The untimely deaths of Biggie and Tupac will haunt the hip-hop world for many years to come, so of course when Faith Evans sat down with Huff Post Live, the subject came up yet again.
Don’t let people kiss your baby ! Facebook Mother Posts Horrifying Photos Of Infant Sick With Herpes Virus A Facebook status posted by a newborns mom has parents around the world clutching their pearls. The mom of the above infant intended to warn everyone , don’t let people kiss your baby! The infant contracted the life threatening virus after allowing a friend to kiss her in the mouth. Here’s what she had to say: Please share this with every new mum and pregnant woman you know… COLD SORES CAN BE FATAL FOR A BABY. Before 3 months old a baby cannot fight the herpes virus. If a baby contracts this it can cause liver and brain damage and lead to death. I know this sounds like I am scaremongering but if my friend had not told me about this my baby girl could have been very seriously ill. I noticed the signs early and got her to A&E, we have now been in hospital on a drip for 3 days and have got another 2 to go. She was VERY lucky, all her tests came back clear. The moral of the story is DO NOT let anyone kiss your newborns mouth, even if they don’t look like they have a cold sore- 85% of the population carry the virus. And if someone had a cold sore ask them to stay away until it has gone. Everyone who I have spoken to had not heard of this before and so I felt it was important to share Brooke’s story and raise awareness to stop anyone else going through what we have this week. The precious load seems to be doing fine now, the mom has since posted healthy pics of the baby. You can see the preciousness after the jump.
What Does Pope Francis’ Visit To The U.S. Mean To African-Americans And Minorities? Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States was big news this week in the mainstream media. All week there was lots of talk about his overtly liberal political views on climate change, divorce, gay marriage, and contraception, but very little about his thoughts on social reform in regards to people of color. “Black folks” might not be the first image to pop into your head when thinking about the Pope or Catholicism, but there ARE black catholics and many of them want to know where the church stands on issues that affect them, i.e. #BlackLivesMatter. Via IBTimes While blacks make up a sliver of the nation’s Catholic population, some of the faith’s African-American leaders and adherents said the pope’s message on injustice and inequality was an implicit admonishment that blacks had not yet achieved true social and economic parity with their white counterparts. The pope’s repeated mentions of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. this week during his first trip to the United States was an affirmation of what social justice activists have said for most of the year leading up to his visit — that black lives matter and deserve equal access to the American dream, said some black Catholics. “I think the pope has already communicated that the voices of the locked out and the left out should be listened to,” said Marc Morial, a lifelong Catholic who is president and CEO of the National Urban League, a black civil rights organization based in New York City. “That’s what the Black Lives Matter movement has been about,” he said, referring to the national social justice movement that first emerged in 2013 as a Twitter hashtag campaign protesting police brutality …“I don’t expect that [the pope] will go through a checklist of every nuance and political issue,” Morial said by phone Thursday from Washington, D.C. “But are [church leaders] listening and hearing the pope on social justice, and what does that mean going forward?” To that end, Pope Francis had this to say about the current political structure: “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance,” Francis said Thursday to members of the U.S. Congress. Politics should be “an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one the greatest common good,” the pope continued. He added: “I do not underestimate the difficulty that this involves, but I encourage you in this effort.” In another address made in NYC, Pope Francis spoke on the several of the issues which affect many African-American communities nationwide: Via NYTimes “In big cities, beneath the roar of traffic, beneath the rapid pace of change, so many faces pass by unnoticed because they have no ‘right’ to be there, no right to be part of the city,” Francis said in a Mass before 20,000 at Madison Square Garden. “They are the foreigners, the children who go without schooling, those deprived of medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly. These people stand at the edges of our great avenues, in our streets, in deafening anonymity.” …He spoke of that divide often during the day, from his first remarks before the United Nations General Assembly, where he called for respect for “those considered disposable because they are only considered as part of a statistic,” to his closing homily’s observation that “big cities also conceal the faces of all those people who don’t appear to belong, or are second-class citizens.” How do you feel about Pope Francis’ remarks? Do they carry weight with you? Can the pope, along with the Catholic church, help bring about change in the United States in regards to the treatment of minorites? Image via AP
What Does Pope Francis’ Visit To The U.S. Mean To African-Americans And Minorities? Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States was big news this week in the mainstream media. All week there was lots of talk about his overtly liberal political views on climate change, divorce, gay marriage, and contraception, but very little about his thoughts on social reform in regards to people of color. “Black folks” might not be the first image to pop into your head when thinking about the Pope or Catholicism, but there ARE black catholics and many of them want to know where the church stands on issues that affect them, i.e. #BlackLivesMatter. Via IBTimes While blacks make up a sliver of the nation’s Catholic population, some of the faith’s African-American leaders and adherents said the pope’s message on injustice and inequality was an implicit admonishment that blacks had not yet achieved true social and economic parity with their white counterparts. The pope’s repeated mentions of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. this week during his first trip to the United States was an affirmation of what social justice activists have said for most of the year leading up to his visit — that black lives matter and deserve equal access to the American dream, said some black Catholics. “I think the pope has already communicated that the voices of the locked out and the left out should be listened to,” said Marc Morial, a lifelong Catholic who is president and CEO of the National Urban League, a black civil rights organization based in New York City. “That’s what the Black Lives Matter movement has been about,” he said, referring to the national social justice movement that first emerged in 2013 as a Twitter hashtag campaign protesting police brutality …“I don’t expect that [the pope] will go through a checklist of every nuance and political issue,” Morial said by phone Thursday from Washington, D.C. “But are [church leaders] listening and hearing the pope on social justice, and what does that mean going forward?” To that end, Pope Francis had this to say about the current political structure: “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance,” Francis said Thursday to members of the U.S. Congress. Politics should be “an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one the greatest common good,” the pope continued. He added: “I do not underestimate the difficulty that this involves, but I encourage you in this effort.” In another address made in NYC, Pope Francis spoke on the several of the issues which affect many African-American communities nationwide: Via NYTimes “In big cities, beneath the roar of traffic, beneath the rapid pace of change, so many faces pass by unnoticed because they have no ‘right’ to be there, no right to be part of the city,” Francis said in a Mass before 20,000 at Madison Square Garden. “They are the foreigners, the children who go without schooling, those deprived of medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly. These people stand at the edges of our great avenues, in our streets, in deafening anonymity.” …He spoke of that divide often during the day, from his first remarks before the United Nations General Assembly, where he called for respect for “those considered disposable because they are only considered as part of a statistic,” to his closing homily’s observation that “big cities also conceal the faces of all those people who don’t appear to belong, or are second-class citizens.” How do you feel about Pope Francis’ remarks? Do they carry weight with you? Can the pope, along with the Catholic church, help bring about change in the United States in regards to the treatment of minorites? Image via AP
Wiz Khalifa Pinned By Police For Hover Wheels Wiz Khalifa was taken down by a group of cops at LAX yesterday…all for riding one of those hover-board/personal wheels all the rappers, athletes, and cool people of social media are riding. Apparently airport officers had a problem with the rapper using the wheels on airport property…but Wiz refused to get off his device, insisting that he wasn’t hurting anyone and that cops were not about to tell him what to do for no reason: As it tends to go with police, that confrontation escalated quickly into police pinning Wiz down with multiples knees to the back and demanding that he stop “resisting.” Wiz’s crew caught it all on camera. Flip the page… Instagram/Twitter
A List Of Celebs Who Experienced Tragedy Beyond the glitz and glam of Hollywood, these entertainers are just as human as we are. Money and fame can lead fans to believe they have the perfect lives, but they too face hardships and struggle the same way we do. If these celebs can overcome these hardships and tragedies so can you. Flip on over for some morning motivation .
Christian Taylor Funeral Over 1,000 people gathered in a Texas church Saturday to lay 19-year-old Christian Taylor to rest. The unarmed teen killed by a rookie cop whose since been fired , was remembered by former teammates and dubbed a “modest kid who had a promising future.” NBC News reports: More than 1,000 people on Saturday attended the funeral of a college football player who was shot and killed by a North Texas police officer answering a burglary call at a car dealership. The service for Christian Taylor at Koinonia Christian Church in Arlington was attended by his family members, friends and teammates. The black 19-year-old attended Angelo State University in San Angelo in West Texas, where he was to start his sophomore year on the team. The crowd gave Taylor’s teammates a standing ovation during the funeral. Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams and Police Chief William Johnson also were at the service. A neighbor of Taylor’s family who was at the funeral, Billy Gipson, called Taylor “a modest kid who had a promising future.” He said the young man was outgoing, loving and family-oriented. “The person you see on TV isn’t the individual I knew,” Gipson said, referring to video footage that showed Taylor behaving erratically as he wandered around the dealership in Arlington. Family and friends said Taylor had started going to church and sharing his faith through text messages shortly before his death. The Rev. Ronnie Goines, senior pastor at Koinonia Christian Church, said in the last two months of his life “the only thing Taylor talked about was helping young people meet Jesus.” So sad. Here’s to hoping they get justice for this young man. AP Images
Khloe Kardashian gave her sister a shout-out this week in honor of Throwback Thursday, this cannot be debated. But the question is why? Did Khloe praise Kourtney Kardashian yesterday because the latter truly is on the verge of a split from Scott Disick and in need of some moral support at the moment? “#TBT to the baddest in the game… Then and now. My ace for life @kourtneykardash,” Khloe wrote as a caption to this flashback photo. No big deal, right? Possibly not. Or: Scott Disick really has been cheating on his baby mama with ex-girlfriend Chloe Bartoli and Kourtney is about to kick his sorry rear end to the curb. Earlier this week, Kourtney posted her own throwback image, one that also featured sister Khloe. But the siblings weren’t lying on a board in bikinis. They were at a firing range , holding guns, and Kourtney told folks as a caption not to “mess” with her. Take these two Instagram pictures together and it’s hard not to theorize that something is very much amiss between Kourtney and Scott. View Slideshow: 17 Kontroversial Khloe Kardashian Photos
By now, you've heard the rumors: Miley Cyrus is taking her bisexual tendencies to new heights, and we have to say, she has good taste. She's dating Victoria's Secret model Stella Maxwell! Witnesses have even spotted Cyrus making out with Maxwell , and HARD, on the Hollywood set of an upcoming music video. Don't believe it? See it for your own eyes in the footage above, which features Cyrus donning a sparkly gold dress while swapping spit with Maxwell. Is it just PR for their new music video or the real deal? We can't say, but at one point, it looks as if Miley's hand wanders down Stella's pants. Whoa there, right?!? Check out the same-sex smooch and then read about the rumor that finds Miley maybe MARRYING Maxwell .
Kelly Clarkson are both American Idol champions. They possess two of the best singing voices in the business. They’re pretty and down to earth and have really cute kids and… oh, this too: they can rap! Seriously! Clarkson put her skills to the test in August of 2012, belting out the classic Eminem hit “Lose Yourself” during a concert outside of Detroit. See for yourself here: Kelly Clarkson – “Lose Yourself” Fast forward nearly two years, meanwhile, and Underwood took to the stage in Delaware this week, mashing up her own song titled “See You Again” with one of the same name by Wiz Khalifa. Check out that artist’s impressive, unexpected performance now: Carrie Underwood Raps, Covers “See You Again” in Concert So there you have it, folks. There are the contenders. Compare and contrast their rapping ability and decide who is best: Clarkson or Underwood?
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