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: Francine Orr / Getty Former O.J. Prosecutor Chris Darden Withdraws From Nipsey Murder Case Chris Darden is set to appear in court today alongside the man accused of killing Nipsey Hussle for the first and only time; He is withdrawing from the case partly because of the threats he’s received for the defending Eric Holder. Darden announced his decision on his Facebook page, writing, “After centuries of a history of black men hung from trees without trial, or after the thousands of cases of black men tried, convicted and executed without counsel … I cannot understand why in 2019 some people would deny a black man his 6th Amendment right to counsel of his choice. Or why defending such a man should invite threats not only against me but against my children too.” He continued, saying, “The right to counsel is … not only a constitutional right, it is a civil right as well. Just as they were in 1995-Cowards never change. These days these cowards don’t send letters instead they sit anonymously behind keyboards threatening a man’s mother and children. And some folks think that’s funny. It isn’t and I won’t ever forget it.” Darden continued on to address his critics directly, saying, “To those who issued those threats to my children please pay close attention so there is no misunderstanding. Later. F**K YOU!” He ended his statement by saying, “As for me, I continue to thrive. I continue to be loved. I continue to walk with kings. And I will continue my pursuit of fairness and justice on behalf of my clients and others charged with crimes. After 25 years some of them still haven’t learned : Their lies and threats will never deter me from my mission. Thank you again my good friends. The struggle continues. Thank you.” Chris Darden had been on the receiving end of numerous threats since his decision to represent the man suspected of killing rapper Nipsey Hussle became public. His daughter, Jenee, went on social media after her father intially took the case, also saying that she was “receiving vile comments and messages.” “Like many of you, I found out about my father’s involvement in the case while scrolling through social media. I was not prepared for this backlash that has triggered bad memories from the O.J. Simpson trial.” Do you think Darden made the right decision in withdrawing from this case? Or is it too late?
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: 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: FayesVision/WENN.com / WENN Offset Possibly Targeted In A Drive-By Shooting Offset was recording at an Atlanta studio on Wednesday night during a drive-by shooting at the same location. According to reports from TMZ , a studio where the Migos rapper was recording was “peppered with bullets.” Law enforcement sources who spoke with the publication said that the shooting occurred around 9 p.m at the Crossover Entertainment Group studio in Atlanta, Georgia. When police arrived at the scene, they found damage to three vehicles as well as the exterior of the building. There were reports following this incident that one person on the scene had been shot in the leg, but police were unable to locate a shooting victim. Surveillance video shows a person leaning out the window of a car while firing at the building. Anonymous sources also told TMZ that the shooting happened shortly after Offset stepped outside of his recording session to get some air. The remaining people inside the studio ended up hiding in an interior room following the shooting and the rapper had reportedly left the scene already by the time officers arrived. The Migos member isn’t on the best of terms with the law right now–facing three felony gun charges and another warrant for allegedly breaking someone’s phone –so it makes sense that he didn’t want to be seen caught up in the commotion of a crime scene.
Momma Dee On Headline Heat It doesn’t get much more real than Momma Dee . Like most Black mamas, the Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star is never afraid to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no matter what the circumstances are. Momma Dee recently stopped by to clear up some of the wildest headlines BOSSIP has written about her — and it true Momma Dee form, ish got a pretty candid. Lil Scrappy’s mom also opened up about her past struggle with alcohol and kicking her husband Ernest to the curb. Check it out in the video above.
View this post on Instagram This must be the feeling all the moms were telling me about .. #ImAMommy #KsMom – Matching Sets: @poshpeanut A post shared by Lira Mercer (@lira_galore) on Apr 26, 2019 at 1:48pm PDT Lira Galore Confirms Her Daughter’s Name Is Khaleesi, Shows Off Nursery Lira Galore is confirming what’s been speculated, that she named her Stormborn seed after a popular “Game Of Thrones” character. Lira who welcomed her baby girl with her ex-boyfriend, Quality Control music’s Pierre “Pee” Thomas in the last weeks of April, is showing off a beautiful self-made nursey. Lira who recently took on crafting furniture as a hobby posted pics of “Khaleesi’s palace” that includes baby pink wallpaper, a chandelier, and a crib. View this post on Instagram Khaleesi’s Palace A post shared by Lira Mercer (@lira_galore) on May 5, 2019 at 5:53pm PDT Khaleesi is of course for Khal Drogo’s wife Daenerys Targaryen from “Game Of Thrones.” The name actually means “Queen” in Dothraki, so it’s super precious that Lira would give that name to her baby girl. View this post on Instagram It comes Natural @prettylittlething A post shared by Lira Mercer (@lira_galore) on May 4, 2019 at 5:08pm PDT See more of Lira Galore and baby Khaleesi on the flip.
