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Meet Shawn White, the father of the bullied middle schooler Keaton Jones, who became an overnight internet sensation when his tearful video went viral.
Now that Keaton’s mom Kimberly has been outed as being a confederate flag supporter (and her donation accounts halted), it seems even more deets are dropping about the family… including the fact that Keaton’s dad is a confirmed White Supremacist gang banger!
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Kayla Lewis aka viral vine sensation “Peaches Monroee” is seeking support from the people who made her internet famous… YOU!
Lewis coined the phrase ?on fleek,? in a viral video back in 2014 and now EVERYBODY”S using the term. The phrase ?on fleek? has appeared on apparel and and has even been used in marketing campaigns by brands like Denny?s.
The phrase was so overused that an Atlanta Chick-Fil-A manager even included it on a list of banned words for his employees (click HERE if you missed that).
Lewis has never gotten the credit she deserves and now she wants to get PAID for her contribution to urban slang.
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Nene Leakes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta has been in the news recently about her massive tax debt.
[READ: #RHOA Nene Leakes is Tardy For Her Taxes! Owes Nearly $830k for 2014?]
Now, the O.G. ‘Housewife’ is clapping back at all the online chatter about her financial status and says if you care that much… ‘Start a GoFundMe’.
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Forty years have gone by since the show ended, but the iconic show that took us into the lives of Florida & James Evans’ struggle to raise their 3 kids in a Chicago housing project, still airs today on several networks.
Ester Rolle (Florida Evans) passed away in 1998 but John Amos, Ja’Net Dubois, Jimmy Walker, Bernadette Stanis and Ralph Carter (the actors who portrayed, James, Willona, JJ, Themla and Michael) are pleading with fans to contribute to to their efforts to create a ‘Good Times’ reunion movie project.
While you would think it would be easy for the iconic sitcom stars, they’ve only managed to raise $8,470 of the $1 MILLION they are seeking and their crowd funding campaign over in just a few days.
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Earlier this year Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins and Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas, the remaining members of the girl group known as TLC, asked fans to donate to a kickstarter campaign so that they could complete their final album without label assistance.
[FLASHBACK: CrazySexyBroke? TLC Seeks Your Financial Assistance For 5th and Final Album]
The duo initially sought $150,000 but ended up raising over $430,000 as fans graciously supported their project, which they planned to release by October 2015.
[READ: TLC Exceeds Kickstarter Goal in Less Than 3 Days!!]
Well… here we are in November and there’s been no talk of the album, leading fans to question TLC members online about the situation. T-Boz responded yesterday?and the backlash will go down in internet history…
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The six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray won’t be getting the ‘public assistance’ they are seeking online.
Officers Cesar R. Goodson Jr., Officer Edward M. Nero, Officer Garrett E. Miller, Sgt. Alicia D. White, Lt. Brian W. Rice, Officer William G. Porter were the focus of fundraising efforts by their police union, who?set up a GoFundMe page for the six charged officers with?a goal of $600,000.
[READ: GoFundMe Explosion! A Random Sampling of Online Beggin’… (PHOTOS)]
Only a few hundred dollars had been raised by the officers union before the page was promptly taken down.
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