “Over” Beating Rihanna, Wishes Everyone Else Would Be Too[ EvilBeetGossip ] I Got a $180 Bird-Poop Facial[ TheDailyBeast ]

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Oprah On Lindsay Lohan: ‘I Really Do Believe That She’s Ready’

‘I was deeply moved by her desire to move forward,’ ‘The Butler’ star and talk show guru tells MTV News. By Rebecca Thomas

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Lil Kim Involved In Car Accident

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Brooklyn rapper Lil Kim caused a stir on Twitter when she tweeted a picture of herself in a neck brace. Come to find out, the…

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Oprah & Forest Whitaker Serve It Up in ‘The Butler’ [VIDEO]

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“Everything you are, and everything you have, is because of that butler.’ Check out the trailer for Lee Daniels’ new film The Butler starring Forest…

Oprah & Forest Whitaker Serve It Up in ‘The Butler’ [VIDEO]

Punxsutawney Phil: Sued By Ohio County Over Wrong Early Spring Prediction!

Beaten down by months of snow, wind and cold, an Ohio county has issued an “indictment” against Punxsutawney Phil over his Groundhog Day prediction . Phil did not see his shadow February 2, signaling spring’s imminent arrival. Six days later, Winter Storm Nemo dumped 30 inches of snow on New England. Six weeks later, temperatures across the Northern U.S. remain frigid. Birds chirping? Flowers blooming? No sign of those anywhere. As a result, (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek Butler County, Oh., prosecutors are demanding justice, claiming Phil deliberately misled the American people. They say such a felony should be punished by death. Butler County’s chief prosecutor filed an official brief about this, lambasting the rodent for actions “against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio.” “Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early,” wrote Mike Gmoser. He vowed to bring the Pennsylvania icon to justice in the neighboring Buckeye State, but Phil’s handlers are having none of it, coming to his defense. Bill Deeley, president of the club that organizes Groundhog Day, said Phil has a lawyer and would fight attempted extradition by the Ohio authorities. “We’ll have to plead our case one way or the other, but I think we can beat the rap,” Deeley said, taking Butler County’s indictment more or less in stride. Criminally negligent or not, Phil really dropped the ball in 2013. This winter was pretty harsh, at least by recent standards, and grew worse if anything following Phil’s prognostication that spring would come early. Case in point: There’s another storm due on Sunday/Monday that could bring several additional inches of snow across the Midwest and Northeast. The first day of Spring was Thursday, March 21.

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Gerard Butler: Yes, I Banged Brandi Glanville, BUT …

Gerard Butler has come clean. By admitting to a very dirty deed: he had sex with Brandi Glanville. In August 2011, a tabloid reported that Butler slept with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, though he was later asked by a TMZ cameraman about it and famously responded: Who’s Brandi Glanville? Gerard Butler Howard Stern Show Interview The thing is, the actor says now, in the above clip from an appearance this week on The Howard Stern Show , that he was serious! Butler didn’t know Glanville’s last name or her occupation when they got it on at that shindig. He did eventually piece everything together, however, and even called Brandi Glanville to apologize (and to berate her for going public with their dalliance). It’s pretty hilarious to hear Butler tell the story now. Seriously. Press Play now and listen for yourself.

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Well let me start this out by saying that I never ever thought I was going to meet Justin. I always thought about what it would be like to meet him though, I always thought that it would be a dream come true. My dream came true on October 20th, 2012. My name’s Madisyn & I’m the girl who is shorter than Justin in the picture. I have always been a fan of Justin, I fell “in love” with him after I heard ‘One Time’ on the radio in 2009. I went to my first Justin Bieber concert on June 29th, 2010 and that’s the day I became a belieber. Some time around late May, early June Justin tweeted that the pre-sale tickets for people with Bieberfever memberships were going to go on sale in like 14 hours. I told my sister Shani (the girl who’s taller than Justin in the picture) that we needed to get meet & greets. The next day while sitting in geometry class I got a call from my sister saying that we had got first row seats and meet & greets to Justin’s concert. I almost shit my pants. I couldn’t believe it! Let’s fast forward to Saturday October 20th. The day we met Justin. I woke up that morning still not being able to register the fact that I was meeting Justin later in the day. As the day went on I started to have a nervous feeling in my stomach. Once my sister and I got dropped off at the Target Center in Minneapolis it really started to click for me that I was going to meet him. We got in a line to pick up our tickets. We were the last people in line who paid to meet him. Once we got our tickets, lanyard, and wristband we went through a door and there was about 70 or so girls standing in a line. Some guy started talking to all of us, he was really nice. The first thing he said was “WHO IS EXCITED TO MEET JUSTIN?!” Of course, every single girl screamed. He also told us that we weren’t allowed to take pictures of Justin when we entered the curtain thing where he was, he said we could hug him but not kiss him, and that we would be taking our picture with whoever we came with (unless you won meet and greets then you go in a group with people you don’t know). While standing there a door opened from across the room and it was Bruce Dale, Justin’s grandpa! I was like omg, there’s Bruce! None of the girls by me cared. So I just waved to him and he waved back. After that the guy who was first talking to us led us up some stairs and that area was where we were going to meet Justin. The curtain thing where you meet Justin is just like the one in Never Say Never. It’s just a black curtain type thing. While waiting in line Diane Dale, Kenny, and Dan all walked by. Justin’s grandma was buying a concert t-shirt! All of the sudden while in line I heard a bunch of screaming, I looked to see what the fuss was about.. it was Justin. He had came out of the curtain in Heely’s but quickly went back in. As I got closer to the curtain I saw that Ryan Butler and Diane were standing right outside of the curtain and then I saw them walk in the curtain area. The line had started moving very fast. You only get like 30 seconds with him so you have to think fast on what you’re going to say. I told my sister to go in first because I was scared. It was our turn and the guy who opened the curtain was like, “Here you go ladies!” My sister walked in and Justin said, “Hi, how are you?!” She said “Hi! Good, how are you?” and he said, “Great!” Then they hugged. I don’t know what I was doing during that because I didn’t hear/see any of it and I was right behind her. I remember putting my purse on the ground, looking to my right and seeing Diane and Ryan standing there. I gave them a little smile. I walked up to Justin and he said Hi! I said hey *VERY SHYLY* with a huge smile on my face and then we hugged. Everyone always says he smells really good, well I can’t remember what he smelt like because I was to busy thinking that I was currently touching Justin fricken’ Bieber. After we hugged I moved over to his side. I honestly don’t remember smiling for the picture, I don’t remember looking at the camera either. I could just feel his arm across my back and his hand on my waist. After the picture the security rushed us out very fast. They had our bags in their hands and as I was starting to walk away from Justin, I felt his arm/hand slide across my lower back and I honestly became speechless. We walked through a door where we sat for like 20 minutes on the ground. After that we were led back through the same door to get first dibs on the merch. My sister & I both got a t-shirt. We went to our seats and waited for the concert to start. While waiting for the concert to start I saw Pattie, Bruce, Diane, Ryan, Scrappy, Fredo, and Kenny. Selena was there too but I didn’t see her. Let me just tell you that Bruce is the cutest person ever. He had ear plugs in and was just looking around smiling the whole time . Carly came out first then Justin. JUSTIN WAS AMAZING. He’s such a good performer and knows how to put on a show. He came and sang in front of us a handful of times and I just wanted to melt. I even got a picture of him singing OLLG where it looks like he’s looking straight at me! The concert went by so fast and I wish I could put that day on replay and keeping on living it. Best day of my life. -@madyczarnecki Read the original post: Well let me start this out by saying that I never ever thought I…

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I never, ever thought that I would be blessed enough to be able to say I had gotten the opportunity to meet Justin. Good things never happened to me. That all completely changed for me on October 20th, 2012. The day before that I had thought all chances of meeting Justin while he was here in Minnesota were gone. I had left the Mall of America where my friend Katelin and I were looking for him and the crew only hours before he actually did end up going. (We did meet  his dancers: Johnny, Luke, Jon, Nick, and Mike though!) I had also stayed up to see if I had won the  bieberfever.com  contest I had entered weeks before. I soon saw that someone on Twitter had gotten an email from them saying they had won, I thought all the winners would have been notified too. I hadn’t gotten an email meaning I hadn’t won so I went to bed pretty heartbroken. The next morning I woke up early because my concert was that night and I was getting so excited. I checked my email because I had a little glimmer of hope in me that maybe by some miracle, I had won the contest after all. Much to my surprise the email above was in my inbox. I had never been so shocked before. I literally sat in my room and full on sobbed for over an hour. Fast forward to when Katelin and I were waiting in line to meet Justin. While waiting in line, Dan came out of nowhere and started talking to some people. When he was done talking to them, I went up to him and smiled and said, “Hi Dan, could I please get a picture with you?” and he replied “Yeah, two seconds let me check on my family first!” . He never ended up coming back so I tweeted him later jokingly saying that he had blown me off and the DM above is what he sent in reply! We were like 4 feet away from the curtain that led to Justin and Kenny was there so I said, “Hi Kenny!” He looked at me and smiled that gorgeous Kenny Hamilton smile and said, “Hey, how are you?!” and put his hand out to shake mine. I don’t know what I said back, but I do know I was so nervous that I wasn’t thinking right and gave him my left hand instead of my right. He saw Katelin by me and said/did the same to her. Then before I registered what was happening, the curtain opened up. It was partially open and I saw some people against a wall (Ryan Butler and his grandparents) and thought it was another line we’d have to wait in. When it opened fully and I saw Justin’s beautiful face so close to me, I went into a little state of shock. Justin Bieber, the guy I have spent so much time supporting and loving, the one who means so much to me was right there smiling and looking like an angel.  Katelin rushed in really fast and got right next to him. The girl we were in a group with went on the other side of Katelin and the girls mom went over to Justin’s other side. I walked into the curtain too and assumed I was going to be next to the mom in our picture. To my surprise and absolute delight, she moved over and said something I don’t remember, but along the lines of you go next to him. As I was going into my spot between them I said, “Hi Justin!” and he said to me, “Come here sweetheart!” and had his hand out to his side waiting to put around my waist. I think my heart skipped a beat. Mike took the picture and right after Katelin said to Justin, “Can I have a hug please?” and he replied “Of course sweetie!” and he leaned in and hugged her. I asked if I could please have a hug too and he leaned over and hugged me. I blanked on everything I had planned on telling him so I stuttered the first thing I could think of out to him which was, “You’re gonna kill it tonight! I love you”. I don’t know if he didn’t hear me, or if everything was too rushed and overwhelming, but he didn’t respond. We were getting rushed out by security and I quickly said another, “I love you” before leaving the curtain. I was shaking so badly that I literally fell on my knees and face planted basically. I started crying really hard after that and kept screaming almost at Katelin about how amazing he was. Meeting Justin was the absolute best moment of my life and I am so, so grateful to have had the opportunity. My short time with him means everything to me. Don’t ever give up on trying to meet Justin. Please don’t. Work hard for it and never, ever stop believing it will happen and it will all work out for you.  -Hannah (@biebercuriosity) See the article here: I never, ever thought that I would be blessed enough to be able…

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