In Memoriam

La Bella Betty Jean Susie Baucom

March 7, 1970- March 10, 1994

New Black Bachelorette

The New Black Bachelorette

Romeo Rose is already pissed by ABC's selection of Rachel Lindsay, a

Sista, as being the first Black woman to head the upcoming dating series,

The Bachelorette


Back in February 14th, ABC revealed its first Black Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay to star in the upcoming Bachelorette season.  For fifteen seasons since its inception, nay, fourteen, no Women of Color has ever star in the series.  JoJo Fletcher, a young woman of Persian and White descent, presided over the show last year.

Rachel Lindsay is an accomplished Lawyer from Texas, a conservative Republican state where the former bigot whose goes by the moniker "Romeo Rose" used to live.  I wish her well.

After 14 years of whitewashing, ABC finally cast Rachel Lindsay as the first Black bachelorette.

Lady Liberty Gonna Be Black!

First time ever, a Black women will appear on a coin.

The U.S. Mint rolls out a new coin. The new $1.00 coin for the first time will feature a Black woman.

The mint will celebrate 225 years by minting this county with Lady Liberty depicted as a Black woman. The 24k gold coin will be the first of a series of coins that will also carry depictions of Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Indian-American women, says the U.S. Mint.

The last gold coin was Sacagawea, the Native American woman who helped Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the rugged United States. The last dollar coin was Susan B. Anthony, an American activist who fought for voting rights for women.

Then of course, our past presidents were on the dollar coins as well. The current living presidents and soon to be fuhrer won't be added on coins until death.

They Keep On Laying Hands On Our People...

SMH.  They are beyond evil.  They're demonic!

Please read the story written by The Son of Baldwin at:

https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/choice-of-demons-b77c9352bcda#.cdjvd3ssf

I’d Loved Before, But Never Like This

I’d Loved Before, But Never Like This: It’s not as though there is anything special my daughter, Nisa, is doing. As I write this, she is leaning back, listening to, I don’t know, Future? Drake? But  peeking…

Beautiful!

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Like-Beautiful-Single-Mothers/dp/0061710393

Picture of the Day- The Ladies of Marie Gabriel Bridal

You go, ladies!

Toddler Fries Baby Sister In An Oven! Mom And Boyfriend Held On Murder Charges!

J'Zyra Thompson was placed in an oven by her siblings. The mother and her boyfriend are facing murder charges.

The unfortunate circumstances of negligent parenting. A mother and her boyfriend are held in the Harris County lockup for involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

Racquel Thompson and Cornell Malone are being held on a $36,000 "get out free card".

The junk food media took notice of a tragic incident inside an apartment in northern Houston.

Thompson was going to take her boyfriend Malone to work and pick up some food for her children.

She was the mother of four children.Thompson is pregnant with another child and is expecting her child in the coming weeks.

She decided "it won't be that long". She believed the children wouldn't touch anything while she was gone. She thought wrong and now she pays the price. J'Zyra Thompson, an 18 month child was in the kitchen crawling. One of the children (two of them 3 years old and one 5 year old) decided to turn the oven on and shove their little sister in the oven.

Racqual Thompson and Cornell Malone are held on second degree murder (by way of child endangerment).

When the baby was pushed in the oven, they heard the screaming and crying. They couldn't do nothing they were frozen in fear.

When Thompson returned home, she saw her children crying and telling mom that they played with the oven and J'Zyra was in it. As Thompson turned the oven off, she discovered her daughter lifeless burned from end to end, barely recognizable. Of course she called the law.

The law arrived to hear the sobbing mom tell them that she only left for a few minutes. She didn't think her children were capable of messing with an oven.

The law called Harris County child protective services to investigate. They determined that Thompson was irresponsible for the death of the daughter. By her leaving, and not having proper supervision and training on the dangers of the home.

The law decided to put the cuff on her and Malone. They were on social media saying that "they're not going to be charged for the negligent parenting".

Well in Texas, you could be sentenced to LIFE in the iron college for the negligent parenting.

They are innocent until proven guilty.

The three children were placed in foster care. Once Thompson gives birth to her baby, the Texas state board will decide on whether she has to forfeit her child to foster care.

The father of J'Zyra,  Fredrick Price wanted to strangle Thompson and Malone. He was totally devastated over the loss of his child.

"She was cute little baby," said Price.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of J'Zyra Thompson.

An Un-American Apparel!

American Apparel location in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A famed clothing company is filing for bankruptcy today. It's a sign that shoppers aren't finding any interest in American Apparel. I couldn't be any more happier of the news.

I've never bought anything from that company. I've never applied for a job there.  I've always had a feeling that they would use discriminating tactics in hiring. AA founder's Dov Charney, a Canadian-American business mogul was fired out the cannon after he was caught up in a sexual harassment and discrimination scandal.

The company once held a gold standard of hiring practice. They didn't want any "trashy Black women" ever hired at their stores. Watch "the ones" who may shoplift from the store. Look for the "right types of customers". You know "the ones" who got money.

AA was having that going on at their stores.

So now the company will focus on trying to bring back customers. AA want to restart the company under Standard General, an American based hedge firm.

The company, which has seen spiraling sales and an ever-sinking stock price since the management upheaval began, proposed a plan that would keep its 130 U.S. stores open and maintain its Los Angeles manufacturing operation, the Times reported. No layoffs were mentioned in the Chapter 11 petition, which was approved by American Apparel’s board, and filed in Delaware, the newspaper said. The plan requires approval by the federal bankruptcy court, it added.

American Apparel’s shares closed at 11 cents each last week.

American Apparel’s brand recognition has far exceeded its sales numbers over the past decade with its “Made in the USA” ethos, provocative advertising, and colorful, scandal-ridden founder Dov Charney.

Charney didn't go quietly. He mounted a civil war within the board.

Notice something about this picture!

The new CEO Paula Schneider is facing mounting criticism. She promised a turnaround. It's a little too late for the turnaround. Schneider is considered inept among the shareholders.

American Apparel saw new legal fees, a workforce moving towards unionization, plummeting sales, and wider losses. It announced layoffs earlier this year, as well as store closures. Questions have been swirling around the company’s ability to pay a major interest payment later this month.

The bankruptcy, if approved, will mean just that. It will also wipe out Charney’s stake in the company, according to the Los Angeles Times. Standard General and other creditors will gain full control of American Apparel if the plan is approved.

“Not having the nuisance lawsuits, not having this massive debt, these are all extremely important things for the company to thrive,” Schneider told the Times in a Sunday interview.

Dearborn Cop Insults Woman For Having HIV!

Dearborn police doing damage control after one of the officer screwed up.

Dearborn Police had to owe up to a woman. After a routine pull over in the Detroit suburb, the officer was disrespectful to the motorist. She didn't have a license and held a medical marijuana license.

She was being treated for the HIV virus. The officer freaked out when he searched her vehicle for contraband.

She was cited for driving without a license. It got worse when she was insulted by the officer who felt it was his duty to shame her about her health status.

The Raw Story reports Shalandra Jones, who sued after a Dearborn, Michigan, police officer asked if she had HIV, has settled with the city for $40,000, the city and her attorney announced Tuesday.

Jones was in a car that was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in January 2014 and questioned by police officer David Lacey for having marijuana in the car, as first reported by the Detroit Free Press. Jones had a medical marijuana card as part of her HIV treatment, though the card had expired at the time of the incident.

Detroit area woman sues Dearborn Police for harassment.

The police officer asked if either the driver or Jones had any diseases while searching through Jones’s purse. Her companion said Jones has HIV. “She’s got earrings and shit I’m touching, and I don’t want to get anything,” Lacey said on a video recorded by his dash camera. “That might be something you want to tell a cop,” he said to the driver. Lacey then compared Jones to “drug addicts” who use needles to inject drugs.

Of course, if you're not affiliated with the criminal behavior, you can tell an officer not to search your vehicle or reveal your status unless given by a court order.

The deadly disease isn't gone. HIV cases have actually grown in the past three years. It's mostly due to the heroin epidemic and denial of the disease.

HIV is spread through sexual contact, sharing needles and breastmilk to children. Blood transfusions are limited. HIV if left untreated can become AIDS. HIV is not a death sentence. HIV cannot be cured but it can be treated. You can live a healthy life with the disease.

HIV is spread through anal, vagina and oral contact. Oral sex is oftentimes looked as null. But if not rarely, a person can catch contact from a person carrying if the person has blood or semen infected with the disease.

It's a dangerous disease that I hope I never get. I usually get tested every six months because like most men, we're sexually active. I normally wear condoms whenever I have sex with a woman. Often times, I've been reckless.

Many of the victims of HIV are usually unaware of the disease. Some practice in unprotected vaginal or anal sex. Some may share hypodermic needles without properly cleaning them.

Some are aware of the disease and they don't care. They rather punish others for their failures. Those who do that are often associated with the stroll and they're willing to put your life and their life at risk for contact.

These are the ones who carry the disease. These are the ones who may end up getting me and you!

World News Today wishes Shalandra Jones well on her journey.

Viola Davis: My Emmy Win Is Proof That Natural Beauty Exist In All Women!

Viola Davis became the first African American woman to win an Emmy for being an Outstanding Lead Actress.

I don't often watch award shows. I find them annoying. I don't like watching them for one reason: Kim Kardashian. She is the reason why I can't stand reality television and celebrity award shows.

The awards shows are given to talent. There's no question for that. But it's unfortunate that her impact on the media has truly "dumb down" celebrity gossip. I mean seriously, I am not into this stuff because the hearsay.

The only thing that drives my attention to awards shows is "first".

Like a historical moment in television or movie history.





Andy Samberg hosted the Emmy Awards last night. The star of Brooklyn Nine-9 hosted the awards show on Fox.  Well one actress broke the long standing history of concerns. She became the first actress of color to win an Emmy award for an outstanding lead.

Viola Davis won that award. The star of stage, movies and television became the first African American woman to win the award. She is the breakout character in ABC's How To Get Away With Murder.

Uzo Aduba plays Crazy Eyes on Orange Is The New Black.

Her win broke 70 years of shun actresses of color.

Beginning with a quote from Harriet Tubman, she said, “In my mind, I see a line. And over that line I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no-how. I can’t seem to get over that line.”

Then she started looking to the present. “Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color form anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” So she thanked all of the people who have “redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black.” She then rounded things out by calling out fellow actresses, including Taraji P. Henson (Empire), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Halle Berry (Extent), and more to say “thank you for taking us over that line.”

Viola is known as Annalise Keating, a prosecutor and law professor who plots a sinister scheme with the aid of her naive students. The class How To Get Away with Murder is literally a monster on Thursday nights.

The Shondra Rhimes and Peter Nowalk series returns for season two and it's going to be better.

Viola also got flack from soap actress Nancy Lee Grahn. Grahn took a shot at her win. She hit up social media with complaint that Viola was being racist. Grahn also caught some flack from supporters.

Regina King is an actress who played roles in 227, Boyz In The Hood,  Friday, American Crime and The Boondocks.

Grahn apologized on social media and personally called Viola.

Tracy Morgan also made an appearance at the Emmy's. His return came after he survived last year's fatal accident in which his friend Jimmy Mac was killed by a reckless truck driver.

Morgan was a presenter and still managed to keep the crowd rolling with his punchlines.

Morgan was thankful for the well-wishers and promised a return to television and movies soon.

Mad props to Regina King (The Boondocks and American Crime) for winning an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress Limited in Movies and Television and Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy/Drama.

This will be a memorable moment of Viola, Tracy, Regina and Uzo.

The Carmichael Show!

The Carmichael Show will debut on NBC this week. It will feature Jerrod Carmichael, Loretta Devine and David Allan Grier.

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael premieres his sitcom on NBC based off his family. The show is set to go in August for a few episodes. It's the beginning of Fall TV.

NBC is struggling for hits.

The Carmichael Show which will feature Loretta Divine and David Allan Grier will kick off the Fall season of NBC programs. It's a network that is in need of a second life.

It will be on Wednesday night. This is a trial balloon for Summer burn off for NBC. If it succeeds the trial balloon, it will continue through a determined date.

The Carmichael Show is one of the many Black sitcoms to make a presence.

black-ish is the only sitcom on the majors that features a majority Black cast.

Empire is the only drama that features a majority Black cast.

black-ish is a smash comedy featuring Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Laurence Fishburne. ABC put that in the follow up to Modern Family. It was go for second season.

Fox premiered Empire in January. That show broke records. Over 17 million watched the pilot episode. The drama features Terrance Howard and Taraji P. Henson and it's a go for September.

ABC green lights Uncle Buck. It's the Black version of the 1980s classic with John Candy.

This one features Mike Epps and Nia Long. This comes in Spring 2015. It is on the bubble already.

Jerrod Carmichael and Amber Stevens West.

Also Ken Jeong's sitcom Dr. Ken will be the follow to Last Man Standing on Fridays. Jeong is entertainer and physician who executive produced the sitcom. He will do a fictionalize version of his rise to fame.

The sitcom fills the spot Cristela held. ABC cut the series out of Fall 2015. Cristela Alonzo is the first Latina to executive produce, write and star in a sitcom.

Also other sitcoms include Fresh Off The Boat. The sitcom is a go for second season. Eddie Huang, famed hip-hop chef and best selling author is executive producer of the show. The show is a semi-biographical story of Eddie's youth growing up in Orlando listening to hip-hop and mastering the art of culinary.

ABC is also bringing back The Muppets. After the failed Muppets Tonight, the ABC/Disney Execs are hoping that Kermit and Miss Piggy's return will help Tuesday nights.

When The Muppets end its season then ABC premieres The Real O'Neals. It's executive produced by LGBT activist Dan Savage and it will feature Martha Plimpton and Jay R. Ferguson.

The CW will continue the sleeper hit Jane The Virgin. The show featuring Gina Rodriguez is a go.

The comedy-drama on The CW got a little more steam after Gina picked up a Golden Globe for being the best actress in a television show. Jane The Virgin is a show that has a majority Hispanic/Latina cast.

NBC also premieres Hot & Bothered. It will feature Eva Longoria and Jencarlos Canela. The show is a fictionalized version of a telenovela. The star is trying to learn Spanish despite being a lead star. It will feature a majority Hispanic/Latina cast.

Are you going to watch these shows?

Send your feedback to me and S. Baldwin.

In the meantime, I will catch The Carmichael Show on Wednesday nights.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Historical Site!

I am sharing my experience of traveling in Canada.

I went to the town of Dresden, Ontario. It's about 76 miles from Detroit. I was traveling the Highway 401 towards London. I saw the sign that said Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site. 

I couldn't help but go and visit this.

It's a part of Civil Rights History.

The Henson estate. Josiah Henson, a former slave, author, abolitionist, and minister, who, through his 1849 autobiography The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's title character in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.[

The 5-acre (20,000 m2) complex is part of the original 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land purchased in 1841 to establish the Dawn Settlement, a community for escaped slaves.

The original Henson cabin was located on a different location nearby and opened as a museum in the 1940s by an area farmer, William Chapple.

The house was moved to the existing location in 1964 by J.D. Thomson, and subsequently was owned and operated by Kent County, Ontario and then the St. Clair Parkway Commission. Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site has been owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust since 2005.

Henson Family Cemetery is located on the site. The original cabin was moved slightly for the museum and interactive centre. 

I show some pictures and also posted my first YouTube video in five years.

Have you read the epic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by American writer Harriett Beecher Stowe?

Have you visited the National Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati?

Have you read about Mother Moses?

Mrs. Obama Speaks About Racism Toward Her.....

There's a mad-on resentment against Michelle Obama by white America.  Moreso than her husband.  They resent the fact that Mrs. Obama challenge the "aesthetic supremacy"  of white women and they resent that deeply. They feel that Mrs. Obama doesn't belong in the White House period.  White entitlement and supremacy knows no end.

Here's an article from Media Matters condemning Rush Limbaugh's slandering of First Lady Michelle Obama:
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Media Call Out Rush Limbaugh For Racially Charged Attacks On Michelle Obama

 By ALEXANDREA BOGUHN

The conservative radio host attacked Michelle Obama this week for her reference to racial disparities in access to education opportunities like museums during a speech at the April 30 dedication of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Obama praised the Whitney's inaugural exhibit for its attempt to capture the range of cultures that have contributed to American art and called it "particularly powerful for our young people" because it shows them that "their story is part of the American story, and that they deserve to be seen." Such engagement is important, Obama said, because "there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood."

Limbaugh accused Obama of claiming "museums are for white people" and of using the speech to "widen the racial gap." Calling her an "angry First Lady" who wants to "rip this country apart," Rush went on to suggestthat black people simply didn't appreciate museums because they are "not in their cultural upbringing."

Media figures are now blasting Limbaugh for the racist attacks.

The Washington Post's Richard Cohen declared that Limbaugh criticized Obama "for the sin of being black." "The way he looks at it," Cohen wrote, "Obama is not entitled to her experiences, certainly not to talk about it," going on: "[J]ust as Eleanor Roosevelt articulated the experiences and plight of the poor as well as racial and ethnic minorities, so does Michelle Obama articulate the black experience. If that sometimes makes others uncomfortable, it damn well should."

Similarly, The New York Times' Charles Blow blasted Rush and explained how Obama's thoughts on the diversity of museum visitors "was right," pointing to a 2010 report by the Center for the Future of Museums that found "historic patterns of segregation and exclusion as one reason that fewer African-American families instill museum-going habits in their young children." Blow called out Limbaugh for trying to paint "the Obamas as failed racial messiahs at best, and active racial agitators at worst":

But for Limbaugh, this wasn't about museum attendance at all. It was simply another opportunity to excrete the tired banalities about the Obamas as failed racial messiahs at best, and active racial agitators at worst.

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Obama's sin, using [Rush's] line of logic, is that he failed to undo the system of oppression that he had no hand in constructing. It is that 400 years of damage was not undone in two terms. It is that he didn't encourage silence about inequity so that its benefactors could enjoy the cumulative fruit of centuries of racial graft without current-day guilt.

They wanted some mythical receipt of satisfaction of the debt. Let bygones be bygones. All is forgotten and forgiven. Clean slate. Fresh start.

If only it were that simple. But it's not. This whole line of reasoning is racial claptrap.

Such increasing focus on Limbaugh's racially charged attacks coincides with growing advertising woes for the radio host, who has been seeing advertisers flee from his program since his multi-day attack on then-law student Sandra Fluke. Just last month, Emmis Communications announced it was dropping Limbaugh's broadcast from its WIBC lineup, which had aired the radio program for 22 years.

Cincy Mom Decapitates Her Child! [NSFW]

Ohio mother may get the gas house in the tragic killing of her child.

If there was ever a story that brought a tear to my eye, it would be the tragedy in Ohio. This is becoming an international story. A Cincinnati mom murdered her three month old daughter. She would behead her child.

Again bringing into question about mental illness. This tragedy has gripped the nation. This woman may get the LIFE in the iron college or the gas house. The doctors must treat her for a condition that makes her completely psycho.

This 20 year old mother was ordered to not have contact with the child. The family ignored that.

And look what happened...

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to Jeniyah Watkins-Brown.



Her heartbroken father James Brown is speechless. He couldn't even fathom how this woman would kill her own child.

Deasia Watkins is at Deaconess Hospital strapped up. The law has read her the rights and when she is treated for her post-partum psychosis she'll face a judge.

Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters is going to throw the book at her. The 20 year old was arrested before for child endangerment. She was blasting the music and the law was notified.

Jeniyah Watkins-Brown was killed brutally by her mom.

Watkins was belligerent and smelled like marijuana. The Hamilton County Job Children and Family Services told family members that if they were to take custody of this little child, they were not to be in contact with the mother.

Someone didn't listen and this woman got a hold of the baby. She would stab the baby, break her arm and then use the knife to sever her head.

Again, I am angry and sadden by this. Young lives are lost to domestic violence. Mental illness is a problem in America. The government isn't working on solutions to solve this.

The government and Jeniyah's family failed in doing something. Keeping that baby safe.

This is the latest news in America.