ERIKA HAROLD: GOP doesn’t want me to run for Congress

Please read this.  The Republican Party has a deep-seated phobia of Black/Biracial people.  The establishment doesn't want us whatsoever.

ERIKA HAROLD: GOP doesn’t want me to run for Congress

This beautiful Sista is what the GOP establishment don't want.  The phobia against Black/Mixed people from the GOP is so deep and ingrained.

Eve Showing A Baby Bump!

Eve and boyfriend Maximillion Cooper.

We continue to cover the DC Shipyard shooting event. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences and prayers to those in this senseless tragedy. We'll keep you informed about the situation.

Man, here's another shocker. The entertainer Eve is pregnant. The pitbull in a skirt is going to have a puppy!

The entertainer Eve Jeffers and her boyfriend Maximillion Cooper announced the news. The rapper's first child and the British media mogul's fifth. He was previously married and has four children.

Eve Jihan Jeffers (born November 10, 1978), better known by her stage name, Eve, is an American Grammy Award winning rapper-songwriter, record producer and actress. Her first three albums have sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

Eve was the first female rap artist to sign to Ruff Ryders in 1998 after the rise of hardcore rap act DMX.

The Ruff Ryders at a time were on top of the music game. DMX and Eve sold the most albums on the label. Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch (who formed The Lox) were successful as a group and released solo albums. Swizz Beatz produced most of the Ruff Ryders albums.

Eve had tried to do a joint project with her former mentor Dr. Dre and release the album under both Aftermath and Ruff Ryders. That deal fell through and she decided to leave the labels and become an independent artist.

Eve is solely focused on acting and her business venues.

She has also achieved success in fashion with her clothing line, Fetish. She is the inaugural winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002 for the song "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", with Gwen Stefani. Eve was number 48 on VH1's "50 Greatest Women Of The Video Era" list. Eve released her fourth studio album entitled "Lip Lock" on May 14, 2013.

As an actress, Eve is best known for her roles as Terri Jones in the films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business, and as Shelley Williams on the UPN television sitcom Eve.

We wish Eve well on her journey to parenthood.

BREAKING: Shooting At The Navy Yard In Washington, DC!

News event happening live.

CNN reports that there's a shooting at the Navy Yard Station in Washington DC.

Around 8:20am, gunfire. There were [people] injured.

This time we're not jumping to conclusions on this ongoing issue.

What's confirmed is the mayor of Washington, DC and President Barack Obama are notified about the situation. What is known that emergency crew are on the scene.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lost in this tragedy. We will continue to keep developments as they follow.

Beyoncé's Brazilian Wax Pull!

Entertainer Beyoncé took to the social networks to show off her haircut. She was on tour and a fan grabbed her.

Entertainer was rattled by a crazed fan who pulled her off the stage.

After attending the marriage of Labron and Savannah James, the world famous pop star goes back on her concert tour. She heads down to San Paulo, Brazil for her performance.

I guess the fans really love them some Beyoncé.

An aggressive fan pulled the singer while she was performing her songs. Quick reaction from her personal bodyguards quickly removed the fan's grip off her.

Queen Bee got bodied.

The Daily Mail reports that the incident occurred when Beyoncé moved around the platform and leaned forward to sing to the crowd.

While most of the ticket-holders were happy just to bask in the singer's glow, the shirtless man became overwhelmed by the attention and decided to try and engage Beyoncé in a hug.

The entertainer was shaken by the aggressive male fan.

After Beyoncé's security guards pulled her back onto the stage, Beyoncé quickly resumed singing and dancing in her sequined blue jumpsuit during the performance at the Estadio do Morumbi stadium following the incident.

'It's all right,' she told the crowd as she picked up a Brazilian flag that was tossed onto the stage. She moved toward the man after resuming singing and told him: 'It's alright, it's alright.'

The video after the jump.



Heads will roll after that one. But seriously, this is the price of being an icon. You get the halo! Figuratively speaking, of course. Of course, she had short hair! So obviously she should have kept the fake weave out of the hands of crazed fans!

Anyway, the entertainer and her husband media mogul/rapper Jay-Z had to pay their respects to a member of their entourage who was killed in Miami.

Jay-Z and Beyonce with bodyguard killed by Miami police in apparent break-in.

Norman Oosterbroek, 43, who had guarded Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Beyoncé, broke into a Miami mansion.

Miami-Dade police tased Oosterbroek after a confrontation. He died after the tasing. The man was apparently under the influence and was naked.

Nicknamed the “Dutch Giant” because of his tall, 280-pound frame, the human shield was tasered by Pinecrest police while he was allegedly hitting the resident and ingesting suspected drugs. He died a short time later at a nearby hospital.

Oosterbroek got his start in the business guarding Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

And of course her old flame is pissed that he dumped a future icon of entertainment. He wants to know if Queen Bee could loan him a couple of bucks now!

Lyndell Locke wants to borrow a dollar.

He shows some sort of remorse for his former flame Beyoncé. After all, he dumped her to find another woman. The entertainer comes from a Christian background and was saving sex for marriage.

Lyndall Locke says he is that guy.

Locke recently spoke in an interview with British media about his relationship with Beyoncé when she was an aspiring singer growing up in Houston. The two were allegedly childhood sweethearts who first met at a youth church in 1993. They supposedly shared their first kiss at a Brian McKnight concert and went to prom together in 1997. But when Beyoncé's star began to rise as part of Destiny's Child, Locke said he began to wander.

"The bigger star she became, the more I didn’t think I was good enough," he said in the sit-down, printed in British tabloid The Sun.

"One night, when she was out of town, I went to a bar with friends and ended up sleeping with another woman. Over the course of a few years I cheated on her about five times, but I never told her until after we broke up."

Apparently, Beyoncé had vowed to stay a virgin until marriage. Even though she and Locke were never intimate, he claims he "respected" her choice.

“Who cheats on a woman as beautiful as Beyoncé? Well, I am that man and it’s something that’ll always haunt me," he said, adding, “Once she began dating Jay-Z I knew we were doomed and I could never win her back. But I know that no matter what, she will always love me."

While Locke can certainly dream, it's doubtful the superstar singer has given their relationship much thought (if any at all).

Beyoncé appears on Sony Music Group.
Jay-Z appears on Roc-A-Fella Records and Roc Nation, LLC.

Conservative Outrage Over An Averted Crisis In Syria!

I bet President Barack Obama's memoirs will include his disgust for Republicans standing in the way of progress.

The president dodged a crisis in the Middle East. The United States and Russia have made a compromise with Syria to give up its chemical weapons. The world can rest easy, there's no international war.

The crisis in Syria is an ongoing issue. The country is in the brinkmanship of a civil war. Weapons of mass destruction were used in the harming of innocent people.

The Associated Press reports that United Nation weapon inspectors have determined that 14 events occurred with chemical weapons.

Bassar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

The United States found out about this and was none to happy. America was on the brink of throwing their weight into the matter. Many people were concerned that American troops would be on the ground in Syria. That wasn't the case. The military were going to do strikes on chemical weapon facilities and air bases to cripple any attempts by the Syrian government to move weapons to a "safe heaven".

President Barack Obama warns the Syria leader Bashar al-Assad that if he doesn't get the ball rolling, the United States may strike.

To the "America First" crowd, they think it's a sign of weakness from President Barack Obama.

Their new hero of the conservative movement is Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin.

The conservatives should have some love for the Russian leader. He cheated an election to get back into power. He placed himself into involvements that he had no business meddling in. He is staunchly anti-gay, and signed off some of the nation's most discriminatory laws towards the LGBT residents of Russia.

He's hosted the Olympics and the people cheered for that.

Over here in the United States, conservatives are freaking out the president's handling of a crisis.

The two most annoying legislators on television. The senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham constantly whine on GOP Sundays about the president's handling in Syria.

Like this would be the umpteenth time conservatives would outrage over an issue that involve President Barack Obama. They've freaked out over the Olympics. They freaked out over the healthcare law.

They've freak out over a child prayer, a Lifeline phone, asking Congress to get approval for force, letting the ball get into Putin's court, and adverting a crisis overseas.

They've freaked out over his reelection, the sequester (they've cheered for), his daughters taking a vacation, him taking a vacation, him at the golf course, Michelle Obama's healthy food policies, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, his birth certificate, and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

If I didn't know better, I think the conservatives are reacting because of race!

Nah, it's just his policies. There's no jobs. People are lazy. America is losing its grip on being the world's superpower.

This is how Republicans think! They want to see the first Black president fail.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina), Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Michigan), Congressman Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Congressman Pete King (R-New York), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Congressman Tom Price (R-Georgia), Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), and numerous agitators in the conservative media have overheated their rhetoric.

They wanted a war in Syria. But since this was Obama, they don't want to support him.

The bonehead Congress. Michele Bachman, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Mike Lee are Tea Party members who say some dumb ass shit. McConnell is the minority leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate. McConnell is shyster who panders to the right because he's facing a tougher primary this time.

They're upset that the president would have taken us to war. They're upset over the president letting the UN and Russia settle the matter without a weapon being used or a foreign soldier being killed.

The apparent strategic deal to stop the Syrian military from using chemical weapons is like a sign of weakness.

Even though in a war, there's no good guys or bad guys. It's just a lot of weapons and a whole lot of dead bodies.

Conservatives are a headache. Republicans are on the slow walk to political suicide.

Trying to defeat the first Black president is going to rile up Black and Hispanic voters. I bet ya, that if this continues on, I bet the Democrats may rally a stronger turnout to beat back the Republicans again.

And this example of the president adverting a crisis shows how desperate the conservatives are to tarnish his legacy. These individuals are brainwashing their gullible supporters into thinking the president isn't do something or doing too much of something.

I am satisfied that the president used his muscle to get Russia to take control of this.

Why should we be the police man of the world?

We have enough problems over here without another war.

We don't want to end up doing the Bush Doctrine in Obama's name.

Tell the story Cenk Uyger. The Young Turks explains the overheated reactions to an averted crisis.

New Miss America 2014

Congratulations, Nina Davuluri!

Forget the haters, this woman is so amazingly beautiful and talented!

Please check out on the historic event at E!'s Miss America 2014.

Charlotte Police Shoot And Kill Unarmed College Football Star!

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are investigating the shooting of unarmed resident and former FAMU football player Jonathon Ferrell.

The investigation is on. A police officer is getting a pink slip and may get time in the iron college after he couldn't muster up enough for a cover-up. He shot and killed a former college football star who was unarmed and may have been looking for help after a car wreck.

Jonathan Ferrell was football player for Florida A &M University. Ferrell was a worker at Dillards and Best Buy in the Charlotte area. He would have turned 25 next month.

He was involved in car wreck and he was seeking help. Ferrell crashed his car in an area around Charlotte, North Carolina. He may have damaged his phone or didn't have one on him when he was seeking help.

He probably was dazed and confused because the impact of the car crash was severe. Ferrell had to climb out the back panel of his vehicle.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police were on a call about someone "breaking and entering" in the area. A woman called the police on the report of a Black man "acting suspiciously" and he was knocking on doors repeatedly.

The officers spotted Ferrell running towards them. One officer fired a stun gun upon him. The stun gun didn't stop him, so another officer used his firearm and discharged. That firearm discharge kills Farrell.

Ferrell was unarmed.



The police officers claimed that he "ran up" on them. Then they claimed he "charged at them in a physical matter". And they've may have claimed that "he was carrying something (unlawfully advanced)".

Officer Randell Kerrick's mugshot.

The woman who called the police finally realized that a bloody up man isn't a criminal, but a victim was shocked about the situation. She claimed that she thought at the door was her husband. When she didn't recognized the person, she slammed the door in his face, hit the panic button and dialed 911.


Police acting on a call did what they were told to do. But somehow, the police officer who fired his gun didn't follow protocol in the apprehension of a suspect.

She did the right thing. But I am guessing that in America, a White person who sees a Black man in distress is considered a Trayvon Martin in her mind. After all Trayvon Martin was minding his business, but according to racial extremists, he's just another thug.

Jonathon Ferrell is just a former college football player. He was asking for help and walked to get help. The neighbors didn't see nothing but a "threat" and wanted police to handle the matter.

The police charged a two year officer for voluntary manslaughter. Randell Kerrick who is 27 turned himself in for the charge. He was released on bond and is on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Thornell Little the officer who deployed the taser was placed on administrative leave.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police issued a statement Saturday night, saying evidence revealed Officer Kerrick's use of force was excessive and fit the criteria for involuntary manslaughter. Police say their investigation shows Kerrick did not have to fire his weapon during the incident.

"Our hearts go to Ferrell family, quite naturally, as well as the many members of the CMPD family. This is never something easy," Chief  Rodney Monroe said. Monroe also said it was with a heavy heart and significant regrets that it has come to this. But says he believes the facts led to this conclusion.

Since it's common for a police officer to draw a weapon. Once it was fired, the officer is place on leave. The officer must report to his supervisors and write statements determining whether he used justifiable force in apprehending. Excessive force is a zero tolerance in the America's police organization.

When police are caught in a situation in which one of their officers kill a person of color, they're automatically thinking that the reactions from the public are going to be negative. They believe that civil rights groups and Rev. Perm will be involved. Police believe than an outcome in favor of them may spark a racial riot.

Some police officers believe that Black and Latino men are "natural born criminals".

Rodney Moore, Chief of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police

You remember I've said that Black and Latino men have to at least achieve the milestone of being at least 25 years old to say they've achieved a goal.

Many crimes in urban America kill men of color who are under 25.

Family and friends of Ferrell tell The Charlotte Observer that he was a a quiet, humble player, more of an introvert. He just moved to the area and was hoping to live a successful life. He wasn't a criminal.

Charlotte is split by three Congressmen. Democrat Mel Watt, and Republicans Rick Hudson and Bob Pittenger. The area where this incident occurred was in a Republican district.

Do you think that the Republican would get to the bottom of this incident?

Do you think this incident will inspire the lawmaker to support reasonable gun control laws?

Do you think that the Republican lawmakers will blast President Barack Obama if he was asked about the situation in Charlotte?

Do you think that police brutality and the rigger happy mentality by officers creates the distrust within the Black and Latino community?

Afrojoe Dawookie's comprehensive commentary of the situation.

We Still Remember The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing!

We will never forget about the four girls who lost their lives in a horrible act of terrorism.
(Clockwise from top left, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair)

We mark 50 years of a horrible tragedy. The 16th Street Baptist Church in the city of Birmingham, Alabama is a national historic site. The site was ground zero of a horrible incident. Four innocent girls died in an act of terror.

After the March on Washington, many racial extremists were not happy about the meddling of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the NAACP, and President John F. Kennedy.

They wanted to send a message to those who stood in the way of Jim Crow.

Two men who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan set a bomb around the side of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

The bomb went off during a nice Sunday in September.

It would kill four young girls. Girls who were doing what Americans would do on Sunday mornings, attend church. Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14), were killed.

Following the tragic event, white strangers visited the grieving families to express their sorrow. At the funeral for three of the girls (one family preferred a separate, private funeral), Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about life being "as hard as crucible steel." More than 8,000 mourners, including 800 clergymen of all races, attended the service. No city officials attended.

The bombing continued to increase worldwide sympathy for the civil rights cause. On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ensuring equal rights of African Americans before the law.

The 16th Street Baptist Church is a national historic site.

These young girls futures were cut short by a bunch of extremists.

The United Klan of America, a breakaway group that associated with the Klan in the past had four men involved in it. The Klan was at it peak of strength during the 1950s all the way to the mid 1970s.

Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Chambliss were the individuals involved in planting a box of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the church, near the basement.

Civil rights activists blamed George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, for the killings. Birmingham was a violent city and was nicknamed “Bombingham”, because the city had experienced more than 50 bombings in black institutions and homes since World War I.

A witness identified Robert Chambliss,  as the man who placed the bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. He was arrested but only charged with possessing a box of 122 sticks of dynamite without a permit.

Chambliss received a hundred-dollar fine and a six-month jail sentence for having the dynamite.

At the time, no federal charges were filed on Chambliss.

All that would change when the FBI finally took interest into the case. FBI investigations gathered evidence pointing to four suspects: Robert Chambliss, Thomas E. Blanton Jr, Herman Cash, and Bobby Frank Cherry. According to a later report from the Bureau, “By 1965, we had serious suspects—namely, Robert E. Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash, and Thomas E. Blanton, Jr., were KKK members. Most of them claimed they've renounced their past and were innocent in the incident.

Witnesses were reluctant to talk out of fear for retaliation and physical evidence was lacking. Also, at that time, information from our surveillances was not admissible in court. As a result, no federal charges were filed in the ’60s.”

Although Chambliss was convicted on an explosives charge, no convictions were obtained in the 1960s for the killings.

Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the investigation after he took office in 1971, requesting evidence from the FBI and building trust with key witnesses who had been reluctant to testify in the first trial. The prosecutor had been a student at the University of Alabama when he heard about the bombing in 1963.

“I wanted to do something, but I didn’t know what.”

Chambliss was indicted in the murder of all four girls, tried and convicted of the first-degree murder of Denise McNair, and sentenced to life in prison. He died eight years later in prison.

Thomas E. Blanton, Jr. was tried in 2001 and found guilty at age 62 of four counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Herman Cash died in 1994 without having been charged. Bobby Frank Cherry, also a former Klansman, was indicted in 2001 along with Blanton. Judge James Garrett of Jefferson County Circuit Court ruled "that Mr. Cherry's trial would be delayed indefinitely because a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation concluded that he was mentally incompetent.”

He was later convicted in 2002, sentenced to life in prison, and died in 2004

Sarah Collins, the sister of Addie Mae would survive the bombing and become a civil rights leader and speaker.

A tragedy that sparked the Civil Rights movement.

The president, Congress and many Civil Rights leaders show solidarity on this day.

We here at Journal de la Reyna will never forget the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

We send our condolences to the families of those innocent young girls.

Kanye West's Diva Attitude May Land Him In The Iron College!

Entertainer smacks more than his hands.

The entertainer is promoting his acts Big Sean, John Legend and Pusha T new albums and his new child North.

He and reality turdelebrity Kim Kardashian had a child this year and the couple are planning on moving to France.

Kanye West assaults the paparazzi.  

The entertainer usually rants and raves for shock value. He's notorious for showing out in the crowds.

But this time, his shock value may land him in the courtroom and soon the iron college.

The entertainer was spotted assaulting a paparazzi. This time it's going to not only cost him a few stacks for the injures and replacement of equipment, but six months as parent.

He was spotted in Los Angeles and the paparazzi took a picture of him and probably asked an insulting question towards him. And you know what he does from there. He's pummels the guy.

The Associated Press reports that prosecutors have charged Kanye West with misdemeanor battery over a July scuffle with a celebrity photographer at Los Angeles International Airport.

City attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says West was also charged Friday with one count of attempted grand theft. The rapper's arraignment has been set for Oct. 10 but he is not required to appear if he has an attorney.

Photographer Daniel Ramos claims West punched him in an unprovoked attack and wrestled his camera to the ground during an incident at the airport on July 19.

Kanye West, 2 Chainz and Big Sean.

Prosecutors declined to file felony charges against West, but city prosecutors decided to pursue misdemeanor charges. Each carries a penalty of up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine.

An email sent to West's record label for comment was not immediately returned.

West was raised in a middle-class household in Chicago, Illinois, and began rapping in the third grade, becoming involved in the city's hip hop scene. West attended art school for one semester before dropping out to pursue music entirely in the late 1990s. Although his real desire was to become a rapper, record executives did not take West seriously, viewing him as a producer first and foremost. After being signed to Roc-A-Fella in 2002, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to commercial and critical acclaim. The baroque-inspired Late Registration followed in 2005, and Graduation in 2007. West switched rapping for singing on his dark 2008 effort 808's & Heartbreak, and embraced maximalism on 2010's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Following several collaborations, West released his sixth album, Yeezus, in 2013.

He is closely associated with his mentor, media mogul Jay-Z.

His G.O.O.D. Music label signed on John Legend, Big Sean, Pusha T, and legendary rapper Q-Tip to his label. He's a rapper, producer, director and media mogul. He's known for his controversial antics while on camera.

Here's two controversial things from YouTube. His rant during a listening party for Pusha T.



And his video Blood On The Leaves.

Singing Hearts!

John Legend marries swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen.

John Legend is a married man. The American singer has officially married Chrissy Teigen in a wedding ceremony in Italy.

The legendary singer was one of the first artists signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music and Sony Music. 

He is a nine time Grammy award singer and entertainer. He also is a goodwill ambassador and a huge supporter and friend of President Barack Obama. 

Born John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978) in Springfield, Ohio. He is one of four children of Phyllis, a seamstress, and Ronald Stephens, a factory worker and former National Guardsman.

Paparazzi snapped the picture of the couple in Italy getting married. 

Throughout his childhood, Legend was homeschooled on and off by his mother. At age four, he began playing the piano and at age seven, he performed with his church choir. In 1987, when he was ten, his parents divorced. At the age of twelve, Legend attended North High School, from which he graduated four years later. Upon his salutatorian graduation, Legend was offered scholarships to Harvard University, Georgetown University and Morehouse College.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied English with an emphasis on African American literature.

While in college, he helmed Counterparts, a co-ed jazz and pop a cappella group as president and musical director. Legend's lead vocals on the group's recording of Joan Osborne's "One of Us" received critical acclaim landing the song on the track list of the 1998 Best of Collegiate a Cappella compilation CD.

Legend was also a member of the prestigious senior societies Sphinx Senior Society and Onyx Senior Honor Society while an undergraduate at Penn. While in college, Legend was introduced to Lauryn Hill by a friend. Hill hired him to play piano on "Everything Is Everything", a song from her album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

During this period, Legend took time to hold a number of shows around Philadelphia, eventually expanding his audience base to New York, Boston, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. He finished college in 1999, and thereafter began producing, writing, and recording his own music. He released two albums independently; his self-titled demo (2000) and Live at Jimmy's Uptown (2001), which he sold at his shows. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Legend began working as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

During this time, he began working on his demo and began sending his work to various record labels.

In 2001, Devo Springsteen introduced Legend to then up-and-coming hip-hop artist Kanye West; Legend was hired to sing during the hooks of West's music. 

Common, Kanye West and John Legend.

After signing to West's label, he chose his stage name from an idea that was given to him by poet J. Ivy, due to what he perceived "old-school sound". J. Ivy stated, "I heard your music and it reminds me of that music from the old school. You sound like one of the legends. As a matter of fact, that's what I'm going to call you from now on! I'm going to call you John Legend." After J. Ivy continued to call him by the new moniker "John Legend," others quickly caught on, including Kanye West, and the name stuck. In spite of John's reluctance to change his stage name to John Legend he eventually announced his new artist name as John Legend.

People Magazine reports that John Legend and Chrissy Teigen made it official when they exchanged vows in front of friends and family in Lake Como, Italy on Saturday. 

The model bride wore a strapless ivory Vera Wang gown with an open back, lifted tulle skirt and hand-cut petal embroidered details, which she described to PEOPLE as "kind of [having] a sexier feel at the top, like a swimsuit, so I have to get my body ready. I have to buckle down." 

Teigen changed into another strapless ivory Vera Wang dress for the reception – the design featured a micro-pleated bodice and sheared organza full skirt. 

And at the after-party she had a third Vera Wang design of the night – a crimson strapless mermaid gown with a hand-draped bodice, inverted flange skirt and embroidered crystal wheat detail. 

The nuptials follow a seven-year courtship for the couple, who became engaged in 2011 while vacationing together in the Maldives. 

Earlier this year, Teigen, 27, told PEOPLE her Grammy-winning groom, 34, would perform his new song "All of Me" at the wedding, which was written for her. 

John Legend, Jamie Foxx, Nick Jonas and Seal perform at The White House. John Legend is a friend of Barack and Michelle Obama.

"He writes a lot of love songs, but this one is specifically about me so it makes it more special," Teigen told PEOPLE in May. "My Dad even cries when I play it for him in the car." 

The model bride was so careful about preparing her figure for the frock that her bachelorette party included Pilates classes. 

But despite her rigorous attention to her physique, she says she was much more laid-back about wedding planning overall. 

"[John] and I have been working and traveling so much that we just let our wedding planner do everything," Teigen told PEOPLE in May. "We're not neurotic about it. I just want to finally see all of my friends in one area." 

But she cops to being a bit more involved in one aspect of the wedding – the cake. 

"I'm not a big sweets person, which is why I'm really specific about the cake, which is going to be a really multi-layer cake," she told PEOPLE in June. "It's layers and layers of crepe and pastry creme in between with raspberry sauce." 

With the wedding behind them, perhaps now is the time the couple will start thinking about all those kids Legend told PEOPLE he wants. 

"We'd like to have kids," he said in May. "I grew up in a family with four kids, so I think three or four is a good number. We don't plan it. We just do it."

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish John Legend and Chrissy Teigen well. The Stephens are a perfect couple. Beautiful and very intelligent couple.

Ballin'!

LaBron and Savannah James. The NBA star married his longtime girlfriend this weekend.

LaBron James and Dr. Dre.

Miami Heat's LaBron James is officially a married man. He married his longtime sweetheart Savannah Brinson. The two have children together.

The Miami Heat power forward has went forth to put "ring on it" and invited his friends and family to the coastal California to celebrate a weekend of love. James married Brinson at the Grand Del Mar Hotel in San Diego on September 14, 2013.

James was engaged to Brinson since 2001, proposing to her at a party to celebrate New Year’s Eve and his birthday. James, 28, proposed to his longtime girlfriend, 27, at a party on New Year's Eve 2011, and later admitted on Oprah's Next Chapter that he was nervous. "It felt like a finals game."

Entertainers Jay-Z and Beyonce were in attendance of this weeding event.

Fellow teammate Dwayne Wade and actress Gabrielle Union were there.

NBA players Chris Paul and Carmello Anthony were there.

And the junk food media is awww and ooh over how lovely the couple are.

They currently reside in Coconut Grove, a Miami suburb, where James bought a three-story mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay for $9 million.


People magazine reports that the couple sent out Save the Date notes in March for the three-day celebration, which the New York Post reports was masterminded by wedding planner Preston Bailey, who also planned the Lord of the Rings-themed $9 million nuptials of Silicon Valley mogul Sean Parker.

Guests were welcomed to the celebration with a barbecue on Friday evening before the afternoon wedding on Saturday, and the festivities are expected to wind up with a farewell brunch on Sunday, according to reports.

Brinson, who has two sons with James – LeBron Jr., 8, and Bryce, 5 – told Harper's Bazaar in 2010 that she's dreamed of being a bride since the age of 6 and that when she married James, "I want it to be forever."

"A person like myself always needs a great sidekick and a person you can rely on no matter the circumstances. And she's that," James added. "She's got my back and I love her for that."

Jay-Z and Kanye West were promoting a XXL Magazine and they've asked LaBron James to join them.

You know I got to give love to LaBron and Savannah James. We here at Journal de la Reyna wish the couple well.

Hopefully we don't see any reality television programs sharing their lives?

LeBron Raymone James (/ləˈbrɒn/; born December 30, 1984), nicknamed "King James", is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) and weighing in at 250 lb (113 kg), he has played the small forward and power forward positions. James has won two NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, two NBA Finals MVP Awards, two Olympic gold medals, an NBA scoring title, and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, nine All-NBA teams, and five All-Defensive teams, and is the Cleveland Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer.

James played high school basketball at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, where he was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar.

Ted Cruz Channeled His Inner Jesse Helms!

Ted Cruz wants to be the new "Jesse Helms".

And soon I'll see the crumbling hands in a political ad by the likes of this asshole Republican senator from Texas.

If you're a smart person, you already know that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has no legislative accomplishments nor successes as a leader. All he done in the months as a being freshman lawmaker is be a pain in the ass of the Republican Party. He just says stuff that make him and the Republican Party look even more stupider.

Now for him to channel that dead right wing bigot, former North Carolina senator Jesse Helms is the latest stupidity from the junk food media's "darling of the right".

Say if he wants tor run for president, will he regret saying stuff like this?

Do we actually need "100 more Jesse Helms"?

A man who would actually use "dog whistle politics" to beat an opponent. A man who would be considered a proud "hater".

Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001. A leading conservative, he helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidates. He died in 2008.

A journalist by training, Helms was the longest-serving popularly elected Senator in North Carolina's history, and was widely credited with shifting the one-party state dominated by the Democrats into a competitive two-party state. The Helms-controlled National Congressional Club's state-of-the-art direct mail operation raised millions for Helms and other conservative candidates allowing Helms to outspend his opponents in most of his campaigns.

An unreconstructed Southern conservative, he began his political career in the Democratic Party in the days when many white Southern politicians championed racial segregation. He moved to the Republican party in the 1970s. Helms was the most stridently conservative politician of the post-1960s era, especially in opposition to federal intervention into what he considered state affairs (integration, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act). Helms tried, with a 16-day filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.

Helms was credited even by his most vociferous opponents with providing excellent constituent services through his Senate office.

As long-time chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he demanded a staunchly anti-communist foreign policy that would reward America's friends abroad, and punish its enemies. His relations with the State Department were often acrimonious, and he blocked numerous presidential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

In domestic affairs, Helms promoted industrial development in the South, seeking low taxes and few labor unions so as to attract northern and international corporations to relocate to North Carolina.

On social issues, Helms was a traditionalist. He was a "master obstructionist" who relished his nickname, "Senator No".

He opposed, at various times, civil rights, disability rights, feminism, gay rights, affirmative action, abortion, and government support for contemporary art with graphic sexuality.

Helms brought an "aggressiveness" to his conservatism, as in his rhetoric against homosexuality, and employed racially charged language in his campaigns and editorials. He combined cultural, social and economic conservatism which often helped his legislation win overwhelming support. The Almanac of American Politics once wrote that "no American politician is more controversial, beloved in some quarters and hated in others, than Jesse Helms"

Say what you want about this guy, I am assuming Blacks voted this right wing bigot.

Senator Ted Cruz is working on being a obstructionist. He and Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) are competing with Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) for airtime. There's a civil war between the party and the Republicans are feuding with each other.

Besides the feud with President Barack Obama, the Republicans can't stop themselves from being obstructionists with each other.

Cruz is the first Texas Hispanic Republican senator elected to office. Cruz is closely associated with the Tea Party movement. He's often criticized by the likes of McCain and Graham as being a "wacko bird". 

For Ted Cruz to channel Helms, it's prime reason for the Democrats to activate their base and help defeat him and those who follow him.