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Black Entrepreneurs Raise $8 Million For Barbershop-Focused App

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F or Black entrepreneurs Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon what started out as an app idea to help individuals who struggled to find a good barbershop has transformed into a platform that is changing the landscape of the barber experience. According to Tech Crunch , they raised $8 million for their app SQUIRE during their first round of venture capital financing. Barbershop management platform Squire raises $8 million Series A round https://t.co/ERefXxiZke by @meganrosedickey pic.twitter.com/Hq6HAjLg49 — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) June 25, 2019 Salvant and LaRon are seasoned entrepreneurs who through their own experiences discovered that the process of finding a good barber can often be inefficient. The two decided to team up and develop a solution. The app—which was founded in 2015—connects barbers and customers. Through SQUIRE, individuals can find barbershops in their area, read customer reviews, and book appointments. Customers also have the opportunity to pay for their haircuts through the app. SQUIRE goes beyond simply booking haircut appointments, it provides barbers throughout the country with the platform to sell products and promote their brand. There is a wide range of shops that are included in the app’s directory, including large high-end shops and small locally owned businesses. The app was launched in New York and expanded to cities like Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It now features barbershops in 28 cities. Since its inception, there have been $100 million in transactions processed through the app. The fundraising round was led by Trinity Ventures. “Millions of men need haircuts daily and are looking to find the right barbershop, but the process is usually unnecessarily hard and time consuming,” said Salvant in an interview with Forbes . “SQUIRE lets you locate a barber, schedule your appointment and pay from anywhere you are, now making the process quick and convenient.” The entrepreneurs plan on putting the money raised towards marketing and hiring engineers to work on the app’s infrastructure. “In talking to customers, we realized there was a lot of opportunity to build value in a backend management system,” LaRon said in a statement, according to TechCrunch. Both LaRon and Salvant are carving out a space in an industry that is worth billions. According to Statista , the barber industry is expected to be valued at $26 billion by next year. SEE ALSO: Black-Owned Barbershop Pays Off Debt For Students In Charlotte ‘You Next’ Project Illustrates The Impact And Influence Of Black Barbershops [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3881358″ overlay=”true”]

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F or Black entrepreneurs Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon what started out as an app idea to help individuals who struggled to find a good barbershop has transformed into a platform that is changing the landscape of the barber experience. According to Tech Crunch , they raised $8 million for their app SQUIRE during their first round of venture capital financing. Barbershop management platform Squire raises $8 million Series A round https://t.co/ERefXxiZke by @meganrosedickey pic.twitter.com/Hq6HAjLg49 — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) June 25, 2019 Salvant and LaRon are seasoned entrepreneurs who through their own experiences discovered that the process of finding a good barber can often be inefficient. The two decided to team up and develop a solution. The app—which was founded in 2015—connects barbers and customers. Through SQUIRE, individuals can find barbershops in their area, read customer reviews, and book appointments. Customers also have the opportunity to pay for their haircuts through the app. SQUIRE goes beyond simply booking haircut appointments, it provides barbers throughout the country with the platform to sell products and promote their brand. There is a wide range of shops that are included in the app’s directory, including large high-end shops and small locally owned businesses. The app was launched in New York and expanded to cities like Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It now features barbershops in 28 cities. Since its inception, there have been $100 million in transactions processed through the app. The fundraising round was led by Trinity Ventures. “Millions of men need haircuts daily and are looking to find the right barbershop, but the process is usually unnecessarily hard and time consuming,” said Salvant in an interview with Forbes . “SQUIRE lets you locate a barber, schedule your appointment and pay from anywhere you are, now making the process quick and convenient.” The entrepreneurs plan on putting the money raised towards marketing and hiring engineers to work on the app’s infrastructure. “In talking to customers, we realized there was a lot of opportunity to build value in a backend management system,” LaRon said in a statement, according to TechCrunch. Both LaRon and Salvant are carving out a space in an industry that is worth billions. According to Statista , the barber industry is expected to be valued at $26 billion by next year. SEE ALSO: Black-Owned Barbershop Pays Off Debt For Students In Charlotte ‘You Next’ Project Illustrates The Impact And Influence Of Black Barbershops [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3881358″ overlay=”true”]

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Sprite Takes Over BET Weekend With Debut Of New “Thirst For Yours” Platform

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Sprite Takes Over BET Weekend With Debut Of New “Thirst For Yours” Platform   Source: Paras Griffin / Getty   Kicking off on Friday with a launch event in Downtown Los Angeles alongside celebrity guests such as  Villain Park ,  Killumantii ,  TM88 , and  PnB Rock , the platform made its debut in the form of two :30 spots highlighting up-and-coming artists – Atlanta-based rapper  Kodie Shane  and rising fashion designer / current Clark Atlanta University student  Seth Giscombe .  Source: Paras Griffin / Getty On Saturday night at  Kicksperience , Sprite Way artists and rising hip-hop group Villain Park also performed, and had a meet-and-greet at the Sprite booth immediately after.  To top it all off, the brand new spots made their  official TV debut  during Sunday night’s BET Awards , truly bringing the Thirst For Yours platform to life. Check out photos of guests and more on the flip!

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New Movie: ‘Black And Blue’ Stars Naomie Harris As A Cop Trying To Survive Her Own Department’s Dirty Deeds[VIDEO]

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Source: Alan Markfield / Courtesy Screen Gems ‘Black And Blue’ Is About A Rookie Cop Caught In A Bad Situation It’s no secret that criminal justice systems all over the country are running rampant with dirty cops — and now Screen Gem’s new film ‘Black And Blue’ shines a light on everything that can go wrong when a rookie cop steps into a situation naively. Check out the trailer below: BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage. BLACK AND BLUE stars Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Frank Grillo, Mike Colter, Nafessa Williams and more!

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Khloe Kardashian on KUWTK: Are You Buying Any of This?!?

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Keeping Up with the Kardashians finally addressed the 6’10” elephant in the room on part one of its season finale last night. After weeks of hype, the penultimate episode focused entirely on the Tristan Thompson cheating scandal . The second  Tristan Thompson cheating scandal, that is; not the one in which he slept around while his girlfriend was pregnant… but the one during which he made out with his girlfriend’s close pal. View Slideshow: Khloe Kardashian Makes Stunning Admission, Says Tristan Thompson Threatened to Kill Himself As summarized above, the episode was raw and emotional and intense and also revealing — but was it also chock full of BS? Because here’s the thing: Yes, Tristan made out with Jordyn Woods several months ago. The latter has admitted it, the former has not denied it and Khloe Kardashian has ended the relationship over her baby daddy as a result of it. So there’s nothing to debate when it comes to how much Thompson sucks as a boyfriend. The guy totally and completely sucks as a boyfriend. This episode just piled everything on so darn thick that we have a bunch of questions over what we actually heard and learned. For instance: Khloe opened the installment by saying she was crazy sick, suffering through one migraine after another while actually throwing up blood. “Literally my whole head feels bruised because it’s been pounding for so long and it’s terrifying,” she told viewers, adding on air: “I’m supposed to go to Cleveland tomorrow to see Tristan, but the way I’m feeling right now, I don’t know if I can be on a flight like that. I’ve been throwing up blood. It’s so intense. I’m blind in my left eye.” We’re sorry, but: WHAT?!? Khloe is coughing up clood and has gone blind in one eye and is just sort of casually relaying this information to the camera? And we never once heard anything about this condition several months ago, back when this episode was allegedly filmed? Khloe alleged on the episode that she took a pregnancy test (it was negative) and that a doctor could not diagnose whatever the heck was supposedly going on with her. Elsewhere, Khloe made an allegation that created headlines across the Internet hours later: She told Scott Disick that Tristan actually threatened to commit suicide when confessing his sins to her over the phone. “He’s like, ‘I can’t stop thinking about you and what mess I have caused,’” she told Disick. “He’s doing this to get a reaction out of me. Oh, so I’m just allowed to say ‘I’m going to kill myself’ at any time? That’s crazy.” Again, we ask: WHAT?!? Nearly every insider close to Thompson after this scandal broke said he was mostly doing just fine. Moreover, sources now tell Radar Online that Tristan never, ever said such a thing and the fact that Khloe is spreading such a lie has really caused him distress. Keeping Up with the Kardashians Clip: What Did Jordyn Do?!? “He is pissed off because a ton of people, including his family members and NBA execs, are reaching out to him very worried,” Radar writes, quoting someone who knows Tristan well and adding: “He says he told Khloe he didn’t want to live without her, but that didn’t mean he wanted to kill himself.” On the finale, we were told that Khloe asked someone to go check on Thompson after he supposedly uttered the suicidal thought, prompting Disick to deliver this well-scripted speech: “The fact that Khloe is sitting here heartbroken but still worrying about Tristan’s feelings and the possibilities of him being upset or possibly hurting himself… “I mean, it just goes to show that Khloe is an unbelievable person that loves so hard and so much. “Somehow she just keeps getting the short end of the stick, and it’s unfair and it’s hurtful and it’s really hard for me to sit and watch.” We never once heard from Tristan or Jordyn on the episode. We never once saw a text message from either party or listened in one their end of a phone call. We were simply told a bunch of stuff by Khloe and her loved ones and expected to believe it. But what if producers just made it all up? What if Tristan and Khloe were actually on the outs at the time of the spit-swapping and what if he really did only peck Woods a little bit and there wasn’t very much to this whole scandal… … so the family had to REALLY oversell it, giving Khloe some horrible, mysterious disease right when it allegedly happened and then also making her look like a saint by putting her suicidal boyfriend ahead of her own needs, even in the wake of his dastardly actions? What if, you guys? View Slideshow: Keeping Up with the Kardashians: 14 Shocking Secrets Revealed! We know it’s a crazy thought, that Keeping Up with the Kardashians would be a scripted drama that painted its cast members as victims and made sure they were always the heroes of their own stories. And yet. If you agree that perhaps Khloe didn’t actually go blind in one eye and perhaps Thompson never contemplated suicide, then it must be asked: What is the real scandal here? Was it what Tristan did with Jordyn? Or what the Kardashians did in response?

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Southern Charm Stars Side With Danni Baird in Kathryn Dennis Feud

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

After a recent blowup on  Southern Charm , newcomer Eliza Limehouse explained that  Thomas Ravenel had messed up Kathryn Dennis . That, she said, was why Kathryn had lashed out at her close and loyal friend, Danni Baird. Despite explanations for Kathryn’s behavior, the show’s stars were quick to side with Danni in her new feud with Kathryn. Kathryn has made tremendous personal strides in recent years, even earning high praise from her castmates. But … is she backsliding. After she went off on Dani Baird for no apparent reason, her castmates had some real concerns. Shep Rose and Cameran Eubanks both observed that Kathryn can be quick to discard friends. Whether she actually means to or not is kind of up in the air. The cast was more or less entirely on Danni’s side. In fact, the guys and their weird, men-only trip that zero viewers asked to see ended up talking about the feud. Shep thinks that Kathryn should listen to Danni’s point of view. From his perspective, Kathryn’s treatment of her very loyal friend looked like a slap to the face. Craig Conover — the guy whose party ended up including the spat between the women — pointed something out. He observed that Kathryn was just doing what guys do all of the time. Now, Danni had some time to cool off and to carefully consider Kathryn’s behavior. After a while, she concluded that she wasn’t going to take the blow-up personally. Why? Because at that time, Kathryn wasn’t trusting anyone. Danni did send Kathryn a text reminding her that she had “spit” on their friendship. Just because she understood Kathryn’s mental state didn’t mean that he was okay. She wanted an apology. Danni thinks that something that distorted their friendship dynamic was that Kathryn is under a lot of stress. Her ongoing custody battle with Thomas Ravenel is exacting a toll upon her psyche. Danni tried hashing things out with Kathryn, but her efforts to make peace fell upon deaf ears. “It’s very hard,” Danni admitted. “It’s hard to have conversations like that or bring things up like that at all.” “You never know the right moment to say it,” she added. “So, sometimes it comes out when it shouldn’t,” Danni acknowledged. “But, like, it just has to come out. Word vomit.” Danni has also pointed out that Kathryn thought that she was speaking about her behind her back. Beautiful Naomie Olindo also weighed in and described Kathryn as an “overthinker.” In other words, Kathryn will hear something and seemingly be okay with it. Later, she will dwell on whatever it was in her thoughts. She perseverates, and things start to fester. Because of that, Danni explains, Kathryn will later be furious about something and other people won’t know why. It sounds like things are way, way better between Kathryn and Danni these days. They’ve had cute photos together. Kathryn recently gushed that Danni is the one who taught her the true meaning of friendship. So yeah, things sound good. Plus, even when they were Team Danni in that feud, Kathryn’s Southern Charm castmates still freaking love her. It’s hard to do anything but love her, you know? Unless you’re Ashley Jacobs. View Slideshow: Kathryn Dennis: I Can PROVE Thomas Ravenel is an Unstable Liar!

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Anfisa Nava Slays at Very First Bodybuilding Competition!

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Looks like Anfisa Nava is putting those insane abs to good use! The  90 Day Fiance season four star has spent the last year transforming her body in preparation for her first ever bodybuilding competition. Well, the big day finally came, and we’re here to tell you she absolutely killed it! On Saturday Anfisa competed in the NPC West Coast Classic competition in Riverside, California.  The 23-year-old Russian model walked into the competition a first-timer with no expectations. She then walked away with three medals! Anfisa proudly shared her results on her Instagram, flaunting her medals and, as usual, her incredible physique. “2nd place novice and true novice, 5th place open,” Anfisa revealed in the caption, adding a relieved face emoji. “Such an amazing first show experience,” she recalled.  Anfisa also shared a video clip of herself posing on stage for the final round.  In the video, Anfisa struts and shows off her form to a remix of Flo Rida’s “Low,” as fans in the audience scream out her her name. That’s the dream, people. Anfisa can hardly contain her excitement in the accompanying caption. “Stayed up until 5am re-watching videos from last night at #NPCwestcoast @centerpodium and reading your comments!” she exclaimed. Anfisa added that she tried to sleep, but woke up just a few hours later becasue she was “overwhelmed with joy and excitment.” She also mentions that she had a bit of stage fright, saying that her performance was “A little rushed as I was nervous.” If she was nervous, it didn’t really show on stage. We thought she looked graceful, strong, and happy with her performance. And we know it’s an experience she looks forward to repeating, along with her coach Paul Revelia. “Can’t wait to see what @paulrevelia and I are going to bring to the stage next time,” she wrote, adding the fire emoji for good measure. We’re glad she’s excited for more. Anfisa seemed a bit apprehensive about her future in bodybuilding in a recent interview with  E! Online . “We’ll see how this first one goes. I don’t really have any expectations,” Anfisa told  E! “I just want to get my feet wet and see what its like, and go from there,” she explained. Pretty stellar results for someone who wasn’t even sure she wanted to keep doing this. Maybe she was just being modest. On the other hand, Anfisa definitely had other options, if her competition had turned out to be a nightmare. She’s currently enrolled in community college, and she revealed she also hopes to attend a four-year university starting in August. Between all the hours spent studying, and all the work it takes to maintain that model figure, we expect Anfisa will have her hands quite full. That said, now that her husband Jorge Nava is behind bars, Anfisa will have that much more time to focus on herself. Jorge, who was introduced along with Anfisa on  90 Day Fiance ,  was arrested in February of 2018 for possession of 293 pounds of marijuana (woah!) with intention to sell. In September, he received a two-and-a-half year sentence. Meanwhile, Anfisa’s been throwing herself headlong into her fitness regime, and showing off the results along the way. She recently shared her fitness secrets that led to her 26-pound weight loss and incredible muscle tone. (Spoiler alert — she ate less food and exercised a lot) No doubt, Anfisa’s dealt with plenty of stress, and put in a ton of work lately. But when the reward turns out to be a literal medal, we’re betting it feels worth the trouble. View Slideshow: Anfisa Nava Trashes Body-Shamers, Preps for Bodybuilding Competition

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Jussie Smollett Body Cam Footage Reveals Noose, Alleged Bleach

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We have yet another twist and a possibly giant turn in the Jussie Smollett case/investigation/scandal/total and complete mess. On Monday evening, police released a couple of videos in relation to the alleged attack against the veteran Empire actor. As you must know by now, Smollett told the police and then the public way back in late January that he had been attacked on the streets of Chicago. He said this attack was perpetrated by two white men… that they tied a noose around his neck… that they poured bleach all over him … and that they screamed racial and anti-gay epithets in his direction. At first, Smollett was the subject of numerous sympathetic articles and headlines. The entire world, including President Donald Trump, appeared to be on his side. But after more information came to light (such as the supposed assailants being two black men who actually knew Smollett well) and doubts were raised about the validity of Smollett's story, he eventually became a pariah. The police actually arrested Smollett on the charge of falsifying an official report — only for the district attorney to eventually let the star go free. The situation continues to be a sordid and confusing enigma. This leads us into the newest update, which is this: Chicago police released video today that showed a noose around the Empire star’s neck. It also features a brief conversation between Smollett and the officers inside his apartment. “Do you want to take it off or anything?” an officer asks Smollett in the body cam footage, which depicuts the actor donning a cream and red sweater and having a tangle of white rope around his neck. “Yeah I do. I just wanted you all to see,” Smollett replies. He then claims that bleach is all over him. After just about 30 seconds of an exchange, Smollett gives the police permission to turn off their body cameras. So… what does this footage actually reveal? A Smollett apologist would say there you go, it shows a noose around his neck. Case closed! He was attacked! A Smollett critic would say that it's VERY weird for Smollett to have simply kept the noose around his neck (the video was filmed about 40 minutes after the alleged attack)… that he doesn't appear injured at all… that his mere claim of bleach being on his person doesn't mean anything at all… and that his request to have the cameras turned off could mean he didn't want anyone else to see all this flimsy evidence. It really just depends on where you stand. On Friday, Cook County Judge Michael Toomin announced that that Smollett’s criminal case will face another review by a special prosecutor. He also said that the actor, who he described as a “charlatan who fomented a hoax the equal of any twisted television intrigue,” could face additional charges. So this still isn't the last we've heard about this scandal. Check out the official police footage now.

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Chanel West Coast Slutty of the Day

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Chanel West Coast is such a low level celebrity…a fake rapper from the suburbs who culturally appropriated a black accent, or what she thinks is a black accent, because she’s just that fucking garbage….and disconnected from the hip hop scene…she’s an Orange County rendition of the hip hop scene…which in and of itself is racist white people profiting off the backs of the black people… She was an MTV girl from an MTV show you probably don’t even remember…and she had such a minor role in that shit that no one actually cared about her on it…but that she probably cared about being on – since it is all she’s ever really accomplished.. She is now a shameless instagrammer which I guess is what all these idiots become….popping that face injected, fake ass, garbage half nakedness for you pervs… These people are all so repetitive! They need to try to figure out some original concepts cuz all this is so repetitive… JOIN THE NEWSLETTER YOU ASSHOLES! The post Chanel West Coast Slutty of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .

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Kate Beckinsale Fitness Erotica of the Day

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Kate Beckinsale is out here doing overhead squats at the gym, over a toilet, you know to know she’s getting deep enough, while being able to laugh at it with her social media fans, in some gym humor I guess you need to spend time at the gym to really understand… If you know people who crossfit, you’ll know they all have their own weirdo cross fit jokes, like some kind of secret society that isn’t so secret because they all fucking talk about their cross fit all the time… There is a theory that Kate Beckinsale doesn’t actually exist, that she is just CGI, you know a computer generated animation…because how else does a 45 or 50 year old woman still look as good as she did when she was just a young single mom rich kid, getting that fat child support check to help create and raise her slut daughter – who had titty pics leaked last week…but who’s lawyer came at me for posting… But then again, maybe Kate Beckinsale is this fit, because she works at it all day, since she’s rich and has nothing else to do with herself.. WHO knows….here’s her gym pic. JOIN THE NEWSLETTER YOU ASSHOLES! The post Kate Beckinsale Fitness Erotica of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .

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