Bill O'Reilly is totally clueless when it comes to Black America. Obviously, O'Reilly doesn't understand the plight of Black America. He actually believes that Black unemployment is contributed to tattoos on foreheads.
O'Reilly had an interview with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. O'Reilly said that in a previous interview Tavis Smiley, the liberal agitator called Trump a "racial arsonist". Trump relentlessly brings up the Black unemployment rate under President Barack Obama. Like a blowhard, Trump promises to win the Black vote in huge margins. He says that Obama's policies were a disaster and whatever word vomit he concocted.
O'Reilly went ahead and gave his opinion about the unemployment in the Black community.
I guess he didn't have ass tatted on his head.
"Many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and I hate to be generalized about it — but it’s true. If you look at all the educational statistics, how are you going to give jobs to people who aren’t qualified for jobs?"
That comment right there lit a shit storm of anger from the Black community. O'Reilly's latest remark goes into a long and quite frequent record of racially agitating issues that plague him and that network.
To make such utter generalizations of a group you have no connection to is basically one of the reasons to why many in the Black community believe that O'Reilly is a dick. More of a racist dick.
Larry Wilmore wanted to give O'Reilly a shout out! Larry wanted to show some love to Bill and his distaste for ill-educated Blacks with tattoos on their foreheads.
Urban radio will never be the same knowing that legendary radio host Doug Banks passed away today.
He hosted The Doug Banks Radio Show on many affiliates. Born in Philadelphia, Doug hosted radio shows in many markets but got his big break in the late 1990s when he joined V103 to do his show nationally. From 2-6pm (Central), Doug, George Willborn and Dee Dee Renee would give the take on the latest things going on in hip-hop and R&B.
His previous co-hosts A.J. Parker and Dee Dee McGuire all sent their condolences to their friend and mentor.
Doug Banks, Dee Dee Renee and George Willborn the producer.
Doug was diagnosed with diabetes.
American Urban Radio Networks released a statement saying that the world has lost a legend. They said that Doug Banks was on a hot streak when illness took him away from this earth.
"We were all deeply saddened to hear the news of Doug’s passing. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, his wife Wendy and his daughters Kennede and Kelli. Radio has lost a true legend", said president of AURN, Jerry Lopes.
Many in the radio community also reign in their thoughts to the beloved radio host.
Born in Philadelphia, Banks hosted radio shows at stations in L.A., San Francisco, Las Vegas, Detroit and finally V103, his website says, before signing on to do a nationally syndicated show. His show airs on V103 from 2-6 p.m. on weekdays.
Banks began his broadcasting career on his high school's radio station in Detroit, Michigan. He then moved on to the big time in Motor City radio. Leaving Detroit, Doug became a hit on stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Doug Banks. He will truly be missed on radio and online.
The media mogul's latest endeavor: Opening up a charter school.
Sean "Puffy" Combs, known as Puff Daddy/Diddy told the junk food media that he's going bring Hartford's Capital Prep Charter School to Harlem. He wants to turn an abandoned building in Harlem into a school for social justice. The school will cater to high school students from 6th grade to 12th grade.
Combs is co-founding the school with Steve Perry, a recognized name in education reform who has sparred with union leaders and made TV appearances such as on CNN's "Black in America." Perry founded a public magnet campus in Hartford, Conn., in 2005, and a charter in Bridgeport, Conn., founded in 2015. Charter schools are publicly funded and can be privately operated.
Combs provided office space and staff in New York to launch the school, Perry said. Initially, those staffers canvassed the neighborhood for support. Perry said he hasn't asked Combs to donate his money to the school, and the musician's day-to-day involvement is still to be determined.
Teachers are called illuminators because they're more than just instructors, said Capital Prep Harlem Principal Danita Jones.
He's accepting students this session.
This is the media mogul's first attempt at opening up an institution for disadvantaged youth.
Combs is the founder of Bad Boy Entertainment. Through the 1990s and 2000s the label was credited to the success of Notorious B.I.G., 112, Total, Faith Evans, Mase, The Lox, Craig Mack and Black Rob.
Bad Boy's latest acts include Cassie, Machine Gun Kelly, and French Montana.
The junk food media is returned back to Brentwood, Los Angeles for the speculation.
A man turned over a knife to the Los Angeles Police Department. That knife was located on the old property of a former football star who was acquitted of murder.
Many believe that the knife could be the murder weapon used in the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The development conjured up a cast of characters from the trial that gripped the nation's attention in the mid-1990s: Remember the televised slow-speed chase of O.J. Simpson in the white Bronco? His all-star legal team? The glove that did not fit? Judge Lance Ito?
And who can forget the ongoing crusade of Goldman's outraged family against Simpson, who is now imprisoned in Nevada for armed robbery and kidnapping in a separate case.
Emotions still burn fiercely about the case and its underlying issues that sound remarkably familiar today: race, justice and policing in America.
The O.J. Simpson murder trial was one of the biggest tabloid courtroom drama in American history.
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death and the murder weapon was never found.
Simpson, a former NFL football player/actor/media mogul who was accused of murdering his estranged wife and her friend.
Simpson was found not guilty in the murder of Nicole and Ron. That case divided among racial and political lines. Many in the Black community at the time believe that O.J. was being railroaded by a White jury.
Whites believed that O.J. used his fame and his high profile attorneys to buy his way out of murder.
Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, Alan Dershowitz, Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey became household names. Kardashian's celebrity gave way to his ex-wife Kris. Of course the Kardashian name comes well with the main act Kim Kardashian-West. It also gave celebrity to sisters Khloe, Courtney, brother Rob and their half sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
Also making false statements about a rape does make it harder for actual rape victims to report their cases.
This is an example of how many in the junk food media questions the motives of rape victims. They always expect a victim to have "proof" of an actual sexual assault. Doubters always shame the victims of rape.
Also the falsely accused are often ridiculed and shamed by the junk food media. Even if they're cleared of a crime, the public perception still exist.
The falsely accused will have a difficult path ahead when it comes to relationships, jobs and a social life.
Well that's interesting. Back in January, I posted that there was a horrific gang rape in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York The suspects were five Black teens. It was alleged that these teens gang raped the victim at a playground. The victim reported it to the NYPD and it lead to their arrests.
Well it turns out that the teens were cleared of this criminal act. Now they're trying to clear their names in the junk food media. They fear that the damage is done and they can never have a normal life. They will always be looked as rapists even though they didn't commit the act.
After a thorough investigation, cops and Brooklyn prosecutors announced Wednesday that the accuser recanted her story. There was no gun. She was having sex with her father in the playground. She had sex with an undetermined number of the teens. Sources said it was consensual.
“The complainant, as well as her father, provided multiple inconsistent accounts to NYPD detectives and to experienced special victims prosecutors about important material facts in the case,” Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said.
I am wondering if Colin Flaherty will do a retraction or The Drudge Report will actually report that the victim made up the whole thing.
If the victim turns out to be a Black woman, will they blame President Barack Obama, Al Sharpton or #BlackLivesMatter?
If it wasn't for Van Jones of CNN, I would have not noticed it. During the coverage of Super Tuesday, Van Jones got into a heated debate with White extremist Jeffrey Lord over Donald Trump's dog whistle to White extremists.
Jones was telling Lord that these teens were wrongly accused of a gang rape and no one made a mention about it. He said that Trump promoted that story and it brought David Duke into the picture.
It's unfortunate that the junk food media continues to stand firm in letting this story stay out of the mainstream. Conservatives already assume guilt before innocence. Even before the name of the suspect is released, they concluded the suspect is a Barack Obama, liberal, #BlackLivesMatter racist.
They are so devoted to making Black on Whatever crime a topic for the election.
One of the accused is now fearing for his safety. People around his neighborhood believe the story and they've stuck to it like glue.
Ethan Philip was one of the five accused of the gang rape. He can't even get a job because of the accusations being hurled at him.
Ethan who plays the piano and aspires to be a professional musician, the damage was done.
“Yesterday I went to the rec center and a girl said, 'There goes the rapist,’” he told New York Daily News.
"People are looking at me like I did something wrong," Ethan said. "They (the police) only put my name out there (not the woman and her father), that's not fair. I don't see how I can overcome this."
Ethan was a star on the basketball team at Brownsville Collegiate Charter School, but after his arrest, his mom and the school agreed that he would stay away from Brownsville Collegiate for an unspecified period of time.
Ethan Philips and Shaquell Cooper were falsely accused of rape. They were photographed and put in junk food media publications. The New York Post posted their names and school to the public.
Police released the names of the suspects and surveillance video of the teens at a neighborhood grocery store was released to the media.
"This case is similar to the Central Park Five because these kids were convicted in the court of public opinion without a trial," said Ethan's lawyer Amy Rameau.
"The police jumped the gun and everyone followed," Rameau said. "The girl and her father should be prosecuted for having incestuous sexual relations in public, for making false statements, and wasting city resources."
A law enforcement source told The News that the accuser's account changed repeatedly during the course of the investigation.
"It’s impossible to know what really happened," the source said, adding that she initially said all five raped her.
Later she repeated her account without specifically identifying Ethan as one of the suspects who attacked her. He provided a limited account of the playground incident to The News and declined to discuss the actions of the other teens at his lawyer's insistence.
Ethan says that during the time he was being questioned by special victims detectives, they falsely claimed to have a video showing one of the boys holding a gun.
"They kept trying to get me to say there was a gun," he said.
Ethan's mother described his demeanor as depressed and withdrawn "like a light has gone out" in him. The school has agreed to take him back tomorrow, however.
“I had no doubt he was innocent,” she said. "You know your children. He's very child-like and tender and playful. I have a faith that I believe truth prevails."
For his part, Ethan has a theory why the father and daughter fabricated the rape claim.
"I think they did this because they were embarrassed (after getting caught having sex in the park) and tried to blame it on us," he said.
World News Today would like to say to Ethan and those who were falsely accused of a criminal act to rightfully sue those who put you in this situation. We hope that you can regain the trust and respect you've lost upon the junk food media's accusations of criminality.
The Unit in 2003. Young Buck, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, The Game and 50 Cent.
The Game and Lloyd Banks pose for a social media photo. It kind of seems like it's 50 Cent isn't keen to Banks posing with Game.
Game and his crew saw Banks and his crew in the playground of Dubai. They were cordial enough to take a picture together. No guns drawn. No fists or insults on each others.
A photo posted by The Game (@losangelesconfidential) on
All peace and respect. But it didn't go good for the Unit 's capo.
50 is taking a jab at the two for the picture. He says that this is the biggest confusion to hit him.
Before he scrubbed the post on Instagram, 50 said, "What do you see when you look at this picture? I see confusion, I'm not sure if it's just me, I'm a Cancer shit don't get old with me," wrote the Queens rapper. "I never ask for trouble but I really don't have a problem with it I'm different. The question isn't how I feel about it, but how dose ( Lodi Mac ) feel about it? Some shit is just better off left alone."
It's the feud that never ends. Over 10 years ago, Game was signed to the Unit. Game and 50 were cool for some point but it went downhill.
Game and 50 got into it over the release of The Documentary and The Massacre. 50 said that Game didn't give credit to the Unit when they contributed to his album. He fired Game out the cannon on radio and it led to a member of Game's posse getting shot.
Jimmy Iovine at the time ordered them to settle the feud. They made public statement saying that the tensions between the two have settled. The tensions escalated when 50 and Game traded bars on their mixtapes. Game released the 300 Bars and let 50 and The Unit have it.
Game was eventually fired out the cannon with Aftermath. He would release his other albums on Geffen and eOne Entertainment.
50 was eventually fired out the cannon with Aftermath and Shady Records. He blamed Dr. Dre and Eminem for stalling his releases. So 50 and The Unit went on to Caroline Records to release his music.
So far, the rappers are struggling to stay afloat. They don't sell the platinum albums like they used to. They compete with mainstream acts like Future, Drake, Macklemore, Pitbull and Nicki Minaj.
Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Kidd Kidd settled their feud with Game. 50 and Tony Yayo said, "they'll die happy knowing Game ain't around!"
Game still sneak disses 50 and Yayo occasionally. This feud will never end.
Matter of fact, Game has not buried the hatchet with another rapper in the game. Game had enough of "phony Bloods" running their mouths. He's aiming at Young Thug for being a "pussyboi who dressing in women's wear". This feud started when Game came to defense of fellow Blood, Lil' Wayne when he was threatened retaliation against Birdman for his royalties.
Lil' Wayne has since settled the feud with Birdman and Thugger.
Pathetic Black preacher James David Manning about to be kicked out of Harlem.
The controversial pastor who ranted that Barack Obama is the long legged "mac daddy" is about to lose his church.
James David Manning, a notorious Black preacher who is the founder of the ATLAH Worldwide Church is on the verge of having his building foreclosed. He has skipped bills and the New York state auditors are saying enough is enough.
Manning said that it's a "high tech lynching" and he vows to fight against the "sodomites" who run New York City and state.
Manning is an anti-gay preacher who once called for violence against gay couples after the Supreme Court ruled that human marriage is legal in the United States.
Manning owes $1.02 million through unpaid tax, unpaid water bills and general debts. He appears likely to lose his church which is due for public auction on February 24, 2016. The Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit organization providing transitional homes for homeless LGBT youngsters has reached its target of $200,000 to buy the church as of February 9, 2016.
What makes this so ironic, is that he gain national attention by appearing on YouTube attacking Barack Obama and his policies. He was given the honor of being on annoying conservative agitator Sean Hannity and pushover Alan Colmes debate show.
He teamed up with Andy Martin, Orly Taitz and numerous kookspiracy theorists to denounce the president as an American born citizen.
He threatened to use force to prevent the activists from taking his church.
The feds end the partying at Georgia's iron colleges. Interns and correction guards were indicted in drug trafficking, contraband and kickbacks.
The feds ended a string of corruption at many of Georgia's iron colleges.
About 46 members of the Georgia Department of Corrections are facing some federal time out. There were raids at multiple iron colleges.
The raid involved guards, medical officials and inmates smuggling contraband, drug trafficking and slide backs (i.e. gifts and prostitutes) into the iron college.
These workers of the iron college would look the other way when it came to violent encounters, rape, contraband smuggling, and furrows. If it wasn't for their need for greed, they would have gotten away with this. The feds don't play when it comes to corruption in law enforcement.
The feds found cellphones, heroin, and cocaine bundles being shipped out without the warden or the law's skeptical eye.
The Department's Office of Professional Standards says that they arrested five officers after the FBI done a undercover sting.
"It's truly troubling that so many corrections officers from across Georgia could be so wiling to sell their oaths to sell their badges for personal profit., said U.S. Attorney John Horn.
The Feds and state boys entered the Dooly Iron College at the crack of dawn. They performed a shakedown of the entire facility in search of contraband, alcohol, cellphones, weapons and drugs.
These groups had ties to the Mexican cartel. The cartel gave the correction guards everything they wanted. The only thing they were missing was the informant who was interned from a neighboring state. That informant watched patiently as the guards were giving interns the contraband.
Governor Nathan Deal, the Republican of the state is also facing federal watch for allegations of corruption. He has no comment on this scandal as of yet. But it's expected.
I am going to make this a short posting. I was at work. Unfortunately, I missed the PBS Democratic Debate on television. But I did get an opportunity to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton duke it out in Wisconsin.
PBS Newshour hosts Judy Wooduff and Gwen Ifill gave the Democrats a working.
See the candidates are competing in the South Carolina primary and they're hoping to court the precious Black and Hispanic vote.
Both candidates have struggled to win over Black voters.
The New Hampshire primary was a blowout for Sanders. He beat Clinton in 3:1 win.
Now Clinton is hoping to bank on South Carolina primary and the Nevada Caucus. She is leading for the time being in those states.
Both were cordial but they did hit each other over a manufactured talking point they've pulled out their asses. They both agreed that they love President Barack Obama's policies but Clinton did slam Sanders on his Obama love. Sanders is endorse by a handful of liberal agitators. Sanders did plug for the liberal agitator Bill Press's book Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down.
The national security issue also came up. They both have no real strategy to defeating the Islamic State. They flex their tongues like the Republicans.
The economic policies came up and of course both candidates believe that Obama's policies are working. But they both agreed that the policies aren't doing enough and they're hoping to make them better.
It's up to you to decide on who won the debate.
Who won this debate?
I mean I don't care who won. All that matters is who's going to eventually be the nominee?
If you're looking for another hip-hop feud, tune into Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa. They'll entertain you!
An old feud is reignited. This started over a misunderstanding. But given the controversy that follows Chicago's very own Kanye West, everything is big and his ego drives in cruise control.
He and Wiz Khalifa are back at it again.
And it started over of all things "Kim". Really, it wasn't about Kim, but to Kanye, anything KK is his.
You have distracted from my creative process
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
I went to look at your twitter and you were wearing cool pants
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
I screen grabbed those pants and sent it to my style team #Wizwearscoolpants
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
3rd no one I know has ever listened to one of your albums all the way through
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
4th you let a stripper trap you
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
5th I know you mad every time you look at your child that this girl got you for 18 years
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
6th don’t ever come out the side of your neck at me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
7th I am your OG and I will be respected as such
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
8th I made it so we could wear tight jeans
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
9th me and Cudi created this shit
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
10th don’t you ever in your fucking life speak sideways about a nigga that’s fighting for us I do this for all of us
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
11th I showed you respect as a man when I met you
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
12th You wouldn’t have a child if it wasn’t for me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
13th You own waves???? I own your child!!!!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
14th Nigga it’s called creativity #youshouldtryitsomeday
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
15th Nigga I tried to call you and you changed your number
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
16th don’t even hint at mentioning me my family or my wife I am your OG
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
17th I think you dress cool I wish I was skinny and tall
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
maybe I couldn’t be skinny and tall but I’ll settle for being the greatest artist of all time as a consolation
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
Don’t ever ever ever come out the side of your mutherfucking neck bro or bruh or however you say it Mr. Waves
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
I’m YE and I ain’t gotta say it the right way I’m Ye I’m Ye I’m Ye I’m Ye I’m Ye I’m Ye I’m Ye
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
Thank you for the extra promotion #WAVES available February 11th
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
What’s sad is I love Wiz and I love all all my brothers and all people
It seems like in the middle of the Twitter rant, he took a dig at Wiz's ex-wife Amber Rose and their son Sebastian Taylor. Kanye is still bitter about the break up with Amber. So he clapped at her.
What he also did was bring Wiz and Amber's son in this rant. And that's when Amber clapped at him.
Amber Rose basically said that Kanye loves to take it in the butt. She basically saying that he's into the fingers in the anal cavity.
Kanye denied this on social media before he deleted that as well.
"Exes can be mad but just know I never let them play with my ass," West wrote late Thursday. "I don't do that... I stay away from that area all together."
One minute later, West elaborated: "I'm not into that kind of shit," he tweeted. "I like pictures and videos Me and my wife got the kind of love that can turn exes into best friends."
Amber Rose discussed the ordeal in an interview to be released Friday. "I wouldn't have said anything if it was just between him and Wiz," she said on the Allegedly podcast. "That's two grown men hashing it out. That's their business. I would have kept it cute and just minded my business, but you don't bring in my baby. That's so corny."
Wiz while on tour basically said to his audience "fuck Kanye". He said that when you talk about his son, you're an enemy! "You better run, NIGGA!" says Wiz Khalifa.
Kanye is preparing for his seventh album titled Waves. It's going to be highly anticipated.
Wiz is also dropping Khalifa in February 4th. The album comes out a week before Waves comes out on February 11th.
It seems like Kim Kardashian is everywhere. The media loves her and her family. E! Entertainment is making her and her family very rich. Her mother Kris, the ex-wife of then Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner, her brothers and sisters roll deep with cameras in tow.
Kanye West, Tyga, Blac Chyna, Lamar Odom, Reggie Bush, Kris Humphries, Ray J, and French Montana got caught into the spin and they're being rinsed.
Kim Kardashian's popularity brings a curse. There are some in the junk food media who believe that Kim's impact on the nation has "dumb down" America.
Actor Nate Parker directs and produces a movie based on the life of rebellion leader Nat Turner. The Birth of A Nation is coming to theaters and it's already getting praise. Given the situation surrounding the Oscars and the lack of diversity in the entertainment industry, many see this movie as a perfect timing.
The movie was not inspired by the KKK-theme movie produced by D.W. Griffith.
Parker who plays the role of slave-turned Baptist leader Nat Turner. Turner lead a revolt across Virginia killing White slave owners and led many slaves to the North. The Southampton revolt (known as the Nat Turner Rebellion) in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. The rebellion was effectively suppressed at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831.
There was widespread fear in the aftermath of the rebellion, and White militias organized in retaliation against the slaves. The state executed 56 slaves accused of being part of the rebellion. In the frenzy, many non-participant slaves were punished. At least 100 African Americans, and possibly up to 200, were murdered by militias and mobs in the area. Across the South, state legislatures passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free black people, restricting rights of assembly and other civil rights for free black people, and requiring white ministers to be present at all worship services.
Turner eluded capture by hiding in the woods until October 30, when he was discovered by a farmer named Benjamin Phipps, where he was hiding in a hole covered with fence rails. While awaiting his trial, Turner confessed his knowledge of the rebellion to attorney Thomas Ruffin Gray.
Nate Parker plays the role of Nat Turner, the rebellion leader of the Southampton massacre.
On November 5, 1831, he was tried for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection", convicted and sentenced to death. Turner was hanged on November 11 in Jerusalem, Virginia. His body was flayed, beheaded and quartered. Turner received no formal burial; his headless remains were either buried unmarked or kept for scientific use. His skull is said to have passed through many hands, last being reported in the collection of a planned civil rights museum for Gary, Indiana, despite calls for its burial.
In the aftermath of the insurrection there were 45 slaves, including Turner, and five free blacks tried for insurrection and related crimes in Southampton. Of the 45 slaves tried, 15 were acquitted. Of the 30 convicted, 18 were hanged, while 12 were sold out of state. Of the five free blacks tried for participation in the insurrection, one was hanged, while the others were acquitted.
Soon after Turner's execution, Thomas Ruffin Gray took it upon himself to publish The Confessions of Nat Turner, derived partly from research done while Turner was in hiding and partly from jailhouse conversations with Turner before trial. This work is considered the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner.
The film The Birth of a Nation will be released to select theaters. The 2016 film uses the same title as "the title of D.W. Griffith's 1915 KKK propaganda film in a very purposeful way", said The Hollywood Reporter. Nate Parker said his film had the same title "ironically, but very much by design".
It's gotten praise for the graphic and historical take on Turner's rebellion. It is written, produced, and directed by Nate Parker, who also stars as Nat Turner. Parker wrote the screenplay and petitioned financiers to invest in the film. It ultimately had a $10 million production budget and was filmed in the U.S. state of Georgia in May 2015. Along with Parker, the film features Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, and Gabrielle Union.
The film premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2016. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a $17.5 million deal, the largest deal at the film festival to date.
Mama Grizzly's earth shattering (yawn) endorsement of Donald Trump kind of took the steam out of Ted Cruz's campaign. The shrill and ignorant voice of Sarah Palin could help Trump win the state of Iowa.
Palin's endorsement of Trump was a huge blow to the Cruz campaign who desperately sought out her endorsement.
Her rhetoric is so out of the mainstream it affects the minds of some. Now some asshole from Omaha went out his way to show support for Trump by calling President Barack Obama a "NIGGER".
The Raw Story reports that WOWT reporter John Chapman interviewed Steve Bowman, a white man living in northeast Omaha, on Tuesday morning. Bowman’s home was festooned with a sign in his window announcing he is a supporter of GOP candidate Trump. He also displayed a sign that said "nigger Obama."
"Well I grew up in the 60’s," Bowman said when asked by Chapman if he thought the Obama sign was too much. "I remember racial riots. I know Martin Luther King. I’m 57 so I grew up in the late 50’s early 60’s and I know what it’s like the water guns the racial riots and Birmingham. You know the south, I know all about it. I have a master’s degree in history."
He then admitted, "It might be a little racist."
It so happens that Bowman lives across the street from an African-American family, with two young girls.
"He’s been putting up stuff like that constantly. Constantly putting up stuff like that and I’ll bring it up to him gently, you know, '"rake that down please you know this is not the neighborhood for that'" neighbor Regina Wright told WOWT. "He understands and he will take it down after I mention it to him, but then he’ll put something else up."
After discussing the matter with Chapman, Bowman decided to take the sign down.
It seems like Trump's supporters are kind of ignorant as well.
The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland is charged with perjury. This charge got him fired out the cannon. Now if he's convicted, he could also face a year in the iron college.
Brian Encinia, 30 has been on desk duty since the event. He denies any wrongdoing. He will have a day in court to face this misdemeanor charge. He is innocent until proven guilty.
Sandra Bland's story made to the the junk food media after #BlackLivesMatter brought attention to it.
Trooper was cannon fired for lying on his statements.
Sandra was from Chicago and was at Prairie View A&M University for a job interview.
Encinia pulled Sandra over for an apparent lane change violation. He would engage in a combative confrontation with her after she refused to exit her vehicle. Sandra was smoking a cigarette and Encinia wanted her to put it out.
In the dash camera footage, you hear Encinia threaten to use the Taser on Sandra and threaten another person filming the incident. He claimed that Sandra resisted arrest. Sandra complained about an injury and didn't get treatment.
He forgot to mention that in his statement.
After her arrest she was placed in the Waller County lockup. After three days in there, the lockup crew discovered her lifeless in her interment. They said that she may have committed suicide using a trash bag.
The family isn't buying the bullshit. They believe that the lockup crew failed to render aid to Sandra during her stay. They are taking the Waller County to federal court.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the Democratic candidate running for president mentioned her name in the debates. He believes that the incident is a tragic reality of deadly police encounters with people of color.
Chris Brown once again under the spotlight for the negative things. He is being investigated in Las Vegas for an alleged aggravated assault of a fan. The fan claims that she tried to catch him in a private moment and his bodyguards personally came up to her and grabbed the phone. Chris Brown took the phone and gave her a knuckle hp.
Brown and his management team deny that ever happened.
Brown says that she's a crazy bitch....ask Jason Derulo!
TMZ is reporting that the alleged victim Liziane Gutierrez went after entertainers after they spurn her.
The embattled entertainer is doing community control for a nickel post Rihanna. He's been granted shared custody of his daughter from Nia Guzman.
He may lose the custody rights if they charge him with aggravated assault.
Brown released the collaboration album Fan of a Fan (with Tyga), a mixtape Before The Party and his album Royalty (dedication to his daughter by the same name) last year.
The news broke that R&B legend Natalie Cole passed away,
The entertainment industry lost a legend. Natalie Cole, the daughter of Nat "King" Cole passed away yesterday. Her family confirmed this news today. She helped her dad score a hit. The song "Unforgetable" was a smash hit from the singer.
She passed away at the age of 65 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
Her family said that she was battling health issues. During the 1980s and 1990s, Natalie struggled with heroin and crack addiction. She went into rehab after almost losing her young son Robert.
"Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived....with dignity, strength, and honor. Our beloved mother, sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever." This was coming from her son Robert Yancy and her sisters Timolin and Casey Cole.
Cole had battled drugs and hepatitits that forced her to undergo a transplant of her kidneys.
Natalie lost her sister Carol who they named "Cookie" when she received a transplant. The brother Nat Kelly died in 1995.
Natalie was inspired by the music of her father. She got into the family business at age 11. She was 15 when her dad died of lung cancer.
She took a road to R&B and smooth jazz. She released her album, "Unforgettable.... With Love" which she dedicated to her dad. She took advantage of some of Nat's lost singles and made them into hits.
Besides "Unforgettable" she also hat "That Sunday That Summer", "Too Young" and "Mona Lisa".
She won six Grammys and sold over 14 million units from that album.
Natalie also took advantage of her acting skills. She appeared as a guest star in Shondra Rhines's Grey's Anatomy. Natalie was a resident of Los Angeles.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Natalie Cole.
The nation of Cosby is crumbling. And it seems like the leader of this country is being taken to trial.
A prosecutor in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania served Bill Cosby. The allegations of sexual assault have finally brought him a court date. This plan announced today comes as a major blow to Cosby. As if he didn't need anymore bad news.
The entertainer's reputation took a nosedive after 50 women came forth saying that Cosby's drugged them and sexually assaulted them.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office and the Cheltenham Township Police have scheduled a news presser to discuss the charges being handed to Cosby.
This case deals with the 2004 allegations. The charge is aggravated indecent assault. This charge could carry up to 15 years in the iron college with TIER III label if convicted. Cosby denies any fault to what happened. Cosby is likely to have his passport seized in case he decides to flee authorities.
Cosby is innocent until proven guilty. He is expected to head to Pennsylvania to post bail and have a court hearing.
One of the famed members of the Harlem Globetrotters passed away today. World News Today send our condolences to the family of Meadowlark Lemon.
Meadowlark Lemon, who was the "clown prince" of touring passed away in Scottsdale, Arizona.
His family confirms that that Meadowlark died in his sleep at the age of 83.
Born [George] Meadow Lemon III in Wilmington, North Carolina, Meadowlark played more than 16,000 games with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Meadowlark was a basketball player, actor, minister and father of ten.
He was an iconic figure during the 1970s and 1980s. He and the Globetrotters were best known for their wacky antics. Lemon joined the Globetrotters in 1954 at age 22, appearing in more than 16,000 games in 97 countries until leaving the team in 1978 over a contract dispute.
Meadowlark and the Harlem Globetrotters voiced themselves on Scooby Doo.
Lemon co-starred with McLean Stevenson in the NBC comedy series "Hello, Larry" in 1979-1980, and he logged guest shots on shows ranging from "Alice," "Diff’rent Strokes," "Here’s Boomer" and "Scooby Doo" to numerous talk shows and Globetrotters TV specials. He was also in demand for commercials, appearing in blurbs for such blue-chip brands as Ford Motor Co., Burger King, Pepsi, Sears, Dr. Pepper, Tropicana and the U.S. Postal Service, among many others.
On the big screen he costarred in the 1979 comedy "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh," about a hapless basketball team, and appeared in 1981’s "Modern Romance." In his later years Lemon became an ordained minister and had a regular series on Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Meadowlark was one of only five Globetrotters to have their numbers retired.
On the court, he was known for his long hook shots, no-look behind-the-back passes and antics, which included surprising fans with buckets of confetti.
"For a generation of fans, the name Meadowlark Lemon was synonymous with the Harlem Globetrotters," said Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider. "He was an incredible entertainer and brought happiness and lifelong memories to millions around the world. We have lost a great ambassador of the game."
Lemon is survived by his wife, Cynthia, and 10 children.
The state of California wants the family of Jahi McMath to pull the plug on her. They declared her legally "brain dead" after she had severe brain damage after a tonsil pull. The family vows to keep their daughter alive.
Jahi's mother Nailah Winkfield is suing the state of California for pushing a death certificate on a breathing human being.
Nailah filed a malpractice lawsuit against Children's Hospital Oakland and against the surgeon who performed Jahi's surgery indicating they were prepared to argue as part of the lawsuit that the young girl is not dead.
Jahi was full of life. She had a raspy throat and her family believed that a tonsil pull would be simple surgery. It turns out that the surgery went wrong. She was bleeding from the mouth which lead to a blood clot, in turn gave her a heart attack and a stroke.
The internal injuries left her paralyzed and brain dead.
Naliah doesn't give up on her daughter. She says as long as she's breathing, she's alive and no piece of paper determines her daughter's life.
"I want her to have the same rights as any other disabled kid," Naliah said.
Jahi's mother says her daughter show some signs of life, including the twitching of fingers and toes.
Medical experts said those movements could be spasms and reflexes commonly seen in corpses. They say Jahi McMath shows hardly any brain activity and is clinically dead.
But her mother isn't ready to give up. Winfield said she recently sold her Oakland home and is living off those rapidly dwindling proceeds.
"I won't give up on Jahi, because I'm her mother," Winkfield said.
Medical malpractice is a legal offense that occurs when a medical professional fails to perform his or her medical duties due to negligence, thereby causing injury to a patient.
Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson had some medical malpractice as a pediatric neurosurgeon.
The calls for a cannon fire grow for embattled Democratic mayor Rahm Emmanuel. The mayor is facing heavy scrutiny over his handling of the Laquan McDoanld controversy.
Now this recent event may have the #BlackLivesMatter activists back out protesting the law's killing of unarmed citizens.
A Chicago cop is in the freezer after he shoots and kill a teen and his grandmother.
The Huffington Post and AP report that Quintonio Legrier, 19 was acting erratically at his home in the neighborhood of Garfield Heights. The teen was acting pretty damn crazy. He was swinging a metal bat around.
The law arrives on the scene. The family said that the cop failed to calm him down. So as the teen swings the bat, the cop puts seven in him. He immediately drops.
Somehow the cop's slugs ricocheted into the neighbor's home. It went into the neck of a woman who lived next door. The mother Bettie Jones, 56 opened to the door after she heard massive shots. She dropped after the slug got her in the neck.
Now the Illinois State patrol and Chicago police are investigating the incident.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Chicago Police for potential violations. The possibility of brutal force is often called into question.
Protests continue.
The cop didn't have a body camera or a Taser on. The name of the officer isn't released yet.
#BlackLivesMatter has went all out this holiday weekend. They've done disruption and peaceful protests on the Miracle Mile. The Michigan Avenue entertainment district has been often a site for protesters.
In Minneapolis and Los Angeles, protesters have called into question of deadly police encounters of two recent events. The death of Jamar Clark and Nicholas Robertson became national stories.
The events were sparked by allegations of the law bucking a suspect on the run. Kind of like the shooting of Walter Scott....
World News Today sends our condolences to the family of the Bettie Jones and Quintonio Legrier.
Conservatives don't care about Zaevion Dobson. They care about how Blacks don't discuss violence in the community.
Well that didn't take long.
Conservatives are concern trolling yet again about gang violence, "Black on Whatever" violence, and the usual "Where's the outrage?" narrative from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, President Barack Obama and #BlackLivesMatter.
Here's an example of the nonsense pandered through the conservative agitating media:
This was a shot at Campaign Zero/BlackLivesMatter spokesperson DeRay McKesson.
According to Breitbart News, McKesson didn't seem too concerned about Zae. They sneak dissed Mckesson's recent tweets about going to Star Wars. They claim that DeRay McKesson and others involved in the movement are too busy rousing cops and not focusing on Black on whatever violence.
Newsflash: Black America has talked about violence in our community. It doesn't generate ratings for the agitators in the cable news.
And another thing, since when do someone has to speak out against ever freaking event where a person of color lost his or her life to gun violence. DeRay McKesson isn't the person who keeps tally of deaths by guns. His job is to protest law enforcement not being held accountable for killing unarmed civilians.
He can't be everywhere where the media is!
As soon as the story of Zaevion Dobson went viral, many Americans took to social media praising the teen for his self-sacrifice. The Knoxville teen shielded his friends from a hail of gunfire.
A group of domestic terrorists aimed upon a neighborhood where Zae and his friends were. The suspects were shooting at everything.
Zae was hit in the head by the slugs. He would die on route to the hospital. The suspects didn't know the victim. They were in the area where they believed a rival lived. The rival shot at one of the suspect's family member.
One of the suspects met his fate at the hands of rival. Brandon Perry, one of the alleged shooters was killed by gunfire later that night.
Zae's death will likely become a talking point in the last State of the Union Address for Obama.
Obama is getting really frustrated with the inept Congress not passing gun control legislation. He believes that his legacy is tarnished by the lack of action on mass shootings.
He may issue executive orders in the final years to curb some of the easy loopholes.
What is often ignored is the fact that gun violence is everyday. Conservatives only see this a reason to have more guns and less regulations. The San Bernardino shooters had legal access to firearms.
Matter of fact, their former neighbor was a strawman for some of the firearms used in the December massacre.
Of course, conservatives play this "good guy with a gun" nonsense.
That tired argument won't work when the mass shooter has a partner watching you plot a counter attack. The law doesn't see a "good guy" trying to stop a "bad guy". They see an active shooter. You being the "good guy" could be mistaken by the law as an active shooter. You could be killed by the suspect or law enforcement if you try to stop an active shooter.
Zae's death became a national story for the fact that he was a standout football player who many said was a "leader" who took action in situation.
Here's one reason to why I believe conservatives just don't get it.
In the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio lies iHeartMedia studios. On Ronald Reagan Drive in Sycamore Township is America's oldest AM radio station, WLW-AM.
WLW is probably one of the most listened radio station in the country.
During the day, the station's frequency can be heard from Cincinnati. Its broadcast can be reached to regional metros such as Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis.
WLW boasted that at night many Americans can hear the station from New York City all the way to Salt Lake City. WLW called itself the world's highest fidelity radio station.
Great history comes with a price.
One in particular is a concern troll who panders in the faux outrage of "Black on Whatever" violence.
On that station is a controversial talker who is good friends with two certain agitators who I've mentioned frequently on this blog. I've often mentioned that Matt Drudge and Sean Hannity are racial agitators. The Drudge Report and almost everything surrounding Sean Hannity is basically racially charged. I've said Sean Hannity is by far the most annoying conservative agitator to ever host a radio or television program. Hannity is the biggest concern troll out there. He will go through leaps and bounds to bring up a racial story. His right wing carnival hosted this agitator on many times.
Hannity and this agitator share one thing in common. They claim they're "Great Americans".
This character is a part of that machine that gives White extremists a reason to plot domestic attacks against the Black community.
Bill Cunningham is a longtime fixture of Cincinnati AM agitation. Cunningham is a nationally syndicated host who has a local weekday show on WLW at 12pm and a national Sunday show at 10pm.
On his Sunday show, he covers controversial issues from that landed on The Drudge Report.
Cunningham is considered the start of a Republican talking point. He often reads off the week and often reads from the website, the most read stories. Most of the stories that come off The Drudge Report are race-based or stories that are likely political attacks on liberals, President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Cunningham is very close to Drudge on that level. He took over for the reclusive agitator in 2007 after Drudge hung it up for full-time agitation on his website.
Cunningham is a former attorney hosted the gig at WLW for over 30 years.
During his time, he's been a controversial figure in the conservative media. He's notorious for making jokes about Barack Obama's middle name being "Hussein" at a John McCain campaign stop. It was a play for the "Obama's a Muslim" conspiracy. McCain condemned the comments and rejected the endorsement from Cunningham. Cunningham mocks McCain and Obama for being "soft" and "not willing" to let "Hussein" be a political issue.
Cunningham is a notorious birther as well. He and many others in the conservative media have demanded the president show his long form birth certificate. He inspired Donald Trump to get into birther movement.
Cunningham was a huge supporter of Steven Roach, the former Cincinnati cop who bucked Timothy Thomas. The incident sparked a riot in the city in April 2001. Cincinnati's Black leaders issued a boycott of the city.
Race-baiting agitators Hannity and Drudge.
He also mocked the death of Nathaniel Jones. Jones was arrested after workers at White Castle called the law on a panhandler who was acting erratically in the business. He was taken down by the law brutally. He ended up having a heart attack. Cunningham was played an offensive parody song mocking the situation.
Cunningham got into a heated debate with fake liberal agitator Tamara Holder on Fox. He told Holder to "know her place" and "shut her mouth". That controversy got him temporarily banned from that right wing network.
Cunningham has big concerns about Black America not addressing violence in our community.
Cunningham will allow a bunch of extremists talk about how Blacks are being brainwashed by the "Democrat Party". He would put on Black extremists like Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, Jesse Lee Peterson, Kevin Jackson, and Deneen Boreli to debate these issues.
When these screwballs aren't available, he'll put on White extremists Wayne Allan Root, Colin Flaherty and now Republican Kentucky governor Matt Bevin to discuss Black criminals and Obama's upbringing as a Black man.
Cunningham has been going on for years without being mentioned by Media Matters for America, the Daily Kos and the official Black Lives Matters debunking squad. He keep pushing even further on Black criminality to rile up White extremists.
Cunningham is now rewarded with his own daytime talk show. He follows the formula of his old buddy Jerry Springer. His show is talking about taboo topics. When he's not hosting in Cincinnati, he hops on a plane and heads to New York City to do a taping for his CW-syndicated show.
Cunningham plays the role of a consoling talk show host. He puts on Black guests who have issues that are just utter coonery.
He plays this "father figure" when he have Black guest argue and fight over issues that shouldn't even be put on television. And he's been doing this for three seasons.
Now I am not one for boycotts but I want you to know that this agitator is putting on an act for ratings.
I find it funny that he would be so concerned about violence in the Black community when he's the biggest provocateur of it on his radio and television show.
Zaevion Dobson's death was tragic. His story is heartbreaking. But he's one of hundreds of other young men and women killed in senseless gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
It would take a long time to figure out the names all the victims lost to gun violence. Cunningham, that old fart Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Drudge, and the rest of the agitators in the conservative media aren't concerned about Black lives.
The Knoxville community mourns the life of Zaevion Dobson.
They cheer on when Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims kill one another. They scream into their microphones when these groups kill White people. They are only concerned about gun control when Blacks, Hispanics and Muslim obtain them. When Whites obtain guns, they look the other way.
When a mass shooter happens to be White, the junk food media says its a person with mental issues.
When a mass shooter is a Black person, the person is a thug.
When a mass shooter is a Muslim, the person is a terrorist.
When the motive is politically motivated against a group, conservatives say it's not about politics.
When the motive is inspired a rivalry or a systematic oath of loyalty, it's about gang violence.
When the motive is inspired by religion. They automatically single it out to be Islam. Or rather their definition of "radical Islam". That's the newest word vomit being spewed by conservatives and Republican lawmakers.
