Getty Images Motel 6 To Pay 7.6M To Help Settle Claim It Called ICE On Latino Guests After a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Motel 6 , the chain has agreed to pay as much as $7.6 million to guests who said their private information was given to U.S. immigration agents, according to court records. Former guests sued the motel chain over privacy violations earlier this year , alleging that the chain handed over their personal information to ICE agents, according to the lawsuit. This lawsuit came after a 2017 Phoenix New Times report that these agents made at least 20 arrests at two Motel 6 locations in Arizona. Under the new proposed settlement agreement, the hotel has also agreed not to share guests’ personal information without a warrant or subpoena, unless necessary to prevent “a significant crime,” according to the court document. “It’s very important in our minds that Motel 6 is putting in place policies and procedures that would prevent this from happening again,” Thomas Saenz–president and general counsel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)–told The Washington Post on Tuesday. MALDEF is who represented the guests in the class-action lawsuit. Now, Motel 6 and MALDEF have announced in a joint statement that the hotel has prohibited employees from sharing such information about its guests. “Motel 6 fully recognizes the seriousness of the situation and accepts full responsibility for both compensating those who were harmed and taking the necessary steps to ensure that we protect the privacy of our guests,” it said. Despite this, the hotel chain still did not admit to any wrongdoing. MALDEF filed this lawsuit back in January, on behalf of seven class representatives from Arizona and one from Washington state. It alleged that employees at Motel 6 locations in Arizona gave Hispanic guests’ personal information, such as their Mexican passports and other forms of identification, to agents from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE without warrants being served. The proposed settlement states that Motel 6 will pay up to $5.6 million (at least $7,500 per guest) to those who were placed in immigration-removal proceedings; up to $1 million (at least $1,000 per guest) to those who were interrogated; and up to $1 million (at least $50 per guest) to those whose personal information was given to federal authorities. Motel 6 will also cover the cost of the former guests’ legal fees.
For nearly three weeks after Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson broke up , both parties managed to keep any hard feelings toward one another under wraps. But last night the dam broke in a big way, confirming earlier reports that Pete and Ariana did not part ways on good terms. The airing of grievances began in unexpected fashion with a promo for this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live . Standing alongside host Jonah Hill and musical guest Maggie Rogers, Davidson cracked a joke about his famous tendency to jump the gun when it comes to popping the question. Take a look: Pete Davidson Jokes About Ariana Grande Breakup No doubt it hit a little close to home for Ariana, but ultimately, Davidson himself was the butt of the joke, not Grande But Ariana didn’t see it that way, and she vented her frustrations on Twitter to the amusement of her massive, largely Pete-hating fan base. “For somebody who claims to hate relevancy u sure love clinging to it huh … thank u. next,” Grande wrote in a pair of since-deleted tweets. But while that may be the first time Ariana has publicly trash-talked Pete, sources close to the singer say her inner circle has been aware of her feelings toward the comic for quite some time. “Ariana is straight up tired of Pete talking sh-t. She left him because he is arrogant, self-centered, selfish and an attention-seeking assh-le,” one insider tells Radar Online. “Everything he is doing right now just confirms to her that she made the right choice.” “Everyone told Ariana that Pete was using her for his own career gain and this just goes to show that everyone was right,” the source adds. “Ariana just wants Pete to go away and her family feels the same way. They just want him to get lost.” While they may not get their wish entirely, it seems Ariana’s decision to speak out against her ex has had the desired effect in one regard. Production sources at SNL have confirmed that Pete has decided not to go ahead with a sketch planned for this week’s show that would skewer his short-lived relationship with Ariana. We guess that’s a victory for Team Ari. Of course, Pete has made a name for himself by mining the more painful aspects of his personal life for material, so you can be sure it won’t ne long before he publicly addresses his A-list romance yet again. View Slideshow: Ariana Grande vs. Pete Davidson: Whose Side Should You Take In This Ugly Breakup?
T here is no more love between Kanye West and Candace Owens . After the rapper blasted Owens for using him to spread her sunken place message of “Blexit,” which is a slogan stolen from the bank Black movement. Now, Owens is apologizing to Kanye. SEE ALSO: ‘Young Black Conservatives’ Chant ‘Build That Wall’ At Deplorable Sunken Place Summit Owens wrote on her site, “If I had to imagine what it would feel like to have a bullet pierce my heart, it would be exactly like the moment I learned Kanye told the world he felt I had used him. I never once said that Kanye designed the t-shirts for BLEXIT…I would like to publicly apologize to him for any undue stress or pain the effort to correct that rumor has caused him, his business relationships, or his family. He simply never designed them.” Well, that is a lie from Owens. She clearly said to Page Six , “Blexit is a renaissance and I am blessed to say that this logo, these colors, were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West.” You can’t get any clearer than “created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West.” I guess Owens is taking a play from Trump, deny it, even if you clearly said it just days ago. So is Page Six the liar or her? This sounds like Owens may have heard from Kanye’s lawyers. Owens also wants people to know that Kanye still worships Trump. “I would also like to publicly apologize to President Trump, as I know that Kanye’s tweets were rapidly misinterpreted as a shot to this administration,” she said. “His tweets were aimed at me and me only, rightfully, for my personal failings.” In case you missed it, Kanye said on Twitter , “I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it.” He also wrote, “My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative.” Either way, Kanye has hit the bottom of the barrel. It will be difficult for his career to ever recover from the past few months of anti-Blackness. SEE ALSO: All The Ways Cops Are Still Trying To Cover Up LaQuan McDonald’s Execution Outrageous! Figurines Of White Cherub Crushing Head Of Black Angel Removed From Dollar Store Meet Jogger Joe, The Man Who Took Racist Cue From BBQ Becky In Tossing Homeless Man’s Clothes [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3828001″ overlay=”true”]
Tamar Braxton is on the road with The Redemption of a Dogg stage play. Tamar stopped by the studio to tell the truth about everything happening in her personal life, how she changed her life for the better, and her new boo! Related: Tamar Braxton Flawlessly Slays The #LemonDanceChallange [ione_media_gallery src=”https://hothiphopdetroit.com” id=”3822109″ overlay=”true”] Stay up-to-date by following us on Facebook , Twitter and on Instagram at @hiphopdetroit.
Tamar Braxton is on the road with The Redemption of a Dogg stage play. Tamar stopped by the studio to tell the truth about everything happening in her personal life, how she changed her life for the better, and her new boo! Related: Tamar Braxton Flawlessly Slays The #LemonDanceChallange [ione_media_gallery src=”https://hothiphopdetroit.com” id=”3822109″ overlay=”true”] Stay up-to-date by following us on Facebook , Twitter and on Instagram at @hiphopdetroit.
Tamar Braxton is on the road with The Redemption of a Dogg stage play. Tamar stopped by the studio to tell the truth about everything happening in her personal life, how she changed her life for the better, and her new boo! Related: Tamar Braxton Flawlessly Slays The #LemonDanceChallange [ione_media_gallery src=”https://hothiphopdetroit.com” id=”3822109″ overlay=”true”] Stay up-to-date by following us on Facebook , Twitter and on Instagram at @hiphopdetroit.
Halsey wants you to know she’s black, so that she can mooch off black rights and black in the media, you know play the underdog, use it for her personal gain because she’s that kind of cunt…with some Rick James looking haircut…. She also wants you to see her tits, because tits get hits, and she’s trying to perpetuate and ride this fame thing out…you know she’s got people looking at her, it’s what her white trash with a black dad life always wanted, so she’s gonna ride it out as hard as she can using all the low level tactics since all these people are fucking half retards and lazy and choose the easiest strategy…especially when they don’t have talent, and their existence is really just hype… So here’s the tits…I feel like I’ve already posted….but I’ll post again cuz I use tits for traffic, as shameless as the whores producing the content. JOIN THE NEWSLETTER YOU ASSHOLES! The post Degenerate Halsey With the Wet Nipples of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .
Will And Jada Talk About Being The Real Mr. & Mrs. Smith Well the moment we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. The new episode of “Red Table Talk” is live on Facebook Watch and boy does this episode – The Real Mr. & Mrs. Smith Part 1 — cover a lot of ground. First things first, Will Smith is making his first appearance at the Red Table and things get real spicy almost immediately because just the story about how they first met will blow you away. Will and Jada first met when she auditioned for “The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” and was told that she was too short for the role. Will felt the instant chemistry and enlisted Alfonso Ribeiro to introduce him outside of the show because he knew Jada and they’d even gone on a date! Crazy right? Well it gets even crazier because the day that Will and Alfonso went to the “A Different World” set to meet Jada, Will ended up meeting his first wife Sheree Zampino instead! But we don’t want to spill too much. Watch the full episode so you can join the conversation. What shocked you most about the first part of Will’s “Red Table Talk” episode? The stuff about their meeting? Or the fact that they had a curse free marriage for 20 years? Season 1 of Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris returns to Facebook Watch on Monday, October 22. New episodes release every Monday at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET. ABOUT RED TABLE TALK One of the most fascinating families in the world invites you into their home for a weekly series of groundbreaking, intimate, and candid conversations. Join Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow Smith, and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris — three generations of women with three very different points of view, as they reveal their personal experiences and thoughts about the most compelling issues facing all of us today.
Paris Jackson has been through quite a lot in her young life. Of course, she’s also enjoyed privileges and opportunities that most folks can only dream of. We mention this not because we begrudge Paris her wealth and fame but because the latest news about the 20-year-old’s personal life has fans concerned that her personal fortune may be in danger. Paris has been dating drummer Gabriel Glenn for the past several months. The couple met when Gabriel was hired into Paris’ band, the Soundflowers. (Note: Several media outlets have mistakenly reported that Glenn was a member of the Wallflowers, which would make this story way weirder, as Paris was about a year away from being conceived when “One Headlight” came out.) According to Radar Online, Paris’ family is deeply concerned about her new relationship, primarily because Paris and Glenn are already talking marriage. “Paris told certain family members that she truly believes that Gabriel is the one and she wants to marry him,” a source close to the Jackson family says. “She and Gabriel have been going strong for several months and she feels a deep connection with him.” Most recently, Paris dated Cara Delevingne , and it seems her shift in preference has also been a cause of concern for certain influential family members. Sadly, Paris’ beloved grandmother has some outdated beliefs, and she’s expressed skepticism about Paris’ ability to make decisions regarding her own sexuality and love life. “The family is all very confused at this point,” the insider says. “One second, she is a lesbian and dating; the next second, she is straight and dating her bandmate.” But despite her apparent confusion, Katherine Jackson is less concerned with granddaughter’s sexuality than with her financial future — a future that she feels is in jeopardy due to Paris’ insistence on getting married without a prenup. “No one cares what she is everyone just wants to know that she is okay,” says the source. “Gabriel does not have the best reputation and some of her family members feel like he could be using her. “They just want her to be careful.” Sadly, Michael Jackson’s only daughter has been down this road before. Paris recently dated Michael Snoddy , who was also a musician, and whose flippant attitude has been compared to Glenn’s. That relationship ended badly, but Paris recovered rather quickly. As painful as that episode might have been, friends and family are reportedly hoping for a similar outcome with Glenn.
Agency: Self Represented Instagram: @ gabriellabernard_ Claim to Fame: The beauty was a contestant in what might be considered the most controversial season ever of Caribbean’s Next Top Model . When Gabriella Bernard started connecting with professional photographers and catching the eye of reality show casting judges she thought all of her childhood dreams were coming true. In an exclusive interview with HelloBeautiful she opened up about what was on the other side of her childhood ambitions. “From a really young age I always wanted to be a model, ” said Bernard. Her aspirations were inspired by an aunt who saw her as a shoo-in. “She said you know you’re so slim and you have long legs and you’re gorgeous , you should be a model.” A toddler at the time Bernard asked, “What’s a model?” It wasn’t until she was watching Wendy Fitzwilliam be crowned Miss Universe that the power of representation would allow her to see herself as someone could take control of the spotlight. “Seeing Wendy Fitzwilliam win Miss Universe as a black woman , as a Black Trinidadian woman it made me believe in myself, that I could get up on a big stage and become a successful model,” she said. More than a decade later after convincing her mother that she could balance her university studies and follow her passion Bernard was fully ready to embrace her fate. However, she was disappointed to find that the experiences she was subjected to weren’t as empowering as the life she had envisioned for herself. Instead of a space where she could exercise her creativity and challenge herself she found the Caribbean modeling world to be a series of unbalanced power dynamics where people unlearned common courtesy as soon as they crossed the threshold of success. Discomfort and disillusionment were practically job requirements and as someone who was determined to speak up for herself Bernard was unqualified. “Sometimes people know that they’re doing the wrong thing and because you are speaking up against it and you are speaking up for yourself they will tell you that you’re being unprofessional you can’t be in this industry if you want to be like that. To me in Trinidad it’s like a power move that they do, that because ‘I’m such and such you need to do what I say’,” she said. Throughout the #MeToo movement women have claimed the label ‘unprofessional’ was lobbied as a threat by offenders. “That happens with photographers and designers ,” She continued. During a shoot with a photographer who touched her inappropriately she was told that she was “ruining” the shoot by shielding herself from his touches and speaking about feeling uncomfortable. “I got my makeup done for two hours and then he put a welders mask on my face and the first thing I said was ‘Why are you putting a welders mask on my face? I just spent two hours doing my makeup, like that doesn’t make any sense.” While this choice seemed strange she remained cooperative even when the photographer refused to acknowledge her questions. Moments later she had to speak up to protect herself. “I was in a bikini and a welders mask and I’m posing and then all of a sudden I feel his hands on my breasts and I jumped and I took off the mask and I’m like ‘What are you doing?’ he’s like ‘No, no you ruined the pose!’ I was like “No, but you’re touching my breast and he was like ‘Yeah but that’s because I’m fixing your top it had a crinkle’ and I was like, ‘Are you crazy?!” She credits her mother with making sure that she had a firm foundation before being placed in such a trying situation. When she wanted to start modeling at 12 her mother pleaded with her to wait out of concern for her personal safety. “She really shielded me from the industry and being in it for some time. I see why because there are perverts and had I been younger I don’t know that I would have been able to handle myself accordingly because these men use some very underhanded tricks to try and get you to sleep with them.” She understands why people don’t report such incidents but she has hope that increased transparency will lead to more women coming forward. “I think that the more that we stand up and speak up about it the more support that other people have because the fear is always ‘I don’t wanna come out and then people don’t believe me’ or ‘I don’t wanna come out and then people bash me’.” She thinks that “by all of us having a voice every single voice adds to our strength.” She was able to stand firm with predatory practices from independent entities but unfortunately, she didn’t feel as empowered on the set of Caribbean’s Next Top Model where Fitzwilliam the woman she had once idolized was now one of many people passing judgment on far more than her appearance. Constantly aware that she was there to be evaluated, and that every interaction on camera and off was apart of the competition, she was forced to try and be agreeable even when she felt like some things happening during filming were unjust. “I did experience colorism and a hint of prejudice and discrimination behind the scenes,” she said. “The first time I spoke up about it we had a whole two hour conversation about it, it was back and forth and I ended up having to apologize to the person because I saw that it wasn’t going anywhere again I was the one in the competition not them,” she continued. In a clip from the show that went viral viewers can see her losing the composure she worked so hard to develop and sobbing when being told that she had to relax her natural hair to remain in the competition. She was then even more shocked with Fitzwilliam berated her for crying because it was unprofessional even though she eventually gave in and taped a scene where she pretended to be happy so that the judges wouldn’t be upset. The producers showed her crying in contrast to other contestants crying about their boyfriends to equate the two things in viewers eyes infuriating Bernard. “I feel like the motive of the entire episode was to humiliate me on reality television.” The identity that producers and judges wanted to challenge by straightening Bernard’s hair was difficult for her to build up after years of denying herself to try and “fit in”. “I told them how important my hair was to me not just for cosmetic reasons but it was self-love reasons too because growing up I had predominantly white friends and I wanted to look white. I wanted to fit in so I would use high flash on my camera and all sorts of weird things just to not have my features . It’s crazy I would put ice on my lips to try and get them smaller just small crazy things that I look back at now and I’m like ugh.” Despite giving in on set she isn’t letting the experience defeat her. In fact she went home inspired to get involved in production and contribute to change in the media landscape. She developing a short film called “ Black Hair ” to encourage others to have their say and not be intimidated by outside voices even if they are in a position of power. She says, “Aside from all that drama because I’m not even trying to focus on that I just want people to know that they shouldn’t be afraid to be who they want to be however that looks. They should be comfortable in their skin if they want to have a weave, they can have a weave, if they want to have their hair natural, they should have their hair natural. You should do whatever you want to do with your body and be comfortable in your skin and live out of fear of being discriminated against and I think that that’s something that we should all work towards.” DON’T MISS: MODEL MONDAY: Lashira Moné Looks Past The Struggle MODEL MONDAY: Iesha Hodges Is A New Kind Of Blonde Bombshell MODEL MONDAY: We Can’t Get Enough Of Yvette Corinne’s Cool California
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