Meghan Markle makes first appearance as new mom at Trooping the Colour

Black British royal Meghan Markle has made her first public appearance since giving birth last month to baby Archie.

The Duchess of Sussex was seen at Trooping the Colour, a birthday celebration for the Queen Elizabeth in London.

She was first spotted coming out of Buckingham Palace in a horse-drawn carriage, sitting next to her husband Prince Harry, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, CNN reports.

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The Duchess of Sussex wore a dark blue hat by Noel Stewart, and dark blue outfit by her wedding dress designer, Clare Waight Keller, according to PEOPLE.

Thousands of people gathered along the Mall in London to watch the official birthday celebration. More than 200 horses, 400 musicians and 1,400 officers took part in the event.

This parade and celebration gives the Queen an opportunity to review her army. This is essential since the monarch is technically the head of Britain’s armed forces and would traditionally lead an army into war, says CNN.

Colours, or flags, are carried down the ranks of soldiers and the Officer in Command of the Parade spats out over one hundred words of command to direct the several hundred soldiers, according to the Royal Family’s website.

For more than 260 years, Trooping the Colour has been the official birthday celebration for the Queen, though her real birthday is on April 21, CNN noted.

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During the parade, members of the royal family can be seen riding by horseback or in a carriage that starts at Buckingham Palace down the mall to Horse Guard’s Parade.

Last year, Meghan and Harry rode in their own horse drawn carriage, but this year their carriage was a full house, according to PEOPLE. They were accompanied by sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, and Camilla, Duchess of Sussex.

Meghan welcomed son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor on May 6. While Meghan is just making her first public appearance, new dad Prince Harry has made appearances to the Netherlands and Rome since the arrival of their son, PEOPLE said.

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Africa Cup of Nations: Uganda midfielder Waisma out through injury

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Common, Al Sharpton react to NBA teams abandoning ‘owner’ title

Many NBA teams are considering retiring the “owner” title.

It has been a high-level conversation in the league for over a year now, stemming from the racial undertone it can have for the primarily Black NBA players. Some teams have already made the decision to stop using the term “owner” in reference to the top manager.

The Philadelphia 76ers have changed their owner’s title to managing partner and co-owners are now called limited partners. The Los Angeles Clippers have also joined the ranks and is now calling its owner chairman, TMZ reports.

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The hype around the “owner” conversation gained buzz last year when NBA player Draymond Green appeared on Lebron James‘ show “The Shop” and said, “You shouldn’t say owner,” also suggesting the title should be changed to either CEO, chairman or majority shareholder.

Actor and rapper Common agrees with Green. “I’m so pleased,” Common told TMZ. “The term owner — it didn’t sit right with me.”

“The history of what we have and we are as black people in this country … it’s just not really being considerate of the history.”

Common added how impressed he was with NBA commissioner Adam Silver for referring to one team’s majority investor as “Governor” instead of “owner.”

Civil Rights activist Al Sharpton was also excited that the NBA wants to do away with the term because it too closely mirrors slavery.

“Many of the NBA players are descendants of people that were enslaved,” Sharpton told TMZ. “When we hear the term owner, it’s a much different connotation than other people.”

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Sharpton added the league should want to make their players feel comfortable since they’re the money makers.

“I think that if you want to respect people that are making you a lot of money, you ought to be sensitive and how they are relating to you and how they want a title that doesn’t make them uncomfortable”

Although the talks around the term “owner” are shifting things in the NBA, Green’s team — the Golden State Warriors — still lists Jacob Lacob as its owner. TMZ got in touch with the Warriors and they explained, “We refer to the owners of our teams as Governors; each team is represented on our Board of Governors.”

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Michael B. Jordan presents exonerated Central Park Five men with courage award ‘It’s dangerous in America when you’re living in a black body’

Michael B. Jordan told the men known as the Central Park Five Friday that he cannot watch footage of the new series “When They See Us” without getting emotional and feeling like as a young black man he too could have faced a similar ordeal.

“It’s dangerous in America when you’re living in a black body,” Jordan said.
Jordan praised the men — Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise — for their perseverance and courage during a luncheon in which the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California honored Netflix’s series about their case.

“The whole time that these men were incarcerated, they never changed their story,” he said. “They insisted of their innocence even as they did their time.”

Salaam cried as he accepted an award on behalf of series creator Ava DuVernay.
“I’m not ashamed to cry in front of you,” Salaam said after a moment of silence as he reflected on how he and the other men were “just boys” between the ages of 13 and 16 years old when they were wrongfully convicted.

“Our story is a story of an egregious miscarriage of justice,” he added.
Jordan hugged Salaam, who also spoke on behalf of the five men.

“That’s courage,” said Jordan, whose performances have ranged from his acclaimed portrayal of a young black man killed by a police officer in “Fruitvale Station” to the vengeful Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther.”

Salaam and the rest of the Central Park Five were exonerated in 2002 after being charged with the 1989 rape of a white woman in New York’s Central Park. They received a standing ovation while accepting the ACLU chapter’s inaugural Roger Baldwin Courage Award.

Baldwin was one of the ACLU’s founders and its first executive director.

“When They See Us” isn’t Hollywood’s first attempt to recount the story of the Central Park Five’s wrongful conviction, but it has sparked a renewed interest in the details of the case.
Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, said DuVernay refocused the narrative on the humanity of the five men and it has shone a new light on a widely known case 30 years later.

The series has re-ignited outcry about how the case was handled. Linda Fairstein, the Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor who observed the teenagers’ interrogation, has faced backlash for her role in their conviction. Fairstein has already resigned from at least two nonprofit boards as backlash intensified and a #CancelLindaFairstein movement spread on social media.

Shortly before the men accepted their award, Fairstein was dropped by her book publisher in the face of the increasing criticism. Villagra said that he thinks it’s fair that Fairstein be judged for her actions, even decades later.

“It’s in many ways justice delayed,” Villagra said.

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Sudan crisis: Military arrests opposition figures after mediation bid

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Retta is tired of being typecast as the ‘sassy,’ Black woman

Four years after NBC’s hit sitcom, Parks and Recreation has ended, fans of the sitcom can’t resist stopping one star on the street to utter one of her famous lines: “Treat yo’ self!”

Retta, who played office manager Donna in the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department, said people still scream the line at her whenever they see her and across social media, according to BuzzFeed News. The catchphrase became famous in the Season 4 episode “Pawnee Rangers” when Donna’s character and Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari, celebrate a day each year where they treat themselves to expensive items.

“It has slowed down so it’s not as tiresome,” Retta explained.

Yet it still persists. Although Retta said she doesn’t mind the love her fans show her, she just wants it to be at the right moment.

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“You know, you go to dinner, and at the end of the night the waiter says, ‘I just wanna say, “Treat yo’ self!’” I don’t mind that,” Retta said. “It’s just when someone comes out of nowhere and is in my face and you’re like, ‘Hi, I’m a human being. Could you not put your breath in my eye?’

“It’s really those people that just pop out of nowhere,” she added in the BuzzFeed News interview, “and then I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m trying to pee.””

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Another thing that gets the Good Girls actresses’ goose going is when she feels typecast for a role particularly when a character is pegged as “sassy,” a term all too familiar and unequally applied to Black women.

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“One of my least favorite adjectives, descriptors used for parts that I have to go in for, is ‘sassy,'” Retta explained. “I don’t know what it is. I have this aversion to it. When I see it, I assume something, I assume what I think they want, and I don’t wanna be a part of it.”

Retta’s full interview will air Sunday on Profile.

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JAIL HORROR: Family desperate after Black father dies in jail with his brain, heart and throat removed

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An army veteran’s family is searching for answers a year after the father of two young boys mysteriously died in a Pennsylvania jail and his brain, heart and throat were removed.

And no one is talking.

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The family of 41-year-old Everett Palmer Jr. explained that he went to a York county jail to address an outstanding DUI warrant on April 7, 2018. But two days later the family was informed that Palmer was arrested and had died.

And his body was returned to the family sans a brain, throat or heart.

The man’s cause of death was determined by the coronor to be “complications following an excited state, associated with methamphetamine toxicity, during physical restraint,” Spectrum News reported.

According to the county coroner’s report Palmer “became agitated and began hitting his head against his cell door.”

Rose and Dwayne Palmer, the man’s parents, denied the claim that their son was violent and would commence to hitting his head in such a violent way to reporters

The family has reportedly hired their own pathologist who ruled Palmer’s death as a homicide and believes it should be labeled as such.

The family said that their son’s body was also in bad condition with bruising.

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The family has set up a Facebook page titled ‘Justice4Everett’ and they are considering a lawsuit. and filed a notice of claim with several Pennsylvania agencies.

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Dad’s video of son’s funny reaction to woman’s “stinky” feet on his airplane seat has internet in stitches

A precocious little boy was disgusted and had enough of a woman’s corn chips smelling feet on his airplane seat.

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Little Rodney Small, 4, face-to-feet on a plane ride with his dad Darryl from Orlando to Houston on May 16.

Darryl whipped out his cell phone and started recording little Rodney, as he cracked up at his son’s response when he noticed that someone behind him had the audacity to prop their bare feet up on his seat.

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Darryl could hardly contain himself watching his son wrinkle up his nose and complain about a person’s smelly feet on his armrest: “There’s some stinky feet behind me,” Rodney said.

Darryl burst into laughing as he recorded his son analyzing the situation and trying to make sense of why someone would invade his space in this way, The Daily Mail reports.

Rodney had no filter and went in on the person.

“It’s a lady!” Rodney said after peering behind his seat to determine where the “stinky” feet were coming from.

After assessing the situation, Rodney then directly asked the woman “Why do you have you feet behind me?”

After protesting much, Rodney won and the woman put her funky feet back where they belonged on the floor.

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The interaction from Rodney had the internet in stitches.

Rodney’s dad said that the woman ended up apologizing to them both, according to KTRK.

“We weren’t offended or anything, it was just his reaction,” Darryl told the station. “Knowing his spontaneous attitude, there’s no telling what we’re going to get from him so for me, like Snapchat and everything, I always have the camera rolling.”

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