Queen Of Soul, Aretha Franklin, In Hospice Care
Aretha Franklin is in hospice care at her home, a source close to the 76-year-old singer told CNN’s Don Lemon.
‘BlacKkKlansman’ Star Laura Harrier Is Delivering History Lessons With Her Hair
Article via: Rick y Riley, blavity.com ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Star Laura Harrier Is Delivering History Lessons With Her Hair
You’ve seen actress and model Laura Harrier gracing the red carpet promoting the latest Spike Lee film in which she stars, “BlacKkKlansman,” but what you may have missed were her gorgeous hairstyles paying tribute to black women throughout cinema history.
In a recent interview with Refinery 29, celebrity hairstylist Lacy Redwaytold the fashion and women’s lifestyle outlet that Harrier’s hair was an homage to blaxploitation actress Pam Grier, award-winning acting icon Cicely Tyson and music icon Diana Ross.
Harrier plays an activist named Patrice in the latest Spike Lee joint, which is about a black officer infiltrating his local Ku Klux Klan chapter.
“I knew the movie was taking place in the 1970s, and Laura plays an activist. That is where my initial inspiration started,” Redway said. “I wanted to use this moment as a teachable one and celebrate both the strong women of that time and strong women in general.”
The proof is in the pudding. If you scrolled through Redway’s Instagram feed, you could get a glimpse of some the looks Harrier channeled. On the first red carpet appearance, Redway styled Harrier after Grier’s kickass character Foxy Brown.
Redway styled Harrier’s hair into cornrows as a way to show her commitment to the natural hair movement.
“More often than not, young people aren’t aware of where things originated from and how important some things are as far as preserving history within a community,” she said. “With social media and lack of education, you can easily have braided hairstyles — identity symbols for tribes in Africa — be dwindled down.”
Not all of the hairstyles came from the 1970s. Some were inspired by the Himba woman in northern Namibia, Janet Jackson in Poetic Justiceand Brandy from her time playing the title character on the TV show Moesha.
See Harrier in the Spike Lee-directed film, BlacKkKlansman, currently in theaters.
Shooter charged with manslaughter in Clearwater stand your ground case
Prosecutors charged Michael Drejka, the man accused of killing Markeis McGlockton in a shooting that has reignited a debate over Florida’s stand your ground law, with manslaughter Monday.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Drejka was taken into custody Monday morning. He was being booked about 12:20 p.m. into the Pinellas County Jail, where he will be held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
“It’s about time,” said McGlockton’s father, Michael McGlockton, adding that he was ecstatic. “This is exactly what I wanted. This is exactly what me and my family wanted was to get this guy behind bars.”
Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe said Monday that his office “reviewed everything, and we filed the charge we think we can prove.”
“I’m comfortable that we moved expeditiously to review the case,” he said.
Drejka, who turned 48 since the shooting, had avoided arrest since he shot 28-year-old McGlockton on July 19 because of the controversial self-defense law that eliminated one’s duty to retreat before resorting to force.
Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced July 20 that his agency was precluded from arresting Drejka because evidence showed it was “within the bookends of stand your ground and within the bookends of force being justified,” which provides immunity from arrest, the sheriff said. He forwarded the case Aug. 1 to the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney’s Office to make a final charging determination.
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Omarosa Finally Bringing Us Receipts
Omarosa taped call with Trump after she was fired
President Donald Trump appeared to be unaware that Omarosa Manigault Newman was fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to an audio recording of a phone conversation aired on NBC’s “Today” Monday morning.
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Blac Chyna Addresses Her New Assets?
It’s been long rumored that the model and entrepreneur got butt implants during her stripping days, but could it be that she had them removed? The photo is pretty convincing.
CoCo Khaleesi@JayJaySweetszI think Blac Chyna forgot her ass at home
Welp, looks like her Instagram Story says it all. This is just a screen grab, but her original post featured a boomerang of her twisting her backside.
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Vimeo removes Infowars content
Vimeo has pulled Infowars content from its site for violating the platform’s standards.
A spokesperson for the video hosting service told Business Insider on Sunday that the Infowars videos “violated our Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content.”
The videos had been uploaded to the site on Thursday and Friday. The Vimeo spokesperson also told Business Insider that the company had told the account owner of the videos’ removal, and also issued a refund because “we do not want to profit from content of this nature in any way.”
The site reported that Infowars had less than a dozen videos on the platform as of Wednesday, but that more than 50 videos were posted to the site on the following days.
Vimeo reportedly determined that the content violated the company’s trust and safety standards within 48 hours of the videos being posted.
Business Insider reported that Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud will announce the removal of the Infowars content during a town hall meeting on Monday.
Vimeo is the latest platform to pull content posted by Infowars or its founder Alex Jones. Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts have all recently banned or removed content from the site or its controversial conspiracy theorist founder.
Twitter has said that Infowars and Jones will be permitted to stay on the site because they haven’t violated its policies.
A Twitter spokesperson said Friday the decision to allow them to remain on the site will stay in place, despite a CNN report revealing that Jones had repeatedly violated its policies.
Jones has faced criticism for spreading conspiracy theories, and was suedby the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting for allegedly claiming the shooting was a hoax. Jones has denied making the statements.
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Video of Baltimore officer beating a man leads to suspension and outrage
The video starts with a man screaming in a police officer’s face.
“For what?!” the man yells on a Baltimore sidewalk.
The officer responds by shoving the man backward against a brick wall.
“Don’t touch me!” the man yells, slapping the cop’s hand away.
Then the video gets really ugly.
The officer starts throwing punches and continues pummeling the man for the next 12 seconds, the bystander’s video shows.
They both eventually fall to the ground, and the officer pins the man down with his arm across his neck. The man’s blood starts pooling on the sidewalk.
What happened Saturday morning marks the latest controversial use of force against a black person by police.
The Baltimore officer who attacked the man is also black. So is another officer who witnessed the attack, but did little to intervene.
Interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle said he was “deeply disturbed” by the incident, and the officer seen throwing punches has been suspended.
The other officer has been placed on administrative duties pending the outcome of an investigation, Baltimore police said. The state attorney’s office was also notified.
Police have not identified either officer.
What led up to the attack
The incident began around 11:45 a.m. while officers were working on “a crime suppression detail related to crime in the area,” Baltimore police spokesman T. J. Smith said.
“Two officers encountered a man, whom one of the officers is familiar with,” police said.
“After the first encounter, officers released him and … approached him again to provide him a citizen’s contact sheet,” police said.
Smith said officers are required to fill out a contact sheet any time they talk to a citizen in relation to any type of investigation, no matter how brief the encounter.
“When he was asked for his identification, the situation escalated when he refused,” police said.
Police did not identify the man, but CNN affiliate WJZ identified him as Dashawn McGrier.
He was taken into custody and was also given medical treatment for his injuries, police said. He was not charged with any crimes and was released from custody, police said.
The man’s attorney, Warren Brown, is planning to file a lawsuit, CNN affiliate WBAL reported. Brown has not responded to CNN’s request for comment.
‘Zero tolerance’ for this behavior
Tuggle said he was appalled by the incident and has “zero tolerance for behavior like I witnessed on the video.”
“Officers have a responsibility and duty to control their emotions in the most stressful of situations,” the interim police commissioner said.
Baltimore is still dealing with the aftermath of the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, who died in custody a week after a police encounter.
Days of peaceful protests devolved into riots, with assaults on police, looting, arson and the devastation of businesses.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said in a tweet that the city is working hard to earn and maintain the trust of the public. She said she has demanded answers and accountability for what happened Saturday.
“We are working day and night to bring about a new era of community-based, Constitutional policing and will not be deterred by this or any other instance that threatens our efforts to reestablish trust of all citizens in the Baltimore Police Department,” she said.
