Solange Knowles And Alan Ferguson Are Black Artist Marriage Goals Life is great if you’re a Knowles, Knowles-Carter or Knowles-Ferguson right about now. With big sis Beyoncé expecting twins and Solange nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Performance for “Cranes in the Sky” ( Bey’s also nominated for Album of the Year , Song and Record of the Year and seven other nominatiosn). Solange and husband Alan Ferguson arrived at LAX early Thursday looking like a modern day Billy Dee Williams and Diana Ross fresh off the set of ‘Mahogany.’ Don’t they look good y’all? Soooo fly! Wonder if Bey’s buns in the oven have everyone asking Solange and Alan when they’ll procreate. We hope they do, cuz that baby will be be-yoo-tee-full! He’s so handsome riiiiight? Solange was at the Essence Women In Music event Thursday night to honor Erykah Badu. We hear she’s also set to present an award at the Grammy’s Sunday. Hit the flip for more photos. SplashNews/Instagram
The Petty Bushes Slid Thru & Won The Super Bowl 999-year-old Presidential couple George H.W. & Barbara Bush won the Super Bowl with their coin toss appearance that came just weeks after they fake died to avoid Trump’s cheeto dusty Inauguration in a deliciously petty moment we’ll never forget. Hit the flip for the best (and funniest) reactions to the Bushes appearing at the Super Bowl after curving Trump’s inauguration.
Pair Partied At Same Club During Super Bowl Weekend, But Things Weren’t What They Seemed They were spotted partying in the same VIP area during a Super Bowl party in Houston over the weekend, leading some to speculate that the New York Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. and Nicole Murphy were dating. And at least one blog published a story that the NFL baller and comedian Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife were now an item and attended the Mercy Nightclub together Saturday night, where the milf “kept a close eye” on the 24-year-old, according to the report. The report also claimed they later left together as security kept onlookers at bay. But BOSSIP can exclusively confirm that Beckham and Murphy are not dating, and have never even met one another. They just happened to be at the same place at the same time. “Nicole has never met him before,” a source told us. “Not even that night. They’ve never met. They didn’t even talk.” The 49-year-old mother of five happened to walk by the VIP section where Beckham was holding court with his friends as the featured host at the Houston club, a source with knowledge of the situation told BOSSIP. A photographer then snapped them in proximity to one another, but the source insisted they were not together. Migos were performing at the venue, and Jas Prince was also spotted in the building. Beckham did spend the weekend partying in Houston, but was focused on hanging out with his boys – not trying to pick up girls, the source said. Beckham hasn’t been out on the dating scene since courting actress and singer Zendaya last year. “He didn’t touch or talk or look at any girl,” the source said. “He was with his guys.”
Donald Trump Drafts Executive Order Regarding HBCUs Trump wants to change HBCUs for the better supposedly… According to Buzzfeed News , Cheeto Mussolini is promising to sign an executive order regarding historically black colleges and universities, according to close sources who attended last week’s “listening session” in commemoration of Black History Month aka African American Month Bullisht. The three sources with knowledge of the executive order claim Paris Dennard, a political commentator who works on strategic communications for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, brought the matter regarding all historically black colleges and universities during the Uncle Tom meeting. Amazing day at 1600 Penn! #WorkFlow pic.twitter.com/tCRu9EOVDF — OMAROSA (@OMAROSA) February 1, 2017 The site claims the Chump-in-Charge praised Dennard for defending him recently on CNN and all over the “liberal bias” news. “Paris has done an amazing job in a very hostile CNN community,” Trump said, deriding CNN as “fake news” he no longer watches. “He’s all by himself — seven people and Paris. I’ll take Paris over the seven,” Trump said to laughter. According to sources at the meeting, Trump asked what “the Harvard” of HBCUs was. At least three people in the room affiliated with the school said Howard University, located a short distance from the White House in DC. Trump asked how Howard was doing fiscally, with enrollment, and how it had done under President Obama. Sources claim he was “unhappy” on how Obama neglected HBCUs during his administration. There’s no clear explanation of exactly what the hell the executive order will actually do but sources remain hopeful. Trump clearly wants to one-up Obama and “help the black community” but we ain’t buying what he’s selling. What do you think of the HBCU executive order ?
Robin Thicke Gets To See Son After Restraining Order Robin Thicke isn’t singing the Blues anymore! We previously reported that the struggle crooner was facing problems seeing his 6-year-old son Julian . According to TMZ, Thicke was seen at Kids World this weekend in L.A. Despite a restraining order put in place by ex-wife Paula Patton, prohibiting him from going anywhere near their young son in the wake of allegations he was physically abusive to Julian. Robin has vehemently denied being physically abusive to all the parties involved. Close sources familiar with famous exes claim Paula has let go of the co-parenting problems and agreed to let Robin see Julian 3 days a week for a few hours each day but only under the condition that a court-appointed monitor is present. The gossip site cites a monitor was present during the trip to Kids World. Paula’s sincere change of heart stems from the fact that the actress wants her son Julian to have a close relationship with his father.
NBA Coach Popovich Says What Blacks Have Experienced Is ‘Our National Sin’ As disappointed as we are in the terrible choice of words our nation’s President used Wednesday to commemorate Black History Month we are incredibly proud to see that there are white people eloquent and intelligent enough to address the reality of race in America. Listen: I asked Gregg Popovich what #blackhistorymonth means to him, and once again, he spoke #Spurs #NBA https://t.co/gH9urn2hYU — Jabari Young (@JabariJYoung) February 3, 2017 San Antonio Express reporter Jabari Young spoke with the Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich about what Black History Month means to him and boy do we agree with what he had to say! Via ESPN: “Well, it’s a remembrance, and a bit of a celebration in some ways. It sounds odd because we’re not there yet, but it’s always important to remember what has passed and what is being experienced now by the black population. It’s a celebration of some of the good things that have happened, and a reminder that there’s a lot more work to do. But more than anything, I think if people take the time to think about it, I think it is our national sin. OUR NATIONAL SIN. A country whose material wealth was born out of slave labor — people stolen from their native lands, taken to a strange place, separated from their families, treated less than human. We can’t agree more. Can you. Pop continues by challenging people who feel it’s divisive to even discuss race: It always intrigues me when people come out with, ‘I’m tired of talking about that or do we have to talk about race again?’ And the answer is you’re damned right we do. Because it’s always there, and it’s systemic in the sense that when you talk about opportunity it’s not about ‘Well, if you lace up your shoes and you work hard, then you can have the American dream.’ That’s a bunch of hogwash. Hogwash is a good way to put it. Especially when you have people like Ben Carson and Bill Cosby who seem to believe that everyone can achieve anything despite the challenges put in front of them. Pop knows better. Pop knows all about white privilege and isn’t afraid to talk about it: If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally in this society and all the systemic roadblocks that exist, whether it’s in a judicial sense, a neighborhood sense with laws, zoning, education, we have huge problems in that regard that are very complicated, but take leadership, time, and real concern to try to solve. It’s a tough one because people don’t really want to face it. One of the best parts of Pop’s commentary is when he calls out Trump for all his lies and disparaging comments about President Obama and how much his rhetoric is responsible for perpetuating racism in this country: And it’s in our national discourse. We have a president of the United States who spent four or five years disparaging and trying to illegitimatize our president. And we know that was a big fake. But still, [he] felt for some reason it had to be done. I can still remember a paraphrase close to a quote “investigators were sent to Hawaii and you cannot believe what they found.” Well, that was a lie. So if it’s being discussed and perpetrated at that level, you’ve got a national problem. I think that’s enough.” Seriously… He touched nearly every aspect of the conversation about race in this nation that we ALL need to be having on a regular basis. What was your favorite thing about what Popovich said?
Keshia Knight Pulliam Reveals Her Labor Experience Included One Strange Encounter Baby Ella Grace arrived about two weeks ago, and Keshia Knight Pulliam is finally comfortable enough back at home with her baby to return to her Kandidly Keshia podcast . Keshia posted a new episode Friday all about her birth experience, which included at least one strange encounter with an “older little white lady — about 70” who was assigned as her lactation specialist. Pulliam described how the woman approached her offering her information about government assistance! Via Daily Mail reports : ‘We have some great programs that you may want to take advantage of that you may need … um, WIC is a great program.’ ‘So I guess she saw this little black girl with the little baby by herself and on the door, I didn’t realize that they’d put like a faux last name and the last name was Brown,’ said Pulliam. ‘So I guess she saw “Miss Brown” and was like, ‘She probably needs some WIC’ and insurance services. Pulliam said she cut the woman off in telling her, ‘Ma’am, I have excellent insurance but thank you.’ Keshia mentioned that while she understands that the hospital workers have an obligation to communicate ‘the services that are offered,’ she was offended that the woman presumed she was in need of the specific options she mentioned. Do you think she overreacted? She is absolutely right that it was that woman’s job to inform her of services offered, but what we are more alarmed by is Pulliam’s claims that the woman didn’t want to touch her. She didn’t want to touch me – [specialists will typically] guide your boob, show you how to hold it, put it in the baby’s mouth, [but] this lady was not trying to touch my little brown boobie – not at all,’ said Keisha. Keisha eventually requested a different lactation specialist. Would you have done the same thing? Instagram
Beyonce To Take Home $1 Million In Coachella Cash Beyonce quite literally shattered Instagram with her surprise announcement that she’s carrying not one, but two more royal Carter seeds in her womb on Wednesday. But she also surprised the big wigs that run Coachella, who agreed to giver her a million dollar check for doing her diva dance across the stage at the annual festival this upcoming April. AEG Live and Goldenvoice had no clue Mrs. Carter was carrying…and seeing as how she’ll be anywhere from 6-8 months along (as no one really knows how pregnant she is) come Coachella time, there’s no telling if she’ll even show. But Bey ain’t missing no checks! According to TMZ , an insurance clause in the contract makes sure that Bey gets paid no matter what she decides to do. Whatever insurance company that’s handling it will likely have to pay the fee citing “incapacity” — the condition under which a “high risk” twin pregnancy would fall for a performer. Now we aren’t sure exactly how late or early in the game these Coachella contracts get inked. BUT, if Bey knew she was totin’ twins when she signed her name on the dotted line, she is the scammer of the CENTURY. Two new babies and, an easy sweat-free check, and a horde of fans so happy that she simply exists that none are truly even upset about it. And don’t even get us started if she drops new music instead of this performance… YouTube/MTV/Instagram
Keke Palmer Reaches A Resolution With Trey Songz After Music Video We reported back in January that the ‘Scream Queens’ actress blasted singer Trey Songz for using unauthorized footage of her in his latest raunchy music video. Keke claims she was invited to a party by Trey in Miami but was pressured into being in his video while under the influence. The star claims she told Trey that she didn’t want to be in the video but was filmed against her knowledge: “Come on bruh, I clearly said no and you said okay, yet I was being secretly filmed when you told me “let me just show you the idea”?? Wow. This is what I’m referring to in my previous post, this is the sexism and misogyny I refer to because if I was a dude, he wouldn’t have even tried me like this. Let this be a lesson to all, I’m not for the bullshit. I’m serious about my business and you will not use my likeness without MY permission.” Palmer posted this image and message after a photo of her in Trey’s video hit social media: Keke then sat down with Larry King to discuss the traumatic incident and said she would be pressing charges against Trey for committing “sexual intimidation” while at the party: The actress now tells Fox 5 that she and Trey have finally come to mutual understanding: “We definitely came to a resolution. I think what happens is that everybody doesn’t know how everything works. In the industry, there is protocol. At the end of the day we have to say what we don’t like. What we feel, that (which) we don’t agree with, we have to say that. That’s what I’ve learned through writing the book.” Twitter/IG
