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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Hate Crime Charges Dropped in Richard Collins Murder Trial

On Tuesday, a judge announced that a hate crime charge has been dropped in a case involving the fatal stabbing of U.S Army Lt. Richard Collins, III, reports WJZ-TV.

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‘RHOA’ fans outraged after Porsha Williams’ fiancé blames postpartum depression for his cheating

Porsha Williams‘ fiancé Dennis McKinley is experiencing a bit of public backlash this week, after the latest episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta showed him bizarrely blaming her postpartum depression for his decision to cheat on her while she was still pregnant with their first child.

According to The Blast, the couple allowed cameras to follow them into a painful therapy session as they discussed the infidelity that lead to them separating.

READ MORE: Porsha Williams dismisses Kandi Burruss’ claim that her boo is a player

Viewers were tuned in as the 38-year-old reality star opened up about her feelings of betrayal. But when McKinley was asked for his side during a couple’s therapy session and prodded to reveal what caused him to make the choice to cheat, his answer both angered and confused fans.

“We had a rough pregnancy, all the way from start to finish,” he began. “Sex during pregnancy, it’s nothing that a man wants to do. … And after PJ got here, postpartum was very real. We cried together, like, every night. That’s not a good enough ‘why,’ but that’s the ‘why.’”

READ MORE: Serena Williams gets real about postpartum struggles after major loss

Although he admitted “it was a poor” and “selfish decision,” he also added, “I made a mistake, I cheated. … I’ve done my best to let Porsha know that I love her and I’m remorseful and apologetic. The priority for me is the baby.”

“A mistake, to me, is taking the wrong exit,” Williams countered visibly frustrated. “You don’t make a mistake and set up with someone and cheat. That’s not where he needs to be in order for me to heal and move forward. He needs to be in a place in my eyes where he’s taking full accountability for his actions, period. No matter how it looks and feels. It insults me when he says ‘mistake.’”

She then warned him, “If you’re going to live how you want to live because that’s just what your loins want, we can move on with our coparent life. But if you are really trying to make a commitment over here, that’s what I want to know from your heart.”

As many have pointed out, how would Williams’ behavior after her pregnancy justify her fiancé’s behavior during her pregnancy? From a chronological standpoint that defense literally makes no sense.

READ MORE: Porsha Williams wants to expand family after reuniting with Dennis McKinley

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You Can't Make This Up: Italian Soccer League's New Anti-Racism Campain Features...Monkeys

If I was hired to create an anti-racism campaign for a sport with a serious racism problem, the absolute last thing I would do is plaster monkeys all over the damn place in an effort to make my point. But because we live in a world fraught with poor decisions from painfully obtuse white people, Italian football league…

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OPINION: How Salvador da Bahia liberated this Black trans woman

The holidays are a time of return for so many of us. It’s that time of year when we go back to the people and places that have shaped us. Many will be confronted with the normal anxieties that returning home (either the ones we were born into or have chosen) can bring, but it is far higher for those of us who identify as trans.

One of the places which I call home is Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. Just last week I returned from my first trip there in six years. Between 2013 and now, I transitioned. I was nervous about returning and didn’t know what to expect. But it turns out that my trepidation was totally unwarranted.

It turns out that my womanhood was affirmed there in ways unmatched by any other place I have ever visited. This fact affirmed for me a simple truth: sometimes going home means finding acceptance.

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Though I was not born in Brazil, I have been to Salvador more times than I can remember since my first visit in 2003. Nestled on bluff in a region that is the closest point in the Americas to Africa, Salvador is the capital of Afro-Brazil. And since Brazil was the single largest destination for enslaved people from Africa, Salvador is one of the most important cities in the entire African diaspora. Understandably, AfroPunk just announced dates for the latest franchise of its music festival there.

Aided by my fluency in Portuguese, the richness of Blackness in Bahia has molded me culturally and spiritually. It affirmed my deep and abiding connection to other Black people from around the world who had always been there but were not as tangible until I set foot in Salvador. It got me to see the Africaness of the foods I ate growing up in Atlanta, the rhythms of the music I listened to, and even the side-eye glances intrinsic of my great grandmother. Protected by its shores, it literally served as my actual home in 2009 as I rode out the worst of the financial crisis in the States. It also opened my eyes to the African spiritual practices grounded in Orixas, which ties the spiritual world with the real one and form the basis of modern-day Afro-Christianity in the U.S.

So, with all of these gifts, why did I have so much trepi

Activist and writer, Imara Jones and a friend take in the sites in Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. (photo courtesy of Imara Jones)

dation about returning?

I realized that since my last trip, I had changed. Assigned a male gender at birth, I transitioned to become the woman that I was always meant to be.  And despite its openness, Brazil can be a harsh place for trans women. The country actually has the highest number of trans murders in the world, followed by Mexico and the United States. Just this week a Brazilian man was arrested for shooting and choking Marcelle Brandina, a trans woman, to death. My nervousness was not a figment of my imagination but grounded in observable realities.

READ MORE: Sade’s transgender son opens up about “trying, tiring, painful” process of sex reassignment surgery

And yet, my actual experience in Salvador was totally different than these facts would suggest.

In existing in and moving about within the city, I felt totally free in my Blackness and in my womanhood. Not once while entering a cab, going into a shop, drinking at the club, or resting by the beach was I misgendered. Not one time. The only other place that has ever come close to mirroring this experience for me, one that all people are entitled to, is my native Atlanta.

It got me thinking, what do Salvador and Atlanta have in common? I realized that both places are where Blackness is centered and consequently the importance of Black womanhood.

The idea of Black womanhood, not only emphasizes our beauty and role as nurturers, but also our power and fulsomeness. In Salvador, the cultural ideal of a Black woman is captured in the word “negona.” A negona’s strength and desirability comes from her dark skin, full lips, thick hips, and broad facial features. She is attractive because of what she has versus what she does not.

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This contrasts with traditional ideas of White womanhood which, through the beauty industry and mass media, became the global idea of womanhood overall. White womanhood emphasizes fragility, smallness, and deference —the very lack of agency— to support patriarchy.

Off the cliffs at Salvador da Bahia. (Photo courtesy of Imara Jones.)

Therefore in Salvador, and other cities like it, where there is cultural space for Black womanhood, my femininity is accepted, embraced and celebrated. This is how Salvador gave me peace and freedom to be who I am as a Black trans woman.

READ MORE: White woman accuses Black playwright of racism after viewing ‘Slave Play’

As I gather together over the next few weeks with friends and family, my hope for the world is that more places will give the gift of opening spaces for ourselves so that we can open spaces for others. Against the backdrop of reinvigorated white supremacy, it’s the only way to move forward into this new decade.

Imara Jones is the creator of “TransLash,” a four-part web docu-series about what it is like to be a trans woman of color at a time of social backlash. She is a Fellow-in-Residence at The New York Women’s Foundation and is on the board of the Anti-Violence Project.

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Issa Rae Partners with Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen

Issa Rae continues the building of her empire! The multifaceted businesswoman has partnered with Hilltop Coffee and Kitchen to bring the cafe to the location in Inglewood, California.

Rae becomes an equity partner with Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen founders Ajay Relan and Yonnie Hagos. Relan and Hagos opened the original Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen in View Park-Windsor Hills in August 2018 with the intention of creating a hub for the South LA community; an inclusive space conducive to community, creativity, and connection over quality food and drink. Their second location in downtown Inglewood will serve as their flagship and is occupied in the space that used to be Sweetie Pies, across from the iconic Stevie Wonder-owned 102.3 KJLH-FM studios, located at 170 N. La Brea Avenue.

The actress posted on Instagram.

“South LA made us—we all have roots here. I went to elementary school at Inglewood Christian right around the corner,” Hagos says in a press release. “It means everything to us to bring this to a neighborhood where we spent our formative years.”

Said Relan, “From the day we opened on Slauson, the greatest gift we’ve received is looking around the space and seeing people just like Issa — creative, talented, ambitious, and full of positive energy — connecting with each other and finding and climbing their own hilltops. We couldn’t possibly have connected with someone who represents ‘The Climb’ better than Issa to expand our mission.”

“South L.A. is my home and joining Ajay and Yonnie as owners of this community-driven endeavor is a dream come true. South Los Angeles is drastically changing and it’s important to have safe spaces for local people of color and creatives to come and find each other. Hilltop’s mission to uplift our communities through food and fellowship falls right in line with my passions and I’m proud to highlight and amplify such a meaningful business,” stated Rae.

Rae started receiving attention for the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl before creating, co-writing, and starring in the HBO television series, Insecure. She has received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress-Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Rae has also written a New York Times best-selling memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (37 Ink, $16.00). Rae is reportedly working on producing a remake of the 1996 film Set It Off.



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