RHOA star Cynthia Bailey says yes to boyfriend’s surprise marriage proposal

Real Housewives of Atlanta star, Cynthia Bailey, and her beau, Mike Hill, are tying the knot.

On Friday, after 14 months of dating, Hill, 48, a sports journalist, got down on one knee and proposed to Bailey 52, with a ginormous 5-carat princess cut solitaire ring, according to PEOPLE Magazine. Hill works for Fox Sports 1 in Los Angeles.

The proposal took place in Atlanta at the grand opening of Bailey’s new company, The Bailey Wine Cellar. Taking part in the surprise was Bailey’s daughter, Noelle Robinson, 19, and Hill’s two daughters, Kayla, 17, and Ashlee, 19, as well as the couple’s close friends and RHOA cast mates of Bailey’s.

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Hill carried out the surprise with the help of Courtney Ajinça, celebrity event planner. Hill tricked Bailey into believing he was giving a toast to celebrate the opening of her business, but then his daughter, Kayla, interrupted him by handing him a bottle that question mark on it.

“No dad, I think you should propose like this,” Kayla said, a source told PEOPLE.

After this, Hill elicited Noelle’s help in opening the bottle and this is when she passed him the ring box. Both Noelle and Hill opened the box and then Hill dropped down on one knee to request Bailey’s hand in marriage.

Once he did, all of the daughters gathered behind Hill and held up a hand-made sign that looked like puzzle pieces, which read: “Can we be a family?”

Bailey started sobbing, but made sure she got in her “yes” to the big question.

The crowd that surrounded them started cheering and chanting “Congratulations Chill!” — which is the nickname Bailey and Hill use on social media that combines their names, the PEOPLE source said.

Both Bailey and Hill were married previously so this will be their second go at matrimony. Bailey was previously married to Peter Thomas from 2010 to 2017.

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And even though Bailey was surprised at the timing of the proposal, she said she had dropped hints for about a year.

“I want to marry Mike. I love Mike. He’s my soulmate,” Bailey gushed to PEOPLE last December. “We talk about getting married all the time. I’m hoping a proposal will happen soon, if not before the end of this year, then hopefully next. I’ve certainly been dropping enough hints! But God has a plan, so I’m just letting it go.”

“You know, we’ve both been married before, so marriage is something we both understand,” she added. “We’re not jumping into this blind. We both have kids and we both love each other very much. We know marriage is the next step.”

Congratulations to them both!

 

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White University of Mississippi Students Pose With Guns in Front of Emmett Till Memorial

A shocking image surfaced on Instagram: Three white University of Mississippi students posing with guns next to a memorial sign dedicated to the black teenager, Emmett Till, who was murdered in 1955.

According to The New York Times, two of the students in the photo have been identified as Ben Leclere and John Lowe. All three are members of the fraternity Kappa Alpha.

In the photo, one of the students holds a shotgun. Another brandishes an AK-47. The memorial sign is bullet-ridden. According to ProPublica, which first reported on the photo—it isn’t clear if the students shot the sign.

Emmett Till (Wikimedia)

NYT reports that the students have been suspended by their fraternity. “The photo is inappropriate, insensitive, and unacceptable,” and “does not represent our chapter,” stated the Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter.

However, the fraternity is known for prior racist activities. As per ProPublica, “The fraternity, which honors Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder” on its website, has a history of racial controversy, including an incident in which students wore blackface at a Kappa Alpha sponsored Halloween party at the University of Virginia in 2002.”

The photo has since been turned over to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. The students have not been suspended from the university. A spokesperson from the university told The New York Times that while the photo was “offensive,” the students did not violate the school’s code of conduct.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice said it was reopening the murder case of Till 63 years after the 14-year-old was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Federal officials announced that it launched an investigation into the case based on “new information” received about Till’s kidnapping, torture, and murder.

News that the DOJ was reopening Till’s case was first reported by the Associated Press after the Justice Department sent a report to Congress in March under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016, a bill authorized by President Barack Obama granting feds the ability to investigate unsolved civil rights murders committed before 1970.

New revelations about Till’s death were published in the 2017 book The Blood of Emmett Till by historian Timothy B. Tyson.

Till was a native of Chicago visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was accused of making sexual advances toward Carolyn Donham, 21, at a grocery store. Her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam were charged with killing Till but were acquitted by an all-white jury. Bryant and Milam later admitted to a reporter the next year that they beat and shot the teen before dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. They were not retried due to double jeopardy laws.

—Additional reporting by Selena Hill

 

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Rumor Patrol: Diddy spotted out in Soho with Steve Harvey’s stepdaughter

Rumor has it that Sean “Diddy” Combs was stepping out with Lori Harvey and it got the internet up-in-arms over whether the “bad boy” is allegedly dating Steve Harvey’s stepdaughter.

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But this apparently isn’t the first time that they have been seen out together. Previously Madame Noire reported that the two were spotted out and about before in Miami, but the reports were ultimately brushed off. Now that Diddy and Lori re-surfaced in pics on Wednesday in what seems like coordinated outfits in Soho, many are wondering if they are indeed an item, Us Magazine reports.

#Diddy & #LoriHarvey were spotted out on a public date for the first time together last night. And in matching outfits. 👀 More here: https://t.co/L0FV10tJfM or swipe up in stories https://t.co/GqzUf39sNy pic.twitter.com/CmavtpmY0d

— YBF CHIC (@TheYBF) July 25, 2019

If that’s the case, it might prove to be a little bit awkward for Diddy’s 25-year-old son Justin who was previously linked to 22-year-old Lori, according to Us Magazine. Seems like Diddy is definitely a Mack daddy!

All is fair in love, right? The 49-year-old sure got a taste of that when his ex-girlfriend Cassie of 11 years, cozied up and eventually dated and got pregnant by Diddy’s former physical trainer Alex Fine after they broke up in October 2018.

Diddy himself has been trying to find himself the last few months after suffering a tremendous loss of his best friend and baby momma Kim Porter, who died in November 2018 from lobar pneumonia.

That loss hit hard and since then he’s been on the comeback trying to piece together his life while balancing life as a single dad raising his twin daughters he shared with Porter.

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Combs is single and just in March, it was reported that he and Lori were seen out partying and celebrating and paying tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G. with a performance at downtown Miami nightclub, E11even. While in Florida it appeared that Diddy and Harvey were getting quite cozy in each other’s company.

Lori broke things off with her former fiancé Memphis Depay, soccer player from the Netherlands and a guy that Steve Harvey really approved of.

Marjorie and I are proud to announce the engagement of our youngest daughter Lori to Memphis Depay, this young man is a good one! Congrats! pic.twitter.com/Tt92IqhYz3

— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) June 26, 2017

We’re wondering how Steve is taking all this news of Lori hanging out with Diddy and if daddy approves.

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Ex-lover sues Scottie Pippen for expenses incurred during their alleged affair 26 years ago

A woman is stepping forward 26 years after the fact to sue NBA star Scottie Pippen for expenses she incurred while allegedly having an affair with him during his tenure with the Chicago Bulls.

Ma’am.

If you are going to have an affair with a millionaire, you might want to get your coins on the front end. Just saying.

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Chyvette Valentine is claiming that she spent thousands of dollars traveling to see Pippen and racked up thousands on hotel expenses, gas, food, parking during her affair from 1987 to 1993.

According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Valentine claims that she paid her own way to see Pippen when he played ball in other cities outside Chi-town.

Valentine believes she’s owed quite a bit but can only claim $9,999 since it’s the maximum allowed in small claims court.

Valentine also said she didn’t know that the popular ex-ballplayer who was at the top of his game alongside Michael Jordan, was a married man or had an infant when they first started their tryst. Pippen was a widely known player for the Bulls which is arguably one of the best basketball teams in NBA history.

The alleged side chick also said Pippen lied about having a baby even when she would see bottles of formula at his house. She said he told her the milk was for his sister.

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It wasn’t until Valentine’s Day in 1988 when Pippen reportedly told her the truth about everything, yet she continued the love affair until 1993.

But the question remains why she waited so long to sue and why does she feel entitled to get reimbursed for her own willingness to participate?

Griofam, what are your thoughts?

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White woman who called Black women the n-word at NC restaurant says she would do it again

A white Raleigh, North Carolina woman felt pretty bold and hurled racist slurs at two Black ladies who were enjoying dinner at Bonefish Grill because she said they were “too loud.” And says she would do it again.

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Confronting Black people for mundane reasons has pretty much become commonplace as of late as evidenced by yet another case of bothering Black folks for nothing.

On Tuesday, Chanda Stewart and Lakesha Shaw said they were confronted by Nancy Goodman who complained that they were rude and loud while they were eating at a North Hills restaurant, WRAL reports.

“We’ve had people come to our table and say, ‘Hey, you girls look like you’re having fun. We want to join you,’ but never to come to my table and tell me I’m rude,” Shaw said Wednesday.

The interaction between the two women and Goodman has gone viral after Stewart took out her cellphone to capture the shocking moment Goodman became agitated and verbally attacked the women.

“We’re paying for our food just like everyone else, and she told us that we are the rudest people,” Stewart says in the cellphone video.

Goodman pulls out her own cellphone too to record and circles the table to antagonize the women.

“I’ve got real good friends who are black, and I love them,” Goodman says trying to justify her inane actions.

“We never said anything about color,” Stewart said.

“You’re too loud,” Goodman says.

“In your opinion,” Shaw replies. “Let me show you my money. It’s just as green as yours.”

“Why are you so stupid ni**er?” Goodman says to Shaw before she walks off.

“Do you call your black friends [that]?” the women asks her.

“They’re not like you,” Goodman replies.

The slur rightfully upset Shaw and Stewart.

“[I’m] still trying to wrap my head around it all,” Stewart said. “It’s disheartening, it is. But this is the society that we’re living in right now.”

“I don’t care how you feel like we should have been acting,” Shaw said. “If I was standing on the table with three heads in a purple jumpsuit, nothing justifies you to come to my table and call me a stupid (racial slur).”

When confronted about the incident on Wednesday, Goodman offered a backhanded apology saying she should have handled things differently.

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“Looking back on it now, I wish I would have asked the waiter to ask management if they would just quiet down,” she said. “Instead, I went off on them, which I shouldn’t have done. But I had had it. It was out of my control to calm down my anxiety.”

But she still maintained that she wasn’t sorry for calling the ladies n-word and would do it again.

“I’m not going to say I’m sorry to them because they kept pushing at it,” she said. “I would say it again to them. They are the rudest individuals I have ever seen.”

And Goodman is a racist but doesn’t believe she’s one.

“I have many black friends, and I have never encountered three people that ugly in a bar,” she said. “I wish those women well, and maybe there’s a lesson learned for them, too, that you don’t disrespect an elderly person.”

“The fact that you’re willing to say you will repeat that again shows me the hate that you harbor in your heart for the black African-American race,” Shaw said. “I don’t care what color I am. Give me the respect of being a human being, just like everyone else deserves.”

Goodman apologized “to my family, friends and other patrons in the bar at North Hills Bonefish,” but not the ladies she offended on Wednesday.

Bonefish Grill released a statement condemning Goodman’s hateful words.

“We are a place for all people to gather for good food in a comfortable atmosphere, including positive interactions among guests,” Elizabeth Watts, a spokeswoman for the restaurant chain’s parent company, Bloomin’ Brands Inc.

We do not tolerate hate speech or disrespect in our restaurants,” Watts said in a statement. “We are reviewing the incident to see how we can do better at de-escalating something like this in the future.”

 

Nancy Goodman of Raleigh, NC was filmed calling a Black woman the n-word. Goodman said it was because she has “anxiety” & the Black women “pushed” her to say it. She knows it’s “offensive,” she said, but that’s why she said it & would do it again. https://t.co/1kobZuevRQ

— Tina Vasquez (@TheTinaVasquez) July 25, 2019

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Bette Midler: They Aren’t Just ‘Blackground.’ There’s An Actual ‘Blacks for Trump’ Group

Iconic singer and actress Bette Midler recently stirred controversy over a tweet she posted about black Trump supporters in camera view at the President’s last re-election rally. She called the African American men seen in a somewhat grainy photo and wearing white t-shirts,  ‘blackground’ and suggested they were being paid to attend.

Look, there are African American men in this shot! How much did he pay them to be “blackground”? pic.twitter.com/pTkoHTIpQl

— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 24, 2019

Both at Trump’s pre- and post-election rallies, many have noticed several black people holding signs displaying “BlacksForTrump2020.com.” While the image in Midler’s post isn’t clear whether the black individuals seen in the picture are affiliated with BlacksforTrump2020, black people wearing t-shirts with that website address can often be seen at Trump rallies.

Social media abounds with accusations that these are people put in place by the Trump camp. Others claim they are paid to give the impression that Trump has a multicultural following. The Huffington Post even called BlacksforTrump2020, “Trump’s latest con.”

So, just what is BlacksforTrump2020.com?

For starters, it’s an actual website. A WHOIS lookup on that domain name shows the site is registered to “Domains by Proxy, LLC.” A website owner’s personal information is masked when a site is registered through Domains by Proxy.

The Washington Post revealed that purchasing anonymous domain names increased for both Republicans and Democrats during the 2012 election.

The article points out that since many of these domain owners’ details are anonymous, it’s unclear whether actual politicians are buying them. Or, if squatters buy them in presidential campaign years with hopes of selling them for big bucks.

The self-professed owner of BlacksforTrump2020.com is not seeking anonymity at all, he told Black Enterprise.

Florida-based Maurice Symonette says he is the owner of BlacksforTrump2020.com. In a phone interview with Black Enterprise, Symonette dismisses the notion that he is paid by the Trump camp.

“Not even 32 cents,” he insists. “The fact is I wouldn’t even take any money because you are not going to call me a sellout. From Bush to Allen West to anyone I assisted we did it on our dime.”

He says he gets right behind Trump on camera with the signs so people can see the website, go to it, and understand why he is an ardent Trump supporter.

“I put my website on [the signs] because they are calling this man a racist and I don’t want to be holding a sign and look like some Uncle Tom sellout without explaining my position,” he says.

He also says he doesn’t use the Domain by Proxy registrar for anonymity. “I’m out here in the open.”

Taxes are “Slavery;” Building a Wall is “Scripture” 

Symonette, a former member of the black separatist sect, Yahweh ben Yahweh, cites his main reasons for supporting Trump as taxes and the rollback of regulations. He often uses biblical references to underscore his viewpoints.

“The most beautiful thing [about Trump] is ‘give me my money’,” says Symonette. He considers any taxes over 10% as “slavery” and wonders, “how can you have the nerve to charge more than God?”

He also supports Trump’s rollback of Dodd-Frank regulations. Symonette makes the dubious claim, “All these regulations that keep you from getting money–when Bush did it [rolled back business and financial regulations] you saw black men with these $3 million houses.”

Symonette also supports Trump’s wall, citing what he says is scripture from Isaiah; “Build me a wall great and high and all nations say please come let us help you. So if God said to build the wall…”

When asked if he has ever met Trump face-to-face Symonette says he has not but he has shaken hands with the president.

Still, Symonette seems to be a known figure among conservatives. In 2012, then-Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum invited Symonette to his rally in Coral Springs. His YouTube channel attracts hundreds of comments and views, with many white conservatives enthusiastically in agreement with him.

 

 

 

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Janice Dickinson reaches ‘very large settlement’ in Cosby defamation case

Former supermodel Janice Dickinson who was one of the leading sex abuse accusers against Bill Cosby is getting paid a “very large settlement” from his insurance company as a result of her defamation case.

On Thursday, Dickinson’s attorney Lisa Bloom announced the mega pay-out during a press conference, adding that the reality star will be “fully compensated for being called a liar.”

Dickinson, 64, filed the suit in 2014, claiming that she was victimized in 1982 by Cosby who she said drugged and assaulted her in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Cosby’s former attorney Marty Singer went on a campaign to shame Dickinson, calling her a liar so she sued Cosby for defamation.

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“Truthfully, a settlement is a victory and a measure of justice,” said Dickinson, CNN reports.

Her attorney presented her with a bouquet of flowers for the “epic” win.

“Let’s stop yielding our power to the perp,” Dickinson said. She encouraged victims of sexual assault to be unafraid to speak their truth.

“Tell your story and stand up for your rights.”

Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s attorney disagreed that the settlement meant the convicted rapist was guilty.

“To be clear, AIG’s settlement of this lawsuit has no bearing whatsoever on the merit of Ms. Dickinson’s claims. Mr. Cosby has every confidence that had the case proceeded to trial, a jury would have found that the statements issued by his former attorney — statements which Mr. Cosby himself never spoke and which he played no part in preparing — were not defamatory,” he said.

Wyatt said the insurance company AIG even though they objected.

“This is the third example in recent months of AIG robbing Mr. Cosby of the opportunity to clear his name in a court of law, where evidence and truthfulness are supposed to be elevated above headlines and gossip,” Wyatt said.

—Supermodel Janice Dickinson: ‘Bill Cosby Raped me’—

“AIG’s apparent strategy to have Mr. Cosby tried exclusively in the court of public opinion has become clear, and its decision to settle each of these lawsuits over Mr. Cosby’s objections is illustrative of AIG’s bad faith.”.

Dickinson released her memoir (No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel) in 2002 and says she attempted to write about the assault but was blocked by her publisher HarperCollins and Cosby’s lawyers.

She testified during Cosby’s trial saying she and Cosby had dinner in Lake Tahoe, and then he gave her a glass of red wine and a pill, which she asked for because she was on her period and had stomach pains.

In April, AIG reached a settlement with seven Cosby accusers.

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Wendy Williams blasts Bow Wow for disparaging Ciara during a club appearance

Wendy Williams slammed Bow Wow and defended Ciara on her show after the rapper called the singer a “bitch” and bragged that he “had her first” during a weekend club appearance.

—Ciara and Russell Wilson launch new TV, film and digital production company—

On Wednesday, Williams tore into Bow Wow during her hot topics segment on The Wendy Williams Show for talking bad about his ex-girlfriend and hurling unnecessary insults at the Level Up singer who is married, Page Six reports.

“Bow Wow, I’m not hating on you, but young man, so what?” the 55-year-old began.

Williams then scolded the 32-year-old rapper and said he was acting immaturely.

“It’s very distasteful. We’ve all had somebody before we had you, man. We’ve all lived, but to be shirtless in a club and calling her a ‘bitch,’ you were so wrong for that.” she said.

“… Going from Ciara to Erica Mena — where are we going with your track record? … Ciara made the right choice,” said about the singer who is happily married to NFL star Russell Wilson.

Bow Wow and Ciara were an item from 2004 to 2006 but thankfully she came to her senses and leveled up with Wilson.

Surely Ciara doesn’t have time to reply to this boy since she’s making big moves with her music and producing movies.

In fact, Ci-Ci teamed with Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, and her husband to produce an inspirational story about former NFL star Vernon Turner.

And this is not the happy couple’s first business venture.

—Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Ciara and Russell Wilson team up to produce inspirational story about former NFL star Vernon Turner—

Ciara and Wilson earlier this year launched Why Not You Productions, which according to the announcement, plans to focus on creating television, film and digital content projects that will include “inspiring and aspiring narratives and human interest stories.”

“While we work in different fields in our day-to-day, we are excited to come together to collaborate and create stories that we hope will touch people’s lives,” the couple explained in their joint statement. “We are both storytellers at heart and we want to be able to share stories that uplift people and inspire others to create positive change. That’s ultimately what we want this company to represent.”

 

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