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Alice Randall writes in the New York Times “What black women need is a body-culture revolution“. Know why? Because the fat black woman can be a rounded opposite of the fit black slave.

Here’s what Alice Randall had to say:

“Don’t understand, something is crucial about black women and fat. Many black women are fat because we want to be. This goes way back, from the Lucille Clifton poem ‘Homage to My Hips’ which starts, These hips are big hips’ to fatness as a form of political resistance to ‘the fit black slave.’ Continue Reading…

George Zimmerman is out of jail and back in hiding.

Zimmerman was released just after midnight today on $150,000 bond as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, who apologized to Trayvon’s parents in a court hearing Friday, has been fitted with an GPS monitoring device. Continue Reading…

George Zimmerman could be out on bail as early as tomorrow. The judge at his bond hearing today set the amount at $150,000, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

Zimmerman, who will have to wear a GPS monitor, took the stand himself before the ruling and apologized to Trayvon Martin’s parents: Continue Reading…

JUSTICE 4 TRAYVON

Update 12: Murderer Zimmerman’s mugshot can be found HERE and the 2nd degree murder charge sheet can be seen HERE.

Update 11: George Zimmerman has officially been charged with second degree murder and is currently in custody with no bond set pending a bond hearing. Zimmerman surrendered to police on his own. His whereabouts are being kept confidential, but he will have to appear in Seminole County court where the case will be tried.

Update 10: George Zimmerman will be criminally charged for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. What the charges will be are to be announced at 6pm EST by the special prosecutor Angela Corey. Zimmerman is expected to be arrested soon.

“I know that many of you are greatly—and rightly—concerned about the recent shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a young man whose future has been lost to the ages,” Attorney General Eric Holder told a gathering today. “If we find evidence of a potential federal criminal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action,” he said. Continue Reading…

Monday Interpol announced there’s an arrest warrant out for the former Prime Minister of Turks Caicos Michael Misick. Don’t believe me.. Ask Lisa Raye.

Here’s what Michael Misick had to say:

“Let be clear. I am not a fugitive, and will never be a fugitive. I have applied for political asylum in another country and I am merely seeking protection from political persecution.” Continue Reading…

Nick Cannon is telling the press, he has Autoimmune disease and guess what–31 year old Cannon said “I feel blessed being alive.”

Here’s what Mariah Carey’s sickly husband Nick Cannon had to say:

“The blood clot thing was probably the scariest because… I know people who have passed away from that. I thought I was getting better, and then that happened, so that kind of came out of nowhere. Continue Reading…

MSNBC talk show host Melissa Harris-Perry, viewed the movie “The Help” and guess what — After viewing the film, professor Perry said she needed worker’s compensation. Don’t believe me.. Ask Lawrence O’Donnell.

Here’s what Professor Melissa Harris-Perry had to say:

“This is not a movie about the lives of black women. The movie is a stereotypical, white-washed depiction of the Old South’s Jim Crow era. It’s deeply troubling… it was rape, it was lynching, it was the burning of communities. Continue Reading…