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Jay-Z And Meek Mill's REFORM Alliance Scores Major Victory In California
JAY-Z AND MEEK MILL
Nicki Minaj And Husband, Kenneth Petty, Welcome First Child Together
Congratulations are in order for Nicki Minaj!
The Queens native and her husband, Kenneth Petty, welcomed their first child to- gether on Wednesday (Sept. 30), multiple reports confirm. The new mom reportedly gave birth in Los Angeles. The baby’s name and gender are unknown.
Minaj officially debuted
her baby bump in a July pho-
toshoot shot by David La for them, and watch them the parent-teacher confer-
Who says hip hop can’t have an impact in changing the world for the better? Jay- Z and Meek Mill’s REFORM Alliance scored a monumental milestone after a new bill backed by their criminal jus- tice reform organization was signed into law in California.
Governor Gavin New- som passed the new bill, AB 1950, on Wednesday (Sep- tember 30) that will amend the state probation system.
“I want to thank Governor Newsom for his leadership in signing AB 1950, the most transformative probation bill in this country to date,” JAY- Z said in a statement obtained by Pitchfork. “This is a first
step that I hope introduces a wave of much needed change throughout the country.”
Under the new law, adult probation sentences will now be capped at one year maxi- mum for misdemeanors and two years for felonies. The bill was one of many that Gov. Newsom signed into law in response to the calls for police and criminal justice reform. The California governor also passed a bill that bans police officers from using choke- holds during arrests and an- other that will allow the state attorney to independently in- vestigate police-involved shootings, according to CBS News.
Chapelle.
"I want to be able to cook for my children, bake cookies
grow up. I just want to be ence, help them with their
NICKI MINAJ AND KENNETH PETTY
mommy," she continued. "Take them to school, go to
homework, and put their work on the refrigerator."
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