When Dominican-American poet Melania-Luisa Marte began writing a poem about what it means to be Afro-Latinx, a simple Google search led her to realize that Afro-Latinx/a/o was not in some of the most commonly used dictionaries. For her, the blatant disregard for the term itself reaffirmed the feelings of erasure that…
We may know Tyler Perry as an accomplished movie mogul, but the acclaimed director is also a doting dad, and may have had his biggest directorial debut when he had to redirect his 4-year-old son Aman and admonish him for disrespecting the nanny.
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Perry shared the details of that teachable moment between father and son while appearing on The Real on Monday with cohosts Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, Tamera Mowry and Adrienne Bailon.
The 50-yer-old comedian who recently made headlines for becoming the only Black man in the US with a major movie studio, dished about the beauty of being able to feed into his son’s soul, something he said no one imparted to him during his childhood.
“I will tell you this, one moment that was really hard for me. I had to discipline [Aman],” the Vice star began.
“He was really rude to the nanny and he was in the bathroom arguing with her…I get down to his level and I’m talking to him and I say ‘Listen, what are you doing? You don’t do this. This is unacceptable. You’re not going to disrespect her. You’re not going to disrespect your mom. You’re going to do what they say to do,'” Perry explained.
Perry said that as he was leaving an indelible impression on his child who was bawling, he took had to fight back tears.
“And he’s just crying and he goes ‘Yes papa, yes.’ But as he’s crying and I’m down on his level. I’m trying to hold my tears,” he added.
Tyler continued, “I get up and I leave out of the room and Gelila says ‘Are you okay?'”
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“No one talked to me like that when I was a five-year-old,” he explained. “No one had a conversation with me. No one talked to me like a person. So here I am having an opportunity to heal my ‘little boy self’ by talking to my son like a person.”
Perry shares his child with longtime girlfriend Gelila Bekele.
This is a such a touching story, but we surely know Madea would have handled the little tot a lot differently.
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Hillary Clinton is the latest public figure to throw her support behind Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in the midst of the Sussexes’ legal battle against British tabloid The Mail on Sunday.
Tekashi 6ix9ine’s got it all figured out: snitch on the homies, get prison sentence reduced, come home, refuse witness protection, keep making music with a reported $10 million record deal, puppeteer the public and resume business as usual.
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And while we all scratch our heads in confusion, that seems to be the case for Tekashi who spilled the beans and testified against Nine Trey Gang members, and several celebrities during his federal case in order to reduce his time in jail.
Tekashi turned into a federal informant against Nine Trey Blood gang members and other rappers, something some celebs have dogged him out for.
But at least one station, New York’s Hot 97 says at least they don’t plan to help him secure the bag and won’t be playing the rapper’s music post prison release, TMZ reports.
An executive from the radio station told the outlet that they will ice 6ix9ine’s new music once he comes home from the clink. The exec reportedly was never a Tekashi fan in the first place, and has a major issue with his snitching.
But getting the cold shoulder from Hot 97 probably also has much to do with the fact that Tekashi dissed Ebro on a track called “Stoopid.” Ebro is one of the station’s most popular personalities and former program director.
Still the insider reportedly told the outlet if people demand that Tekashi’s songs get air play, then they’ll surely reconsider.
This all comes to a shock to Ebro and the Hot 97 team. Taking to his twitter, he delivers a statement denying the TMZ report.
All execs @HOT97 deny speaking to anyone @TMZ ….. so this means that Tekashi marketing machine is revving up to rally his on-line #Bots and drive stories.
— El Viejo Ebro (@oldmanebro) October 14, 2019
Tekashi’s deal with the feds earned him the ability to be released from jail by next year in exchange for giving them info that reduced his possible 47-year sentence for cooperating with prosecutors.
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Tekashi will be rolling in the dough once he rolls out of federal prison after landing a lucrative music deal for $10 million while in prison, The BCC reports.
The “Gummo” rapper whose real name Daniel Hernandez, is expected to produce two albums after his release – one in English and one in Spanish.
Tekashi will be sentenced December 18.
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If you’ve seen Netflix’s When They See Us, then you have probably squirmed like the rest of us when the young boys portraying the “Central Park Five” were peppered with questions by the NYPD as they cried, and were hammered on end with lies until they confessed to crimes they didn’t commit.
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That pivotal movie moment, carefully crafted by director Ava DuVernay, is now under fire after John E. Reid and Associates filed a federal lawsuit against Netflix and the acclaimed director saying they defamed the “Reid Technique” a police interrogation method highlighted in the miniseries that they in fact developed, Variety reports.
The company stated the method, which was developed in the 1940s is still use the method in police law enforcement training today by agencies around the world. But they contend that the dramatization of the technique on screen, including the assumption that it includes coercing confessions, is off base.
In the fourth episode of the series, an NYPD detective Michael Sheehan is confronted and asked about using the method which resulted in five defendants copping to the rape of a white female Central Park jogger.
“You squeezed statements out of them after 42 hours of questioning and coercing, without food, bathroom breaks, withholding parental supervision,” the character says. “The Reid Technique has been universally rejected.”
Sheehan fires back: “I don’t even know what the f—ing Reid Technique is, OK? I know what I was taught. I know what I was asked to do and I did it.”
According to the lawsuit the term, saying the method is “universally rejected” is false. The lawsuit claims that the technique doesn’t involve coercion.
“Defendants intended to incite an audience reaction against Reid for what occurred in the Central Park Jogger Case and for the coercive interrogation tactics that continue to be used today,” the suit states. “Defendants published the statements in ‘When They See Us’ in an effort to cause a condemnation of the Reid Technique.”
The lawsuit further states that the company has suffered irreparable harm to its reputation and the plaintiff is seeking actual and punitive damages. It also wants an injunction to stop Netflix from further distributing the series as well as secure a portion of the profits from the series.
The “Central Park Five,” as they were called, had their sentences later vacated after DNA evidence proved another man was the actual culprit and he also ultimately confessed.
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Duvernay told the painful story from the perspective of the men for the miniseries which mustered up a national conversation that put much of the focus on former prosecutor Linda Fairstein who led the charge to put the teens behind bars.
The men, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam are now dubbed the “Exonerated Five.”
John E. Reid was a former Chicago police officer who developed the widely known police interrogation method which was licensed to Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates. One thing that might work in DuVernay’s favor is that in 2017, the company ditched using the method because of claims that it could incite misuse and possibly produce false confessions.
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