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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Robert Mugabe's body being flown home from Singapore

The remains of the ousted strongman are en route to Zimbabwe for a state funeral.

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Pope Francis in Africa: Five things we learned

Pope Francis drew huge crowds during his visit to Africa. What can we learn from his trip?

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Demo Day celebrates student entrepreneurship

On Friday, student startups from this year’s MIT delta v accelerator presented their companies to a packed audience at Kresge Auditorium, in a celebration of entrepreneurship.

The entrepreneurs still have much work to do, and they each took very different paths to the stage, but the event, known as delta v’s Demo Day, was an opportunity to recognize the progress they’ve made so far.

“Today is my favorite day of the year,” said Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, in his opening remarks. “This is a culmination of what happens at MIT in the field of entrepreneurship. There’s so many different resources and things going on, but today you see the best of the best from all those different places. You should celebrate the people, and you should save the programs you have, because these companies are going to do amazing things.”

In total, students from 24 startups made presentations, noting key milestones toward business growth to boisterous applause. This summer’s delta v program included 100 entrepreneurs who worked on their startups full time between June and September from either the Trust Center on campus or MIT’s New York City Summer Startup Studio. In addition to work and lab space, the startups also received equity-free funding, coaching and mentorship, and other support from the Institute.

This year’s group of startups included a virtual care clinic to help patients manage chronic conditions; an online community to help landlords and tenants fill apartment rentals; a “smart” inhaler that helps users improve adherence and their technique when using the device; a sewage treatment provider with a system that turns fecal sludge into electricity while cleaning the water; an online platform to match parents with underutilized childcare centers for last minute placements; an app that lets fans play fantasy sports during games; a robotic bartender for work functions; and many others.

Most of the startups have already begun working with customers, and all of them have tested their ideas outside of the lab. Aulet noted that several delta v startups have gone on to become foundational companies with huge valuations, or been acquired by leaders in their industry, though he said he’s most proud of the learning and impact that comes from the program.

“But it’s not just about the exits; it’s about the way [these companies] impact the world,” Aulet told the audience. “Changing agriculture, changing health care, changing urban environments. That’s what we’re here to celebrate: these 100 people that will change the world and set a gold standard.”

A growing educational footprint

Now in its eighth year, delta v has supported 69 startups, many of which are still in operation. By pushing startup teams to learn from their target customers and build companies around those insights, the program aims to equip participants with entrepreneurial skills they can use throughout their careers. Indeed, even as it forces students out of the classroom, at its core delta v is an educational program.

“Delta v is a teaching apparatus around entrepreneurship, so that’s embedded in the scheduled activities every week,” says Rachel Basch, director of content for Abound Parenting, a startup with an app for parents to improve their children’s reading levels. “I don’t have a business background, so this has been really educational.”

Abound has already begun a pilot trial with more than 100 parents and is expecting a wider public launch later this month.

Karina Akib, co-founder of CaroCare, which provides in-home and virtual care to new families in the eight weeks postpartum, said the mock boards that delta v assigns to each startup helped her founding team test its ideas and prioritize each step toward building a customer base.

“Every month our board was super critical on what we needed to do next, what traction they wanted to see, and because our board was made up of people from the health care space and venture capital space — people who had done this before — they really pushed us to get more traction every month. They also forced us to focus. You needed to prove there was action and you could only do that by focusing on one thing.”

The guidance helped CaroCare launch a paid pilot in June. The company has delivered more than 50 hours of care to date and is hoping to expand in the coming months.

This was the third year the program included a group of startups from New York City, hosted by the venture capital firm Two Sigma Ventures. Seven teams worked from New York, creating an intimate environment that gave the entrepreneurs a close look at their peer startups.

“[The New York cohort] was super small, so we got to know each other really well,” says Andrey Biryuchinskiy, the co-founder of the online community for blue-collar workers called Hardworkers. “It was cool because a lot of the startups in NYC have already raised money, so it was amazing to learn from them and see different stages of startup life.”

Biryuchinskiy and his co-founder Vlad Shraybman have already conducted more than 100 interviews for market research, and Biryuchinskiy says the Hardworkers platform is adding more than 300 new members every month.

“A blessing to mankind”

This year’s event also featured a talk by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. Baker applauded the entrepreneurs and audience members for their passion and enthusiasm, and pointed out the great resources Massachusetts has to offer new companies, urging entrepreneurs to keep their businesses in the commonwealth.

“I’d be nuts if I stood in front of this audience and did not say that at some point!” Baker said to laughter.

In a more serious tone, Baker, who has attended several MIT events since becoming governor in 2015, emphasized the important role the Institute plays in translating innovation into impactful companies.

“MIT is a really blessing, and it’s not just a blessing to Cambridge, it’s not just a blessing to Massachusetts, it’s a blessing to mankind,” Baker said.

Overall, the event let participants celebrate the progress they’ve made so far and provided an example for other students considering embarking on their own entrepreneurial journeys. This year’s Demo Day kicked off MIT’s annual festival of entrepreneurship and innovation, t=0, which features entrepreneurial events for students across campus all week.

Aulet encouraged the students in the audience to believe in themselves and take the plunge into MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

“Tonight is not just about the people presenting,” Aulet said. “It’s about you students. Because you have to be motivated and believe that you can be up on this stage. Because these people were in the audience one year ago.”



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Deputy Executive Vice President Tony Sharon to retire after 20 years at MIT

Tony Sharon, who has served as deputy executive vice president since 2013, will retire from MIT at the end of the current calendar year, concluding 20 years of service to the Institute.

Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz announced the news today in a letter to MIT faculty and staff.

“Tony has been one of my closest and most trusted advisors,” Ruiz wrote. “He has created bridges and strengthened relationships across MIT, while partnering with me to lead our senior management team and oversee the operations of MIT’s administrative areas.”

“Tony has also been pivotal in attracting talent to a number of important leadership positions,” Ruiz added. “He has played a key role in building and mentoring the next generation of administrative leaders for the Institute.”

As deputy executive vice president, Sharon has worked closely with Ruiz to lead the internal operations of MIT’s central administrative units, with responsibility for areas including MIT Medical, Human Resources, Environmental Health and Safety, Sustainability, Campus Planning, Facilities, MIT Police, Information Systems and Technology, and Audit.

Sharon led the execution of the MIT2030 framework for capital projects, helping to balance new construction with renewal of older buildings and developing a staff to maintain these buildings for future generations of faculty and students. He helped guide an unprecedented period of capital renewal on campus, Ruiz noted in his letter, addressing deferred maintenance projects and advancing new dormitory construction for both undergraduate and graduate students.

“Every day, Tony Sharon proves it is somehow possible to combine a humble, gentle, easy-going manner with military precision and uncanny efficiency,” says President L. Rafael Reif. “As he has demonstrated over and over at MIT, Tony has a remarkable ability to get big things done while making everyone around him feel that they are vital to the team’s success. For his practical accomplishments and his personal example, we will always be in his debt.”

Sharon joined MIT in 1999, spending his first 14 years at Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded R&D center managed by MIT for the Department of Defense. His first role at MIT was as research group leader of the 70-person Advanced Satellite Communications Engineering and Operations Group, which develops and tests satellite communications systems.

In 2003, Sharon became Lincoln Laboratory’s executive officer, with responsibility for strategic planning for internal operations and investments. From 2006 to 2013, he was Lincoln Laboratory’s assistant director for operations, serving as the chief operating officer for a facility with 3,600 employees on a 75-acre campus with 1.7 million square feet of research, fabrication, test, and evaluation facilities.

“Tony was a quick study when he arrived on campus in 2013,” Provost Martin Schmidt says. “He embraced MIT’s distinctive culture, figuring out how his work could complement and enhance that of MIT’s schools and academic departments. He was remarkably effective in these interactions, and I will miss having him as a colleague in these efforts.”

Before joining MIT, Sharon spent 25 years working for the United States Air Force.

“Someone asked how long I have been at MIT,” Sharon says. “When I answered ‘20 years,’ they remarked that I was fortunate to have had two professions — one in the Air Force, the second at MIT. I am deeply grateful that MIT gave me the opportunity to have two careers.”

Ruiz’s letter to faculty and staff noted that over the coming months, he will work to distribute Sharon’s portfolio of responsibilities across the organization.



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Chinonso Eche: 'I want to become an international freestyler'

Chinonso Eche is an 11-year-old Nigerian freestyler aiming to take his skills to the top.

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Do Our Faces Deserve the Same Protection as Our Phones?

Facial recognition technology raises a vital question: What role do we want this form of artificial intelligence to play in our society?

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Mother of two Florida boys who drowned in apartment complex pool, arrested

Wildline Joseph, the 23-year-old mother of two boys who drowned in a community pool together in a North Lauderdale Florida earlier this year, has been charged with aggravated manslaughter, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

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Ja’Kye Joseph, 6, and Branario Minto, 5, were the young brothers who together ventured out to the pool area in May in their apartment complex as their mother slept.

On Saturday, around 1a.m., Joseph was arrested and charged because she “failed to provide proper care and supervision for the brothers, which makes her responsible for their death,” Sgt Don Prichard told Fox News

The boys climbed a fence to get to the pool. When neighbors noticed the boys floating face down in the pool around 9:30 p.m, they and rushed to pull them out and give them aid, but it was too late, the Broward Sheriff’s Office reported.

In May, Joseph told  Local 10 News that one of her sons was learning how to swim but still didn’t know how.

“He was getting swimming lessons but he didn’t really make it. He thought he could swim but he cannot swim, and I think the brother tried to help him so he jumped in too,” Joseph said.

“I’m so sorry. If I was there I could have saved them on time,” she said.

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Joseph’s boyfriend, John Lynn Jr., was also arrested on the same charges two days prior.

Back in June, the Department of Children and Families released a report revealing that the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all inside the home when the boys left out.

The mother was also reportedly investigated more than a dozen times for various reasons relating to child neglect. Between 2015 and 2018, there were at least six reports of abuse that the Department of Child and Family Services reportedly investigated.

Two days before the boys died there reportedly was a seventh report, according to the outlet.

“The children were assessed to be safe and no additional service needs were indicated,” the sheriff’s office said.

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McDonald's Acquires Apprente to Double Down on Tech

The Golden Arches will acquire Apprente, a "sound-to-meaning" voice assistant, to speed up its drive-thru.

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Why Gabrielle Union says Dwyane Wade won’t let ‘old white man’ Santa to take credit for Christmas presents

We’re not saying that Dwyane Wade is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but his kids might!

Gabrielle Union gives good face wearing a dress with Dwyane Wade’s face all over it

While many families bask in the joy of allowing their kids to think Santa Claus in sneaking in toys and gifts during Christmas, Gabrielle Union says her husband isn’t on board with allowing Santa to get props for giving out presents, according to PEOPLE.

Union, 46, interviewed talk-show host and new mom Tamron Hall for O, The Oprah Magazine and explained that Wade is all bah humbug about the Santa thing.

“I’ll say to my husband, ‘Let’s tell the kids their Christmas gifts are from Santa.’ And my husband is like, ‘There’s no way in hell I’m letting these kids think that old white man is sneaking into our house and doing anything for them,’” says the America’s Got Talent judge.

“Because he didn’t grow up believing in Santa Claus.”

Passing down family traditions can sometimes be a double-edged sword as seen with Union’s advocacy for her happy tradition while Wade is not with the little white lies.

“We have these conversations when it comes to raising our children about where to draw the line between fantasy and ‘Hey, that’s not how life works,’ ” she adds.

The two have a 10-month-old daughter Kaavia James. Wade also has three sons Xavier Zechariah, 5½, Zion Malachi Airamis, 12, and Zaire Blessing Dwyane, 17 and he’s guardian to nephew Dahveon.

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Hall who has only been a mom for four months to baby Moses, said she’s planning to have a layered conversation about this type of debate on her new show which premiered on Monday.

“Modern parenting is especially difficult for parents of color” because “we have to talk about not only ‘Are we gonna say Santa exists,’ but also ‘Is Santa Black?’” Hall said.

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Tamron Hall gets real about her ‘Today Show’ firing during opening of new talk show

Inquiring minds have waited for the moment Tamron Hall would really open up and spill the tea about her unceremonious exit from NBC’s Today Show.

And on Monday, when her new talk-show debuted on ABC, Hall addressed the situation head-on, The NY Daily News reports

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This time, Hall said she’s “ripping off the mask.” It’s her stage and her time and she didn’t tip-toe around how she ended up fired when Meghan Kelly was given her time slot.

“I go into work one day. I left fired. ‘Demoted’ I guess is what they called it. I called it fired,” Hall said within missing a beat within the first five minutes into her Tamron Hall show.

“Didn’t matter what I looked like on the outside, inside, I was falling apart. I had worked since I was 14,” she explained.

Hall said that when she was fired, she started getting jobs offers trickling in. Among them was a call from Harvey Weinstein before she knew about the explosive rape allegations that have dogged him.

She said she took the meeting to see what would pan out.

“This is before he had been accused of what we now know is playing out on television and now in a courtroom,” she explained.

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However, she said she was inspired to continue pursuing her career after a visit to a domestic violence shelter to help women in need. The trip made her realize, “If they can get up, I can get up.”

Now she’s back in business!

Good for Tamron. We hope the Today Show is taking notes!

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If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read?

Deep learning excels at learning statistical correlations, but lacks robust ways of understanding how the meanings of sentences relate to their parts.

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Sean Carroll Thinks We All Exist on Multiple Worlds

In his book *Something Deeply Hidden*, the physicist explores the idea of Many Worlds, which holds that the universe continually splits into new branches.

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Fighting Instagram's $1.3 Billion Problem—Fake Followers

As influencers strive for ever-higher engagement numbers, the battle between fake followers and fake-follower-detection tools is turning into an arms race.

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Kanye West reportedly purchases $14 million estate in Wyoming

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The Grammy-award winning rapper and his wife Kim Kardashian, have reportedly purchased a sprawling $14 million ranch not too far from Yellowstone Park.

“Kanye West has been in Cody, Wyoming for a few weeks now,” a source told PEOPLE.

He bought a ranch and is touring local elementary schools,” the source said.

The estate reportedly has 9,000-plus acre which also houses a restaurant and saloon, a ranch-style event center and meeting facilities. The property also has horse barns and farm animals, according to TMZ.

West has reportedly been on the property this week and was seen riding an ATV through it.

It could be that West and Kardashian and their crew including Psalm, almost 4 months, Chicago, 19 months, Saint, 3½, and North, 6 are gearing up to make the move – something Kardashian spoke about in the September cover story for Vogue Arabia.

“I see us living on a ranch in Wyoming, occasionally going to Palm Springs and our home in Los Angeles — and becoming a lawyer,” the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star told West who interviewed her for the issue.

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West is reportedly on-site at the ranch finishing up his album set to be released Sept. 27.

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FASHION WEEK: LaQuan Smith brings sexy back with new collection

LaQuan Smith turned to cowboys and bikers for spring-summer inspiration, bringing a sexy edge to his designs at New York Fashion Week.

The designer made liberal use of animal prints, Western influences and unconventional cutouts.

There were pants reminiscent of riding chaps in a cow print with a cutout in the front and metallic snakeskin short shorts with a matching bandeau top under a snakeskin trench. Models wore black Western hats, transparent pointed-toe heels, cowboy boots and graphic tees saying, “I will not, not be rich” and “Jordan Smith Hoedown.”

“It’s all about female empowerment,” Smith said Sunday at his show. “One of my favorite films is ‘Showgirls,’ so I just wanted to pull just these different elements of just what sexy represents and what that looks like.”

Smith said he wants to promote “a strong sense of identity, which basically is just unapologetic.”

“Right now we are living in such a world where it’s sportswear — you put on a suit and white sneakers and that’s considered sportswear, which I’m OK with,” he said. “But I think as a designer right now in the market, I want to really bring back sexy and I just feel like that’s missing.”

Trevor Jackson, who co-stars in “grown-ish,” tried to help on that front during his first runway walk, donning a men’s blouse in a sheer tiger stripe design.

“This is kind of like, hoedown, kind of the style,” Jackson said. “I’m super excited. Everybody is so beautiful and the clothes are so dope and I can’t wait for the people to see it.”

Models Slick Woods, Halima Aden and Winnie Harlow also walked in the show.
Aden, who also walked for Smith last year, is a huge admirer.

“I love how he’s like, he still dresses me modestly but it’s young, it’s cool, it’s edgy,” said Aden, who is Muslim. “I always feel like a rock star.”

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In ‘Dolemite Is My Name,’ a return to form for Eddie Murphy

It took Eddie Murphy more than a decade to get a movie made about Rudy Ray Moore. Judging by the response to the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, the wait was worth it.

“Dolemite Is My Name” drew some of the best reviews of Murphy’s career, following the film’s premiere over the weekend in Toronto.

It had been a while. Murphy’s last two leading performances — 2016’s “Mr. Church” and 2012’s “A Thousand Words” — were little seen and little loved.

But “Dolemite Is My Name” was a passion project for the 58-year-old comedian. He long ago met with Moore, who died in 2008 at the age of 81, to discuss making a movie about the comedian. Moore’s famous character — the straight-talking, kung fu-fighting pimp Dolemite — was his stand-up persona and star of the 1975 Blaxploitation classic “Dolemite.”

“I never let go of the idea. It was always something I thought could be a great movie. I had been sitting on the couch. I took some time to do nothing,” Murphy said in an interview. “It goes back to when Rudy was alive. I literally went to see him at a club. It just didn’t come together. And there was no Netflix back then.”

“Dolemite Is My Name,” directed by Craig Brewer (“Hustle & Flow”), will be released by Netflix in theaters Oct. 4 and begin streaming on Oct. 25. It’s penned by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who memorably wrote another tale about an inexpert filmmaker: “Ed Wood.”

“Dolemite Is My Name” chronicles the ramshackle, threadbare making of “Dolemite” with Wesley Snipes playing director D’Urville Martin. It’s a paean to low-budget moviemaking and a celebration of creating something out of nothing, outside a movie system that made scant room for African-American stories.

For Brewer, a Memphis, Tennessee, native, it’s a testament to the independent filmmaking of his youth.

“I came up in my career as a guerrilla filmmaker. You show up and you shoot. You don’t have permits. You don’t have professionals help you. You just have a bunch of other people like you who have a blind passion,” Brewer said. “Sometimes those passion projects turn into something wonderful even though they’re terrible.”

For “My Name Is Dolemite,” the reception in Toronto was electric — especially for a performance that for many recalled Murphy’s performances of the ’80s. During the standing ovation that followed the film’s premiere, cast member Keegan-Michael Key suggested the lengthy applause shouldn’t stop for Murphy. ”

We should just stand all night and clap for him,” Key said.

The film has helped kick off a comeback for Murphy. After years of working seldom if at all, Murphy is currently shooting a sequel to “Coming to America,” also with Brewer directing and Snipes co-starring. Later this year, the former “Saturday Night Live” castmember will host the show for the first time since 1984. And after years away from the stage, he’s plotting a return to stand-up, with a tour planned for next summer.

But before all that, Murphy was again performing stand-up, only as Rudy Ray Moore and outfitted in the costumes designed by Oscar-winner Ruth Carter for “My Name Is Dolemite.” The filmmakers recognized what a privileged sight they were watching.

“Eddie comes in as Rudy and he starts telling jokes. And like Eddie does, he goes completely off book. If something comes, he just rolls into it,” Brewer said. “Then he left and I turned to the audience and said, ‘Y’all, do you realize what just happened? I don’t think he’s done that in like years! Decades!'”

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FASHION WEEK: Pyer Moss celebrates black culture with fashion and music

There was a huge choir that veered from stirring, soaring gospel, then spit verses from Cardi B and sang lines from Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.”; a spoken word artist who reminded the audience that rock ‘n’ roll was born because of a black, queer woman ; and a stunning collection of clothes that ran the gamut from casual chic to red carpet gowns, all modeled by black or brown faces.

“Sister,” Pyer Moss’ latest production for New York Fashion Week, was a brilliant, irreverent and joyous celebration of black culture, specifically black women — a show where even the colorful, eye-catching garments proved to be just part of the story its designer, Kerby Jean-Raymond, masterfully weaved together on Sunday night.

“The whole thing is really to recognize our worth, and us as black people, what we’ve contributed to what pop society is in America,” Jean-Raymond told The Associated Press after his show ended a little before midnight. “What I aim to do is to make disenfranchised people, black people, with this series and minorities and women, know and understand how important they are to this thing called America right now.”

The first sign that the Pyer Moss was going to be something out of the ordinary was its location: Miles from Manhattan, the upstart fashion house held court on Flatbush Avenue, at the Kings Theatre, a venue sitting in one of the more culturally rich black neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York.

Once inside the ornate and refurbished venue, a runway was fashioned in front of the stage, and in between stood a piano — another hint that clothes would be merely part of the story Jean-Raymond planned to tell.

What followed was a production that borrowed from black music, the black church and other aspects of the culture to pay loving tribute to what African Americans have achieved. Before the show began, spoken word artist Casey Gerald noted the grim anniversary currently being marked worldwide — 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in the United States.

But instead of sorrow, Gerald emphasized freedom and noted “we have come here to say we ain’t gonna grieve no more . we have come tonight to say you can’t hurt us no more.”
With that, The Pyer Moss Tabernacle Drip Choir Drenched in the Blood took to the stage and began to sing. Dressed in formal black against a white backdrop, it was the perfect complement to the designs that would grace the runway. Looks included a flowing white tunic with red trim and matching white pants; a brilliant yellow-gold gown with long, billowing sleeves, a skirt that flared at the bottom and a cut-out back; matching men’s and women’s leather outfits that recalled cowboy chic; and brilliant artwork emblazoned on casual outfits (“Stranger Things” star Caleb McLaughlin was one of the models, and wore one of the outfits from the new Reebok by Pyer Moss collection).

As captivating as the clothes were, they were hard to compete with the choir, which started slow and majestic, with a gospel song, then morphed to deliver snippets of popular works of contemporary black singers, from Anita Baker to Whitney Houston to Missy Elliott: the audience roared as the choir began to rap Elliott’s “The Rain,” and cheered when it later segued to Cardi B’s “Money,” and erupted as it went into Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me.”
Jean-Raymond beamed about his choir afterward, and noted that he had wanted to have more than 100 members, but “the stage structure couldn’t hold all of our swag.”

Jean-Raymond said he chose the songs to pay tribute to the contributions of black women in culture, specifically music. He noted the often overlooked Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who is considered by many to be the rightful creator of rock ‘n’ roll.

“And I feel like black women are often erased from things, and I wanted to do this specifically for black women,” he said.

It may have been specifically for black women, but the entire audience — which included celebrities ranging from Fantasia to former NBA star Chris Bosh, former NFL star Victor Cruz and actress girlfriend Karrueche Tran, and singer Normani — erupted in applause as it was ending.

In the end, it was far more than a fashion show, which is what Jean-Raymond — who declared fashion shows boring and elitist — hoped to achieve.

“I look at this as an art project, and I think the success of it is bringing people closer to me than trying to assimilate into whatever else people are doing,” he said.

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Three Ways to Fix the Drug Industry's Rampant Dysfunction

Big Pharma has come under fire for mislabeled drugs, price spikes, and life-threatening shortages. Now a handful of startups hope to clean up the industry.

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Belgian Ivan Minnaert: 'Working in Libya is not that bad'

Belgian coach Ivan Minnaert insists that working in Libya is not as bad as people would think given the security issues in the country.

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Apple Event Liveblog: All the iPhone News as It Happens

Join us for live commentary beginning at 1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific.

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