Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots (sidenote: for all the times The Root, the publication gets mistaken for The Roots, the band, it would be dope if one time we, The Root, host a meta panel with live sounds from The Roots.) will be making his directorial debut in the upcoming feature documentary titled, Black…
Charmaine Walker of Black Ink Crew: Chicago fame announced major news over the past few days: she is pregnant and officially off the market.
Walker dropped by PEOPLE TV’s Reality Check on Monday to announce she is now married to Nick Bey. The news comes one day after Walker announced on Instagram that she and Bey would soon be parents.
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“My fiancé Nick is no longer my fiancé,” Walker told Reality Check. “We didn’t break up, we actually got legally married. We decided that we just wanted to be together. It was just kind of like we’re already engaged, so we’re obviously going to get married. Why wait? You know, obviously the cameras play a big part in our lives, so we just wanted to do something for us.”
They managed to pull it off well. Now divulging their news has Walker feeling “so great” and even more legit as a married woman.
“I feel like a wife,” she said. “And now I feel like a mom.”
On Sunday, Walker took to IG to reveal she is pregnant with her first child, and the baby is due on March 12, 2020.
Walker uploaded an ultrasound video and captioned it: “Expecting Baby Bey March 2020. Shoutout to Momma Glenda. She was so excited. The night before she unexpectedly passed away she said: “I still can’t believe my baby is having a baby!” I’ll never forget those words. This has been an emotional roller coaster but I’m blessed to be bringing life into this world. #BabyBey.”
Bey also announced the baby news on his IG account, by posting a video and photo of himself smiling while holding his wife’s tummy. In the video, he is singing to #BabyBey through mama’s tummy and in the pic he captioned, “Y’all think it’s a boy or girl?! #6months.”
Walker added to Reality Check that she is 25 weeks pregnant which means “five-and-a-half months or six-and-a-half months, I haven’t figured it out.”
Ryan Henry, who also stars in Black Ink Crew, says he saw it coming.“I just kind of knew it was coming, so I wasn’t surprised. I knew how they felt about each other; I knew how their relationship was going and I knew how her family wanted a baby,” Henry told Reality Check, “so it wasn’t no surprise to me.”
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This happy news could not have come at a better time. Walker lost her mother, Glenda, last in October. Congrats to the happy couple.
Black Ink Crew airs on Dec. 4 on VH1.
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Michelle Obama, our forever FLOTUS, is headed to Vietnam and Malaysia this month to draw attention to girls’ education.
According to PEOPLE, Obama’s special guests on the trip will include actress, Julia Roberts, and Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager, who will highlight some of the stories on the NBC network.
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In October, Obama went on Today to explain her purpose for the trip and why it’s so important.
“More than 98 million adolescent girls aren’t in school, yet the evidence is clear: When girls get the opportunities they deserve, our whole world benefits,” Obama told Today in the fall. “That’s why we’ve been working to lift grassroots leaders and organizations around the world who improve girls’ lives every day.”
Yesterday, the Obama Foundation put out a news release unveiling more details about Michelle’s role and how Roberts will join her. Roberts, 52, and Obama, 55, will meet up on Dec. 9 in Vietnam with the Girls Opportunity Alliance to “to meet with local girls education organizations and beneficiaries of programs that help adolescent girls reach their full potential through education.”
On Dec. 12 in Malaysia, Roberts will join Obama on stage to discuss their time in Vietnam and “lessons from their own leadership journeys and their path-baking careers,” before wrapping up with a Q&A, according to the release. The discussion will be moderated by Deborah Henry, a philanthropist, and a TV show host.
This event marks the Obama Foundation’s first time hosting a gathering comprised of 200 civic leaders from the Asia-Pacific region. The event will be held in Kuala Lumpur from Dec. 10 to Dec. 14 and includes Roberts’ conversation with Michelle Obama.
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Hager, 38, said she is looking forward to telling the girl’s stories on Today. YouTube Originals will also air some stories.
“I’m so excited,” Hager said, according to PEOPLE. “It’s an awesome opportunity to help shine a light on all of those that are helping keep girls in schools. We know that if a girl stays in school, they are more likely to help lift up not only themselves but their communities, too.”
Last year, the Obama Foundation launched its Girls Opportunity Alliance initiative.
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Professional athletes have a long history of going broke after earning millions of dollars throughout their careers. However, it seems like now, more and more young players are getting smarter with their money. According to a report by CNBC, Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum saves 100% of his annual salary from the NBA.
The 21-year-old basketball player will earn a base salary of $7.83 million and he will not spend a dime of it as all of it will go straight in his bank account. “All the money I get from the Celtics, I put it in a savings account,” he told Maverick Carter on Uninterrupted’s Kneading Dough. However, he spends the money that he generates through various endorsements deals. “I didn’t make all this money to save it all,” Tatum added. After being drafted, he did buy an Escalade for his mother and a Range Rover for himself.
Tatum gives all the credit to his mother for instilling in him the virtues of becoming more financially literate. “As I got older and started understanding that the NBA was coming to reality, she started talking to me about the importance of balancing all of this money,” Tatum told Carter.
“When I picked my agent, I told him I want to do as much off-the-court stuff as I can,” Tatum told the Boston Globe. “Right now I’m young, so I try to do everything as much as possible. … Tomorrow is not promised. You’re not promised the next contract. You want to save all the money you can.”
After playing only one season of basketball at Duke University, Tatum declared for the 2017 NBA draft at the age of 19. The Boston Celtics selected him with the No. 3 overall pick and he signed a lucrative contract: $30.1 million, to be distributed over four years.
This comes on the heels of reports that New England Patriots player Joejuan Williams sets aside 90% of his income toward his savings. Williams signed a four-year, $6.6 million contract earlier this year, and he says he will live as if he were making 10% of that and put 90% of his after-tax income into savings.
Watch Jayson Tatum talk about his finances below.
Professional athletes have a long history of going broke after earning millions of dollars throughout their careers. However, it seems like now, more and more young players are getting smarter with their money. According to a report by CNBC, Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum saves 100% of his annual salary from the NBA.
The 21-year-old basketball player will earn a base salary of $7.83 million and he will not spend a dime of it as all of it will go straight in his bank account. “All the money I get from the Celtics, I put it in a savings account,” he told Maverick Carter on Uninterrupted’s Kneading Dough. However, he spends the money that he generates through various endorsements deals. “I didn’t make all this money to save it all,” Tatum added. After being drafted, he did buy an Escalade for his mother and a Range Rover for himself.
Tatum gives all the credit to his mother for instilling in him the virtues of becoming more financially literate. “As I got older and started understanding that the NBA was coming to reality, she started talking to me about the importance of balancing all of this money,” Tatum told Carter.
“When I picked my agent, I told him I want to do as much off-the-court stuff as I can,” Tatum told the Boston Globe. “Right now I’m young, so I try to do everything as much as possible. … Tomorrow is not promised. You’re not promised the next contract. You want to save all the money you can.”
After playing only one season of basketball at Duke University, Tatum declared for the 2017 NBA draft at the age of 19. The Boston Celtics selected him with the No. 3 overall pick and he signed a lucrative contract: $30.1 million, to be distributed over four years.
This comes on the heels of reports that New England Patriots player Joejuan Williams sets aside 90% of his income toward his savings. Williams signed a four-year, $6.6 million contract earlier this year, and he says he will live as if he were making 10% of that and put 90% of his after-tax income into savings.
Watch Jayson Tatum talk about his finances below.
