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Rihanna is here for the curvy girls as evidenced by her body positive mannequins displayed at a Fenty clothing pop-up shop at The Webster in NYC.
The 31-year-old singer and beauty mogul is used to breaking boundaries. Now she’s made sure her designs are not only inclusive for women on the fluffier side, but her mannequins are also being applauded for being curvier than usually seen in department stores by including stomach pouches and love handles, PEOPLE reports.
And fans couldn’t be happier sharing their enthusiasm for the move on social media.
Recently Rihanna, who has admitted that her own body is changing, said when she designed the Fenty line, she kept various body types in mind.
“Of course we have our fit models, which is the standard size from factories,” she told E! News. “But then I want to see it on my body. I want to see it on a curvy girl with thighs and a little bit of booty and hips — and now I have boobs that I never had before!”
“All of these things I take into consideration because I want women to feel confident in my stuff,” she said.
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Steve Harvey tells talk show audience “it’s a celebration” in his series finale preview and announces plan to send 7 students to college
On Wednesday we will finally get to see Steve Harvey say goodbye to his Steve daytime talk show during the series finale and he’s seemingly in good spirits about what’s to come.
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“I appreciate y’all coming today. This is a celebration. This is all about seven years coming to a close, but this is good … you’ve got to understand how it works” the 62-year-old said.
Harvey is taking the high road and offering up life advice on his way out after learning that his popular talk show was cancelled and it’s set to be replaced by Kelly Clarkson’s show. But the popular comedian’s not taking offense, PEOPLE reports.
“See, your life ain’t nothing but a book,” he continues. “I happen to be 62 years old. I am in the middle of my 62nd chapter of the book that I’m writing. I’ve had some good chapters, had some bad chapters, had some chapters that lasted a little bit longer than I wanted [them] to.”
“That homeless chapter — way too long,” he said to laughter. “That was three chapters long: I’m homeless, I’m still homeless — damn, I really am homeless!”
“But in this 62nd chapter, I’ve got my finger on the corner of the page. All I’m doing is about to turn it. I can’t wait to see what God got for me on that other page,” he said.
“All I’m doing is I’m about to turn it,” he says. “And I can’t wait to see what God got for me on that other page.”
He also revealed that the final episode will feature Bishop T.D. Jakes, and a special surprise.
“I’ve got seven boys that I want you to meet,” he says. “Today, my wife and I, our foundation and Omega Psi Phi fraternity, we’re sending seven African-American boys to the same school [Kent State University] I flunked out of.”
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Harvey’s show was cancelled in May and reruns will run through September. Harvey spoke previous about how he learned that he was given the boot, saying he wish the network was more forthcoming with the information.
“I’m an honorable guy, I’m just an old school guy, and I just thought that you’re supposed to talk to people and go, ‘Look, you’ve been good business for us. This is what we’re thinking of doing. Are you okay with that?’ ” he said. “No, you don’t just put something in the paper and say, ‘I’m going make this move right here,’ because it’s crazy.”
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HBO doc ‘True Justice’ explores lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s defense of death row inmates and his lynching memorial
Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson rarely slows down, friends and family say. It seems he’s always looking over details on death penalty cases from his Montgomery, Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative. If he’s not speaking on the criminalization of black men, Stevenson is researching another historical site connected to an episode of racial violence.
But a new HBO documentary on Stevenson attempts to get him to sit, speak and explain why he believes the legacy of lynchings of African Americans in the U.S. is directly linked to those who have wrongly been put on death row. In his mind, racial structures of oppression have remained in the U.S. judicial system since the Jim Crow-era and the death penalty is merely their direct descendant.
“Most people don’t know about our history of lynching,” Stevenson told The Associated Press in a phone interview shortly after receiving news Friday that the Supreme Court had overturned the death sentence for Curtis Flowers , a Mississippi black man. “People have never been required to talk about it. But when you sit and think about it, the correlation is there.”
Stevenson said the white lynch mob transformed into a formal judicial process in which often white prosecutors, white judges and largely white juries are tasked with deciding if a poor, black male accused of a crime is sentenced to death.
“True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” set to air Wednesday on HBO, shows how the Harvard-trained attorney is now dedicating his life to forcing the U.S. to face the violence experienced by its communities of color.
The Delaware-born Stevenson gained national attention in 1993 after he helped exonerate Walter McMillian, a 46-year-old black pulpwood worker on death row. McMillian had been sentenced to death for the 1986 fatal shooting of an 18-year-old white woman in an Alabama town where Harper Lee wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird.” But Stevenson was able to prove that a key witness had lied and prosecutors withheld important evidence.
The attorney then helped exonerate Anthony Ray Hinton in 2015, an African American man who spent 30 years on death row in Alabama after he was convicted for the 1985 slaying of two fast-food managers. Stevenson was able to show that experts could prove Hinton’s mother’s gun, the one prosecutor said was using in the killings, couldn’t have been the one used in the shooting.
In the documentary, Hinton talks about sitting on death row and being forced to smell the burning flesh of other inmates in the electric chair as a jail guard taunted him.
The film comes as the country prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of “Red Summer” — a period in 1919 when white mobs attacked and murdered African Americans in dozens of cities across the U.S. Hundreds of African Americans, some still in their World War I uniforms, were lynched, tortured and forced from homes amid heightened racial tensions and the rise of the revived Ku Klux Klan.
It also comes as Latino academics and activists with the group Refusing to Forget are working to educate the public on violence committed by white mobs and the Texas Rangers that claimed thousands of people of Mexican descent in the American Southwest from 1910 to 1920.
Stevenson said he hopes the documentary helps other communities of color think about how they can memorialize historical sites connect to their unique past. But he said African Americans have a distinct history connected to slavery and that should not be ignored.
“This kind of lawlessness affected all kinds of communities of color,” Stevenson said. “But it’s not the same. Lynching starts with enslavement. Black people didn’t come here as immigrants.”
“True Justice” will be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, and other streaming platforms.
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Judge: Census question might have discriminatory motive
New evidence paints a “disturbing picture” that racial discrimination may be the motive behind the Trump administration’s push to ask everyone in the country about citizenship status, a federal judge wrote in a Monday filing.
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Last week, U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland ruled there’s enough evidence to warrant reopening a case focused on whether a proposed 2020 census question violates minorities’ rights. In his court filing Monday, Hazel reasoned that new evidence “potentially connects the dots between a discriminatory purpose” and a decision by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to add the citizenship question.
“It is becoming difficult to avoid seeing that which is increasingly clear. As more puzzle pieces are placed on the mat, a disturbing picture of the decisionmakers’ motives takes shape,” Hazel wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court could soon render Hazel’s decision moot. The country’s highest court is expected to decide this week whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
But the federal judge’s opinion appears to strongly buttress arguments from voting rights activists who assert that newly discovered emails from a deceased Republican architect of political maps show the proposed citizenship question was intended to discriminate in an effort to restrict the political power of Democrats and Latino communities.
Democrats fear the citizenship question will reduce census participation in immigrant-heavy communities and result in a severe undercount of legitimate voters who fear revealing their immigration status to federal officials.
They say they want specific documents to determine why Ross added the question to the 2020 census and contend the administration has declined to provide the documents despite repeated requests.
Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, said in a memo last year that the Justice Department wants to ask the question to gather data to help identify majority-minority congressional districts, which the Voting Rights Act calls for when possible.
But a recently discovered trove of computer documents from Republican operative Tom Hofeller, who died last year, included detailed calculations that lay out gains Republicans would see in Texas by basing legislative districts on the number of voting-age citizens rather than the total population. The late North Carolina redistricting expert said in the documents that GOP gains would be possible only if the census asked every household about its members’ immigration status for the first time since 1950.
The documents were discovered when Hofeller’s estranged daughter found four external computer hard drives and 18 thumb drives in her father’s North Carolina home after his death last summer.
In his written opinion, Hazel said the new evidence shows that Hofeller was “the first person” to talk to Mark Neuman, a Commerce Department transition official who played an “outsized role” advising Ross on census decisions, regarding the addition of a citizenship question. He references evidence found on Hofeller’s computer drives showing he contributed key wording to a Justice Department letter used to justify the question on the grounds that it was needed to protect minority voting rights.
“Plaintiffs’ new evidence potentially connects the dots between a discriminatory purpose — diluting Hispanics’ political power — and Secretary Ross’s decision. The evidence suggests that Dr. Hofeller was motivated to recommend the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census to advantage Republicans,” the U.S. judge wrote.
If the case gets remanded, Hazel wrote that he would reopen discovery for 45 days, order an evidentiary hearing and issue a “speedy ruling.” Hazel had ruled in April to block the addition of the citizenship question, but found at the time that the voting rights activists failed to prove their equal protection rights were violated. His ability to consider the case further based on the new evidence would depend on a federal appeals court returning it to him.
The Justice Department has declined to comment on Hazel’s latest decision, but has previously denied that the new documents show any discriminatory intent. Justice Department lawyers have said the assertion that the proposed question is discriminatory and that Hofeller and others were pushing for it on that end “borders on frivolous.”
Whether the citizenship question ends up on the 2020 Census is up to the Supreme Court. The nation’s top court is deciding whether it should be allowed after several states sued calling for the question to be removed.
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Kamala Harris pressed to get more personal about why she’s running for president
Kamala Harris nodded knowingly when a black woman at a weekend candidate forum recounted watching her mother face racial discrimination during her childhood.
“You and I have a similar experience growing up,” said Harris, the California senator and former prosecutor who would be the first black woman elected president. “I don’t talk about it often. But I remember walking into a department store and people looking at my mother assuming she couldn’t afford to buy what she was looking at.”
She also recalled watching her mother brace herself around law enforcement or seeing people assume her mother was a housekeeper, not a scientific researcher — and explained how they shaped her commitment to fighting discrimination.
It was the kind of moment some Harris advisers and allies have been waiting for: the blending of Harris’ polished political resume with a revealing glimpse at the forces that have shaped her life and her vision for the presidency.
Defining that vision is one of Harris’ central challenges through the summer, according to aides and allies to the senator. It’s seen as a missing ingredient in a campaign that, for all its strengths — a historic candidate, a strong campaign apparatus and an impressive fundraising network — has been criticized as overly cautious and risks being passed by rival campaigns. Early polling shows Harris trailing former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and facing strong competition from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, is among those who said she wants to support Harris but finds herself still wondering what the candidate stands for.
“We’re anxious to hear from her,” Brown said. “She should shape this narrative before it’s shaped for her.”
Brown was one of about a dozen Democratic organizers, strategists and Harris allies who raised concerns about the senator’s struggles to define her candidacy and build off her impressive launch earlier this year. Some shared their thoughts — a mix of concern, bewilderment and frustration — on condition of anonymity in order to speak freely about a campaign many support.
David Axelrod, the longtime political adviser to former President Barack Obama, said that while Harris has “enormous assets,” she has struggled to refine the message and rationale for her pursuit of the presidency.
“You have to have a story and that story has to be the connective tissue through everything you do,” Axelrod said.
Harris advisers see plenty of opportunity for growth, pointing to polls that show large swaths of the Democratic electorate want to learn more about the California senator — a metric they see more as a sign of interest in the candidate than a warning that she remains an enigma to many. Although Harris was initially reluctant, she is now consciously trying to incorporate more personal details in her campaign trail speeches and answers to voters.
“The more people learn about Kamala Harris, the more they like her,” said Kirsten Allen, Harris’ deputy national press secretary. “She’s showing people who she is and why she’s uniquely qualified to prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump.”
While Harris’ campaign disputes the notion of a revamped strategy, advisers concede that they need to spend more time helping voters understand not only what Harris would do as president but also what motivates her and what has shaped her. Their goal: to leave voters with the impression of a candidate who is both strong and warm.
The effort was apparent over the weekend in South Carolina, where Harris attended a Planned Parenthood forum focused on abortion rights and the state’s Democratic Party convention. She appeared most comfortable embracing her past as a prosecutor, which has drawn scrutiny from some progressives pushing for an overhaul of the criminal justice system.
Harris has at times appeared defensive about her record as California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney. But she leaned into her experience on Saturday, declaring that it positioned her best among the Democratic field to “prosecute” the case against Trump in next year’s general election.
“I know how to get that job done,” Harris said. “We need somebody on our stage when it comes time for the general election who knows how to recognize a rap sheet when they see it and prosecute the case.”
Some Harris supporters bristle at what they see as echoes of the criticism leveled in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, who despite her vast experience struggled at times to define a rationale for her candidacy and could appear overly attuned to the political winds as she formulated policy positions. Harris’ instincts can often appear similar. She has a habit of answering tricky policy questions by stating she wants to have a “conversation” and has pulled back stances she took on eliminating private health insurance and potentially giving imprisoned felons the right to vote.
Aimee Allison, the founder of She the People, a political advocacy network for women of color, said that as a black woman, Harris is under pressure to “be twice as good, twice as polished, twice as prepared.”
“Women of color are also expected to make this herculean effort look effortless, open, authentic,” Allison said.
Maisha Leek, who has supported Harris since her 2003 campaign for San Francisco district attorney, said she wasn’t surprised that Harris was facing questions about her cautiousness — nor was she surprised that she was finding ways to combat them.
“This is Kamala. She is steady as she goes,” said Leek, an executive at the venture fund Human Ventures. “People underestimate her every single time. It is to their peril.”
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Special prosecutor requested in South Bend police shooting of Black man as Pete Buttigieg grapples with racial backlash
A special prosecutor was requested Monday to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in a case that has inflamed tensions between the black community and law enforcement and roiled the Democratic presidential campaign of Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
St. Joseph County Prosecutor Kenneth Cotter filed a petition asking a judge to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the June 16 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan by South Bend police Sgt. Ryan O’Neill. It comes a day after Buttigieg said he would write the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and notify Cotter that he’d like an independent investigator appointed.
Cotter’s petition also revealed that O’Neill had been accused of making “inappropriate racial remarks” as a patrol officer 11 years ago. The South Bend Fraternal Order of Police, which represents local officers including O’Neill, issued a statement Monday saying that it supports O’Neill and accusing Buttigieg of “driving a wedge between law enforcement officers and the community they took an oath to serve.”
Buttigieg, who has surged from obscurity to become a top-tier 2020 presidential candidate, left the campaign trail for several days to deal with fallout from the June 16 shooting. He faced criticism Sunday from angry residents of South Bend at an emotional town hall meeting, where some community members questioned whether he had done enough to reform the police department in his two terms as mayor. Buttigieg created controversy during his first term when he fired the city’s black police chief.
The mayor praised the prosecutor’s decision to request an independent investigator.
“I respect and support Prosecutor Cotter’s decision to seek an outside, special prosecutor to investigate the circumstances of Eric Logan’s death,” Buttigieg said in a statement Monday. “Our community is in anguish, and for all of us to come to terms with what happened, it is vital that the investigation be fair, thorough, and impartial.”
The shooting occurred after O’Neill responded to a call about a suspicious person going through vehicles, Cotter has said. O’Neill spotted Logan leaning inside a car. When confronted, Logan approached O’Neill with a 6- to 8-inch knife raised over his head, the prosecutor said. O’Neill fired twice, with one shot hitting a car door. The shooting was not recorded by the officer’s body camera.
Cotter’s petition requests a special prosecutor to “avoid any appearance of impropriety, conflict of interest or influence upon the ultimate prosecutorial decision to be made.”
The petition also noted his chief investigator, Dave Newton, was a South Bend police lieutenant in 2008 while O’Neill was a patrol officer and had filed a report at the time quoting two other officers “that voiced a concern of inappropriate racial remarks made by Ryan O’Neill.”
It wasn’t clear whether O’Neill received any department discipline as a result of the report.
Buttigieg has said internal affairs investigated, and the report “was found not to be sustained.”
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