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Aoki Lee Simmons Under Fire After Revealing Her Boyfriend On Social Media

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Aoki Lee Simmons has been under fire after revealing her boyfriend on social media. Commenters attacked Aoki’s decision to date white and questioned if she ever experienced dating her own race. Kimora Lee and Russell Simmons’ youngest daughter decided to curb her social media activity after an influx of nasty comments following her Valentines Day post.

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The drama began after Aoki did a ‘hard launch’ of her boyfriend after hiding his identity. They’ve been together for over a year and she’s shared pictures of him before but only his feet. This was the first time anyone saw his face or skin color.

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After countless racially charged comments calling her beau old and ugly, Aoki decided to respond.

Aoki wrote:
It’s genuinely so awful. How is any young person supposed to have a normal well adjusted life if this is what happens over a Godamn tagless valentines day post?!
And I had no idea because within my page it’s mild and mostly positive.
(Thank you guys for that) but I guess outside of it the world, people I haven’t done anything to or harmed at all, are just horrendously bitter and racist.
Anyway. I need to reconsider how/ if I use this platform and what I share.
Which sucks because l’m an open person but this can’t happen to people I care about

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She added:
I understand the public figure/you knew it was going to happen ec… argument. Sure I guess I knew the world was stuck in 1950 and would have some recessive & to say about something as simple as an interracial relationship…….
Like that’s truly sad, especially from people of color, but it was expected

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Do you think celebrities should hide their significant others?

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Rihanna Talks Motherhood And Hints At New Album This Year

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Fresh off her legendary performance at Apple Music’s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show, Rihanna sat down for a cover story with British Vogue, where she shared her life since motherhood, ASAP Rocky, and hinted at her comeback. British Vogue features new photos of Roro’s new family and more. The magazine posted on Twitter. A new era begins – and for @Rihanna nothing will ever be the same. Fresh from the Super Bowl and that very special announcement, Rihanna is British Vogue’s phenomenal March 2023 cover star – but this is no ordinary cover. This is a family portrait.

In her wide-ranging discussion with Giles Hattersley, Rihanna shed light on her forthcoming ninth studio album, revealing she wants it to drop this year. When it arrives, the project will be Riri’s first full-length offering since 2016’s Anti.

“Like, honestly, it’d be ridiculous if it’s not this year,” she shared. “But I just want to have fun. I just want to make music and make videos.”

Rihanna added, “And I need the right background music with the visuals. I can’t just go shoot a video to me talking.”

 Rihanna opened up about motherhood and her life before having a child.

“Oh, my God, it’s legendary,” she said of being a mother. “It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever. You literally try to remember it – and there are photos of my life before – but the feeling, the desires, the things that you enjoy, everything, you just don’t identify with it because you don’t even allow yourself mentally to get that far, because it doesn’t matter.”

“Essentially, from one person I became two,” she continued, describing the experience of giving birth. “You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three. It’s nuts. And oh, my gosh, those first days are insane. You don’t sleep. At all. Not even if you wanted to. We came home, cold turkey, had no one. It was just us as parents and our baby. Man, you’re a zombie for the most part.”

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#BHM: Moon Girl, First Black Girl Superhero, Debuts At Disney California Adventure Park

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Disneyland Resort announced that for a limited time beginning Feb. 15 at Hollywood Land in Disney California Adventure Park, guests will have the opportunity to encounter Moon Girl from the newest Disney series “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,” which debuts on Feb. 10 on Disney Channel and Feb. 15 on Disney.

The series follows the adventures of 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette and her 10-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, whom she accidentally brings into present-day New York City. The duo works together to protect Lunella’s Lower East Side neighborhood from danger.

Moon Girl arrives at Disneyland Resort as a part of Celebrate Soulfully: a combination of food, entertainment, and experiences that highlight and celebrate Black stories. Celebrate Soulfully takes place at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort during the month of February and beyond. To learn more about other Celebrate Soulfully offerings, click here.  

Tune in to watch “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” on Disney Channel and Disney+ and meet Moon Girl only at Disney California Adventure Park for a limited time. For meet and greet times, check the Disneyland app.  

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[WATCH] Actress Meagan Good ‘I Am Ready For Kids’

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Actress Meagan Good has been in a press run for her new show Harlem and she recently shared that she’s ready to settle down and have children.

The 41-year-old beauty said she put off having children in her 20s and 30s to focus on her acting career. Meagan revealed she’s ready to have kids whether she’s married or not. She admitted she previously considered having a baby when she was married to preacher DeVon Franklin. They previously discussed their journey with freezing her eggs and shared how her outlook on motherhood had changed. “When you say you’re not sure you want to be a mom, people look at you like you’re a bad person,” said the director and actress to Romper. “As if something’s wrong with you. But I was never really that girl who said, “I can’t wait to get married,” “I can’t wait to be a mother.” I just was very much a tomboy, and I started my career so young that I’d always been very business-oriented.”

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Unfortunately their divorce was finalized in June 2022 after 10 years of marriage.

“I’m in a place where I know that I want to be a mother — married or not. Whatever happens in this next season in the act of life,” she said.

Meagan said she previously put off having kids because she wasn’t ready. She dismissed remarks by her friends, asking why she didn’t have DeVon’s child.

While many gave their opinion on social media, women like Janet Jackson and Naomi Campbell prove that women can continue having children into their 50’s.Good luck Meagan, prayers to you!
Watch the video below.

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Rapper Leshaun Finds Peace After The Music Industry In New Tiny Home

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Brooklyn-born rapper Leshaun who once toured with LL Cool J and performed on the triple platinum single “Doin’ it,” has found a peace of mind away from the music industry. After purchasing a 2700-square ft house to help her daughter she decided the space was too big once her daughter moved out. Now she’s found a simpler way of living but she kept it glamourous downsizing to her new way of living.

The femcee is now a Tiny House builder & lives in one that she designed to fit her personal taste. 
She just expanded her tiny living with her newest RV renovation, which is (a little) bigger and more glamorous than her last one. She lives in this tiny home full time and calls the space “Dream.” Leshaun wowed fans with her last tiny home creation about her toy hauler conversion which received 1.4 million views. While she received tons of love following her video of course social media came with their negative comments as well. 

Watch her tour her new Tiny Home and hear her response to critics.

Check out Leshaun’s first tiny home ‘Jewel’.

Check out her DIY Tiny Home modeling tips on her YouTube own page.

Check out her classic vocals on LL Cool J’s hit single ‘Doing it’.

Check out Leshaun back in the day.

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Singer Lizzo Debuts Her Comedian Boo At Pre-Grammy’s Party

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Singer Lizzo is making headlines again and she’s got everyone’s attention.The 34-year-old singer recently posted a “hard launch” of her relationship with boyfriend Myke Wright, sharing intimate flicks of themselves at a pre-Grammys party in Los Angeles over the weekend.

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The elegant couple attended the Pre-Grammy Gala and Grammy Salute to Industry Icons ceremony on Saturday night.

She posted photos on her social media accounts of the pair embracing behind the scenes, with the caption: “Hard launch.”

Lizzo first confirmed she was in a relationship in April 2022 during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live show. She and Wright made their first public appearance together and debuted as a couple on the red carpet at the screening of Lizzo’s Amazon Prime Video series, Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.

At Saturday’s red carpet event, Lizzo sported a black mini dress with black and blue fringe along the neckline, sleeves and hem, designed by Alexander McQueen. She wore a pair of garters that held up her thigh high black boots underneath.

The singer’s celebrity friends rushed to comment on the photographs on her Instagram page, including model Tess Holliday, singer Sza, Jonathan Van Ness, and model Lori Harvey.

Harvey wrote: “We love a hard launch”, while singer Kehlani said: “BEEN WAITIN’.”

Are we here for this new couple?

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Sadé Muhammad Appointed 1st Black Woman CMO At TIME

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Sadé Muhammad makes history at TIME as the first black woman appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Announced last week, the role includes Muhammad overseeing the brand’s integrated marketing, customer success, branded content, and communications, as well as TIME’s newly created impact division.

“We are thrilled to welcome Sadé, who has a proven track record of innovation, revenue generation, and building trust with audiences,” said TIME CEO Jessica Sibley. “As TIME enters a pivotal moment in its 100-year history, Sadé’s background as a marketer, trained journalist, and changemaker makes her the perfect person to lead TIME as our Chief Marketing Officer.”

Muhammad transitioned to TIME in January following seven years at Forbes, where she ascended from Brand Producer to Vice President, Representation & Inclusion Practice throughout her employment. While at Forbes, Sade founded Forbes’ Representation & Inclusion Practice, an award-winning B2B ad business that encouraged marketing partners to broadcast DEI as an underpinning to their company’s growth strategy after identifying a gap in thought leadership around equity and inclusion in company design. She has over a decade of experience in marketing and innovating advertising products for the role.

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“My passion is harnessing the power of authentic brands to get audiences to listen and, in turn, unlock their unique power to affect change,” said Muhammad. “TIME is one of the world’s most trusted storytellers and I am thrilled to bring our partners’ stories to life with imaginative ideas to inspire a smarter, better marketplace.”

Muhammad graduated BSc, Cum Laude, in Magazine Journalism from Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and was honored as one of the International News Media Association’s 30 Under 30 for Achievement in Advertising. 

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Rapper Lil Boosie’s Daughter ‘Comes Out’ On Social Media

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Rapper Lil Boosie Badazz‘s 21-year-old daughter Iviona, a.k.a. Poison Ivi, came out on Instagram. Intimately hugged up with her girlfriend, Iviona, an aspiring rapper, captioned the image: “Endlessly in love with you.”

Boosie, 40, went viral in February 2020, when he was criticized for comments he made about Zaya Wade, the then-12-year-old child of retired NBA star Dwyane Wade.

Among theBoosi comments Boosie made to Wade was, “Don’t cut his d*ck off, bruh.” He was also asked to leave a Planet Fitness gym in Georgia after his comments about Zaya went viral.
  
Boosie was also criticized for his parenting which included hiring a stripper for his minor son.  Boosie bragged that he hired his son a “bad bitch” to perform fellatio on him for his birthday and allowed the boy to watch adult videos..

At the time, Boosie said watching pornography was more suitable than allowing children to watch “cartoons with two men kissing.” He later said he was only kidding.

Check out his daughter’s post below.

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Actress Tracee Ellis Ross Opens Up About Being 50-Years Old, Single And Without Children

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During a recent episode of We Can Do Hard Things podcast, actress Tracee Ellis Ross opened up about being 50, single, and going through perimenopause.

While reflecting on experiencing perimenopause, Ross shared,

“I have, for my entire life, been tethered to a very routine cycle. And I’m very connected to my body, so I would know I’m ovulating. I would have all the feelings of knowing that and all of that is out the window. And I turn 50. And here I am in this open space now, sort of allowing the bubbling up of whatever might be here.”

Perimenopause means “around menopause” and refers to the time when body makes the natural transition to menopause, marking the end of the reproductive years. Perimenopause is also called the menopausal transition. It often begins between the ages of 45 and 55.

The Black-ish star read an excerpt from her journal in which she questioned what it means to be fertile and to come to the end of her reproductive years.

“I can feel my body’s ability to make a child draining out of me. Sometimes I find it hilarious, as if there is a fire sale going on in my uterus, and someone’s in there screaming, ‘All things must go.’ As my body becomes a foreign place to me that doesn’t really feel safe or like home…I don’t know how to manage or control or fight the external binary narrative of the patriarchy that has hunted me and haunted me most of my adult life.”

“Is it my fertility that is leaving me? Is it my womanhood? Or is it really neither? But I have to fight to hold my truth, because I have been programmed so successfully by the water we all swim in, by the water we all are served. And I feel fertile with creativity, full of power, more and more a woman than I’ve ever been. And yet that power that I was told I must use was not used.”

“I say this to people all the time, I’m a wonderful mother. And I’m very mothering. And it’s been hard for me to claim that.”

She later expressed how she feels grateful that she is now able to look at being childless ‘with curiosity instead of heartbreak.’  She explains,“The heartbreak does come up, and I get to hold that gently and lovingly and then say, remind myself, ‘I woke up every morning of my life and I’ve tried to do my best, so I must be where I’m supposed to be.”

“I’ve been single for a very long time. I have had many wonderful ins and outs of things, but no one stuck to the pan. As a result, I get to curate my family, my chosen family around me. And I don’t think I realized the gift of that until I’ve started to get older.”

Is it necessary for a woman to feel obligated to have a child and be married?

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[WATCH] Ex-NFL Star Andre Rison Reveals Possible Tupac/Left Eye Affair

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Andre Rison recently revealed in an interview that rapper Tupac Shakur picked up his ex-fiance Left Eye the same night she burned down his house in Atlanta in 1994.

The Ex-NFL star said Tupac pulled up in a limousine and picked up Left Eye the night before she set his mansion on fire on June 9, 1994.

Andre claims that after they left, they “doubled back” to the house and she went inside and saw a platoon of women.

Andre, 55, said Left Eye was upset when she arrived home to see the house full of women. He said the women were with his boys, not him.

“We didn’t sweat nothing. We don’t sweat stuff where I’m from,” he said.

He said his homies had already alerted him that she was seeing Tupac on the low. “But it’s all good though. We weren’t sweating. We just turnt up.”
Watch the video below

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