Looks like the next launch from Pat McGrath Labs will truly be out of this world. A short time ago in a galaxy not at all far, far away, the most influential woman in makeup (yes, even beyond Rihanna—McGrath isn’t nicknamed “Mother” for nothing) announced that for her next product release, she’s partnered with Disney…
World leaders and a fussy baby who keeps telling everyone he won the popular vote are in London for the NATO summit. Unfortunately for America, our representative is a failed businessman-turned-reality TV host who can’t stop whining.
Billy Porter is having an amazing, trailblazing year and is showing love to Dwyane Wade’s son after Internet trolls questioned his right to be himself.
Porter, 50, who became the first openly gay Black man to win an Emmy in the “Best Lead Actor in a Drama” category this year for his role in Pose, told Extra’s Billy Bush that he liked Zion Wade’s crop top and fake nails look on Thanksgiving – even if those Internet bullies didn’t.
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“Work it!” Porter said to Bush about the Wade family Thanksgiving picture, before adding: “Why do you read those (comments), why does anybody read those (comments).” Ok, Porter himself admits that he read the comments, too, but “I read it for information, but I don’t read it for validation.”
Tell ‘em, Billy!
Porter also showed love to Billy Dee Williams, 82, who recently acknowledged that he is gender fluid. Porter told Bush: “Work it out… When somebody like Billy Dee Williams comes out as that, it cracks open a whole different conversation.”
Williams played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Billy has a lot to celebrate this year. Although the singer and actor had previously won a Tony and a Grammy for his work on Broadway’s Kinky Boots, this year the star made history when he took home an Emmy in September.
He told Bush, “I mean… as an artist, it’s about the work… I’m not doing this for awards… It is fun to win them, and as a Black little sissy boy, it gives me a little bit of power and people want to listen. When you put your awards on the table, then you get a little cachet. Some doors start to open that were closed and locked before.”
Doors also open when a person manifests greatness, Porter said. And he’s living proof.
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“I started actually… saying out loud to anybody who would listen, ‘I want Ryan Murphy to see me…’ And the day came. I got that telephone call to audition for ‘Pose’… It was the wrong part — they auditioned me to be the dance teacher…And I said, ‘I think y’all might want me for another part,’ and I explained myself to the casting director… and they created the role of Pray Tell for me,” Porter told Extra.
Yessss! We’re here for it.
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A newly enacted law in New York state bans discrimination against natural hair, but that’s not stopping more than a dozen New York City Catholic schools from continuing the biased practice when it comes to their male students.
According to The New York Daily News, Catholic Schools claim exemption from city and state laws because they are religious institutions giving them the legal space to pretty much as they please. Further, many of them view natural hairstyles worn mostly by Black students, like braids or cornrows, as a fad or trend.
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“Nothing in this article shall … apply to private, religious or denominational educational institutions,” reads a caveat in New York State’s Dignity for All Students Act, and New York City Human Rights law also exempt any “religious corporation incorporated under the education law,” according to The Daily News.
The schools are able to impose whatever restrictions they wish because of these legal loopholes, David Bloomfield, professor of education law at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, told the newspaper.
“They’re just exempted because they’re religious institutions and can set whatever rules of decorum they wish, no matter how discriminatory or racist,” Bloomfield added.
The ban on braids was first highlighted by The Daily News when Lavona Batts of Queens was told to take her 9-year-old son’s cornrows out or withdraw from Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy in Queens, NY. Batts sued the school, citing the city and state laws.
That matter has yet to be resolved, however, Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright (D–Brooklyn), who helped draft the state’s anti-discriminatory, Crown Act, is trying to appeal to New York’s Archdiocese, which supervises Catholic schools in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, to get involved in the case.
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“It makes me very uneasy that the (New York) Archdiocese is not going to step in and encourage all of their schools to be compliant with state law,” Wright told The Daily News.
T.J. McCormack, a spokesman for the Archdiocese, contends that any parent who agrees to send their child to any NYC Catholic school agrees to “adhere to the terms of the school’s handbook, Catholic School, which will include guidelines on hair, wardrobe and personal conduct.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio both called the school’s ban “unacceptable” and are looking into further action.
“For much of our nation’s history, people of color — particularly women — have been marginalized and discriminated against simply because of their hairstyle or texture,” said Gov. Cuomo in a statement about the legislation.
“By signing this bill into law, we are taking an important step toward correcting that history and ensuring people of color are protected from all forms of discrimination.”
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