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Amazing Short Film Challenges Beauty Ideals On Skin Color
By patrice | March 28, 2015
By: Naturally Triece
In recent discussions about mainstream beauty, it is not uncommon to hear many media outlets talk about the prominence of certain body types, confronting types of disorders like anorexia and bulimia at the same time.
In the short film, “Yellow Fever,” Kenyan artist and film maker Ng’endo Mukii explores and confronts the relationships between a woman and her skin color, hair type and the type of world that she lives in when taking on the mainstream standards of beauty that can be exposed to the impressionable minds of the young.
“While growing up, I would come across women who practiced skin bleaching, and often had a condescending internal reaction to them,” Mukii explained in a recent email sent to the Huffington Post.
http://naturallymoi.com/2015/03/amazing-short-film-challenges-beauty-ideals-on-skin-color/
Bravo Reality TV Star Stuns Fans With Revelation of Stage 3 Cancer By staff | March 29, 2015
Reported by Angela L. Braden
The upcoming season of Bravo’s hit reality television show, “Blood, Sweat, and Heels” won’t have the typical frivolous, emotional drama that many reality television shows display from week to week. The show will deal with a real life issue that will surely touch the lives of both the cast and their viewers.
In the upcoming season, Daisy Lewellyn reveals she was diagnosed with stage 3 bile duct cancer. The reality television star allows cameras to follow her throughout her cancer treatment, revealing some very heartfelt emotions as she fights for her life.
When Lewellyn initially signed on to do the reality television show, she didn’t know she had cancer in her body. It wasn’t until she was doing press for the show, someone noticed something about Daisy’s eyes that was unusual.
“I was doing press for season one and my makeup artists noticed that my eyes had this crazy green color,” Lewellyn told OK! Magazine. “I assumed I was just tired — but it turned out I had a tumor in my bile duct. It’s super rare.”
In an interview with TheGrio.com, Lewellyn said hearing about “cancer” is one thing, but having it “fall in your lap” is another thing completely. She expressed how shocking it was to be told she had cancer.
http://naturallymoi.com/2015/03/bravo-reality-tv-star-stuns-fans-with-revelation-of-stage-3-cancer/
DreamWorks Finally Has a Black, Female Lead in an Animated Film
Raveen Johnson
Posted on March 28, 2015 by The Reel Network in Black History, Entertainment, Opinion, Positive
by Raveen Johnson
If you have not been keeping your ear to the streets (or to your television), then you are not aware of the new animated film “Home.” DreamWorks is doing something new with this film, and this something is long overdue.
“Home” is a 3D animated film about a young girl named Tip who is on a quest to reunite her human race while helping her alien friend Oh reunite his Boov alien race. There is not anything complex to that plot and, for the most part, it is your typical storyline for a children’s film. The big deal, though, is that Tip is being played by Rihanna.
Rihanna serves as the first black female protagonist in a DreamWorks film, and she will be one of the first few women to grace the Hollywood theaters as the leading character. What makes this even more great is that Tip is a beautiful, chocolate brown little girl with bouncy, curly natural hair. If that is not one heck of a representation, than I am not sure what is.
While it is pretty sad that it took this long for our little girls to be represented in leading roles, we cannot focus on what should have been. Right now we are celebrating Tip’s character and Rihanna’s hand in that.
http://thereelnetwork.net/dreamworks-finally-has-a-black-female-lead-in-an-animated-film/#sthash.aCT9PM7Q.dpuf
Carole Troll @Thejazzchick
I’ve realized yet another benefit of the Obama presidency: The big reveal. America revealing who we truly are. Painful? Yes. But so needed.
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Study: Gay Black Men More Likely to Earn a Higher Salary Than Straight Black Men
Reported by Ashley Naples
It is hard enough being a Black man in the United States, and ordinarily, one would expect being a gay Black man to make things even more difficult. But being a Black man and gay at the same time actually brings some benefits in the corporate world, according to a Princeton University study.
Researchers from the study led by sociologist David Pedulla set out to explore what effects race and seχuality have on the chances of being considered for jobs and on starting salaries. In the end, they made the controversial observation that a gay African-American man stands a better chance of landing jobs and getting better pay than his heterosexual counterpart.
The finding is rather contrary to what some people would have expected to be the outcome. Being Black and gay is commonly considered a double disadvantage in society based on the fact that you are essentially a member of minority groups on two fronts. Several studies have shown the disadvantages that a man can face when he is Black and gay. It was observed in a popular study published in 2003 that African-American men of any seχuality with a clean slate face more difficulty getting jobs than White men with records of crimes. Another study also found that Black teens who are gay are more likely to become homeless than their gay peers from other races.
These previous findings make one wonder how the Princeton researchers came to their conclusion.
To arrive at the result, a resúmé test was conducted involving hundreds of employers across the country. Pedulla sent resumes to 231 White employers asking them to suggest a starting salary for a fictional position for the applicants. The resúmés used either a typical White male name, Brad Miller, or a Black male name, Darnell Jackson. Half of the resúmés listed the applicant as the president of a “Student Advisory Council,” while the remaining half described the applicant as president of the “Gay Student Advisory Council.”
From the responses generated, Pedulla and his team observed that gay Black men were more likely to receive the same starting salaries as heterosexual White men. Gay White men and straight Black men were considered for lesser salaries.
http://financialjuneteenth.com/study-gay-black-men-more-likely-to-earn-a-higher-salary-than-straight-black-men/
Afrobelle @AfroBelle_
@PublicFR Merci de comparer ma coif de ts ls jrs & de milliers de femmes aux cheveux crépus, à des dessous de bras pic.twitter.com/u4nlIQdKMC
pixie paramour @lethaljoker
#LRT fuck this shit, a French magazine actually compared Solange’s hair to armpit hair. I don’t even have words for this.
Muse Musington @huegolden
“COIFFEÉ COMME UN DESSOUS DE BRAS” = ARMPIT HAIR. @PublicFR thought insulting millions of Black women’s hair was ok. pic.twitter.com/rnfcOjN8sz
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
@PragObots Any number of events that celebrate White women all year long but they’re all in their feelings about Black Girls Rock? GTFOH.
PragmaticObotsUnite @PragObots
Ignorant mags like @PublicFR equating the natural texture of Black women’s hair to armpit hair is why we need #BlackGirlsRock.
Eric Bogan @bogan3253
@PragObots cuz if we don’t elevate ourselves, sho nuff mags like @PublicFR won’t hesitate to insult and trash us.
https://twitter.com/macon44/status/581510601219936256
oh Rafael
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Cruz Pushes Back on Inexperience Charge: I Wasn’t Just a ‘Community Organizer’
by Evan McMurry | 10:04 am, March 29th, 2015
State of the Union temporary host Dana Bashpointed out to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Sunday morning that he and President Barack Obamashared notable similarities in their biographies and qualifications before the seeking the White House (an example of the limits of political analogy). Given that the GOP has made so much hay over Obama’s supposed “inexperience,” how, Bash asked, could they nominate Cruz?
“In his time in the Senate he had basically been a backbencher; he had not been leading on any issues of any significance,” Cruz said. “In my time in the Senate you can accuse me of being a lot of things but a backbencher is not one of them.”
Cruz argued that his pre-Senate experience dwarfed Obama’s.
“Unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate,” he said. “I spent 5 1/2 years as the solicitor general of Texas…I supervised and led every appeal for the state of Texas in a 4,000-person agency with over 700 lawyers. Over the course of 5 1/2 years, over and over again Texas led the nation defending conservative principles and winning.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-pushes-back-on-inexperience-charge-i-wasnt-just-a-community-organizer/
https://twitter.com/PragObots/status/582289648287793152/photo/1
Sleepy Hollow Fans:
“Sleepy Hollow” Season 2 Post-Mortem: Part 1
Posted on Mar 20, 2015
I took on the challenge to rewatch Season 2 of Sleepy Hollow to see just how good or bad the season actually was without the fandom influences of #AbbieMillsDeservesBetter and other fan-based movements. I wanted to see the series just like how the average non-fandom viewer would. I even took notes. The results were interesting.
Part 1
http://blackgirlnerds.com/sleepy-hollow-season-2-post-mortem-part-1/
Part 2
http://blackgirlnerds.com/sleepy-hollow-season-2-post-mortem-part-2/
https://twitter.com/coopmike48/status/582259004119863297
https://twitter.com/JeffersonObama/status/582189693531332608
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/582240598738006016
Sorry but I still think that seat ought to go to Karen Bass or if she isn’t interested (I’m sure she is but is too much of a decent person to get into some public spat) — if Karen Bass doesn’t go for it, I’ll support an informed, well-rounded and serious legislator like Adam Schiff for it.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
https://youtu.be/qHEnDIGVY1Y
Love it! :)
JamilaJP @JamilaJP
I’ll say it again: Can’t underestimate what the presence of THIS First Family means. pic.twitter.com/EQYQVOwlpu #BlackGirlsRock @TheObamaDiary
https://twitter.com/TriniPrincess/status/582239057117315072/photo/1
Republicans Nightmares Come To Life As GOP Worries That Jeb Bush Is Crashing and Burning
By: Jason Easley
Saturday, March, 28th, 2015, 2:02 pm
The Republicans’ worst 2016 nightmare could be unfolding before their eyes, as they are early signs that Jeb Bush is crashing and burning.
National Journal reported on the Bush nightmare scenario:
But there are signs that a worst-case, crash-and-burn scenario for Bush is more realistic than even his skeptics recognize. He’s underperforming in early public polls and is receiving a frosty reception from Republican focus groups. His entitled biography is at odds with the Republican Party’s increasing energy from working-class voters, who relate best with candidates who have struggled to make ends meet. The Bush name is a reminder of the past at a time when GOP voters are desperate for new faces. And after losing two straight presidential elections, Republican voters are thinking much more strategically—and aren’t nearly as convinced as the political press that Bush is the strongest contender against Hillary Clinton.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/28/republicans-jeb-bush-crash-burn.html
These Republicans Want to Take Away Your Weekend
Moshe Z. Marvit on March 19, 2015 – 2:45PM ET
As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the so-called “right to work” bill on March 9, making Wisconsin the twenty-fifth right-to-work state in the country, labor advocates braced themselves for the stream of anti-worker bills that were almost certain to follow. Many assumed the first target would be Wisconsin’s 1930s prevailing wage laws, which require that workers on public works projects be paid the established going rate for their labor, rather than allowing contractors to try to outbid each other by lowering workers’ wages. Few, however, expected the legislative cluster bomb that is currently being referred to committee by a pair of Republicans: a bill to repeal the weekend.
Though labor often boasts that it helped codify the two-day work break—witness the popular pro-labor bumper sticker, “Unions: the folks that brought you the weekend”—a day of rest is protected by law in only a fraction of the states. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, thirteen states have laws mandating a day of rest for some or all workers. In states that mandate a day of rest only for certain categories of workers, those workers are often in jobs where fatigue could lead to increased accidents or deaths.
Now that might be about to come to an end in Wisconsin.
Currently, the law in Wisconsin requires that workers employed in a “factory or mercantile establishment” must receive “at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in every 7 consecutive days.” If an employer would like a worker to work seven days in a row for a limited period of time, then the two can jointly petition the Department of Workforce Development for a waiver. According to the office of Republican Representative Mark Born, who is introducing this bill in the State Assembly, there were 169 waivers requested in 2013 and 232 in 2014, and all of them were granted. Under the current system, the waiver requests must state the necessity for the waiver, and they are granted only for a limited period of time.
The new bill, which is being sponsored by Republican Van Wanggaard in the State Senate alongside Born in the Assembly, would add a provision to the “day of rest” law that could effectively nullify it. The bill would create an exemption that would allow employees to “voluntarily choose” to slave away for seven days in a row without at least twenty-four hours of rest.
Representative Born’s office played down the magnitude of the bill, arguing that it merely “codified into law the waiver system and made it easier for employers and employees to make work schedules.” But this new law cuts the regulatory body out of the equation, relying instead on the troubled notion that employers would allow employees to choose “voluntarily” to give up any day of rest. As Marquette University law professor Paul Secunda explained, the idea “completely ignores the power dynamic in the workplace, where workers often have a proverbial gun to the head.” Indeed, the reason Wisconsin had passed a “day of rest” law in the first place was because employers had been abusing employees by pressing them to work too many days without break. “Now this bill will force many workers to strike a bargain with the devil,” Secunda said.
I met with Democratic State Senator Chris Larson to discuss the bill. The bill does not yet have a title, so Larson jokingly refers to it as the “Abolishing the Sabbath Act.” But the bill is no joke, Larson said, and represents an alarming trend in Wisconsin politics. Senator Larson pointed to a large painting hanging on his wall of the famous progressive era politician Robert La Follette, whose legacy, he said, had long inspired him. “But right now, we’re in the regressive era of politics.”
http://m.thenation.com/article/201817-these-republicans-want-take-away-your-weekend
Illinois’ GOP Seat In Jeopardy As Democrat Tammy Duckworth Plans To Run For Senate
By: Keith Brekhusmore from Keith Brekhus
Saturday, March, 28th, 2015, 6:02 pm
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth plans to announce on Monday, that she will be running to defeat Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk in the 2016 election. Duckworth represents Illinois’ 8th Congressional District, which includes the Chicago suburbs of Schaumburg and Elgin. She was first elected to Congress in 2012, when she handily defeated Tea Party Republican Joe Walsh 54-45, in one of the nation’s most closely watched and expensive House races of that cycle.
Duckworth is a combat veteran who received a purple heart after being wounded in the Iraq War. She served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. Duckworth lost both her legs, after the helicopter she was flying was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in November of 2004.
Duckworth’s entry into the race makes Illinois a strong pickup opportunity for the Democrats. Republican Mark Kirk is an inviting target as he is a freshman GOP Senator in a Democratic-leaning state, who narrowly won in the Republican wave election of 2010.
Sensing his vulnerability, Kirk has tried to discourage a strong Democratic challenger. In November, his desperation showed when he gave a patronizing warning to Duckworth, arguing that she should not challenge him. Kirk made his condescending remarks to a reporter for The Hill, in November 2014, when he stated:
She has a very bright future ahead of her. After only one term … you know, when you run for the Senate, you have to give up your congressional seat. If she gives up her congressional seat and loses against me, that’s a very sad ending to a bright career. To fight and lose a Senate race against Kirk is a terrible start to a career.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/28/illinois-gop-seat-jeopardy-democrat-tammy-duckworth-plans-run-senate.html
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Last Call For Indiana Pence And The Backlash Of Doom
Posted by Zandar
Things aren’t going too well for the Hoosier State since GOP Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act State Permission To Discriminate Act last week, and the backlash has been fierce. Companies ranging from gaming convention Gen Con to clomputing firm Salesforce to Apple CEO Tim Cook have blasted the law and have even threatened to pull out millions of dollars of investments in the state.
What the law doesn’t have is a whole lot of defenders, as Indianapolis Star columnist Tim Evans notes.
An excellent question. The law was sold as a necessary bulwark to protect Indiana Christians from secular assault, but there aren’t tons of people celebrating the law in the streets. So why not?
http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2015/03/last-call-for-indiana-pence-and.html
Friday, March 27, 2015
Last Call For A Bluff, Broken And Busted
Posted by Zandar
We’ve talked about Indiana’s “religious freedom” bill allowing people to not face penalties for discrimination against LGBTQ folks based solely on belief, so when similar legislation came up in front of the Georgia House of Representatives this week, one Republican bravely stood up and killed it with truth.
http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2015/03/last-call-for-bluff-broken-and-busted.html
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Bank On Their Hatred Of Warren
Posted by Zandar
OK, if Wall Street is having this much of a hissy fit over Sen. Elizabeth Warren, then she’s doing something right.
http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2015/03/bank-on-their-hatred-of-warren.html
Are political winds of change blowing in Chicago?
John Kass
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
jskass@chicagotribune.com
The oligarchs who run Chicago don’t want to consider the unthinkable — at least not publicly.
Yet as the campaign for mayor of Chicago between Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Mayor Rahm Emanuel enters its final week, some oligarchs are worried.
They’re probably wondering: What if Rahm really loses this thing?
If Rahm isn’t around to carry the city on his shoulders, will Chicago just slide into the lake, the new beach beginning somewhere along Pulaski?
The final debate is Tuesday. Debates aren’t leadership as much as performance art under pressure.
Yet in last Thursday’s debate Chuy thrashed the mayor, repeatedly, and Rahm looked weak, especially when Garcia slapped the mayor’s push for a Star Wars museum.
“The citizens of Chicago have not weighed in on this,” Garcia said. “They haven’t been asked. You don’t make those decisions by fiat. You are not king of the city.”
Isn’t being King of the City what this is all about?
And what of the Greater Oligarchia — those Rahmulan strongholds of Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast?
Will they suffer a mass epidemic of mustachiophobia, and shout, “Run for your lives!!!” every time they see a mustachioed man?
According to the polls Rahm is ahead, but I have a feeling that it will be much closer than the Rahmulans, or their spinners, want to admit.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-kass-chicago-mayor-36th-ward-met-0329-20150329-column.html
https://twitter.com/BRios82/status/581858603910307840
https://twitter.com/Slate/status/581627064865935360
now this is what you call PUT UP OR SHUT UP
https://twitter.com/Politics_PR/status/582136459177623552
about Iran:
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/582175216794763264
https://twitter.com/greenbergerj/status/582173846087737344
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/582164826010607616/photo/1
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It’s Sunday, and my Chicago and Suburban Cook County folks…
YOU CAN VOTE TODAY!!!
For information about Chicago voting:
http://www.chicagoelections.com/en/early-voting.html
For information about Suburban Cook County voting:
http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/earlyvoting/Pages/EarlyVotingLocations.aspx
I just finished Gone Girl.
wow.
wow.
When they say that maybe it’s better to be alone than in a relationship….watch this movie to realize what that means.
https://instagram.com/p/0yuD81PZJm/
Al Green singing Gospel is kind of awesome.
https://twitter.com/MusadiqZ/status/582198016892919808
Y’all should see the tears b/c Michelle said ‘Black Girls Rock’. The haters are out.
Yeah, folks used to say that the only certainty here on Earth is death. Now they can say the only certainties are death and haters. Even if we were having a nuclear war, or if an asteroid hit the Earth, or anything else you can think of, the haters would still be at it.
Just sayin’…
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/582184112464609280
Good Morning Everyone
Morning!
Happy Palm Sunday, everyone!
Palm Sunday
the Sunday before Easter, when the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is celebrated in many Christian churches by processions in which palm fronds are carried.