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OKC Trans Woman Is 25th Murdered In U.S.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK —- A transgender woman was found murdered in a hotel room in Oklahoma City early Monday morning, making her the 25th known transgender homicide victim this year.
Police responding to a re- port of a disturbance at the hotel about 2:30 a.m. discov- ered the body of Brooklyn
Oklahoma City resident, Brooklyn BreYanna Steven- son, 31, was found dead re- cently at a motel.
BreYanna Stevenson, 31, reports Oklahoma City TV sta- tion KFOR. "This person had trauma to their body consis- tent with homicide,” police spokesman Gary Knight told the station.
LGBT advocates in the city worried that Stevenson was targeted for being transgen- der.
HS Seniors Now Is The Time To Apply For Tom Joyner Scholarship
Dallas, TX — The Tom Joyner Foundation® an- nounced the ‘Full Ride’ schol- arship program that will cover all the expenses of one student planning to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the fall of 2018.
Students will receive full tuition and stipends for up to 10 semesters to cover on- campus room and board and books.
Students must meet the re- quired academic standards each semester to renew the funds each year. Graduating high school seniors can apply for the scholarship by going to the Tom Joyner Founda- tion website – www.tomjoyn- erfoundation.org.
Students must have their schools mail their transcripts and recommendations to the Foundation at P.O. Box 630495, Irving, TX 75063- 0495.
To be eligible, stu- dents must meet the fol- lowing criteria:
1) A United States Citizen 2) Current high school sen- iors attending school in the United States (applicant must be anticipating completion of high school degree in the
spring of 2018)
3) Minimum high school
grade point average of 3.50
TOM JOYNER
(on a 4.00 grade scale, ex- cluding home school studies) and Minimum SAT score of 1400 (combined math essay and verbal score) or ACT score of 30.
4) Applicants must apply and be accepted to an HBCU by July 1, 2018.
5) Applicants must have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, ex- tracurricular, or other activi- ties.
The applications must be postmarked no later than January 19, 2018. Interviews will occur in March 2018.
Former Florida Cult Leader Arrested In Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA —- Anna Elizabeth Young, 76, a for- mer cult leader from Florida, has been finally located and arrested at her home in the Atlanta metro area.
Police say that she once ran a religious boarding school in Florida, where she allegedly tortured and even murdered children.
She had already served prison time after being con- victed in 2001 of child abuse when she reportedly burned a 12-year old girl in a bath tub with chemicals.
Anna Elizabeth Young is being held for a murder that happen many years ago.
But the recent arrest is for what police are calling a “com- mitted premeditated first de- gree murder of a child” that happened many years ago.
Her neighbors were in total shock, and had no clue of her dark past.
One of them told reporters, “I know she’s involved with the church as you can see with the Jesus rock and the Jesus sign, and I know they have like church bazaars on week- end.”
Police say there may have been other victims.
Maryland Corrections Officer Indicted After Discovered As Crip Leader
MARYLAND —- Following a yearlong investigation by the Maryland Office of the Attor- ney General, the Drug En- forcement Administration and the Maryland Depart- ment of Public Safety and Cor- rectional Services, Antoine Fordham, a Corrections Of- ficer at a Maryland prison, was accused of being a high- ranking member of the 8-Trey Crips street gang.
He was indicted on 35 charges that include first-de- gree attempted murder, drug
Former corrections officer Antoine Fordham is being held on multiple charges.
distribution and smuggling of
contraband, according to an announcement by state offi- cials on Thursday.
Fordham has been in jail for the past few months after illegal guns were found in his home. Although he was the actual target of the above- mentioned investigation, 25 other people were indicted last month in Anne Arundel Circuit Court for alleged gang activity. Maryland corrections officer Phillipe Jordan and the mothers of three inmates were among them.
Will Smith Tapped To Host Nat GEO Series ‘The Strange Rock’ Featuring Dr. Mae Jemison
HOLLYWOOD - Oscar nominated actor Will Smith has booked a stellar gig on cable TV.
The Hollywood star has been tapped to host the up- coming National Geographic series “One Strange Rock” from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and award-win- ning producer Jane Root, according to Deadline.
The 10-part global event series, takes viewers on a journey across the globe and into outer space, billing itself as a mind-bending trip within and beyond planet Earth.
Anchoring the series is an elite group of astronauts in- cluding Mae Jemison.
Will Smith and first black fe- male astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemi- son.
They will tell the story of Earth through unique per- spectives and relate personal memoirs of our planet seen from space.
The series is slated to pre- miere globally on National Geographic in March in 172 countries and 43 languages.
Russian Makeup Artist Dragged For Doing Blackface Tutorial On Instagram; And Racist Clapback
Don’t ask me why, but it seems like every other week makeup artists are being called out for blacking up. We’ve had ‘slave’ tutorials; ‘chocolate challenges‘; white models being turned into black ones.
And Russian makeup artist @notcatart is just the latest to come under fire for his odd blackface tutorial. He posted a video of him slowly painting himself into a much darker shade, with the caption: ‘I love skin of all colours and this look is inspired from it.. That we all are beautiful...and I wanna show you how it’s beautiful’.
Russian makeup artist not- catart did a tutorial on Face- book on blackface.
To top off the whole Black experience, he puts a track by Yo Gotti and Nicki Minaj on as the soundtrack, and
completes his look by sticking on a pair of grills.
The real problem came, ac- cording to Allure, when a 14- year-old black girl clapped back at @notcatart’s blackface tutorial and he responded with a flat-out racist com- ment, that she looked like “a burnt ni**er tired of picking cotton.”
Since then, he’s disabled all comments on his Instagram. So before y’all say that this isn’t racism but simply a beauty look, it’s worth bearing in mind that the actual makeup artist calls black peo- ple n*****s and makes jokes about slavery.
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