Mo’Nique’s Three Year Hobo Tour: Part 1- Empire
Mo’Nique has established herself as an important marker in the entertainment industry as a comedian and an actress; having made great strides: breaking barriers for women, African Americans, and plus size people.
She initially became well-known from her hit show The Parkers. She went on to host her late night talk show The Monique Show in 2009 to 2011. She earned an Oscar for her role in Precious and was nominated for an Emmy in Bessie.
After her Precious and Bessie roles we did not see as much as Mo’ as we should have, for an Oscar awardee. She came out about four years ago to tell her story.
Watch Lovelyti’s first video on the situation: Mo’Nique says EMPIRE creator Lee Daniels told her she was “Blackballed” after her Oscar win.
Mo’ continued to defend herself against the allegations of a nasty attitude. To shed light on Lee Daniels character, Mo’ alleged that Daniels once called Halle Berry a B***ch “[out of nervousness]”:
Around the same time, Mo’nique says she was supposed to play Cookie on Empire. The co-creator of Empire, Danny Strong, said that was not true, and Cookie has always been Taraji’s role:
Lee Daniels allegedly claimed Mo’Nique was never considered for the role of Cookie, and the show’s co-creator Danny Strong insisted that she’s never been offered the part. In response, during her interview on Sway in the Morning, Mo’Nique brought along proof that she was offered the role of Cookie, in the form of a printed email chain between her and Daniels’ team.
This was around April of 2015. Mo’ later came back onto the radar in May of 2017 when a clip of her comedy show went viral, in which she blasted Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.
“[They] could suck my d*** if I had one.
Mo’ continued her tour in January of 2018 at Netflix headquarters.
Viral Louisiana supermarket employee who let autistic customer stock shelves gets $100G for college
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A supermarket employee in Louisiana who went viral for letting a young customer with autism help him stock the store shelves has now been gifted $100,000 for college tuition.
When Jordan Taylor, who works at Rouses Market in Baton Rouge, noticed Jack Ryan watching him refill the coolers, he offered to show him what do.
In a video taken by Jack Ryan’s dad and shared on Facebook by his sister, Delaney Edwards Alwosaibi, Jack Ryan and Taylor can be seen working together to put milk and juice on the shelves.
“Talk about a stand-up young man!!!!” Alwosaibi wrote about Taylor. “We all know autism makes going out difficult, and sometimes grocery stores can be a challenge. This young man took the time to slow down and allow Jack Ryan to help for over 30 minutes, guiding him as he finished his task.”
Alwosaibi and everyone who saw the video were so impressed by what Taylor did, they decided to start a GoFundMe page Wednesday to help raise money to send him to college. Taylor told Alwosaibi he loves math and might want to be a teacher someday.
The campaign originally had a goal of $10,000, but after receiving an overwhelming amount of donations, the goal was increased to $100,000, which it had reached as of Friday afternoon.
“He could have ignored him. He could have made an excuse and said he couldn’t allow him to help. Instead, he let him have his moment and in turn gave my family a moment we will never forget,” Alwosaibi wrote.
“It might seem like nothing to others, but as you can hear my dad say in the video, [‘I’m watching a miracle in action’].”
GoFundMe spokesperson Bobby Whithorne told Fox News the fundraiser for Taylor is currently the top campaign on their site and global support has been pouring in. “Donors from Baton Rouge to Bangkok have been inspired by Jordan and Jack Ryan’s story. Nearly 3,000 people have donated $100,000 from all across the US and all around the world. Donors from Japan to Germany, from Ireland to Italy, have stepped up and taken action to show their support,” Whithorne said.
Russia Arrests Mysterious American Who Arrived On A Dinghy From Alaska
Russian authorities said they were holding an American man who arrived on its far eastern Pacific coast by dinghy, having apparently sailed all the way from Alaska.
The BBC reported that the man—named by Russia’s foreign ministry as 72-year-old John Martin, from Anchorage, Alaska—was found, exhausted, near Lavrentiya, a coastal village in the Chukotka region, having crossed the Bering Strait, which separates the U.S. from Russia.
According to a report by state-backed Russian news agency Tass, U.S. diplomats were working with Russian officials to resolve the situation. Martin’s motives were unclear; Tass said he did not ask for asylum when he was discovered on August 1.
The U.S. Consulate General in Vladivostok, the major city on Russia’s Pacific coast, said it would provide assistance to the man. “We know about this situation. We are working with local authorities and are providing the U.S. citizen with consular services,” a spokesperson for the mission told another Russian news agency, Interfax.
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, claimed Martin “traveled down the Yukon River in Alaska in his personal one-seat boat.” Zakharova said the man had decided to take to the sea about two weeks ago, but “due to inclement weather and because he lacked navigation equipment, he spent several days in the open sea. This is how he ended up in the Russian Federation.”
Interfax quoted a source close to the investigation, who said the man had been fishing along the Alaskan coast and decided to sail to China. Instead, he ended up on the very eastern tip of Russia, several thousands of miles away from the Chinese coast.
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Omarosa says in tell-all White House book she saw ‘mental decline’ in Trump
Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the flamboyant reality TV star and former White House official, claims in her new tell-all book that she detected a “mental decline” in President Donald Trump during her raucous 7-month tenure with the administration.
The observation emerges in an excerpt of “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” which was obtained by the Daily Mail. The book is set for release Aug. 14.
In it, she described her reaction to watching Trump’s interview with NBC’s Lester Holt in May 2017 regarding the firing of FBI director James Comey.
“Donald rambled. He spoke gibberish. He contradicted himself from one sentence to the next,” she wrote, saying she watched the interview on TV in a White House press office.
According to the Daily Mail’s excerpt, Hope Hicks, who was then White House communications director, had prepped Trump for the interview and emphasized repeatedly that he was supposed to say that he had fired Comey based on the recommendation by the Department of Justice.
Instead, he said:
“I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election.’”
That, wrote Manigault-Newman, was a clue that something wasn’t right.
“While watching the interview I realized that something real and serious was going on in Donald’s brain,” she wrote. “His mental decline could not be denied. Many didn’t notice it as keenly as I did because I knew him way back when. They thought Trump was being Trump, off the cuff. But I knew something wasn’t right.”
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Man accused of locking girlfriend’s children in closets, forcing them to eat shoes
Sedalia, MO (WDAF) — A Sedalia man is behind bars, accused of horrific child abuse. The victims are three of his girlfriend’s children who were allegedly beaten, starved, locked in closets and made to eat shoes.
Piles of TVs line the driveway, broken blinds in the windows, and toys litter the yard. Police say it’s inside the Sedalia home where two girls and a boy, ages 12, 9 and 8, endured horrific abuse for four years.
Court records say James Hays Jr. lived at the home with his girlfriend, his three kids and her three kids.
Back on July 23, the aunt of the 12-, 9- and 8-year-olds took the kids to a nearby hospital after noticing they had “large bruises.”
The children’s mother told FOX4 she tried to escape 30 or 40 times over the years. But last week, she finally was able to knock Hays over and run with her kids to a neighbor’s house, then get her sister’s help.
Investigators interviewed all three kids, and court records detail the brutal abuse they endured.
One child had visible bruising on her legs. A neighbor who didn’t want to be identified said there was a visible footprint on the girl’s shin, and she had badly bruised ribs.
The children told police Hays would often “yell at them, kick them a lot and spank them” for “trying to get something to eat.”
On one occasion, a child said Hays forced her to eat hot peppers and poured water over her head so that she “couldn’t breathe.”
The kids also said they were often shoved in bathroom and locked in with “bars” that Hays would “slam down.” One child reported that their mom would try to “sneak food to them while locked in the bathroom.”
Court records say more than once, the kids were made to take “several shoe laces” out of shoes, and Hays would “make them eat parts of the shoes.” Whoever ate “most of a shoe” would get “to stop and eat real breakfast.”
Hays is also accused of forcing the kids to do jumping jacks, squats and push-ups, and if he wasn’t satisfied, the kids said he’d “kick, spank and swat with a belt” with “little pointy metal things on it.”
Court records say Hays would also use a “spatula and hanger” to beat them. The abuse often leading to “bruises” and “bleeding.”
Police searched the house Monday, finding many of the conditions the kids described, including metal brackets and bars near the doors. Hays was arrested and now faces three counts of felony child abuse.
The children are staying with extended family members.
Hays is being held on $1 million bond. He has extensive criminal history, including a past partner, who filed a restraining order against him.
Baby-sitters accused of beatings, severe abuse over 6 days
A couple baby-sitting four children subjected at least two of them to physical and psychological terror over six days, making a girl drink dog urine, knocking out her brother and inflicting beatings that left visible injuries and required their hospitalization, police said.
Jakayo Scott Frye and Shyann Marie Hills, both 22, were charged Wednesday in Pennsylvania with dozens of crimes, including aggravated assault, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint and child endangerment.
Police said the victims’ mother paid Frye and Hills $100 to watch her four children — while she vacationed in North Carolina for a week in late July — at a house trailer in the town of Rome, near the New York border.
A 9-year-old girl appeared to suffer the worst abuse, including being tied to a cabinet by the wrists until her hands turned purple and being forced to lick her own urine from a wooden floor after she was not allowed to use the bathroom for an extended period, police said.
When her mother picked her up on July 27, police said, the girl complained of an aching back, said she felt as if she was about to pass out, was heavily bruised and showed difficulty walking. An ambulance was summoned, and the hospital called police.
A nurse told investigators the girl suffered a possible ankle sprain, was dehydrated and showed severe injury or stress to her muscle tissue. A police investigator observed bruising all over both children’s bodies, including the girl’s “extremely swollen and red” ears.
One of her sisters said the girl was picked up repeatedly by the ears.
The mother told police Frye and Hills explained the bruises by telling her the children had been throwing themselves against a wall and that a dog crate had fallen on the 9-year-old.
Frye and Hills were both jailed. His bail was set at $750,000 and hers at $500,000. No lawyer was listed for them in court records.
Investigators learned the harrowing allegations in interviews with the two children, their two sisters and another child, a 14-year-old boy.
They recounted how the girl was forced to run in place with a 5-gallon jug tied to her body, and to hold a “plank” position while nails would puncture her feet if she moved.
The girl was also kept awake for 24 hours, on some days she wasn’t fed at all, and she was tied to a dog crate by her waist and hands, police said.
Her 8-year-old sister said the girl was forced to drink dog urine through a straw, police wrote.
The 9-year-old girl told an interviewer “they treated the dogs better” than they treated her and her brother, according to the arrest affidavit. She recounted that Frye threatened her to keep quiet about his alleged attacks or “he would ‘come for her,’” police said.
The child told police she was tied up because she was crying for her mother, and was being abused. She said her head was “smashed” against a bedroom door and the refrigerator “numerous times,” police wrote. Frye and Hills are accused of beating children with their fists, a metal stove handle and a belt.
Frye stood on the back of the 7-year-old boy while he was in a “push up” position until he passed out, police alleged, and a 10-year-old sister told investigators “they woke him up by putting his head under water.”
The couple allegedly had the 14-year-old boy beat up the 7-year-old boy, police also said.
Court records list Frye and Hills as residents of Rome and of Towanda, a neighboring town. A preliminary
hearing is scheduled for Aug. 14.
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Woman says supermarket called police on her while she was helping a homeless man
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Barbecuing while black. Napping while black. Now add helping homeless people while black to the list of things that can lead to a visit from police.
Employees at a Safeway supermarket in Mountain View, California, called 911 on an African-American woman and her family because they suspected them of shoplifting, police said. Safeway has since apologized for what the store said was a misunderstanding.
Erika Martin told CNN that the incident occurred when she stopped at the store last month to help a homeless man she knew hung out there. She gave him a bag of dog food and some treats for his pit bull. Her two sisters were also there and gave two men care packages with soap, toothpaste, hand sanitizer and other hygiene products.
“I help the homeless as much as I can. I see homeless people weekly and I try help them the best that I can,” Martin said.
Martin said her son, who’s about to turn 10, and her nieces and nephews went into the store to see if the bakery was giving out free cookies and to get samples from the deli.
Martin stayed outside and talked to her sisters and the man to whom she gave the dog food.
She said a Safeway employee came out of the store, looked directly at her and rushed back inside, which she thought was strange.
As Martin prepared to leave, two police cars drove up and one stopped behind her so she couldn’t back out of her parking place. They asked why she was there and if she had any warrants, Martin said. She told them that she’d never even had a parking ticket.
Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson said that a Safeway employee called the police and to report a theft in progress. Five officers were dispatched to interview store employees and the Martin family.
“It was extremely clear to us that no one who had been identified was potentially involved in any sort of criminal activity, and we explicitly said as much to Safeway employees,” Nelson said.
Martin said one of the officers told her that Safeway had called the police because she matched the description of someone taking items from the store and said the suspect was wearing a spaghetti-strap shirt.
Martin said she was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt that said “Y’all need Jesus,” and had not even gone into the store. Nelson said the description “somewhat matched” the top one of Martin’s sisters was wearing.
The employee told the police that the children were running back and forth to a car parked outside.
“During the initial dispatch call, a Safeway employee informed our dispatcher that both employees and customers believed a man and a woman as well as children were working together to try and take items from the store,” Nelson said.
Martin said the questioning scared her son and he started crying while talking to one of the officers.
He told her that when the children asked for cookies the woman at the bakery counter told him that “We don’t have anymore cookies to give to you,” Martin said. He said they looked behind the counter and saw that there were cookies back there.
The officer asked if they had taken any cookies and he said no.
“My son was crying so much, he was so scared because he thought he did something wrong. He thought the police were going to arrest him for looking behind the counter,” she said. “To see my child in so much fear broke my heart.”
She said police let them go after about 30 minutes
“In that short amount of time, we not only determined that no crime occurred, we explicitly told Safeway employees as such. None of the people Safeway identified in their call to us nor in their subsequent interview with us committed any crime whatsoever,” Nelson said.
“We were very appreciative of the way the family allowed our officers to wrap up the call, and we apologized for inconveniencing their evening,” she said.
After one of Martin’s sisters, Faith Martin-Ware, posted a video of the July 8 incident on Facebook, news outlets began picking up on the story.
Martin said she and her sisters had shopped at that store three or four times a week but are not comfortable going back there now.
“We were there to do a good deed and we left feeling humiliated, embarrassed, hurt and shocked,” she said.
Safeway spokeswoman Wendy Gutshall said in a statement that employees called police because a man suspected of shoplifting there in the past was in the store.
“Safeway has reached out to Ms. Martin to sincerely apologize for the misunderstanding, and we look forward to continuing the discussion regarding her concerns. We have also commenced an internal investigation, which remains ongoing,” she said.
Martin said that a store manager has apologized for what happened and she is scheduled to speak with someone with the Safeway corporate office on Wednesday.
Gutshall said that Safeway held store-wide employee meetings earlier this year to reiterate their policies against racial discrimination and racial profiling of customers, and plan to roll out training on implicit bias later this year.
Dad ran over son twice in driveway while texting
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Police in west Georgia say a father was texting when he ran over his toddler son twice in his driveway.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports 24-year-old Trenton Cook is charged with second-degree homicide by vehicle and failing to exercise due care, both misdemeanors.
Columbus police Officer Chad Daugherty testified during Cook’s preliminary hearing Tuesday. He said Cook waited until his girlfriend’s children went inside to pull into his driveway May 8. He felt a bump, and then another while reversing. He discovered he’d run over 22-month-old Zakai A. Cook, who later died.
Daugherty says cellphone data shows Cook sent a text while pulling in. Police found no evidence of intent, and public defender Lindsey Brown called it an accident.
The judge agreed and set Cook’s bail at $2,800.
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