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Word on the curb is that Ciara and Future may be planning on taking their relationship a step further.
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Ciara is so smitten that in addition to rocking her new beau’s clothes on occasion, she’s now reportedly gotten a tattoo that apparently signifies the cute couple’s undying love and unity…
Details + photos below… Continue Reading…
Just last week, controversy surrounded several educators in the Atlanta Public Schools System, after they were allegedly involved in a standardized testing cheating scandal…
[READ: Mugshot Mania: 35 Atlanta Educators Indicted in Cheating Scandal…]
Coincidentally, a letter of resignation from a teacher in New York has gone viral after the teacher’s lengthy emotional description of the profession.
Gerald J. Conti, a social studies teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, N.Y., submitted his letter of resignation after enduring 40+ years of teaching teens. He speaks out against school reforms that he believes are demeaning the noble profession, and eloquently describes his disappointment, stating:
With regard to my profession, I have truly attempted to live John Dewey?s famous quotation (now likely clich? with me, I?ve used it so very often) that ?Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.?
This type of total immersion is what I have always referred to as teaching ?heavy,? working hard, spending time, researching, attending to details and never feeling satisfied that I knew enough on any topic. I now find that this approach to my profession is not only devalued, but denigrated and perhaps, in some quarters despised.
In light of the APS cheating scandal, it’s interesting to read an educator’s take on how “data driven” education and “standardized” testing has affected both teachers and students.
If you have some time on your hands, take a moment to read this H.S. teacher’s thoughts on what could possibly be a dying profession… Continue Reading…
The Kandi Factory was originally a one-time special, which aired back in 2011.
[FLASHBACK: Reality Show Alert! Kandi Gets Her Own Show… ]
Due to the substantial amount of viewers on the special, Bravo picked up the series for a full season on April 4, 2012 and production for the first season of the series wrapped on December 17, 2012.
[READ: Unedited Studio Audio of Kim Zolciak PROVES Kandi is a Beast in the Studio!! (LISTEN)]
Burruss and all her family and friends hit up Atlanta’s Aurum Lounge last Friday to celebrate and get a glimpse of what’s to come this season.
Guests in attendance included: Celebrity Photographer Derek Blanks, Rasheeda and Kirk Frost (Love & Hip Hop Atlanta), Monyetta Shaw, Khadijiah Rowe (Big Rich Atlanta), Chanita Foster (formerly of Football Wives), DJ-A-One (Kandi Koated Nights), female artist SeVyn, Funky Dineva, and Kandi’s entire Kandi Factory Crew.
Photos below… Continue Reading…
Part one of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion showed aired last night (April 8, 2013). ?The 1 hour episode was the first of the 3-part reunion series for the 5th season of the popular reality show and it did NOT disappoint.
[READ: Behind the Scenes of RHOA Season 5 Reunion (PHOTOS + VIDEO)]
The shade was so thick during the first 10 minutes of the show that it was almost a dayum blackout!
Kenya Moore tried to steal the show by whipping out a large fan each and every time she was stumped with an answer. ?Moore?whipped that thing out, and dramatically fanned herself when confronted…. often even blatantly refusing to respond.
It was an odd display… even for Miss Bi-Polar?Miss U.S.A. 1993.
Kandi Burruss was one of the first to throw a dig at Moore, who is known to “steal” a few original ideas on occasion, by refusing to reveal her wedding date because “someone might steal it”.
That being said… it seems Kenya is still STEALING ideas… Continue Reading…
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Guests at the event included: Model and Entrepreneur Iman; Celebrity Stylist June Ambrose; ESSENCE Magazine Acting Managing Editor, Vanessa Bush; Fashion Legend, Bethann Hardison; DJ Kiss; ESSENCE Magazine Editor-at-Large Emil Wilbekin, Atlantic Records executives Mike Kyser & Julie Greenwald and more.
Photos from Essence Magazine’s May 2013 cover dinner below… Continue Reading…
[READ: RHOA Season 5 Reunion Show Tea! (Spoiler Alert!)]
While most of you are chomping at the bit to find out what Phaedra Parks, Kenya Moore, Nene Leakes, Cynthia Bailey, Kandi Burruss and Porsha Stewart have up their sleeves for tonight, there’s a viral video circulating of the ladies (minus 2) being chastised by Conan O’Brian’s resident pooch, Triumph the insult comic dog.
[PHOTOS: Atlanta Housewives Reveal Season 5 Reunion Show Fashions… (PHOTOS)]
In the classic clip, Cynthia invites the ladies to Peter Thomas’ Bar One restaurant for an impromptu luncheon with Conan, but instead of the late night talk show host, Triumph shows up to roast the ladies.
And he ROASTS the hell outta ’em! 😯
Triumph goes in on Pheadra & Kenya’s booty battle, Kandi’s sex toys and even throws jabs at Nene and she’s not even there.
Watch the hilarious video + a few sneak peeks of the RHOA Season 5 reunion below… Continue Reading…
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