Saturday's Best Deals: Alienware Gaming PCs, Tile Key Finder Bundles, J. Crew Office-Ready Styles, and More

An Alienware gaming desktop (and laptop), a Tile + Google Nest Mini bundle, and a J. Crew blazer sale lead Saturday’s most exciting deals of the day.

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A Racist Judge, An Alleged Affair and N-Word Laced Text Messages Put 8 Years of Cases Under Review

Ideally, you really don’t want racists working in any position where they have to interact with the general public regularly.

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Go go finally crowned official music of DC

Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a bill into law this week making go-go the official music of Washington, D.C., at a time when activists and political leaders are trying to protect the city’s Black culture amid rampant gentrification, reports the Huffington Post.

The legislation, signed into law on Wednesday, was first introduced last year by D.C. Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5) to make go-go “the official music of District of Columbia,” according to the Washington Post.

READ MORE: DC’s go-go sound becomes anti-gentrification battle cry

In April 2019, a Metro PCS vendor in the Shaw neighborhood that has played go-go music from outdoor speaks since 1995 went silently due to a noise complaint, according to The Washington Post.

“A resident of the luxury apartments down the block complained about the neighborhood signature soundtrack, eventually prompting T-Mobile to ask owner Donald Campbell to silence the congas and timbales,” the article sites.

Members of the community rallied together in protest of growing gentrification that attempted to erase the city’s “indigenous go-go music, which combines elements of funk, hip-hop, soul, and other styles,” according to Huffington Post Black Voices. The genre has played on the exact block of the storefront named after “The Godfather of Go-Go” Chuck Brown.

Thus, the #DontMuteDC movement was born to combat the culture’s erasure and ignited a “Don’t Mute D.C.’s Go-Go Music and Culture” petition co-created by Howard University assistant professor Natalie Hopkinson and community activist/author Ronald Moten in April 2019.

Tomorrow, @MayorBowser signs the Bill making Gogo the Official Music of DC. Wow! See you guys tomorrow at @CultureHouseDC #DontMuteDC

RSVP: https://t.co/MuYAeTuxaZ pic.twitter.com/Fu6JuX0B0k

— DontMuteDC (@dontmutethemvmt) February 19, 2020

Councilman McDuffie is one of the many local elected officials who supported the movement, calling the music more than a genre: “It is the catalyst that supplies the means for people to take care of themselves and their families.”

READ MORE: Mayor Bowser to Trump: ‘You owe DC $9MIL for your festivities’

McDuffie’s legislation also requires the mayor to “implement a program to support, preserve, and archive” go-go music.

McDuffie: "Go-Go is more than music. It’s more than a simple genre. It is our home-grown genre. It is the catalyst that supplies the means for people to take care of themselves and their families. It is the way that folks stayed out of the streets" #DontMuteDC #LongLiveGoGo pic.twitter.com/o0Fk0K6rST

— CM McDuffie's Office (@CM_McDuffie) February 19, 2020

 

“When you try to silence the music, you’re also trying to silence our heritage, our ancestors,” Black Lives Matter DC organizer Neenee Taylor told the Post.

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Boxer Adrien Broner arrested outside Wilder vs. Fury weigh-in

Professional boxer Adrien Broner continues to run into legal trouble outside of the ring. He was taken into custody by Las Vegas Metro police officers on Friday afternoon.

He was arrested at the MGM Grand Garden during the Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury weigh-in ahead of their awaited match, according to TMZ Sports.

READ MORE: Adrien Broner slams 50 Cent’s demand for money: ‘I ain’t giving you Sh*t’

Video footage obtained by TMZ shows the 30-year-old boxer’s arrest for refusing to leave the premises. Broner was reportedly banned from the venue in November 2019, but the circumstances are unclear.

Insiders told TMZ Broner was reportedly told to leave the premises, but “ignored the request” and was immediately detained by hotel security until police arrived. He was transported to the county jail, where he processed and released on a misdemeanor trespassing citation.

Broner was unfazed by the arrest, and boasted about it in an Instagram post: “Fresh out of the slammer. What’s popping tonight Vegas?”

He added, “Can’t hold a n—- forever.”

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Can’t hold a nigga foreva 🆎

A post shared by Adrien AB Broner (@adrienbroner) on Feb 21, 2020 at 7:49pm PST

The former world champion boxer hasn’t fought since losing to Manny Pacquiao in January 2019, but faced numerous legal incidents, the report noted.

In December 2019, he was ordered to pay more than $800,000 for sexually assaulting a woman in a Cleveland nightclub, according to Yahoo Sports. He would plead guilty to two charges from that incident and sentenced to two years of probation, the report says.

READ MORE: Sexual battery charges dropped against boxer Adrien Broner

Prior to that, Broner was arrested in February 2018 in Atlanta and charged with misdemeanor sexual assault after allegedly groping a woman at Lenox Square Mall.

The pro boxer denied the accusation: “I didn’t touch nobody. She wanted to take a picture and I didn’t want to take a picture,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Broner also went on a disturbing, homophobic rant on Instagram last year where he threatened to shoot gay people after being, Yahoo News writes.

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Brooklyn Entrepreneur Launches Black-Owned Champagne

Spread love it’s the Brooklyn way! A Brooklyn, New York, entrepreneur has decided to spread love by launching her own black-owned champagne label, according to the Daily News.

Marvina Robinson, who is already set to launch a champagne bar later this year, was inspired to create Stuyvesant Champagne, which she has named after the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where she grew up. People can start purchasing Stuyvesant Champagne on the company’s website and in person at several shops in Brooklyn, including Happy Cork, a black-owned liquor shop on Buffalo Avenue in Crown Heights. Robinson hosted a complimentary tasting there last week.

Robinson, who says she has a love affair with sparkling wine, started enjoying it while she was still in college. She and her group of girlfriends would split a bottle from a Fulton Street liquor store every Friday night. “I always loved bubbly, it always made me feel good whether I was up or down or if I just needed something to sip on,” she tells the Daily News. “It’s the perfect balance.”

The Brooklyn woman, who is turning her passion for bubbly into a trailblazing business, is now one of the only black entrepreneurs in the city to launch her own line of champagne.

In planning to develop her own champagne brand, the 43-year-old was not at all satisfied with the different brands on the market, so she took a trip to France to concoct her own flavor. “I wanted the champagne to have some meaning, some depth to it,” she said. “So I went to France to meet different people, visit different vineyards and grape owners.”

When Robinson came back to New York earlier this year, she had several different cuvées, a French term for batches of wine, and she invited a dozen friends to a blind tasting at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The winners ended up being a salmon-colored Brut Rosé and a golden-colored Grande Réserve.

“The Grande Réserve is actually my favorite,” Robinson stated. “They’re like kids, you’re not supposed to have favorites, but that’s my favorite. It’s 60% Pinot Noir, 22% Pinot Meunier, and 20% Chardonnay grape.”

You can check her out when she opens her upcoming Bedford-Stuyvesant bar, Coupette NYC. “I’m not finished. I still have a long way to go. I’m still building, still paving the way,” Robinson said.

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