Albert Evans, a former New York City Ballet principal dancer and one of the most prominent African Americans in classical dance, has died at the age of 46.
We here at World News Today send our condolences to the family of Albert Evans.
Evans died at Mount Sinai, Monday night following a bout with an illness.
Evans was one of the only two African-American dancers in the New York City Ballet. The first dancer was Arthur Mitchell.
As a principal dancer, Evans maintained a huge variety of roles in the Ballet repertoire.
From classical to modern, from George Blaanchie to Jerome Robbins to Christopher Wheeldon, Evans had rose through the ranks. He joined the New York Ballet in 1988.
He became a soloist in 1991 and then a principal in 1995.
New York City Ballet Company lost a great iconic figure in classical dance.
Evans retired in 2010 with an emotional farewell performance, and has been serving as a ballet master for the company until his passing.
There's an outpouring of grief for the lost of a legendary dancer.
"The entire New York City Ballet family is heartbroken by the loss of our beloved friend and college Albert Evans," said Peter Martins, the company's ballet master and chief. released in a statement.
"Kind, warm, generous, and always a joy to be with, Albert is quite simply irreplaceable".
Miles Morales looked up to Peter Parker as a hero. Now he takes on the role as Spider-Man, the world's greatest superhero.
Marvel Productions, a division of Disney Entertainment, Inc has revamped the image of America's favorite wall crawler. The images that are displayed may shake up a timed tradition of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's famous superhero.
Peter Parker is the Spectacular Spider-Man. He was introduced in 1969 and became a face of New York and comic book legend.
Peter Parker became an unlikely superhero after being bitten by a radioactive spider. He wanted to be professional wrestler. So in order to make a little bit of money, he would create this image and call it Spider-Man. After winning a title, he was stiffed of payments by a crooked promoter.
A man robbed the promoter and Parker didn't want no part of it. It was discovered later that his uncle and mentor Ben Parker was murdered by the robber. Parker as Spider-Man went to the area to where the robber was held up.
Peter Parker with Miles Morales.
Spider-Man decided to handle business. He would corner the robber. The robber would tried to shot at the wall crawler but Spider-Man's reactionary powers prevented it.
Spider-Man wanted to murder the robber but had second thoughts on it. He remembered his uncle's words of wisdom. "With great power comes great responsibility!"
Spider-Man would become a crime-fighter. He would take on an paid internship with a newspaper called The Daily Bugle. While he worked at the Bugle, he would attend Empire State University and learn how to master his powers.
Peter Parker would find love, empathy, anger, and death. He would meet his first love Gwen Stacy.
He would learn of her death. He would marry Mary Jane Watson. He would have a family.
During his time, he would take on his greatest foes from The Green Goblin to Doctor Octopus. From the Sandman to Venom, Spider-Man fought them all.
In a series that is slated to premiere in the fall, Peter Parker would die.
And his death sparked a young teen to take the mantle.
Now the torch is passed on to Miles Morales.
Cue the conservative outrage. The new Spider-Man will be released in the fall. It will feature a biracial teen (Black and Hispanic decent) who becomes the wall crawling superhero.
The concept of a black Spider-Man was first discussed a few months before the 2008 election.
When Barack Obama became the President of the United States, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonso describes the catalyst. Miles was introduced in 2011. He is the son of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother,
Spidey meets Spidey. Peter Parker travels the multiverse to find allies in the Secret Wars. He stumbles upon 13-year old Miles Morales. Morales tells Spider-Man about his future and how he wanted to continue the legacy.
This new Spider-Man was considered a possible part of the 2008-09 "Ultimatum" story arc that restructured much of the Ultimate Marvel universe, but those early thoughts were abandoned because the story for that character had not yet been developed.
Bendis said thoughts about the character were further reinforced by African American actor Donald Glover's appearance wearing Spider-Man pajamas in "Anthropology 101", the second season premiere of the television comedy series Community. This was a reference to an unsuccessful online campaign that attempted to secure an audition for the lead role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man. Bendis said of Glover, "I saw him in the costume and thought, 'I would like to read that book.' So I was glad I was writing that book."
Okay, comic book fans, what are you thoughts on Miles Morales being the new Spider-Man?
Sean "Puffy" Combs got into a fight with a UCLA coach after he taunts his son Justin. His son, Justin attends the college.
Sean "Puffy" Combs aka Diddy has spent the night in Los Angeles County Lockup after he got into a smack down with a coach at UCLA.
The famed media mogul who founded Bad Boy Records, Revolt and Sean John Clothing company is going to face a judge in the coming days.
His son Justin plays for the UCLA football team and I guess Diddy didn't appreciate the coach's treatment of his son.
A representative for Combs' company said the media mogul was defending himself in the fight.
"The various accounts of the event and charges that are being reported are wholly inaccurate," Nathalie Moar, a rep for Combs Enterprises, said in a statement to The Associated Press. "What we can say now is that any actions taken by Mr. Combs were solely defensive in nature to protect himself and his son."
Diddy Rock.
Jail records showed that Combs was released after posting bail. The records showed that Combs' bail was $160,000, but sheriff's officials reached by phone said he posted $50,000. The reason for the discrepancy wasn't clear.
According to TMZ, which first reported the arrest, UCLA strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi was screaming at Justin as Combs watched from the sidelines. Combs allegedly confronted the coach in his office and was then arrested for assault.
UCLA Football coach Jim Mora later issued a statement saying, "I'm thankful that our staff showed the level of professionalism that they did in handling this situation. This is an unfortunate incident for all parties involved. While UCPD continues to review this matter, we will let the legal process run its course and refrain from further comment at this time."
Alosi gained a measure of infamy in football circles while a strength and conditioning coach for the New York Jets. During a December 2010 game against the Miami Dolphins, Alosi was caught tripping Nolan Carroll as the player ran down the field covering a punt. Alosi was suspended and fined as a result of the incident and resigned the following month. He has been the strength and conditioning coach at UCLA since 2012.
Don't make Diddy mad. He might lay you out!
Justin Combs is a redshirt junior defensive back on the UCLA football team, which has been working out on campus. He has played in just a handful of games in his three years with the team.
The son of another major rap star also plays football for the Bruins. Snoop Dogg's son Cordell Broadus is a wide receiver who signed with the team this year.
The arrest is the latest in a series of allegations against Combs. He was acquitted of bribery and weapons-related charges in connection with a 1999 shooting at a New York nightclub. A jury cleared Combs of firing a weapon during the dispute that wounded three bystanders, as well as bribing his chauffeur to take the rap.
Combs was arrested in 1999 for his involvement in the beating of former Interscope executive Steve Stoute in New York. Combs apologized, the charges were reduced, and he was ordered to attend an anger management class.
Combs is the father of six. He resides in New Jersey.
Bad Boy Records and Revolt are subsidiaries of Interscope and Universal Music Group.
The label features include Diddy, Machine Gun Kelly (aka MGK), French Montana and Cassie.
In the wake of a high profile mass shooting in South Carolina, some woman in Texas decided to make some political hay winds.
Thanks to Addicting Info, The Daily Dot and RacistGetFired for the tip.
Ashley Casey Martin claimed that she got jacked up by three assailants of the African decent. She and her daughter were shopping in a Texas Walmart and these disgusting criminals ruined it. Stop the press, here comes that asshat Colin Flaherty.
I bet that clown is running to the junk food media with his "gotcha" movement.
Not so fast, Colin. You've been stopped at the gate.
The junk food media outed your latest victim of "racial violence" and she may have concocted the injuries.
Martin who resides in Texarkana posted on social media that she got jacked up after she got into a confrontation with Black shoppers at a Walmart. According to her, they were cussing up a storm.
She told them to clam up. They got pissed. They gave the woman in a five finger knuckle sandwich.
This extremist may have inspired Charleston terrorist.
“Just got jumped by 3 African Americans ourside (sic) of the as Walmart they are in a white ford 150 extended cab. Arkansas tags. They hit me inside Walmart and were cussing. I was very polite and asked them to lower their voices and the cuss words in front of my 3 year old daughter and this is the outcome. What has the world come to…”
The Daily Dot was first to break this story. They got in contact with the Texarkana police and Walmart to see if any criminal charges were filed against the assailants.
They spoke with a security worker who said no incidents had been reported there within the past week.
The Daily Dot also showed the photos to Texarkana Police Department public information officer Mike Jones, who responded with an emailed statement.
Ashley's response to critics who say she faked her injuries.
“I’ve talked to our detective Sergeant. He has reviewed all of the reports from the weekend and there is no report of this incident,” wrote Jones. “There is also no report in our system from a person with the poster’s name. We are confident is stating that this incident, if it did occur, has not been reported to this department.”
So in other words, did this bitch lie about being attacked by Black men?
A defiant Martin said this clearly:
“Here is your police report. Sorry I got jumped by three African American young men. I have 2 black eyes and nose still is bleeding, and somehow I am in the wrong. Enough for people to say it was makeup, how embarassing and very rude quite frankly. I don’t want you pitty (sic) attention anything. I’m just warning there are dangerous people in Texarkana be careful. They did this to me for no reason in front of my 3 year old. At Texas side Walmart.”
She eventually scrubbed every freaking social media site she has her name attached too.
Ashley, look in the mirror, I think you may seen the danger! It's you!
Some interesting facts.
Texarkana is basically two cities that border Texas and Arkansas. The main road State Line Avenue divides the cities. The federal court building and post office sits on the state line. Texarkana is the midpoint towards the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and Little Rock through Interstate 30. Once completed Interstate 49 will continue through rural Arkansas and Texas. Portions of the interstate highway are segmented through Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri. It will eventually connect from Kansas City to New Orleans. Future Interstate 69 will travel south of the cities and connect from Mexico to Canada.
Note: Walmart has pulled all items related to the Confederate flag from all stores in the United States.
Republican governor Nikki Haley holds a press conference in Columbia. She is under pressure to have the Confederate flag removed from the state capitol grounds. Joining her in the conference includes Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC).
South Carolina Republican lawmakers Trey Gowdy, Joe Wilson, Jeff Duncan, Tom Rice and Mick Mulvaney are ignorant lawmakers. They act like it's business as usual. They would not join in solidarity with their fellow Republicans in denouncing the Confederate Flag.
Republican governor Nikki Haley, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) call for the removal of the Confederate flag around the state capitol grounds.
Haley, Scott and Graham bowed to pressure. They were harshly criticized for embracing it. Haley in a press conference with Scott, Sanford, Clyburn and Graham called for state lawmakers to take down that flag.
Graham is one of the many clowns in the race for the red nose.
“The events of the past week call on us to look at this in a different way,” Haley said, adding that now is the time “to remove the flag from the capitol grounds.”
The Confederate flag sways in the wind.
Former GOP presidential nominee and perennial loser Mitt Romney recently endorsed removing the flag. Haley endorsed Romney in the 2012 election.
Haley, the first female governor. She is an Indian-American who grew up on diversity. She is the youngest governor in the United States. Some want her to become a veep nominee.
Of course, many lawmakers in the state house are probably cold feet on this. However the pressure is mounting and South Carolinians are calling for change.
President Barack Obama informed Haley that he will be there for the eulogy of Clementa Pickney, the pastor of Mother Emmanuel AME Church. Pickney is a Democratic state lawmaker. He along with eight others were gunned down by a White terrorist.
President Barack Obama heads to the home of Marc Maron to do a podcast. He talks about gun control, the shooting in Charleston and America still dealing with racial issues. Conservatives are attacking him for uttering the N-word.
P.S., Barack Obama is a Black man.
Finally he acknowledges that racism is alive and well.
It's not over until we actually talk about these issues and make everyone understand that we're human beings first. Crime doesn't discriminate. Everyone has a form of bigotry in their views of issues. Hate speech is as American as apple pie.
Conservative outrage over the president appearing on the Marc Maron WTF podcast in which he utters NIGGER to the host. The president was discussing the historical history of Black America.
Here's what Mediaite picked up on during the podcast.
“It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly during my lifetime and yours, and that opportunities have opened up, and that attitudes have changed,” the president told comedian and host Marc Maron. “That is a fact.”
“What is also true is the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on,” Obama continued. “We’re not cured of it.”
The biggest concern troll to ever exist in the media along with his Black friends. Two of them Deneen Borelli and Kevin Jackson have appeared on that annoying conservative agitator's program over the last few weeks to discuss racial issues.
“And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘nigger’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination,” he said.
So he says NIGGER in the podcast. He boldly says the racial slur towards a White guy. Cue the outrage meter by the racist right.
Okay, folks, no fire here. Let's move along. The president is Black.
Think what some of our friends on the right really think of him when the cameras aren't rolling and the microphones are off.
I am betting they're dying to call him a NIGGER to his face. Obviously, the racist right would rather troll behind the bandwidth to call him and First Lady Michelle Obama everything racially insensitive.
Racial progress hasn't changed in America. Even though we have the first Black president, interacial births overpass White (non-Hispnaic) births, and younger minds are adjusting to diversity, some of our friends are still stuck in the past.
The past is the ones who believe the president doesn't care about Black America. Or when he does, he's only focused on Black America. According to them, he's anti-whatever.
The Bonnie and Clyde of Black Extremism. Kevin Jackson and Deneen Borelli. Two Black conservatives who ignore their supposedly conservative friends uttering NIGGER to their faces.
Concern trolls would post to our blog about criminal acts committed by Black people against White people. They would find a story that isn't even racist and then they would it into a racial issue.
Concern trolls see crime through a racial lens. They don't see crime as an illegal act created by a person who wants to inflict some harm upon an individual or property.
The president is pissed. He's absolutely pissed that Congress failed to pass a reasonable gun control law. Since the Sandy Hook massacre, there's been numerous mass shootings in America.
The president doesn't regret saying NIGGER in the podcast. Matter of fact, he may have finally acknowledge the concerns that he's not Black enough.
Looks like the network who may have inspired that racist nut to kill nine people in a church has to pull out the deck its two favorite Black people when it comes to criticizing the president.
Enter Deneen Borelli and Kevin Jackson. The Bonnie and Clyde of Black Conservative Extremism.
I swear whenever there's a racial controversy, count on these Black concern trolls to pour more gasoline on an already burning fire.
Jesse Lee Peterson is the only Black guy in America to believe that Blacks America lacks morals. He actually believes that Blacks are crying racism. Peterson probably would go after Deneen Borelli and Kevin Jackson for not being conservative enough.
Kevin Jackson the founder of the Blacksphere has been on a lot of conservative agitator programs.
This clown is supposedly devoted to ending identity politics. He can't fathom the president saying such utterly angry words about his country. Unaware that the president faces daily racial attacks from his so called conservative buddies.
I haven't heard from Jackson on this controversy, but I know Borelli went into this.
I want you to understand that Deneen Borelli is a paid agitator. The very ones who claim that DeRay McKesson is a paid agitator allow this crazy ass Black woman to rant. This horrible Black woman had the audacity to call the president the "rapper-in-chief".
“He has really dragged in the gutter-speak of rap music,” Borelli said. “So now he’s the first President of rap, of street? I mean, come on, he has lowered the stature of the high office of the president of the United States.” Borelli, who herself is African-American, went to accuse Obama of using the “insane, crazy comment” as a “grand distraction to take away from the people uniting.”
Is there a problem here?
“The president-in-chief, the rapper-in-chief now, is now further dividing our country,” Borelli continued. “I find it outrageous.”
I forgot about our favorite Black extremist Jesse Lee Peterson. This nut is saying that the shooter's motives weren't about race. He believes that Blacks are overblown in their outrage. He actually believes White fears towards Black folks are legitimate.
"White Americans, speak up. Do not let anger stay inside of you.'Racism' and 'hate crimes' are used with a double standard against whites to intimidate and provoke whites and blacks to fear, anger, and division."
And yet, Barack Obama is the one who gets called out for outrageous statements.
Here's the podcast of Marc Maron.
Jesse Lee Peterson doing his "I'm a dummy" trick.
Deneen Boreli on that network that may have inspired that White terrorist to kill nine innocent people worshiping at a church.
When injustices in America end, I will go home...!
He gained fame by being an active protester in Ferguson. He's appeared in many high profile events in which law enforcement has used deadly force on unarmed suspects. He has appeared in areas where the not-so-subtle racism exist.
And now, DeRay McKesson has went to Charleston, South Carolina to protest the injustices.
Conservatives are pissed. So they went to the social media to create the #GoHomeDeray hashtag.
This hashtag became one of the most talked about on Twitter. Many conservatives have taken to Twitter to denounce McKesson, Rev. Perm and President Barack Obama. They believe that they "rush to judgement" when it came to the mass shooting at Mother Emmanuel AME Church.
The racist right believes that Dylann Roof's racial hatred towards Blacks wasn't a factor. But it's his mental illness, his drug use and his social ills. They believe that racism wasn't a factor to it. They believe its an attack on Christian beliefs.
Nine lives were lost when a White terrorist shot up a church. His social media unearth a trove of hatred. He shows pride in the Confederate flag and talked about the issues. He believes that Blacks are raping White women, causing havoc and taking over government. Rhetoric you may hear from agitators on talk radio, cable news and the blogs.
McKesson comes to Charleston to show solidarity with the victims. But to the racist right, he's there to start trouble. According to the social media trolls, the people of Charleston doesn't want him or Obama there.
Cue the irony. This is discussed by liberals and conservatives alike. Notice that McKesson did acknowledge this. He brushed off the criticism and told the junk food media that it's a part of a systematic strategy to shut down dissent.
DeRay took to Twitter and responded back to his critics.
