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Kanye West Says He’s Running for President in 2024, Along With an Unlikely Competitor
Kanye West, the husband of Kim Kardashian West and a highly-successful rapper, has a knack for grabbing headlines whether that’s from his outlandish behavior or his decision to wear a MAGA hat, a nod to support for President Donald Trump. Just recently, the musical artist considered changing his name to Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West, citing a religious awakening that has been reflected in the newest music he’s released, if that’s any indication of the volatility he’s capable of. So, given his seemingly impulsive behavior, many are wondering if he still plans on running for president in 2024 after be claimed he would several years ago. If so, he might have some unlikely competition.
West first announced that he would be running for president in 2024 during an interview he had with Vanity Fair. And for the rapper, he was being completely serious. “I didn’t approach that because I thought it would be fun… No, the exact opposite,” he said. “I sit in clubs and I’m like, wow, I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do.”
The jury is still out on if West was able to do a ‘lot of growing up’ but the rapper did double down in an interview in November of 2019 stating, “When I run for president in 2024, we’re gonna definitely…” For West, though, no one in attendance took him seriously and laughter erupted throughout the room. He would go on to set the record straight for those who were doubting him, though.
West Double Downs on Statement to Run
After the laughter had subsided over Kanye’s comments about running for president in 2024, he became very solemn and serious, asking the crowd, “No, what y’all laughing at? Again, the audience burst out in laughter, as if West was filming a standup special and was simply going along with one of his jokes.
But remaining serious, the rapper looked the audience dead in the face and stated, “When I run for president in 2024, we would’ve created so many jobs that I’m not gonna run I’m gonna walk.” So, from the look for things, West is seriously going to run for president, come the 2024 election, at least as of now.
Akon Considering a 2024 Presidental Run Amid Philanthropy Efforts
If Kanye does, in fact, plan to run, which is very possible, he may have an unlikely competitor in fellow rapper, Akon, who has also said he is considering a run for the highest office in the country. This would likely be bad news for West as Akon has many of the experiences and qualities that seem to be absent from Kanye’s resume.
Specifically, Akon, who doesn’t do much rapping these days, has been heavily involved in multiple philanthropies over the years in Africa. He’s even developed his own cryptocurrency, called the AKoin, which can be used in various countries throughout Africa as a stable currency in the midst of the ever-changing regimes and governmental entities. Some people have stated that Akon has done more for Africa in one year’s time than charities have done in many years, altogether.
Akon’s Experience with Philanthropy and Business Development
Akon also got a chance to speak with Vanity Fair, and appropriately, was asked about running for president in 2024, given his past experiences with philanthropy, building businesses, and ultimately, living the American Dream.
The Soul Survivor artist responded in a way that is sure to attract some voters, should he pursue the presidential election in 2024. “I think if you’re going to run for office, you are serving. And I think that’s a little bit different from a job,” he said. “I’ve kind of experienced everything that a U.S citizen can experience – being an entrepreneur, understanding growth and building companies.”
“I can also say the same thing from a business level and then from a political standpoint. I’ve been, literally, advising presidents from everywhere. I mean, like over 15, you know, countries in Africa – all throughout the world.”
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Bill Cosby shows no remorse in first interview from prison: ‘It’s all a set up’
Bill Cosby is speaking out from prison.
Over a year after he was first incarcerated for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand, the disgraced actor and comedian — who is serving three to 10 years — has given his first interview. In it, the 82-year-old maintained his innocence from his Pennsylvania correctional institution, Phoenix, which is located outside Philadelphia, and, because of that, he expects to serve the entire sentence. Cosby also called his trial a “set up” and the jurors “imposters.”
“I have eight years and nine months left,” Cosby told National Newspaper Publishers Association’s BlackPressUSA.com, clearly not believing he will leave prison on the early side of his sentence. “When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don’t care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren’t there. They don’t know.”
Cosby, who is appealing his sentence, said his trial was “all a set up. That whole jury thing. They were imposters.”
Cosby referred to an incident after the jury was selected when an alternate juror claimed to have overheard a seated juror say that Cosby was guilty. While the issue was raised by Cosby’s legal team with the judge, that judge apparently found insufficient evidence of it because the juror remained.
“It’s something attorneys will tell you is called a payoff,” Cosby said.
He tied his sentence to racial injustice, saying, “I know what they’ve done to my people. But my people are going to view me and say, ‘That boy looks good. That boy is strong.’ I have too many heroes that I’ve sat with. Too many heroes whom I listened to like John Henrik Clarke, Kenneth Clark, and Dorothy Height. Those people are very strong, and they saw the rejection of their people. This is political. I can see the whole thing.” (He previously compared himself to political prisoners including Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.)
But Cosby — who is in general population with prisoners who serve as his helpers, due to his age and being legally blind — called himself a “privileged man in prison.” He also called his small cell his “penthouse.”
The interview took place over several phone calls and Cosby’s spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, on the line for each one. A Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson tells Yahoo Entertainment that “reporters are like any other visitor. They need to be on the inmate approved visitor list for an in-person visit, or they can do it via phone,” which is how Cosby’s interview was conducted.
Much of the interview centered on what Cosby says he’s doing to help his fellow black inmates while incarcerated. He said he frequently speaks at the prison reform program Mann Up’s meetings, which are meant to encourage and empower African American inmates. Of course, prior to his conviction Cosby was famously critical of the African-American community — and acknowledged that. He said he probably shouldn’t have given his infamous 2004 “Pound Cake speech,” in which he criticized poor blacks for not living up to the promise of the civil rights movement.
“They are under siege,” he said of African Americans. “This thing with the drugs and the different pockets of the neighborhoods where it’s going on. When you look at what drugs are doing … things that make these people drive around and shoot into crowds. The insanity of what is the cause to the brain by all the drugs these people are dealing with. It’s exactly what I warned them about in 2004. They’ve thrown education out the window. They’ve thrown respect for the family out the window, and they’re blaming each other for what’s going on. There is post-traumatic stress syndrome, and there are also bad manners.”
But Cosby said he’s helping his fellow inmates, some of whom went on the record for the interview.
“I’m not a psychiatrist, and I’m not a psychologist,” Cosby said. “I’m an educator, and what I look forward to is talking to this group of 400 or so men. Some of them here are in their 70s, in their 50s, their 40s, 30s, and 20s. I tell them what I know and what I feel. I feel that everything that I said in 2004, there is a light [behind it]. The mistake I made [in 2004] is making it sound like all the people were making the infractions, and that’s not true.”
One of the inmates talked about how Cosby enters the lectures “with his fist in the air and all of these men rise up and applaud him.”
Cosby seems to have a lot of pull on the inside. He also claimed he talked one of the inmates into calling off a hit.
“I heard a guy say to someone that if someone did something he didn’t like, he’d go out and get all his boys and they’d kill the fella,” Cosby recalled. “I said, how much sense does that make? You call your boys, and they want to kill him. I said to look at all the people you’ve got involved, and when you get caught, you are all going to jail, and you got one dead fella. ‘Call if off,’ I told the guy. I said to him that you need to call your friends, too.”
Cosby also used the interview as a platform to blame race, not his conviction or the accusations of sexual misconduct by 60 some women, for being behind his iconic show The Cosby Show being pulled from the air. He said it was a conspiracy to remove the positive representation of black characters.
“When The Cosby Show came on with the Huxtables, just think about it. While it was running, other networks and even the media were doing jobs on trying to belittle whatever it represented,” Cosby said.“They did not like what The Cosby Show looked like for us, and many of us traded into it. Now, look at what has happened. They’ve taken everything that I’ve done and swept it into a place where it would not be shown.”
In April 2018, Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, for drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University employee Constand in 2004. In September of that year, he was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison with the judge ruling that the TV star is a “sexually violent predator.” He was taken into custody immediately. In June, he appealed his conviction.
Article via Yahoo News
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Healthier diet may help lift depression symptoms
(Reuters Health) – Young adults who eat poorly and feel blue might be able to perk themselves up by switching to a healthier diet, a small study suggests.
In a randomized trial, men and women aged 17-35 in Australia who switched to a healthier diet had fewer depression symptoms after three weeks. And those who kept up the healthy eating for three months continued to feel better than at the start, researchers report in the journal PLoS ONE.
“This has 100% reach (since everybody needs to eat), is more cost effective than medications, and is an aspect of treatment that individuals can control themselves,” said lead study author Heather Francis of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
“This raises the possibility that making changes to diet can act as a therapy to improve depression symptoms,” she told Reuters Health by email.
Francis and colleagues studied 76 people who scored high on two depression and anxiety scales – indicating moderate or high depression symptoms – and who also scored high on a questionnaire about dietary fat and sugar consumption.
Participants were randomly assigned to a diet-change group or a habitual-diet group for three weeks. The diet-change group received instructions from a registered dietician through a 13-minute video, which they could re-watch as needed. The video provided dietary guidance based on the 2003 Australian Guide to Healthy Eating as well as the Mediterranean Diet eating pattern. This included instructions to increase intake of vegetables to five servings per day, fruits to two or three servings per day, whole grains to three servings per day, lean protein to three servings per day, unsweetened dairy to three servings per day and fish to three servings per week.
The program also recommended daily consumption of three tablespoons of nuts and seeds, two tablespoons of olive oil, and one teaspoon each of turmeric and cinnamon. Participants were also told to decrease refined carbohydrates, sugars, fatty or processed meats and soft drinks.
The diet-change group also received sample meal plans and recipes, as well as a box of food items, including olive oil, natural nut butter, walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon and turmeric. They were told to keep their shopping receipts to be reimbursed with a $60 gift card.
After three weeks, average depression scores had dropped into the normal range in the diet-change group, while remaining elevated or severe in the habitual-diet group – and the improvements were maintained three months later, the research team reports.
“Depression is a whole-body disorder, not just a disorder of the brain,” Francis said. “Depression is associated with a chronic inflammatory response, but what is the source of this inflammation? (Earlier research has shown) that poor diet both increases systemic inflammation and is also a risk factor for depression.”
Still, researchers should be careful about suggesting cause-and-effect relationships in studies like these, said Marc Molendijk of Leiden University in The Netherlands, who wasn’t involved in the research.
Molendijk, who studies dietary habits and mental health and also serves on the PLoS ONE editorial board, cautioned against giving the results too much weight.
“There probably are expectancy effects at play, leading to a placebo effect,” he said by email. “It’s also a bad message to depressed people, as they may attribute the responsibility for their depression to themselves.”
On the other hand, noted Joseph Firth of the University of Manchester in the UK, “the age-old saying, ‘Healthy body, healthy mind’ really is true.”
Firth, who also wasn’t involved in the study, told Reuters Health by email, “No secret formula or complicated diets are required. Even simple positive behaviors such as eating healthier and being more active have notable benefits.”
Article via YahooNews
‘Little Mermaid’ star Halle Bailey addresses racist casting backlash: ‘I don’t pay attention to the negativity’
Halle Bailey, who was cast at Ariel in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, is looking for positive vibes only.
Asked about the casting backlash after it was announced she nabbed the film role — racist trolls made comments about a black actress playing Ariel, a character that was white in Disney’s animated version — Bailey, 19, told Variety she blocking out any hate.
“I feel like I’m dreaming and I’m just grateful and I don’t pay attention to the negativity,” she replied. “I just feel like this role is something bigger than me — greater — and it’s going to be beautiful. I’m just so excited to be a part of it.”
At the same event, she told Entertainment Tonight that landing the role “means so much” to her. “Ariel was one of my favorite princesses growing up so it’s a dream come true. I’m very excited and happy.”
Her classy response to the backlash was applauded on social media, where she was reminded that she has “more support than … haters.”
Bailey has had support throughout the outcry. Jodi Benson, the original actress who voiced Ariel in the 1989 animated film, said, “I think the most important thing is to tell the story. We have, as a family, raised our children and for ourselves that we don’t see anything that’s different on the outside. I think that the spirit of a character is what really matters … And no matter what we look like on the outside, no matter our race, our nation, the color of our skin, our dialect, whether I’m tall or thin, whether I’m overweight or underweight, or my hair is whatever color, we really need to tell the story.”
Sierra Boggess, who originated the role of Ariel in the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid, also came to the singer’s defense.
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Next up is finding out who Bailey’s co-stars in the film will be. ET asked who she thought should play Prince Eric — Harry Styles was reported “in talks” for the role — and Bailey replied, “I think that anyone would be great for it.”
She also addressed fans campaigning for Idris Elba to play Ariel’s father, King Triton. “I mean he’s awesome,” was her reply.
This week, Melissa McCarthy hinted she will be Ursula.
Before this film musical even hits screens, there will be more Mermaid coming. ABC announced The Little Mermaid Live — a live stage version based on the Broadway musical adaptation — will air on the TV network Nov. 5. It is also more representative ethically with Auli’I Cravalho as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula and Shaggy as Sebastian.
Article via Yahoo News
Another ‘Black-ish’ Spin-Off Could Be Coming To TV
Article via Essence
Get ready Black-ish fans. It looks like we’re going to go deeper into the world of one of its most popular characters on the show, Rainbow Johnson.
According to Deadline, ABC is thinking about producing a Black-ish prequel, which would focus on Rainbow’s (currently played by Tracee Ellis Ross) life. An upcoming episode will give fans a peek at Bow’s early life in the 1980s/1990s, and it could serve as a backdoor pilot to the new series.
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So far, Black-ish has already spawned one spin-off: the popular Freeform comedy, Grown-ish. The show, which follows Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi) as she navigates her way through the ups and downs of college life, is a hit with fans, and was just renewed for a third season.
If a Black-ish prequel happens at ABC, Deadline speculates the show’s creator, Kenya Barris would likely be an executive producer, but he wouldn’t be involved in daily operations.
Last year, Barris left ABC to move over to Netflix where he’s been tapped to create even more “unapologetic” narratives.
Disney theme parks confirm long-running urban legend is true
Some people enjoy Disney World and Disneyland so much that they never leave.
Despite years of denials from the House of Mouse, an urban legend has been confirmed: Human ashes are regularly scattered at the theme parks.
Loved ones of the recently deceased are known to place the remains on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, the Dumbo ride, near Cinderella’s castle — pretty much everywhere, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. It happens about once a month, often enough that custodians know to call for a “HEPA cleanup” with a special vacuum cleaner when it does.
The most popular place for people to spread ashes? “The Haunted Mansion probably has so much human ashes in it that it’s not even funny,” an unnamed custodian told the newspaper.
One employee said she and her co-workers got in trouble for referring to such incidents as “Code Grandma.”
For guests, there are consequences for getting caught.
“This type of behaviour is strictly prohibited and unlawful,” a company spokeswoman told the Journal. “Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off property.”
The act of spreading ashes without permission is a misdemeanour, according to a spokesman for the Anaheim (California) Police Department.
But there are plenty of people willing to take the risk, if it means their beloved friend or family member can spend eternity with Mickey Mouse and pals. They just hide the ashes in Ziploc bags or pill bottles when they come to the park.
Jodie Jackson Wells went with the latter in 2009 when she brought her mom’s ashes to Disney World, where she sprinkled them on the It’s a Small World ride and in front of Cinderella’s Castle.
“Anyone who knew my mom knew Disney was her happy place,” Wells told the Journal.
When people like Wells do get caught, theme park employees reportedly shut the ride down for “technical difficulties” until any visible ashes are removed.
So that’s what they’re doing…
Article via Yahoo News
Bar accused of glamorizing violence against women after serving cocktail with ‘disturbing’ name
A bar in Sydney has come under fire for promoting a cocktail on their menu that seems to glamorize domestic violence.
Customers of Little Jack Horner have called out the establishment for a drink named “To-Kill-Her” —apparently a play on the pronunciation of tequila, the main ingredient in the cocktail, in addition to orange, lemon, grapefruit bitters, and Cointreau.
The name of the drink was offensive to many. (Photos: HBO/Little Jack Horner)
Many expressed their outrage on the bar’s Facebook page, calling the name of the drink “grossly irresponsible” and “incredibly offensive.”
“The ‘To Kill Her’ cocktail name is neither funny nor clever,” one person wrote. “It is a grossly irresponsible act to have it appear on your menu.”
Photo: Facebook via Little Jack Horner
“Domestic violence and femicide is a real issue, pairing that issue with alcohol is beyond disgusting,” another commenter wrote.
Many others echoed similar sentiments.
One person suggested the bar name the cocktail “after thrilling women rather than killing them.” Another customer said that a manager had assured some customers the name would be switched to something more acceptable but still has not delivered on that promise.
Photo: Facebook via Little Jack Horner
When Yahoo Lifestyle contacted the bar about the outrage, the manager said the name of the cocktail had been changed to “To-Love-Her.”
Article via Yahoo News
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