DJ Quik Disses Kanye West’s New Album And His Kardashian Affiliation DJ Quik is an OG in the game, and thus has zero chill when it comes to speaking his mind . Recently during an interview on U92.7’s Noah Ayala show, Quik let it be known that he’s not feeling Kanye’s new Kardashian steez nor his new album, The Life Of Pablo… He can say “this ain’t a diss” all he wants, once you say a man’s head is all the way up his wife’s azz, that’s disrespect. Wonder if Kanye will get on Twitter and do Quik like he did Wiz Khalifa… Image via FameFlyNet/WENN
SMH… Texas Pastor Says Whole Foods Wrote Homophobic Slur On Cake An openly gay pastor and founder of a Texas church says he was targeted at Whole Foods after a bakery employee allegedly wrote the homophobic slur “f***t” on his cake. The New York Daily News reports: A Texas man claims he got a taste of hate in the form of a Whole Foods cake with a homophobic slur on it. Austin pastor Jordan Brown filed a lawsuit against the grocery chain Monday alleging he asked a bakery employee to write “Love Wins” on a pre-frosted cake last Thursday and was shocked when he peered inside the box’s clear top at a stoplight and saw “Love Wins F–” instead. “This is discrimination,” Brown says in a video posted online Monday by his law firm. In the video, the openly gay founder of the Church of Open Doors displays the cake with its offensive blue lettering tucked inside a box sealed with an unbroken Whole Foods sticker. Brown says the intact seal and his receipt from the flagship Austin store prove his story. In a statement to the Daily News, Whole Foods denied its bakery employee had any role in writing the bigoted block lettering. “The team member wrote ‘Love Wins’ at the top of the cake as requested by the guest and that’s exactly how the cake was packaged and sold at the store,” the company said, adding it has a “zero tolerance policy for discrimination.” Brown’s lawyer called the statement “outrageous.” “My client doesn’t have blue icing in his house. This is not a hoax. He received the cake this way, and Whole Foods’ response doesn’t help us,” lawyer Austin Kaplan told The News. SMH…surely this man of the cloth isn’t making up a story for a lawsuit riiiiight??? Whole Foods is now threatening to take action against him. What do YOU think about this Whole Foods controversy???
If you have ever had to share your birthday, you know that it can be kind of lame. Sure, everyone shares their birthday with other people, but having a joint party is no way to celebrate. But today, we are going to have a joint celebration and it is going to be wonderful because it’s both Kate Hudson and Ashley Judd’s birthday! … read more
Even though Lena Headey used a body double for the walk of shame during the fifth season finale of Game of Thrones I wasn’t really bothered. Rebecca Van Cleave, her double, has a fantastic body and knowing it wasn’t Lena Headey didn’t take anything away from me, but for some, they found it an outrage. … read more
Black Women’s Book Club Wins $11 Million Lawsuit Against Napa Valley Wine Train A Black women’s book club group were harshly removed from a California vineyard tour after white patrons accused them of being too loud on their train ride. According to Reuters reports: Eleven women have reached a settlement with a California wine train company they sued for $11 million for racial discrimination after they were kicked off the train for being too loud, their lawyer said on Monday. Members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge Book Club came to an “amicable settlement” with the Napa Valley Wine Train company on Thursday, six months after filing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Northern California, their attorney Waukeen McCoy said. “We hope that other businesses learn from this case and implement diversity and sensitivity training for employees,” McCoy said in an email to Reuters. McCoy did not disclose the terms of the settlement. The 11 women, 10 of whom are African-American, were ordered off the vintage train on Aug. 22 after other passengers complained the group was too loud. The expulsion sparked widespread anger on social media. The controversy unfolded as the United States grapples with persistent issues of racism and discrimination following high-profile police killings of unarmed black men over the last two years, which triggered waves of protest and a renewed civil rights movement under the banner of “Black Lives Matter.” Justice!!!! Images via: Lisa Renee Johnson via NBC Bay Area/Jose Carlos Fajardo / Bay Area News Group/TNS
NYDailyNews : Elliott Earl Williams, a 37-year-old veteran who was critically injured and mentally ill, should’ve never been taken to an Oklahoma jail on Oct. 21, 2011. In fact, every local jail in America is woefully unprepared to handle men, women or children with severe mental illnesses or critical injuries. In instance after instance when those who are battling hardships are taken to jails instead of hospitals, criminal abuse, negligence and death are too often the result. Guards, who often lack college educations but who can slam doors shut with the best of them, are a bad excuse for doctors, nurses or mental health counselors. But we already knew this. Here we are, though — stuck in an endless cycle in which African Americans like Natasha McKenna, Jamaycheal Mitchell, Sandra Bland, Gynnya McMillen and Elliott Williams were taken to local jails alive and came out in body bags because of the inhumane indifference to their well-being. When we say “Black Lives Matter,” we utter the phrase because so many of their names and stories speak volumes about a system that often claims otherwise. After a painful day in which Williams was witnessed mumbling to himself, tearing up grass and dirt with his hands, talking out loud to God and randomly throwing food, it was obvious that he was having a mental health crisis. He told police he was suicidal when they arrived. They arrested him and took him to jail anyway. During the arrest, police were witnessed forcefully putting their knee into his spine. Elliott’s father, Earl, said that his son appeared to struggle to walk when they lifted him up and instead let his feet drag. That too, has been seen before. When Baltimore Police arrested Freddie Gray, he was witnessed by a dozen people screaming in pain and unable to move his feet. Baltimore law, like most cities, requires injured people to be taken to the hospital. What happened to Williams between that moment on Oct. 22 and the moment he died five days later is criminal. For days on end, Williams complained to anyone and everyone who would listen that he was critically injured and could no longer move his legs or anything at all below his neck. He urinated and defecated on himself. He writhed in pain and begged every guard and nurse there to take him seriously. They wrapped him garbage bags and dumped him in the shower, where he still did not move, face down in the shower. That was the first day. Morning, noon and night this continued. Nurses and staff put water just beyond his reach to see if he would move to get it. He didn’t. They still claimed he was faking it. On Oct. 23, Williams never moved. On Oct. 24, Williams never moved. On Oct. 25, Williams never moved. On Oct. 26, Williams never moved. On Oct. 27, Williams never moved. In fact, he never moved again, but appeared to have seizures. They claimed he faked them. He screamed for help, begging the staff to “cut it out of him,” and had arm movements that suggested a critical brain injury. Finally, on Oct. 27, officials dragged Williams’ limp body to a holding cell with a camera in it. That is the footage we have included here. Just watch his feet. For hours on end, they don’t move even an inch. Of course they don’t. He’s paralyzed. While there on the floor for hours, staff throw water at him, look at him, and continue to ignore the fact that they have a paralyzed man on the floor of their jail. NYDAILYNEWS.com
Birthdays can be a time for reflection, a time to look back at one’s life and see everything they have achieved. So it is in that same spirit that we look back on the highlights of Hayley Mills and by highlights, I mean the two times she was nude in a movie. … read more
