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Rihanna Drops New Fenty Cameo Jewelry Collection Paying Homage To Black Women

According to Vogue, superstar Robyn Rihanna Fenty has launched a new jewelry collection.

Rihanna unveiled her Fenty Cameo Jewelry Collection celebrating the beauty of all black women. On Oct. 30, the wealthiest female musician released a four-piece collection named The Cameo with prices ranging between $340 and $530. The Fenty fashion jewelry line offers customers a ring, earrings, a pendant and a brooch that converts to a pendant with some of the pieces available in a white or black and detailed with sparkly Swarovski crystals or pearls.

According to the Fenty website, “The Cameo is an emblem of fearlessness, elevation, creativity, and joy — everything FENTY stands for. More than a sisterhood, FENTY is a coming together of powerful women. The Cameo is part of our legacy.”

Fenty announced the collection on its Instagram account.

 

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More than a sisterhood, #FENTY is a coming together of powerful women. The Cameo collection is here presented through the lens of Nigerian-raised, Yorkshire based photographer @ruthossaistudio and hair stylist @issacvpoleon in a series of family portraits. Discover more through link in bio. – Models: @yvettefontaliodowland @isla_dowland

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After Forbes revealed Rihanna as the richest female musician with a net worth of approximately $600 million, she is definitely claiming her stake and reaching for that billionaire status.

Savage X Fenty started in May 2018 as a joint venture between Rihanna and Techstyle Fashion Group; although this wasn’t her first endeavor—she launched her Fenty Beauty cosmetics line sometime in 2017 to immediate success. And this past June, she announced that she will collaborate with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton to produce a Fenty luxury fashion label as well.

She also collaborated with Amazon Prime Video to stream the premiere of Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show, which took place Sept. 20, featuring her new Fall/Winter 2019 lingerie collection. The Savage X Fenty special showed the audience behind-the-scenes of the making of the show and “a one-of-a-kind event blending music, fashion, and culture” with surprises and guest performances. It will be archived on Amazon Prime Video so customers can relive the experience over and over again.

In 2012, the superstar founded her charity organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation, which supports health and education efforts in impoverished communities around the world, which led to Harvard University naming her humanitarian of the year in February 2017.

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Jennifer Hudson on how she survived the trauma of losing her mom, brother and nephew to gun violence

Jennifer Hudson rarely speaks about the immense tragedy that claimed the lives of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in 2008. However, she recently revealed that she doesn’t dwell in a place of sadness because her mother would want her to move on.

“Thank God,” Hudson told The Guardian in a sit-down interview. “I think I attribute that first to God, next to (the realization that) when you experience trauma, it comes and goes. It’s always there. But it’s a matter of how you deal with it.”

An actress in the upcoming movie adaptation of Cats, Hudson spoke to The Guardian about her new role, her son, her sister, her work ethic, and the loss of her mother, Darnell Donerson, brother, Jason Hudson, and nephew, Julian King, and “what they would have wanted me to do.”

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Hudson said although she gets sad, “it would be worse, to me, not to press forward. I’m hearing my brother’s voice say, ‘Jenny, knock it off!’ He would be angry at me for giving up. Or all the things that my mother instilled in us. She prepared us. She would say, ‘You know, I’m not always going to be here and I want you all to be able to make it.’ She used to say, without family, you have nothing, which is why it’s so important to take care of family. So, if I’m doing that, I know I’m pleasing my mother,” revealed Hudson.

“As for my nephew; that’s where the Julian D. King Gift Foundation (her philanthropic organization) comes from because he was strong and very smart. So to live in a way that honors them is what presses you forward. Not to mention, thank God, that I have a child to live for,” Hudson told The Guardian.

William Balfour, Hudson’s sister, Julia’s estranged former husband, was given three consecutive life sentences for the murders.

“Of course you still get sad,” Hudson told The Guardian. “(However) that’s what I go back to: What would my mother say? What would she do?”

Hudson and her sister live close by in Chicago. Hudson purchased a house for Julia, who works as a school bus driver.

Hudson also told the newspaper that her late father had 27 children and that although she hasn’t met all of them, she does know “quite a few.”

READ MORE: A year of tragedy and triumph for Jennifer Hudson

“Oh, yes,” she said. “Eleven girls, 16 boys. I’m the youngest, or at least in the last two or three. And it was always my dream — because I love family — to have a giant table with all my siblings. Just imagine the giant table!”

Cats hits theaters on Dec. 20.

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New statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Alabama on 64th bus boycott anniversary

A new bronze statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks was dedicated to the residents of Montgomery Alabama on Rosa Parks Day, a day named in her honor. Steven Reed, Montgomery’s first African American mayor was on hand to witness the unveiling with Alabama Governor, Kay Ivey.

It was on this day, 64 years ago, December 1st in 1955, that Rosa Parks, then a seamstress for a local Montgomery department store refused to follow a city bus driver’s order to give up her seat to a white passenger because the front part of the bus was already full. She refused and was soon arrested for breaking the law. Montgomery City Code, at the time, required all public buses to be segregated and in addition, bus drivers had the “powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions” of the code.

The city’s bus ordinance didn’t specifically give drivers the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone, however, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the custom of moving back the sign separating Black and white passengers and, if necessary, asking Black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers. If the Black passenger protested, the bus driver had the authority to refuse service and could call the police to have them removed.

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Her refusal and arrest spearheaded the start of the now-infamous Montgomery bus boycotts; one of the longest-running boycotts in American history lasting for a total of 381 days, severely hurting the bus company. Montgomery  did change its bus laws separating Black passengers from white passengers the following year. Rosa Parks would be remembered as one of the pioneers of America’s Civil Rights Movement and lived to be 92 years old when she passed away at her home in Detroit Michigan.

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