Tamron Hall Leaving NBC And MSNBC!

Tamron Hall rather quit than bow to a divisive agitator like Megyn Kelly.

Tamron Hall is pretty damn pissed that a divisive beeyotch took her spot. So instead of putting the ink on the contract, she opted out for other venues. There's a report that she is departing from NBC News and MSNBC.

She co-hosted the 9am spot on Today and anchored the 11am news on MSNBC. The spot will go to Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host who abruptly left the network this year. Kelly who has a history of saying controversial things like "Santa Claus and Jesus are White".

This is a slap to the face of Black journalists.

The news hit the webs and it's gotten attention.

"Tamron is an exceptional journalist, we valued and enjoyed her work at Today and MSNBC and hope she would decide to stay," NBC News said in a statement. "We are disappointed that she has chosen to leave, but we wish her all the best."

Her last day was today and her contract is over this month.

"The last ten years have been beyond anything I could have imagined, and I'm grateful," Hall said in a statement. "I'm also very excited about the next chapter. To all my great colleagues, I will miss you and I will be rooting for you."

I am not a happy person. Tamron was a very attractive, professional and serious journalist. I am disappointed that she is leaving the network that she helped grow for ten years.

Magazine Editor Does Some Chair-Sitting On A Black Model! [NSFW]

Me and S. Baldwin often talk about issues that face all people of color, but none so crazy than what's brewing on the internet.

There a photo circulating around the internet from Garage Magazine.The editor-in-chief is using sitting in a chair and it appears that a half naked Black woman is posing as the chair.

See this picture below, it's pretty..........SMH!



For those who don't know the lingo its called shakes my head.

Clair Summers, the editor of FashionBombDaily.com, alerted us to the unfortunate feature and calls the image an example of "white dominance and superiority, articulated in a seemingly serene yet overtly degrading way."

We couldn't agree more, Although the chair also comes in "white woman", we can't help but filled with anger and frustration over to plague the fashion industry. Free Bethann Hardison's crusade to end racism on the runway to our attempt to educate society over and over and over again about the nonsense that is Blackface-- the stories of racially insensitive absurdity are never ending.

The junk food media wanted to reach out to Dasha Zhukova, the Russian editor-in-chief of Garage magazine and Miroslava Duma the editor of Buro 247 for comment. So far no comment.

Do you have an opinion on the matter?

Let us know!

The Huffington Post reports this on The Black Voices segment.

Chiara de Blasio: I'm Only Human!

Bill de Blasio's daughter Chiara reveals to the press her battles with depression and drug abuse.

The racist right hates Bill de Blasio. They hate him just as much as President Barack Obama. The reason why, is purely simple.

The mayor-elect of New York City ran on a populist agenda that rolls back NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy, one of the country's harshest police profiling policies pushed by the aggressive predecessors Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani.

The racist right can't stand him for being married to a "strong Black woman" and having "mixed children" as well.

I've heard conservative agitators say that de Blasio is a "communist" and "traitor". They've called him the "White Obama" because he believes in income inequality. That issue continues to plague New York City's residents.

Then of course, the racist right is rooting for despair in New York City. They hope that his first term results in epic crime, a terrorist attack and people moving out because they can't stand a Democrat running the city.

Well here comes another bone for the racist right to chew on. Since children and young adults are off limits in the era of politics, the racist right will ignore that and focus on the problems.

Chiara de Blasio, the 19-year old daughter of the mayor is telling the world that she has a problem. She wants to tell the world that she can handle her problems with the help of family and a support group.

She revealed to the press in a five minute video about her depression, her addiction to marijuana and alcohol.

Of course, young teens will try something new once in awhile. I mean no one is perfect. But her father's opponents will try to milk this into a sensational story. I can figure that Rupert's New York Post will find some outcry about it.

Chiara and Dante de Blasio at their father's campaign rally.

There limited media appearances for Chiara, who with her 16-year-old brother Dante featured prominently in their father’s recent election campaign. As stated, children are there only when their parent is running. So it would be considered off limits to go after a child.

In the video she stated, “[I've] had depression, like clinical depression for my entire adolescence,” she said, looking healthy and assured.

“It made it easier like the more I drank and did drugs to share some common ground with people that I wouldn’t have.

“It didn’t start out as a huge thing for me but then it became a huge thing for me,” she added, to an accompanying soundtrack of soft piano music.

She credited her therapist for referring her to an out-patient therapy center in New York City, and her mother and busy father with being committed to getting her better.

“Getting sober is always a positive thing and it’s not easy. By no means is it easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done but it’s so worth it,” she said.

The Raw Story added she said beating drugs and alcohol enabled her to participate in her father’s campaign, calling it “like the greatest thing ever”, do well in school and explore things other than partying.

She called on viewers to acknowledge alcoholism and drug addiction as a disease.

“People are suffering from this disease and dying from this disease every day and we really can’t do anything as a society to help those people until we start talking about it,” she said.

According to the video, 28 percent of Americans drink at levels that put them at risk of alcohol dependence.

“If you think you have a problem, don’t wait. Ask for help,” it ended with a written message and the website address for ok2talk.org, which helps young adults who suffer from mental illness.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish Chiara a successful life.

Ohio Police Busted "Catering" Model Chick For Hoeing!

Tanishia Cecil, a part time model was arrested after Dayton police discovered her business was a "front" for a prostitution ring. The woman was promoting her services on social networking.

Dayton, Ohio is trying to curb the rise in prostitution. Some of the prostitutes are turning to the online world instead of the streets. The Dayton Police are working to put an end to the social networking loopholes.

Facebook, Twitter, POF, Badoo, OkCupid, backpage, Craigslist, and eHarmony are the new way for prostitutes to meet their johns. The pimps are becoming more equipped with the internet as well.

They'll recruit young women who are often runaways and drug abusers to be their "lovers" and "best friends".

They'll play psychological games in their heads and give them the tales of being not wanted or a promise in making a little extra money.

Some women (and transgender women) are likely to engage in drugs and practice in unsafe sex. That's gives the risk of sexuality transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Dayton Police and the FBI are cracking down on underage prostitution and are arresting pimps, johns (tricks), and the underage prostitute's "female mentors (madams)".

One woman is a part-time model who worked in "catering" the needs of her customers.

The Dayton Police put an end to the business and putting her face on the national news to shame her.

The Dayton Daily News reports that folks who work on Stanley Avenue were shocked today after a new female tenant was arrested on alleged prostitution charges.

The owners of the building in the 3300 block of Stanley said 29-year-old Tanishia Cecil moved in her catering business less than a month ago.

The building owners said Cecil presented business cards that advertised a website which indicated to them it’s a legitimate catering business.

But police point to a different online advertisement in which Cecil allegedly goes by the name “Tiffany.”

The advertisement promises “relaxation sessions” at a private location in the greater Dayton area.

Sherry Hubbard, owner of Micah’s Transmissions down the street, said she’s fed up with all the prostitution activities in the area.

“We own a business down the street and just driving through on a daily basis,” Hubbard said, “I can tell you who are the prostitutes just from seeing them every day. Watching them flag their johns, It’s out of control. We need help.”

Cecil is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on suspicion of promoting prostitution, soliciting and possessing criminal tools.

Loserville Turdporter Runs Her Mouth And Helps Man Promote A Bestseller!

Lauren Green managed to involuntarily helped Reza Aslan takes his book Zealout to the top of the bestseller listings on Amazon. I can hear the calls for a boycott or the firing of her in the coming days!

This is coming from a Black journalist! I would expect this type of stuff from Bill-O, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win (aka That Scumbag On Loserville) or Greta The Ambulance Chaser. Not a turdporter who's job is to be "fair and balanced".

Reza Aslan is a religious scholar who is a Muslim. He's not a Muslim writing a book about Christianity, he is a honorary degree and professor of religious studies.

The 55 year old turdporter over at Loserville pissed off the Muslim community and civil rights activists after she confronted the author of a book that disputes the legacy of Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Nazareth.

Why should a Muslim write a book about Christianity?

This is the question by those over at Loserville.

Kind of wonder why a Christian would write a book about Islam?

Ask Frank Gaffney, David Horowitz, Orly Taitz, Pam Geller, Michael Savage and Bridgette Gabriel. All notorious anti-Islamic bigots who say that Muslims are the "scum of the earth".

Lauren Green's inappropriate behavior towards Reza Aslan has went viral.

Loserville didn't expect this interview to spawn into a negative reaction. They kind of defended the behavior of her. They wanted to get to the story but they've ended up becoming the story.

What Loserville done was practically gave the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the NAACP a reason to prove that the whole network is bias towards people of color and worshipers of Islam.

Aslan on his part kind of joked about it. He felt offended by the interview but shrugged it off saying what the network does. They promote conservative and Republican views.



He gets a better interview with Piers Morgan. Of course, Morgan is a tabloid journalist who at least is fair towards the guest. He doesn't bullshit with the guest.

Applebee's Cans Worker After Complaining Online About Rude Customer!

Ms. Chelsea Welch, I've been in your shoes! I promise it'll get better! - Blue Light Buzz
Customer leaves server an offensive message on a receipt. The server post it on the social networks and she gets fired for the posting!

A lesson to me and millions of users of the social networks, once you post something and it hits the internet, it's there forever. And it could get you in trouble not only with your family, but your job! It could get you a lawsuit! It could lead to law enforcement arresting you! The digital fingerprint is just easy to obtain than a person's fingerprint!

Take this as a lesson to how bad publicity eventually gets a worker fired. And even though, she didn't intend on making her job look bad, her behavior express irresponsibility and lack of judgment.

The young woman Chelsea Welch, a server at a St. Louis area Applebee's got stiffed a tip from a customer.

The customer leaves a not so nice comment on the receipt and the young woman took it to Reddit and it went viral.

I am assuming that the customer got the death threats and probably a dose of national shame. So in order to get revenge, the customer calls the corporate offices of Applebee's. The company had no choice but to fire the young woman.

Even though Chelsea deserves to vent off her frustration with rude customers, her position is to basically shrug it off and move on! And yes it's very hard to take it! But if you work in retail, it's best to satisfy the customer.

The customer was a pastor of a local church. Alois Bell is the person who left the message "I Give God 10%, Why Do You Get 18%?

Alois Bell, the pastor who caused a controversy!

The Daily Mail tells the tale of a pastor, a waitress and the not so "GODLY" tip!

An Applebee's waitress has been fired after a bizarre handwritten note from an annoyed customer turned into the latest internet sensation.

The waitress in St Louis, Missouri, identified as Chelsea Welch, was shown the door two days after she posted the passive aggressive memo on the popular site Reddit.com.

Next to the line indicating that an 18 per cent tip had been automatically added to the bill, the customer, a local pastor, crossed out the tip total, replaced it with a 'zero' and wrote: the offensive message.

She then signed the bill 'Pastor Alois Bell.'

Befuddled, Ms. Welch posted a photo of the bill on Reddit with the headline: 'My mistake sir, I'm sure Jesus will pay for my rent and groceries.'

Chelsea Welch was served her walking papers after posting a complaint about a rude customer on Reddit.

Ms. Welch said she was not the waitress who received the note, and posted it on behalf of a fellow Applebee's worker.

But as the posting took on a life of its own on the internet this week, Ms.Welch was fired.

She said that she's a dedicated employee and was shocked to hear the news.

Ms. Welch told The Consumerist: 'When I posted this, I didn't represent Applebee's in a bad light. In fact, I didn't represent them at all. I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn't break any specific guidelines in the company handbook - I checked.

She went on: 'But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee's has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than lose an angry customer. That's a policy I can't understand.'

In a statement to The Smoking Gun, Applebee's spokesman Dan Smith said: 'Our franchisee has apologized to the guest,' and that the employee who posted the bill to Reddit 'is no longer employed by the franchise.'

Speaking to KTVI-TV on Thursday, the pastor said she should have thought better of the message she wrote.

Ms. Bell, who preaches at the Truth in the Word Deliverance Ministries, told the station: That was a lapse in my judgment. I should've have did that. I apologize for that. I'm human. I did that.'

She also said that despite reports, she didn't stiff the waitress. In fact, she left two tips - the 18 percent automatic tip and an additional $6 she left on the table.

Also on Thursday, a 'Boycott Applebee's for Chelsea Welch' page sprung up on Facebook, with users venting their outrage against the chain and one user even offering Ms. Welch a job.

This pastor is a Black woman. The server was a White woman.

A big Black woman! A young White woman!

Guess what this is going to do?

I'll bet you that the moment it hits the conservative/White supremacist bubble, it's going to be another word salad mixed with racial slurs and nuts! Of course another dig at President Barack Obama and primates!

An Amazing Life!

Oldest living African American woman died this week.

There's been plenty of supercenturians but none so than Marnie Rearden, the oldest African American woman. At age 114, she died Wednesday confirming her family.

Mamie Rearden of Edgefield, South Carolina who held the title as the country's oldest person for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, Georgia, said Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Maryland, and Janie Ruth Osborne of Edgefield. They said their mother broke her hip after a fall about three weeks ago.


"My mom was not president of the bank or anything, but she was very instrumental in raising a family and being a community person," said Sara Rearden, her youngest child. "Everybody can't go be president of a bank or president of a college, but we feel just as proud of her in her role as housewife and particularly as mother and homemaker."

Mamie Rearden, who was married to her husband Oacy for 59 years until his death in 1979, raised 11 children, 10 of whom survive, Sara Rearden said. She lived in the family homestead with a son and a daughter on land that had been in the family since her father's accumulation of acreage made him one of the area's largest black landowners.

Her father sent her off to earn a teaching certificate at Bettis Academy on the far side of the county, spending an entire day on a loaded wagon to reach the school along dirt roads, her daughter said. She taught for several years until becoming pregnant with her third child.

In the mid-1960s at age 65, when some settled into retirement, she learned to drive a car for the first time and started volunteering for an Edgefield County program that had her driving to the end of remote rural roads to find children whose parents were keeping them home from school, Sara Rearden said.

Mamie Rearden always counseled that her children should treat others as they wanted to be treated and that included never gossiping or speaking ill of others. When asked about a preacher's uninspiring sermon, her daughter recalled her mother saying: "`Well, it came from the Bible.' She never would bad-mouth them."

Fashion Bug Closes!

Women's clothing apparel store closing up shop!

Women may find dismay in this story. The nation's low price women's clothing store is going out of business. In 2013, a new company took over and their vision is to stomp on Fashion Bug.

Ascena Retail Group Inc. has completed its buyout of Charming Shoppes Inc., which owns the chain, and now plans to close the remaining several hundred Fashion Bug stores by early next year.

Fashion Bug will join Catherine's, Lane Bryant, Justice and Dress Barn in the new wave of consolidation.

No telling how many jobs will be lost in the acquisition of this retail store.

The New York based firm will begin immediate closing of all stores by early 2013. Fashion Bug is a women's fashion apparel retailer located in strip shopping centers. Fashion Bug offers fashion apparel and accessories in plus and misses.

The Charming Shoppes is a specialty and plus size clothing retail holding company based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania; a suburb of Philadelphia. Its subsidiaries are Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Cacique and Catherines Plus. Clothes are sold from over 2300 retail stores in the United States, as well as numerous catalogs and online sites. Charming Shoppes was founded in 1940, went public in 1971, and was ranked 810th on the 2010 Fortune 1000.

Brian Banks Lost 10 Years Of His Life To A Wrongful Conviction!

 
Texas, California, New York and Florida are notable for how they sentence Black and Hispanic men to prison. In state prison you can appeal for a release. In federal prison, you have to serve the required term.

The judge and jury throw the book at Black men more than any other race combined. These people don't even bat an eyelash!

Well today, after ten years of trying to prove his innocence, Brian Banks, 28 is a free man. After the Los Angeles Superior Court found the evidence that proves that a rape and kidnapping charge was proven false.

The woman who accused him of rape and kidnapping confessed to him and a "friend" that she and her family made up the story. That friend was a private investigator who videotaped the conversation. With help of the Innocence Project, it was proven that the woman Wenetta Gibson framed him.

After spending five years in prison, Brian Banks was released on parole. He was on home arrest and registered as a sexual offender, and out of nowhere a friend request from Facebook. It was Wenetta Gibson and she wanted to talk to him.

Brian Banks, 28 has spent years trying to clear his name. After having spent time in prison, there's a new lease on life for a former star athlete who was wrongfully accused of rape by a fellow classmate.

Gibson confessed to him on hidden camera that when she was fifteen, she and Banks had made out and I guess she was afraid of her mother finding out about it. So Gibson lied about it and had him arrested for it.

Her family then went on to sue the Long Beach Unified School District for $1.5 million.

In a report by KABC 7/ABC News, Gibson collected $1.5 million after suing the school over lack of safety on campus. Banks spent five years in prison and five years on parole, finally reaching out to California Project Innocence.

But the case turned when the alleged victim contacted him through Facebook asking to be his friend.

"Why would you friend request me?" Banks asked Gibson over Facebook. "The reply was, 'I figured you and I could let bygones be bygones. I was immature then, btu I'm much more mature now.'"

Banks could have spent over 41 years to life in prison for this charge, but he agree to a plea deal.

Banks had an attorney that encouraged him to make a plea deal.

"She told me I was a big black teenager and no jury would believe anything I said," said Banks.

Gibson did not attend the hearing on Thursday. It remained unclear if she would have to pay back the money. Nonetheless, Gibson's admission paved the way for Banks' exoneration.

"He's had a monitor on his ankle since that day, it's been difficult for him to get work, he's been struggling in the community with people looking at him like a sex offender," said Justin Brooks with California Project Innocence.

Soon the ankle monitor will come off. But for now, he says there are things of greater importance.
"To finally have my freedom back, I couldn't ask for more," he said.

Banks also said that he is no longer bitter over the situation and that he learned to eliminate those feelings in order to make the day he dreamed of possible.

While his lawyers say he has grounds to file a lawsuit against Gibson, Banks has not yet decided if he will do so. Rather, his big focus is on football once again. He wants to finally make that NFL dream a reality.

When you look at the situation, Banks counts for an example of how juries look at Black men as natural born criminals. Innocent victims suffer for people who commit crimes. And those who are framed for crimes are sent to prison without having evidence or a chance to understand their rights by law.

In many states, Blacks are likely to face harsher sentences for crimes as compared to Whites. It's likely that when a father is in prison, his children may follow and it's high in the Black community for incarceration.

It's a tragedy for Banks to lose his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The outlook looks good for him and we here at Journal De La Reyna wish him well on his journey.

New guidelines for mammograms could hurt black women.

New recommendations from the government on when women should begin getting mammograms and how often they should done could have a very negative effect on black women as they have a higher rate of death due to late detection. Read more on this and the American Cancer Society's guidelines om mammograms here:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

An Open Letter To Black Women: Why You Are Beautiful

Check out this open letter from Leonard Pitts a black man and Miami Herald writer in which he not only states that black women are beautiful but explains why:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html