Shakira Not Attending Lionel Messi Wedding Lionel Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo are to be married this summer…but Shakira apparently is skipping on the wedding. It’s being said that the Colombian singer will not be attending because she and Antonella do not get along. According to Spanish paper “El País” “la enemistad o falta de relación entre las parejas de los futbolistas se debe a una historia del pasado y tiene que ver con la manera en que Piqué comenzó su relación con Shakira”. Antonella was friends with Pique’s girlfriend at the time and was not cool with Shakira swooping in while they both were still dating other people. Jose Jose Series Coming to Telemundo Jose Jose is getting his own biopic! This week Telemundo announced that Nicky Jam would be getting a series based on his life…but Jose Jose is also joining the list of celebs with a show like this. The Mexican singer/songwriter’s series will be titled “Nace un Ídolo.”
José José’s story embodies a man’s journey to “reach the status of an idol — including fame and fortune — and the high price he had to pay to achieve his dreams.” The series, produced by Telemundo Studios, highlights the passion and excitement that a superstar artist feels for his craft and the adoration of his fans. It also displays the frailty of the man coping with his addiction and its damaging effects such as almost losing his family, his voice and his life. This one should also be REALLY good!! Telemundo is on a roll! Natasha Dupeyron Responds to Lesbian Rumors Over Recent Pic Natasha Dupeyron got real with her followers on social media – after being called a lesbian and a whore for posting a pic holding hands with a girl. She followed up the comments by posting a pic with no makeup on and saying: Continue reading » Selena Gomez Admits Being Sick of Instagram Selena Gomez rules Instagram. Not only did she have all five of the top five most-liked posts on the app, last year, she was also the most followed person.
But in a frank interview with “Vogue”, the singer explains that her social media success has negatively impacted her mental health — and she’s even gone so far as to delete Instagram from her phone. Gomez tells Vogue, “as soon as I became the most followed person on Instagram, I sort of freaked out.” “It had become so consuming to me. It’s what I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict, and it felt like I was seeing things I didn’t want to see, like it was putting things in my head that I didn’t want to care about. “I always end up feeling like shit when I look at Instagram. Which is why I’m kind of under the radar, ghosting it a bit.” It seems like despite her years in the spotlight, Gomez has never quite grappled with that aspect of fame. She continues, “look, I love what I do, and I’m aware of how lucky I am, but—how can I say this without sounding weird? I just really can’t wait for people to forget about me.” Pitbull Joins Sugar Factory Opening in Las Vegas
Pitbull is here, there, everywhere and Las Vegas, he’s headed to you next! The Cuban superstar will continue the grand opening celebration of Sugar Factory American Brasserie on Sunday, March 19th at 6 p.m. in Las Vegas at Fashion Show Mall. The event will officially kick off Sugar Factory’s exclusive partnership with Pitbull’s vodka, Voli 305. Sweets, drinks, and Pit?? David: Both the implied presence of slaves and the history of slavery in cinema and texts was very much a part ofI could not understand myself, or my family, without their presence. In a way perhaps reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, slaves hauntedThat is not to say that I was ever able to trace my family of origin back to slaves. Whether or not we had slaves in our history, it was a narrative upon which we built our self-understanding. Whereas white kids were able to trace their genealogy to famous world United States’ leaders or British royalty, my family tree ended with my grandparents’
This meant that I was fascinated with black history and felt obligated to watch black history movies and read black history texts. When I saw other people with skin my hue or darker I cheered for them, felt kinship with them, and felt welcomed by them. In this way, I felt pride in my connection toWe were the people who overcame the insurmountable. black history month and the role of my family grandfather as educator, grandmother as politician, mother as hard worker/provider, I may have never known I was capable of being anything other than what white people had imaginedI, however, had the counter racial propaganda of Black scientists, Black artists, Black musicians, Black preachers, Black inventors who taught me that I could pursue my dreams. like these encouraged me to dream that there was something beautiful, powerful, and creative about my flesh. Black was beautiful and I was more than the sum of what white supremacy said of people like me.
Martin Luther King Jr’s dream gave me permission to dream that the American Dream was my dream as much as it was a dream that belonged to my pale skinned stringy haired friends. David: My childhood was difficult, but Lansing, MI did not have an inner-city like Detroit, MI. raised us on a middle class neighborhood surrounded by white people. Lansing was a difficult context because it was a city deeply defined byThis was the city in which Malcolm X was raised and learned that his father had been brutally murdered by the Lansing equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan, called the Black Legion. I learned here that the word “nigger” was to be feared. In Lansing I learned that white fathers threatened to disown their daughters if they dated black men and I also learned that those white fathers would follow through on those threats. I learned here that white people suffering from white supremacist pathologies could literally kill you and simultaneously deny that racism was a factor.
At the same time, I was encouraged to be successful. Success is not a universal concept. society defines as success is not necessarily how another society will defineIn the United States, success meant what Wendell Berry identifies in his book The Hidden Wound as “getting somewhere.” This getting somewhere is an abstract concept that most people would agree has something to do with making enough money so that someday you will be free from the obligation to engage in hard labor ever again. This was the mentality that drove white people toTo have slaves meant that you were successful, because you were free of hard labor. That is to say, someone else was doing it for you! was pushed towards success, which meant I was pushed towards whiteness. taught to talk white, dress white, play white instruments, worship God in white styles, see white women as epitomizing beauty. I was taught to participate in the ideology that threatened most to destroy me.
longed to live in white neighborhoods, and embraced white music for a number of years until I began to recognized that white people would never accept me in full, because I would always be black no matter how hard I tried to be other. white propagandized views of blackness and lived into them. college that I discovered what had happened to me. I was reading W.E.B. DuBois’s Souls of Black Folk when I read: David:I also learned that there was what Ralph Ellison would call “lower frequencies” of history and myth that were unacknowledged by white structures of power James Baldwin suggests that white people in the United States “imagine a history that flatters them (as it does, indeed, since they wrote it).” In light of this, what incentive would African Americans have to hold onto a history that has only existed to legitimize white domination? This revisionist history does have a hold on African Americans because it is a history that authorizes police
forces to racially profile and so-called criminal justice systems to disproportionately incarcerate African Americans to such an extent that the United States now holds a higher percentage of it’s minority population in prison than any other nation in the world. From the film "12 Years a Slave" beautiful, and more terrible than anything Yago: You say that trauma is the past but it is also very much the present. The black body is still being used as aCould you share with us how the dominant history related to slavery keeps shaping today’s social, economical and political structures? Can we say that there is a new Jim Crow in David: Since John Winthrop declared the Massachusetts settlement to be a city on a hill European Americans have suggested to their European competitors that they have a more equitableThey have done so by exploiting a population of underclass people not formally recognized as citizens. Today those people are immigrants from Latin