Source: picture alliance / Getty Olympic Runner Alysia Montaño’s Maternity Experience With Her Nike Sponsor Is Shady AF United States national champion Alysia Montaño is revealing the truth behind how her Nike sponsor treated her when she became pregnant. In an op-ed for the New York Times , Montaño says she lost money to feed her family because of Nike’s shady maternity practices. When Montanño approached her sponsor to announce her pregnancy, they told her that they would just pause her contract. Alysia famously ran a national championship at eight months pregnant to prove that pregnant women could compete. Now, she’s speaking out so that no other female athlete has to suffer like she did. What happened to ‘dream big’ and ‘just do it?’ Hit play to hear her heartfelt story. We wonder what other male athletes had to take a pay “pause” after having a baby…SMH!
Source: James Leynse / Getty An American Airlines pilot was arrested Saturday at Louisville International Airport after he was charged in the 2015 deaths of a Kentucky couple and their neighbor. According to reports, 51- year old Christian Richard Martin was removed from his flight after being accused of killing Calvin and Pamela Phillips and Edward Dansereau in November 2015. American Airlines pilot arrested in Louisville for 2015 triple murder https://t.co/pwhcpywrQX pic.twitter.com/2U7QsQjdTo — WLKY (@WLKY) May 12, 2019 Authorities say that Calvin was found shot to death in his home in Pembroke, Kentucky. Pamela Phillips and Dansereau were found a few miles away in a corn field inside Pamela Phillips’ car, which was burned. An American Airlines spokesperson said in a statement: “All of us at American Airlines and PSA Airlines are deeply saddened to have learned about these allegations from 2015. Our team was made aware of the indictment this morning after his arrest at Louisville International Airport. We have an unwavering commitment to the safety and security of our customers and team members, and we will provide any investigative assistance possible to law enforcement throughout their investigation.” Martin was indicted on three counts of murder, one count of arson, one count of attempted arson, first-degree burglary and three counts of tampering with physical evidence. He has been placed on administrative suspension pending the outcome of the investigation.
Source: FayesVision/WENN.com / WENN Peggy Lipton Dies The mother of Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones has unfortunately passed away. Quincy Jones’ daughters both confirmed their mother’s passing in a joint statement to the Los Angeles Times. “She made her journey peacefully with her daughters and nieces by her side,” said Rashida and Kidada. “We feel so lucky for every moment we spent with her.” “We can’t put all of our feelings into words right now, but we will say: Peggy was and will always be our beacon of light, both in this world and beyond,” they added. “She will always be a part of us.” Lipton was 72-years-old. The “Mod Squad” actress who wed Quincy Jones in 1974 stepped away from her career to focus on raising a family. The pair divorced in 1989. Source: FayesVision/WENN.com / WENN She later returned to Hollywood as Norma Jennings on the TV series “Twin Peaks. Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Peggy Lipton.
Source: Judy Eddy/WENN.com / WENN Sophie Turner Blames Her Co-Star For The Coffee Cup Sophie Turner stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to clear her name by pointing fingers at her co-stars in regards to that coffee cup left in a Game of Thrones scene. The newly-married actress also teases how painful the finale of GoT will be and describes the awkward way she was rigged to fly in X-Men: Dark Phoenix .
Source: Mint Images / Getty #FreeBlackMamas Fundraises For Black Moms Who Can’t Post Bail On Mother’s Day With Mother’s Day just around the corner, activists and organizers are rallying around a cause for mothers who face lock-up. In the third annual #FreeBlackMamas campaign, the National Bail Out collective is collecting donations to free Black moms who can’t afford bail for Mother’s Day. According to a tweet sent out by the collective: “80% of women in jail are mothers. Last year, we bailed out 150+ mamas to reunite them with their families for # MothersDay .” The group then posted a video with one Black mom telling her story. 80% of women in jail are mothers. Last year, we bailed out 150+ mamas to reunite them with their families for #MothersDay . Here is one of their stories. This week, don’t let jails hold Black mamas for ransom — GIVE to break open cages in 36 U.S. cities: https://t.co/y52Q1heMrn pic.twitter.com/3ybfEEERZF — #FreeBlackMamas (@NationalBailOut) May 9, 2019 As of Friday afternoon, National Bail Out announced that they’ve freed 70 mamas in 22 cities. Over the course of the day, they’ve been posting touching clips of activists welcoming mamas free from jail. View this post on Instagram Here’s what #FreeBlackMamas looks like in Oakland, CA! This is @essie4justice bailing out a Black mama for #MothersDay Donate via our #linkinbio to help us keep reuniting Black mamas and caregivers with their families all week! A post shared by National Bail Out (@nationalbailout) on May 10, 2019 at 8:45am PDT Even certain celebs are getting behind the cause with Raheem DeVaughn announcing his donation on Instagram. View this post on Instagram Everyday this week, FreeBlackMamasDMV has been raising money & freeing Black Mamas because they shouldn’t be in cages. Then they enter a program to help them get back on their feet and an creative arts program. We freeing Mamas for Mother’s Day with @NationalBailOut lead by Black Women for Black Women! Hashtags: #DMVBailOut #FreeBlackMamas Link to donate: bit.ly/freeblackmamasdmv @lovelifedmv #thelovelifeway #randomactofkindness A post shared by Raheem DeVaughn (@raheem_devaughn) on May 10, 2019 at 3:35am PDT National Bail Out describes themselves as “a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration. We are people who have been impacted by cages — either by being in them ourselves or witnessing our families and loved ones be encaged. We are queer, trans, young, elder, and immigrant.” Ending cash bail has become a rising issue in the larger effort to end mass incarceration. According to the Prison Policy Initiative , more than 500,000 people who haven’t been convicted of a crime are detained before their trial. Many are detained in local jails because they can’t pay the bail amounts. The median bail amount for a felony is $10,000 which is about eight months of income for a typical person detained because they can’t afford bail. According to recent studies , Black and Latinx folks are more likely than White people to be detained without bail, and in situations where bail is granted, it’s often set at a significantly higher rate for people of color. According to an NAACP fact sheet , Black women are also incarcerated at twice the rate of White women and a 2010 study showed that one in nine Black kids have an incarcerated parent, which could often lead to disruptive living situations for the kid or the missing of important childhood events. For folks interested in the #FreeBlackMamas cause, the National Bail Out collective provides a donation link here .
Source: Dennis Van Tine/Future Image/WENN.com / WENN 2 Chainz Is Coming Back For Season 3 Of Most Expensivest Only a couple months after dropping what many people consider one of the greatest albums of his career, 2 Chainz is back with the third season of his Viceland series, Most Expensivest. If you’re not already familiar with the show, it consists of the Atlanta native doing what he does what he does best: finding the most expensive things to spend money on and living his extravagant life. The third season of Most Expensivest premieres on June 11 at 10 p.m. ET and shows Chainz hanging with Mark Cuban, trying out an $8,000 “intelligent” bong, and even trying out a robot dog for his best friend Trappy. Check out the trailer down below to get a sneak peek at what’s to come on this season of Most Expensivest.
Source: ANGELA WEISS / Getty Omari Hardwick Talks Backlash Over Beyoncé Kiss Omari Hardwick has been keeping quiet about the backlash he faced after embracing and kissing Beyoncé at the 2019 NAACP Image Awards, but this week he broke his silence and explained what was REALLY going on. Speaking about fatherhood and raising his daughter Nova in an interview with Global Grind , the Power actor says that night he was just worried about his baby girl because she’d scratched her cornea. Omari says both Beyoncé and Jay-Z asked about Nova that night, which then led to an extended chat with Hov and the viral moment with Bey. From Global Grind : Criticized for how he interacted with Beyoncé at the award show, Omari had yet to discuss the moment publicly until explaining during our interview that, that night he was simply a worried father thanking his friends who’d expressed concern for his daughter throughout the night. “She has ironically been injured in two very historical moments for me,” Omari told Global Grind when asked about Nova. “Her cornea was scratched the night of the Image Awards. The length of [my] talk with Jay was him asking me about her eye. The length of the hug with Bey was her asking about her eye. I give the speech and I bring up her eye,” he recalls. Describing another moment when his daughter was hurt, Omari went on to tell us Nova’s head had been “busted by her little brother.” “Her eye is scratched by him the night of the Image Awards. A month to maybe a month and a half later, within the time of Nipsey’s death (who was a friend), now her head is busted,” he said, eyes wide with panic. “So, being a father of a daughter, makes it to where the MET experience for me might’ve been the most slow motion, beautifully embraced reality… walking through those long halls of that gallery… because I was thinking so much, on that long walk through those artifacts, about Nova. I kept thinking about Nova,” he revealed, referencing his appearance alongside Dapper Dan at the 2019 MET Gala earlier this week. Omari also said Jay is like a big bro, so there’s no way he wouldn’t show Beyoncé love. In an earlier sidebar, Omari explained that while the world knows him as Ghost, Jay-Z knows him as a little brother, saying “Jay-Z would’ve punched me in my face if I didn’t hug his wife. He would’ve said ‘n*gga, you don’t see Bey?’” He tells the site that at no point in his life, even before having his daughter, did he think disrespecting women was cool… “My honor and my respect for women – while you have idiot fanbases who go ‘Watch your wife around Omari’ – I got a wife (A), so f*ck you. I love you, but f*ck yo u (B). (C), I respect women so much prior to Nova being born that once Nova got to Earth… man, it doubled my respect for women. But I had it already ’cause I had a pop, who validated my existence as a man, so I didn’t think demeaning women was ever cool.” Click here to read the full article and let us know what you think.
Source: ANGELA WEISS / Getty Omari Hardwick Talks Backlash Over Beyoncé Kiss Omari Hardwick has been keeping quiet about the backlash he faced after embracing and kissing Beyoncé at the 2019 NAACP Image Awards, but this week he broke his silence and explained what was REALLY going on. Speaking about fatherhood and raising his daughter Nova in an interview with Global Grind , the Power actor says that night he was just worried about his baby girl because she’d scratched her cornea. Omari says both Beyoncé and Jay-Z asked about Nova that night, which then led to an extended chat with Hov and the viral moment with Bey. From Global Grind : Criticized for how he interacted with Beyoncé at the award show, Omari had yet to discuss the moment publicly until explaining during our interview that, that night he was simply a worried father thanking his friends who’d expressed concern for his daughter throughout the night. “She has ironically been injured in two very historical moments for me,” Omari told Global Grind when asked about Nova. “Her cornea was scratched the night of the Image Awards. The length of [my] talk with Jay was him asking me about her eye. The length of the hug with Bey was her asking about her eye. I give the speech and I bring up her eye,” he recalls. Describing another moment when his daughter was hurt, Omari went on to tell us Nova’s head had been “busted by her little brother.” “Her eye is scratched by him the night of the Image Awards. A month to maybe a month and a half later, within the time of Nipsey’s death (who was a friend), now her head is busted,” he said, eyes wide with panic. “So, being a father of a daughter, makes it to where the MET experience for me might’ve been the most slow motion, beautifully embraced reality… walking through those long halls of that gallery… because I was thinking so much, on that long walk through those artifacts, about Nova. I kept thinking about Nova,” he revealed, referencing his appearance alongside Dapper Dan at the 2019 MET Gala earlier this week. Omari also said Jay is like a big bro, so there’s no way he wouldn’t show Beyoncé love. In an earlier sidebar, Omari explained that while the world knows him as Ghost, Jay-Z knows him as a little brother, saying “Jay-Z would’ve punched me in my face if I didn’t hug his wife. He would’ve said ‘n*gga, you don’t see Bey?’” He tells the site that at no point in his life, even before having his daughter, did he think disrespecting women was cool… “My honor and my respect for women – while you have idiot fanbases who go ‘Watch your wife around Omari’ – I got a wife (A), so f*ck you. I love you, but f*ck yo u (B). (C), I respect women so much prior to Nova being born that once Nova got to Earth… man, it doubled my respect for women. But I had it already ’cause I had a pop, who validated my existence as a man, so I didn’t think demeaning women was ever cool.” Click here to read the full article and let us know what you think.
Source: FilmMagic/Getty Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Welcome A Baby Boy Another baby boy has joined the Kardashian family. Kim and Kanye are the proud parents of their fourth child after their surrogate gave birth today, May 10. The news came first from TMZ who reported that the baby weighed 6 lb. 9 oz and was echoed by Kim K herself. “He’s here and he’s perfect!” she tweeted. “He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her.” He’s here and he’s perfect! — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019 He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019 The Wests already have three other children; North, Saint, and Chicago. So far no word yet on the baby’s name. View this post on Instagram Morning A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Mar 30, 2019 at 7:13am PDT Kongrats Kim and Kanye!
Source: FilmMagic/Getty Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Welcome A Baby Boy Another baby boy has joined the Kardashian family. Kim and Kanye are the proud parents of their fourth child after their surrogate gave birth today, May 10. The news came first from TMZ who reported that the baby weighed 6 lb. 9 oz and was echoed by Kim K herself. “He’s here and he’s perfect!” she tweeted. “He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her.” He’s here and he’s perfect! — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019 He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019 The Wests already have three other children; North, Saint, and Chicago. So far no word yet on the baby’s name. View this post on Instagram Morning A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Mar 30, 2019 at 7:13am PDT Kongrats Kim and Kanye!
