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A few days ago, I received several emails about some random Real Housewives of Atlanta posters spotted around town.
Many were outraged that Bravo would have the nerve to use advertising that played off the #BlackLivesMatter campaign.
[READ: Fan Mail: Offensive ‘Black Wives Matter’ Posters Spotted in Atlanta (PHOTO)]
Andy Cohen even responded on Twitter and said Bravo had nothing to do with it.
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Yall keep joking about they ‘ain’t too proud to beg’ but TLC asked and they received!
Earlier this week, Chilli & T-Boz (the two surviving members of legendary 90s girl group TLC) launched a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to raise $150k for their 5th and final TLC album.
[READ: CrazySexyBroke? TLC Seeks Your Financial Assistance For 5th and Final Album]
Welp… They made it!
In fact, they more than made it… accumulating over $175,000 in financial pledges in less than 3 days (and they have 27 more to go!)
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Y’all thought it was all over after the airing of the season finale but it seems that the drama has followed ‘Sorority Sisters‘ offline.
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. was first to take action against VH1’s controversial Black Greek sorority show by suspended two of it’s members (click HERE if you missed that).
Now Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. has followed suit, but they took it a bit further and has permanently EXPELLED all of the Deltas involved in the show!
You may or may not have heard by now that Real Housewives of Atlanta newbie Claudia Jordan‘s car was broken into a few weeks ago and her laptop was stolen.
According to Rodney Ho of the AJC:
The Atlanta Police Department said it happened on Monday [January 5, 2015] and her Apple Macbook Pro was taken in a large black handbag. She had left the parking garage at 11:45 a.m. that day and had found her car broken into at about 8:30 p.m. She had left her bag in the backseat of her car. A man called her and said he had found her bag, computer gone. He found the bag at 367 Woodward Ave. She tried to track the laptop but it was off at the time the police were there with her, the police said.
Apparently Claudia’s laptop has some good stuff on it, because according to a c&d I received last night, she thinks I have it! 😯
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Duke explores the pain, privilege and prejudice of light-skinned women in the new documentary, ?Light Girls,? which is a spin-off of ?Dark Girls.?
[FLASHBACK: The Shade Debate: Are ‘Dark Girls’ Treated Differently? (WATCH FULL VIDEO)]
The Black community once again addressed ‘colorism,’ and Life Coach Iyanla Vanzant was there to lead the way as she detailed how hurtful words and name calling affects younger people as they move into their adulthood.
Diahann Carroll, Kym Whitley, Essence Atkins, Raven-Symone (who once proclaimed to Oprah her desire to not be ‘labeled’ any color) and more opened up about their harsh experiences as light-skinned black women.
?When I had my own show, I used to tan three or four times a week in a tanning bed to get darker. I did,? Raven-Symone revealed in the new doc in reference to her show, ?That?s So Raven.?
In case you missed it, watch the full documentary below… Continue Reading…
I’ve received several emails about an offensive RHOA poster spotted around Atlanta.
For those who don’t know, The Real Housewives of Atlanta?is the only all-Black franchise of Bravo’s Housewives and it’s also been the highest rated for several seasons now. ?No other franchise of the popular related show even has ONE Black character on the cast.
[READ: RECAP: RHOA S7, Ep11 ‘Divide & Kiki’ (WATCH FULL VIDEO)]
Apparently the network (or their marketing agency) decided that it would be a smart idea to take advantage of that fact in their promo materials and have launched something called #BlackWIVESMatter….
More photos + read emails below… Continue Reading…
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