Watch Desiigner's new cinematic short film for "Zombie Walk," off his "New English" tape.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/desiigner-feat-king-savage-zombie-walk-video-new-video.38949.html
Monday, October 31, 2016
Desiigner Feat. King Savage "Zombie Walk" Video
Watch Desiigner's new cinematic short film for "Zombie Walk," off his "New English" tape.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/desiigner-feat-king-savage-zombie-walk-video-new-video.38949.html
Black Students Are Less Likely To Get Suspended When They Have Black Teachers
Black students are routinely punished more harshly in school than white counterparts. However, new research shows there may be a relatively simple fix for this disparity: more black teachers.
For years, data from the U.S. Department of Education has shown that black students disproportionately face exclusionary punishments, like suspensions and expulsions. But new research published Tuesday in the quarterly journal Education Next finds that black students are less likely to receive detentions, suspensions or expulsions when they are taught by educators who are also black.
Researchers from American University and University of California, Davis, looked at teacher demographic and student discipline data for North Carolina elementary school students from 2008 to 2013. The data included certain identifiers that allowed researchers to match a student's discipline records with the race of their classroom teachers. The data allowed researchers to compare the discipline records of individual students as they progressed throughout elementary school.
Previous studies used aggregate data. But the new study used precise information that allowed researchers to “really match students one-to-one with a teacher,” said co-author Constance Lindsay.
Overall, researchers found that students were less likely to face exclusionary discipline when taught by teachers who look like them.
“This effect is driven almost entirely by black students, especially black boys, who are markedly less likely to be subjected to exclusionary discipline when taught by black teachers,” says the study. “There is little evidence of any benefit for white students of being matched with white teachers.”
Researchers found that 16 percent of black boys in the study were subjected to exclusionary discipline when they had white women as teachers. However, when black boys were taught by black women, this number dropped to 14 percent. This number fell further when black boys were taught by black men.
Black girls were also less likely to get sent to detention, suspended or expelled when they were taught by black women, the study found.
Teacher race did not have a significant impact on punishment for white children, researchers said.
“What's interesting there, is even though the results are pretty small, they're consistent. We cut the data a few different ways and it's consistent with different types of school, whether suburban or urban,” said Lindsay.
The stakes for these students are high. Previous research shows that exclusionary discipline practices help push students into the school-to-prison pipeline, which hurts children of color more than whites.
Lindsay could only speculate why black students were less frequently subjected to exclusionary discipline when they have black teachers.
“It could be something that black teachers do that's just different when it comes to classroom control,” Lindsay said. “Maybe in different contexts, behavior is treated differently. Maybe black students act differently with black teachers. And it could be implicit bias white teachers have.”
The finding supports more teacher diversity, according to Lindsay. Although policymakers and education organizations have worked to increase the recruitment of teachers of color in recent years, white teachers still remain the substantial majority, even though a majority of America's students are now minorities.
Teachers of color tend to have higher turnover rates than white teachers. These teachers often work in the hardest-to-staff schools and feel like they are not given proper autonomy, according to a recent brief from the Learning Policy Institute.
University of Pennsylvania professor Richard Ingersoll said in September that improving working conditions to retain minority teachers shouldn't be too difficult, in theory.
“Raising salaries is very expensive; fixing someone's working conditions is less so,” said Ingersoll. “We could go a long way toward achieving parity in the numbers of minority teachers and students in this country.”
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Chance The Rapper Teases Upcoming Film He's Set To Star In “Slice”
Watch Chance The Rapper star in this short teaser for "Slice," an upcoming movie secretly shot in Chicago over the summer.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/chance-the-rapper-teases-upcoming-film-he-stars-in-slice-new-video.38948.html
Shonda Rhimes Gets In 'Formation' With Stellar Beyonce Halloween Costume
Shonda Rhimes' Halloween costume was probably better than yours.
From the hat, to the hair, to the perfect off-the-shoulder top, the “Scandal” executive producer nailed her costume as Beyonce in one of the singer's most recognizable looks from her “Formation” video.
Rhimes posted a photo to Instagram with the caption, ”I dream it, I work hard, I grind 'til I own it...”... (I committed to my costume!)”
With multiple Emmy wins, nominations, and her title as the reigning queen of TV, we couldn't agree more.
H/T Mashable
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Desiigner Spits Short Freestyle Over "Addams Family" Theme Song
Watch Desiigner spit a very brief freestyle over the famous "Addams Family" theme song.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/desiigner-spits-short-freestyle-over-addams-family-theme-song-new-video.38947.html
Smoke DZA & Pete Rock - Limitless Feat. Dave East
Smoke DZA & Pete Rock call on Dave East for their first single "Limitless," off their upcoming "Don't Smoke Rock" album.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/smoke-dza-and-pete-rock-limitless-feat-dave-east-new-song.1971791.html
Are Witch-Hunts Back With A Vengeance?
The witch-hunt of Hillary Clinton has been underway for several decades. Comparing 17th century notions of witchcraft with rightwing accusations against Clinton, Stacy Schiff rightly notes in her "New York Times" article, "[Witches] appear suspect in advance of their crimes." Susan Faludi wrote this weekend,
[Clinton] has been deranging conservatives since '92, when wounded Republican invincibility merged with wounded male prerogative... she's cast not just as a political combatant but as a demon.
It reminds me of my role in Yentl when she had to dress like a man to get an education, and she was called a demon as well.
FBI Director James Comey brazenly defied Justice Department guidelines in his cryptic letter to Congress about Hillary Clinton's emails. These emails are back as speculative sport and innuendo much to the fatigue of the American public. As Matthew Yglesias noted, "Network news has devoted more minutes of coverage to Clinton's emails than to all policy issues combined." Given the stakes of this election, this is outrageous. After an exhaustive investigation earlier this year by the FBI that turned up zero evidence of wrongdoing, Comey recommended against pursuing charges against Mrs. Clinton.
And yet this latest probe, unrelated to Mrs. Clinton, comes as proof for the rightwing to condemn her "in advance of [any] crimes," and Comey said himself that he "cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant." Surely Comey must have known that he would influence this critical election, and tip the scales in favor of Donald Trump and Republicans running for the House and Senate. As Bill Weld, a former U.S. Attorney, Republican Governor and current Libertarian Party Vice President said, Comey's letter was "disgraceful."
Joe Conason and Gene Lyons have extensively covered the Clinton scandal machine. Lyons wrote this month,
One heavy-breathing, poorly written 'scandal' narrative after another, cobbled together in right-wing opposition research shops and spoon-fed to the news media's deepest thinkers have basically come to nothing. And it galls the hell out of them.
After $8 million tax dollars have been wasted over the Benghazi investigations, Republican Congressmen Jason Chaffetz promises years more of investigations for a President Hillary Clinton. Is this how we want to run our country? Especially since one phrase turns up over and over again when the examinations are exhausted: "There is no proof of wrongdoing." They never find anything wrong, they just keep the country from moving forward.
Individuals in the Bush White House deleted 22 million emails. Where was the FBI then? As the White House began firing the independent U.S. Attorneys, Karl Rove was deleting his emails and later held in contempt of Congress. I don't remember any nonstop press coverage at that point.
After Trump's bragging about sexual assault on an Access Hollywood video, 12 women came forward to accuse him of just that. As Keith Olbermann points out, Trump claims these women are after his money and yet none are suing him. Ironically, he's threatened to sue them all. Most horrifyingly and yet little reported in the news is a lawsuit filed by a woman charging that Trump raped her when she was just 13 years old.
In June, Lisa Bloom, of NBC News, rightly noted that this case, though it won't go to trial until after the election, should not be ignored. You can read that article, which originally ran on this site, here. We can't know if these latest charges are true, but the audio of Trump boasting of his sexual assaults came from the horse's mouth.
Trump calls women liars who come forward recounting his assaults, threatens democracy by claiming the election is rigged, says he will keep us in suspense over whether he will accept the election results -- unless he wins, and encourages his supporters to intimidate voters at the polls. Meanwhile, other Republicans are desperately diverting attention away from Trump's hideous behavior, his failure to release his taxes, and the Russian's hacking of emails to throw the election to Trump.
That is why it is so important that we not let false claims distract us from the real issues. It is critical we not forget the real scandals of Donald Trump. It is crucial we not just vote for Hillary Clinton, casting aside the rightwing attempts to burn her campaign down, but also vote down ballot for Democratic representatives and senators so that she can get things done!
It's our choice, America: an uninformed, bigoted misogynist or a proven political pioneer. It is an easy one.
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Stream Lloyd Banks' 'Halloween Havoc 3' Mixtape
Lloyd Banks celebrates Halloween with Halloween Havoc 3: Four Days of Fury. On the year's scariest night, the Punchline King drops the third installment in his mixtape series.
Banks goes at it alone on the 14-track project, which features production from Mr. Authentic, Tha Jerm, Beat Butcha, and more.
HH3 follows last month's All or Nothing: Live It Up, a 15-track mixtape featuring Joe Budden, Tony Yayo, Prodigy, and Vado.
The third installment of the Halloween franchise comes after the original in 2008 and last year's sequel.
Unleash another round of Halloween Havoc below.
'Resident Evil 7' Visits Resident Evil TMZ (TERRIFYING VIDEO)
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NBA Star Metta World Peace Claims Ghosts Touched Him Inappropriately
Los Angeles Lakers star Metta World Peace may have had good reason to feel spooked over the weekend: He claims ghosts touched him inappropriately.
The Lakers were in Oklahoma City to play the Thunder on Saturday, and stayed at the Skirvin Hilton. The hotel is said to be haunted, especially on the 10th floor where visiting NBA teams usually stay, according to NewsOK.com. The supernatural speculation is so strong that Lakers players Lou Williams and forward Larry Nance Jr. booked rooms at another hotel rather than deal with any possible sightings.
World Peace, who stayed at the Skirvin, told the Orange County Register he had an encounter that might be described as astral assault.
“The ghosts were all over me. I just accepted it,” he said. “They touched me all over the place. I'm taking one of the ghosts to court for touching me in the wrong places.”
Despite the cheeky quote, World Peace insisted he was serious. Then he explained why he didn't run away.
“I was watching a good movie and I was tired. I didn't want to move,” he said, naming the George Clooney flick, “Money Monster.”
Just as scary as the ghostly groping: Two NBA players, Laker Nick Young and Cleveland Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving, both reported bed bugs from stays at the Skirvin, according to NBA.com.
The hotel doesn't seem too scared about World Peace's story. When local station KOCO-TV asked for a comment, the Skirvin released this statement:
“At the Skirvin, the only confirmed spirit we have here at the Skirvin is positive spirit of hospitality. In fact, we just celebrated our 105th anniversary, and completed a $4.3 renovation. Happy Halloween.”
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NBA Star Metta World Peace Claims Ghosts Touched Him Inappropriately
Los Angeles Lakers star Metta World Peace may have had good reason to feel spooked over the weekend: He claims ghosts touched him inappropriately.
The Lakers were in Oklahoma City to play the Thunder on Saturday, and stayed at the Skirvin Hilton. The hotel is said to be haunted, especially on the 10th floor where visiting NBA teams usually stay, according to NewsOK.com. The supernatural speculation is so strong that Lakers players Lou Williams and forward Larry Nance Jr. booked rooms at another hotel rather than deal with any possible sightings.
World Peace, who stayed at the Skirvin, told the Orange County Register he had an encounter that might be described as astral assault.
“The ghosts were all over me. I just accepted it,” he said. “They touched me all over the place. I'm taking one of the ghosts to court for touching me in the wrong places.”
Despite the cheeky quote, World Peace insisted he was serious. Then he explained why he didn't run away.
“I was watching a good movie and I was tired. I didn't want to move,” he said, naming the George Clooney flick, “Money Monster.”
Just as scary as the ghostly groping: Two NBA players, Laker Nick Young and Cleveland Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving, both reported bed bugs from stays at the Skirvin, according to NBA.com.
The hotel doesn't seem too scared about World Peace's story. When local station KOCO-TV asked for a comment, the Skirvin released this statement:
“At the Skirvin, the only confirmed spirit we have here at the Skirvin is positive spirit of hospitality. In fact, we just celebrated our 105th anniversary, and completed a $4.3 renovation. Happy Halloween.”
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Lloyd Banks - Headache & Heartbreak
Listen to the intro track off Lloyd Banks' newly-released "Halloween Havoc 3" mixtape called "Headache & Heartbreak."
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lloyd-banks-headache-and-heartbreak-prod-by-mr-authentic-new-song.1971790.html
Lotto Savage - Lotto Krueger
On this Halloween, Lotto Savage has transformed into "Lotto Krueger." The new tape features Dae Dae, Ralo, Eearz, Zoey Dollaz, and more.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lotto-savage-lotto-krueger-new-mixtape.116609.html
Blac Chyna Dressed As Rob Kardashian For Halloween
I kid you not.
Drumroll, please.
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Blac Chyna as her fiancé Rob Kardashian!
Asian Women (And Men) Dressed As Ali Wong For Halloween, And It Was Perfect
Comedian Ali Wong skyrocketed to fame this spring with “Baby Cobra,” a Netflix comedy special that featured profanity-laced takes on topics like motherhood, sex and the importance of ensuring an early retirement.
Wong's stand-up ― which included bits about miscarrying twins with her Harvard-grad husband and the difference between “Fancy Asians” and “Jungle Asians” ― inspired Asian women (and some men) to dress up as Wong for Halloween ― striped dress, red glasses, pregnant belly and all.
The unapologetic comedian loved every bit of it.
Over the weekend, Wong reposted photos of more than a dozen of her favorite impersonators. And we have to admit, they were spot-on.
Wong is well known for her jokes about about femininity and the pitfalls of modern dating. In “Baby Cobra,” she encourages women to find an Ivy League husband and swap “leaning in” with “lying the fuck down.”
“Housewives don't have to shit in the office. Housewives get to shit in their house,” the seven-and-a-half-months pregnant comedian and writer for ABC's “Fresh Off The Boat” explained in the Netflix special.
“Most people know that I'm joking,” Wong previously told The Washington Post of her “anti-feminist” routine. “But I think most working women can also identify with the desire to not work anymore and the resentment of having to work.”
Check out more fan tributes to Wong below, selected by Baby Cobra herself.
H/T Angry Asian Man.
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Stream Rich the Kid's 'Keep Flexin' Mixtape
Rich the Kid keeps Flexin.
Delivering a treat for fans on Halloween, the Quality Control rapper unleashes a 12-track mixtape featuring Migos, Quavo, Desiigner, Famous Dex, and Jeremih.
The Young Thug-assisted single “Ran It Up” appears on this effort, along with other previously-released tracks “Don't Want Her” and “Dat Way.” Plus, it ends with the bonus track “Str8 Up” featuring Playboi Carti.
As if that wasn't enough, it looks like Rich has even more music on the way. Just a couple of weeks ago, he hit the lab with Lil Wayne.
While waiting on the Rich/Weezy collaboration, stream Keep Flexin below.
Tupac Shakur Letter Sells for $172,000
More than 20 years after Tupac Shakur's death, the late rapper remains in high demand. On Saturday (Oct. 29), a four-page letter handwritten by 'Pac was auctioned off for an impressive $172,750.
According to a statement from Goldin Auctions, the company responsible for the sale, the letter was part of a 10-lot Tupac Shakur collection including plaque and contracts, which sold for $206,625 as a whole.
“This remarkable letter from Tupac exemplifies what's thrilling about the auction business as this recently discovered find caught the eye of several serious and well-heeled bidders who went back and forth for hours until this record-setting price was reached,” explained Goldin Auction founder Ken Goldin. “We congratulate all of our consigners and bidders on being part of this historic night.”
As reported earlier this month, the letter was written in 1995 to Nina Bhadreshwar, who worked at Death Row Records.
“I did not begin thug life,” 'Pac writes in the letter. “I just personified it. I couldn't stop it if I tried but in my heart the thug ni**a has advanced 2 be a Boss Playa. So No Thug Life is Not Dead but in my heart it is. If U are sharp u will learn from this.”
Tupac died in a still-unsolved shooting around a month after writing the letter and the essay was never published.
According to Goldin, this could be an auction record for any Tupac item.
11 Times Trump Has Made People Want To Divorce Their Families
Like the wall Donald Trump dreams of building between the US-Mexico border, this election season is dividing families across the nation in huge ways.
And as Jesse Singal wrote on New York Magazine's Science of Us blog, trying to convince your loved ones to see it your way is pretty much pointless.
“It's unlikely you are going to sit down with your Trump-supporting brother or uncle or friend, talk things out, and walk away having convinced them to stay home or to vote for Clinton,” he wrote. “If persuasion were that easy, our country wouldn't be mired in polarization and partisan gridlock.”
Even if you don't engage in debate, the mere knowledge that your relative is supporting the other candidate can cause tension. Below, people on Whisper ― a free app where people divulge their secrets anonymously ― air their frustrations over Trump-supporting relatives.
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Maisie Williams And Sophie Turner's 'Hash Brownie' Costumes Are High-Larious
Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner just took punny Halloween costumes to new heights.
On Monday, the two “Game of Thrones” co-stars shared photos of their matching costumes ― “hash brownies” ― on Instagram, and we have to say, they totally nailed it.
To make their costumes, which reference both literal weed brownies and the Girl Scouts program, the two wore yellow Brownies T-shirts, brown skirts and sashes with marijuana patches.
“Nortiness ensues,” Turner captioned her pic, while Williams wrote, “everyone loves a hash brownie.”
The stars are just two of the many celebrities who brought their A-games this Hallo-weekend. You can check out some more awesome costumes here.
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Maisie Williams And Sophie Turner's 'Hash Brownie' Costumes Are High-Larious
Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner just took punny Halloween costumes to new heights.
On Monday, the two “Game of Thrones” co-stars shared photos of their matching costumes ― “hash brownies” ― on Instagram, and we have to say, they totally nailed it.
To make their costumes, which reference both literal weed brownies and the Girl Scouts program, the two wore yellow Brownies T-shirts, brown skirts and sashes with marijuana patches.
“Nortiness ensues,” Turner captioned her pic, while Williams wrote, “everyone loves a hash brownie.”
The stars are just two of the many celebrities who brought their A-games this Hallo-weekend. You can check out some more awesome costumes here.
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Laurie Hernandez Wrote A Memoir And We're Flipping Out
Laurie Hernandez will soon add published author to her impressive résumé.
The 16-year-old gymnast, who conquered the 2016 Rio Olympics and was dubbed “Queen of the Ballroom” on “Dancing with the Stars,” is releasing a memoir. The book will follow her journey to becoming an Olympic gold medalist, People reports.
The memoir, I Got This: To Gold and Beyond, is set to be released on Jan. 24. The title seems to allude to the viral moment when Hernandez whispered “I got this” to herself before her beam routine in Rio.
“I hope I can help inspire people to go for their dreams,” Hernandez told People. “People have seen me at my best, but I don't think most of them know everything that it took to get me to where I am today.”
Hernandez's memoir will be published just months after fellow Final Five gymnast Simone Biles' own autobiography Courage to Soar is set to hit the shelves on Nov. 15.
The gymnast expressed her excitement over the news on Monday afternoon via Twitter.
You can flip out now.
Check out an exclusive first look at the memoir's cover at People.com.
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The Last Time The Cubs Won, The Ottoman Empire Still Existed
Any informed Chicago Cubs fan knows that the last time the team won the World Series - Oct. 14, 1908 - the Ottoman Empire still existed. (The dissolution officially occurred in 1923.)
This factoid resurfaces whenever the Cubs get remotely close to winning the baseball championship again for the first time in over 100 years. As the team is currently playing in the World Series, you've probably heard or read various references to this historical anomaly over and over again in recent days.
Wanting to do due diligence as an internet content creator (and lifelong Cubs fan), but failing to find a rep listed for the Ottoman Empire, I reached out to a furniture company named “Ottoman Empire.” I don't know why the Cubs aren't winning (at press time, the series was at 3–2), so I went searching for answers any way I could.
The store has yet to return my repeated attempts to secure an exclusive conversation about what life was like in the time when world-winning Cubs and world-losing Ottomans wandered the earth at the same time.
This story is ongoing and will be updated if any new information arises. A separate investigation into whether a Chicago Cub has ever sat on an ottoman also remains open.
Please send any and all tips you may have.
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Chance the Rapper to Make Feature Film Debut in 'Slice'
Chance the Rapper is becoming Chance the Actor. The Chicago MC is set to make his feature film debut in the upcoming A24 film Slice.
Shot over the summer in Chicago, the film “takes place in a mysterious city, and centers around an enigmatic outlaw framed for a killing spree that targets unsuspecting pizza delivery boys,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It's unclear what role the Coloring Book star will play, but in a mysterious trailer released on Twitter, he can be seen riding a motorcycle.
Slice. Starring Me the Actor. In theatres 2017 @A24 @AustinVesely pic.twitter.com/NaCJr30rgC
- Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) October 31, 2016
Slice was written by Austin Vesely, who's worked with Chano on a series of projects, including the music videos for “Angels” and “No Problem.”
Chance is no stranger to acting. Last year, he teamed up with VICE for the short film Mr. Happy. But Slice, due in theaters in the second half of next year, will be his first full-length film. For now, watch the trailer above and check out Chance in Mr. Happy below.
Read The Powerful Letter Harvard Soccer Players Wrote To Their Sexist Classmates
Last week The Harvard Crimson published an unsettling article, which revealed that the 2012 Harvard men's soccer team had created a sexually explicit “scouting report” of the women's team. On Saturday, the 2016 women's soccer team responded to the sexist “report” with a powerful letter.
The nine-page “scouting report” included individual assessments of each player on the 2012 women's soccer team ― solely based on the women's looks. The “scouting report” featured images of each player and numerical scores for every woman based on her physical appearance.
Choice excerpts from the report, as reported by The Harvard Crimson, include:
“She seems to be very strong, tall and manly so, I gave her a 3 because I felt bad.”
“She seems relatively simple and probably inexperienced sexually, so I decided missionary would be her preferred position.”
The response, also published by The Harvard Crimson, was written by six players from the Harvard Women's soccer recruiting class of 2012.
“When first notified of this 'scouting report' each of us responded with surprise and confusion, but ultimately brushed off the news as if it didn't really matter,” the players wrote. “As if we weren't surprised men had spoken of us inappropriately. As if this kind of thing was just, 'normal.'”
The six players ― Brooke Dickens, Kelsey Clayman, Alika Keene, Emily Mosbacher, Lauren Varela and Haley Washburn ― denounced the “scouting report” as “careless, disgusting, and appalling,” describing it as “an aberrant display of misogyny” that deeply offended and hurt the women's team.
“We feel hopeless because men who are supposed to be our brothers degrade us like this,” they wrote. “We are appalled that female athletes who are told to feel empowered and proud of their abilities are so regularly reduced to a physical appearance.”
This document attempts to pit us against one another, as if the judgment of a few men is sufficient to determine our worth.
-Six players from the Harvard Women's soccer 2012 recruiting class
The teammates also spoke out against the idea that women should be pitted against each other for male attention. As the six players powerfully pointed out, a woman's value cannot be determined by an evaluation of her looks:
We have seen the “scouting report” in its entirety. We know the fullest extent of its contents: the descriptions of our bodies, the numbers we were each assigned, and the comparison to each other and recruits in classes before us. This document attempts to pit us against one another, as if the judgment of a few men is sufficient to determine our worth. But, men, we know better than that. Eighteen years of soccer taught us that. Eighteen years ― as successful, powerful, and undeniably brilliant female athletes ― taught us that.
We know what it's like to get knocked down. To lose a few battles. To sweat, to cry, to bleed. To fight so hard, yet no matter what we do, the game is still out of our hands. And, even still, we keep fighting; for ourselves, yes, but above all for our teammates. This document might have stung any other group of women you chose to target, but not us. We know as teammates that we rise to the occasion, that we are stronger together, and that we will not tolerate anything less than respect for women that we care for more than ourselves.
In a powerful summation at the end of their letter, the six women addressed the 2012 men's soccer team directly, writing: “In the words of one of us, we say together: 'I can offer you my forgiveness, which is ― and forever will be ― the only part of me that you can ever claim as yours.'”
Head over to The Harvard Crimson to read the rest of the powerful letter.
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Colton Haynes -- Needed Weeks to Bring DDDisheveled Miss Piggy to Life (PHOTO GALLERY)
Colton Haynes went to great lengths -- 2 weeks to be exact -- to pull off botched Miss Piggy. The "Arrow" star went all out soliciting Bitemares makeup artist Erik Porn -- yup, his real name -- to apply the makeup during a 4-hour sitting.…
Jae Millz - I Feel Alive Feat. Lil Wayne
Jae Millz is back with a new Weezy-featuring single: "I Feel Alive."
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Uber, Lyft Drivers Discriminate Based On Race, Gender, Study Finds
For all the change ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft may bring, it seems eliminating deep-seated discriminatory prejudice isn't one of them.
Results of a two-year long study published on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that drivers for the popular ride services treat passengers differently, sometimes even cancelling trips outright, because of their prospective passenger's race and gender.
As part of the study, researchers at MIT, Stanford and the University of Washington hailed nearly 1,500 rides in Seattle and Boston, then compared the riders' experiences.
In Boston, they found UberX drivers were nearly three times as likely to cancel a male passenger's ride if he had a “distinctively black name” instead of a “white sounding” one. Lyft drivers, in contrast, didn't cancel on African-American riders. Researchers speculate that's because the Uber app only shows a rider's name and photo once they've accepted the trip, forcing drivers to cancel after they've already agreed to pick up the passenger. Lyft's app contains more upfront information, meaning drivers can discriminate without needing to accept the trip first.
Female passengers in Boston were also more likely to be taken on longer, more expensive routes than their male counterparts, sometimes while being flirted with.
“Other female riders reported “chatty” drivers who drove extremely long routes, on some occasions even driving through the same intersection multiple times,” the report notes. Researchers believe this is a combination of drivers seeking higher profits, and also “flirting to a captive audience.”
Fortunately, that doesn't seem to be a systemic issue. Stephen M. Zoepf, the executive director for the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford and one of the study authors, told car blog Jalopnik the creepy profiteering “seems to be a few bad actors,” where “a few drivers were taking routes that were five-times as long as they should be.”
Minority riders had similar experiences in Seattle, where African-American passengers endured “statistically significant” longer wait times for their UberX and Lyft trip requests to be accepted.
The study also found similar issues in the traditional taxi industry, which has long struggled with racial discrimination.
In Seattle, for instance, traditional taxi-cabs “stopped nearly 60 percent of the time for white [research assistants], but less than 20 percent of the time for African American [research assistants].”
In emails to The Huffington Post, both Uber and Lyft made clear their apps are intended to facilitate rides for all, and that discriminatory drivers wouldn't be tolerated.
“We are extremely proud of the positive impact Lyft has on communities of color. Because of Lyft, people living in underserved areas - which taxis have historically neglected - are now able to access convenient, affordable rides,” Lyft's Director of Policy Communications Adrian Durbin told HuffPost in a statement. “And we provide this service while maintaining an inclusive and welcoming community, and do not tolerate any form of discrimination.”
That sentiment was echoed by Uber head of North American operations Rachel Holt, who noted the service should reduce inequities, not perpetuate them.
“Ridesharing apps are changing a transportation status quo that has been unequal for generations, making it easier and more affordable for people to get around-no matter who they are or where they live,” Holt said in a statement. “Discrimination has no place in society, and no place on Uber. We believe Uber is helping reduce transportation inequities across the board, but studies like this one are helpful in thinking about how we can do even more.”
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Video: Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert – 'Bad and Boujee'
Migos and Lil Uzi Vert join forces in the music video for “Bad and Boujee.” Just like the song's eye-catching artwork, the Daps-directed visual captures the cut's title well.
Drinking champagne while eating Cup Noodles and a bucket of fried chicken, Quavo and Offset rap about their bad and boujee lady friends.
“My bitch is bad and boujee,” Offset rhymes on the hook. “Cookin' up dope with an Uzi/ My ni**as is savage, ruthless.”
Riding bikes with his crew, Lil Uzi Vert finishes off the Metro Boomin-produced slapper. “Go to sleep in a jacuzzi,” he rhymes. “Yeah, wakin' up right to a two piece / Yeah, countin' that paper like loose leaf, yeah / Gettin' that chicken with blue cheese.”
Plus, look for a cameo from Travis Scott.
“Bad and Boujee” is expected to land on Migos' long-awaited No Label 3.
LeBron James -- Dropped $5k On Costume ... Martin Lawrence Approves
LeBron James has proven yet again that he's serious about his Halloween costumes ... he dropped $5k to make sure his "Martin" inspired look was LEGIT for the Cavs' party ... TMZ Sports has learned. LBJ hit up Teheran Jones from Exclusive Game…
Meek Mill Opens Up About Drake, The Game, & Nicki Minaj
Meek Mill opens up.
After teasing the conversation last week, “Tax Season” has released its latest episode, one that features Meek as an open book.
There was plenty to talk about in the nearly two-hour conversation. Driving podcaster Tax Stone through Atlanta in a Rolls-Royce Wraith, Meek addressed it all, including his various beefs with Drake, Wale, The Game, Beanie Sigel, Quentin Miller, and Safaree.
Of course, Nicki Minaj was also a part of the conversation. She came up at various points in the interview with Meek praising his girlfriend and saying he doesn't understand why rappers keep mentioning her.
Listen to the full podcast episode and see highlights from the Q&A below.
On “Back to Back”: “I ain't think it was no shit that people was gonna be like, 'You got killed.' I thought it was hot…Like when we shoot at ni**as, you gotta shoot a ni**a through the heart. When you wake up in the mirror, you looking in the mirror, you hearing what the ni**a told you, some shit about yourself that you can't even deal with. That's how we battle where we come from.”
On not responding to Drake immediately: “I was on tour at this time, when all that shit was going on. When I record, I don't really record like that. And I always move at my time. Even with Game, I wasn't even gonna make no diss record about him.”
On Nicki Minaj: “Everybody's go-to is Nicki. What's that about? Is that a bad thing? Is that a bad thing that I have a go-getter as my lady? Is that a bad thing? Am I supposed to have a young starlet? Is that a bad thing? Yeah, ni**a, I'm from North Philly. I'm from the trap. The chain on my neck is a big deal, not to mention shorty. She on a whole 'nother level in life as a person and artist. Yeah, I'm on my girl's tour. We getting right every night. I'm clearing a hundred every night. She probably clearing like 450 or some shit like that. It's lit! I didn't think that was a bad thing.”
On Safaree allegations: “That's a lie. How would I FaceTime Nicki when Safaree with some bitches. When was Safaree ever around me when I could FaceTime Nicki? Me and her only been two years. I've been at his head for two years. I don't fuck with him. I didn't fuck with him when that was going on. He was somebody cool that I knew but I like her, she look like she for me, you don't look like you handling business right at this second right now. You ain't my friend. I'm going for what I know. How can I FaceTime Nicki when I'm with him with some bitches?”
On Wale: “Wale, he our peoples, but if you being a certain way, I'm gonna say what I feel. I gotta control that. That's what comes with being famous.”
On The Game calling him a rat: “It was an immediate issue. We at them. We ain't doing no talking. This is what I'm on. I rap. You're trying to destroy my name in the streets.”
On Sean Kingston: “I don't talk to Sean Kingston on the phone nor do I really talk to Sean Kingston. I ain't talk to Sean Kingston until this incident. You had my name in that?”
On Beanie Sigel: “I don't feel nothing. I don't know what that was…I looked up to Beanie Sigel my whole life as a young ni**a…You go on camera and basically saying I had something done to you. That's enough to put me in jail. You're saying I told him something about my girl. That was trifling. You're trying to send me to jail. You're trying to screw my relationship. You're trying to get close to me, basically trying set me up, kill me, rob me, bring me harm. Trying to say you wrote that shit. You're basically trying to destroy me.”
On Quentin Miller: “I didn't have Quentin Miller ran up on. He's a soft guy, man. I don't even get into that field with ni**as like that. I didn't have him ran down on.”
On Taking an L: “I can't be an L. That's why I started making money Ls and putting them on Instagram. As long as I'm in a Wraith, I can't be an L. As long as I got all blue money in my pocket, I can't be an L. As long as my mom is in Jersey, it's impossible.”
How A State Bail Reform Measure Lost The Support Of Bail Reformers
New Mexicans will vote on a constitutional amendment next month that would change the state's bail system ― a system that often keeps poor defendants in jail for extended periods while they await trial, while wealthier people walk free almost immediately.
Under the current system, judges can set a defendant's bail high to keep him or her in custody. But this doesn't guarantee that a truly dangerous defendant won't be able to bail out, and others remain locked up simply because they can't afford bail.
New Mexico's Constitutional Amendment 1 would give judges the authority to deny bail when prosecutors provide “clear and convincing evidence” that a defendant is too dangerous to be out while awaiting trial. It also explicitly prohibits the detention of defendants who aren't deemed dangerous or a flight risk “solely because of financial inability” to pay bail.
On its face, the constitutional amendment appears to be in line with efforts to reform or eliminate the cash bail system. But many reformers question how much it would really accomplish. They say the measure protects for-profit bail bond companies and leaves the interpretation of protections for poor defendants up to judges ― the same judges who have made cash bail standard practice, despite questions about its legality.
“If left to their own devices, I have seen no evidence that the people who have constructed and have been profiting from and have grown used to this system are all of a sudden going to create a much more fair system for the poor,” said Alec Karakatsanis, founder of Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit that has mounted a number of legal challenges to money bail schemes.
Reforming the bail system has become part of the broader campaign to overhaul criminal justice policies that disproportionately disadvantage people of color and the poor. New Mexico's initiative would follow statewide efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey and Oregon.
Bail reformers say the very premise of requiring a defendant to pay for his or her freedom violates the promise of equal access to justice under the U.S. Constitution and conflicts with federal standards that require judges to impose the least restrictive release conditions that assure community safety and a defendant's return to court. Bail also forces many people facing nonviolent or low-level charges to remain in jail when they could be released.
The cash bail system has contributed to jail overcrowding, with an increasing number of people spending longer periods behind bars without being convicted of a crime. It costs U.S. taxpayers an estimated $9 billion each year to incarcerate people who haven't been convicted.
Here's how the cash bail system typically works in New Mexico and around the country: After a person is arrested and booked into jail, a judge or other judicial officer assigns a bond amount, which can range from $100 to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, depending on the alleged crime. Many courts assign preset bond amounts based on the charge, without considering an individual's ability to pay or whether he or she is dangerous or poses a flight risk. (A bond is the money or other assets that a defendant must provide in order to make bail.)
Wealthier defendants may end up going free almost immediately, on the condition that they'll forfeit their bond money permanently if they fail to appear in court. Other defendants secure release through for-profit bail bond companies, which charge a nonrefundable premium (usually 10 percent of the bond) that can be paid over time.
There's lots of money to be made off of people who could not otherwise pay for their freedom, and the quest for profits has led to some troubling business practices. Earlier this year, VICE documented a bail bondsman's marketing efforts in Baltimore, which included handing out free merchandise in poor neighborhoods and opening an office near one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. Critics say bail bonds companies exploit crime and poverty to boost their bottom line, and in fact have a vested interest in preserving and further normalizing them.
But in many cases, poorer defendants can't post a bail of any amount, so they stay in jail until trial. These defendants may be left to languish in jail for weeks, months or even years.
A recent county review of a detention center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, illustrates the problems with this type of bail system. As of the end of August, the facility was holding a total of 74 people, or about 16 percent of all bondable inmates, on bail amounts of $100 or less. More than 100 others were being held on bonds between $101 and $500. Of all bondable inmates, more than 60 percent were being held on bonds of $2,000 or less.
In 2010, unsentenced New Mexico inmates stayed in jail for a median of 147 days, according to a report from the New Mexico Association of Counties ― an increase from 112 days in 2003. People arrested on a misdemeanor stayed behind bars for a median of 80 days in 2010, while people booked on probation violations but not yet been sentenced stayed a median of 70 days. The length of jail stays increased substantially for inmates with documented mental health problems, the report found.
Beyond the inherent hazards of confinement, incarceration can lead to a cascading set of consequences. If defendants can't show up to work, they may get fired and lose access to benefits. If they receive public assistance for housing, that can get taken away. They can fall behind on house or car payments, or be cut off from health care or family support networks ― whether or not they are guilty and regardless of the crime they're charged with. All of those problems can increase the odds of future criminal behavior and incarceration. In some cases, just getting booked into jail ends up being fatal.
Some defendants end up serving the full sentence for a charge before the trial is completed, and are given the option to simply plead guilty and go free. Others, facing the prospect of indefinite detention, may feel pressured to plead guilty much earlier in the process. While this may allow a defendant walk free, it can cost them a conviction for a crime they may not have committed.
The Justice Department took a stand against this type of bail system earlier this year, calling the practice “unconstitutional” and “bad public policy.”
“Bail practices that do not account for indigence result in the unnecessary incarceration of numerous individuals who are presumed innocent,” the Justice Department wrote in an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit that challenged cash bail in Georgia, one of many filed around the country.
To achieve real bail reform, we believe that the bonding industry needs to be eliminated.
Matthew Coyte, New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
New Mexico's constitutional amendment is a response to a 2014 state Supreme Court decision that criticized the widespread use of cash bail, even when less restrictive conditions of release would have been appropriate to protect the community and ensure that defendants made it to their court date. As part of that ruling, the court set up an advisory committee of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and bondsmen to review the state's bail practices and present alternatives.
The panel suggested a constitutional amendment to address the issue, which New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Daniels drafted and sent to the state legislature for approval, according to state laws on amending the constitution.
Reform advocates in New Mexico have long been seeking to change a judicial system that relies so heavily on cash bail ― but they are skeptical that Constitutional Amendment 1 will get to the heart of the problem.
“To achieve real bail reform, we believe that the bonding industry needs to be eliminated,” said Matthew Coyte, president of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. “Our organization would prefer and advocate for a more direct way of changing the culture by creating laws that simply eliminate monetary bonds, or remove the profit incentive from the system and instead run on a system where bonds are administered by courts.”
The NMCDLA, American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and other groups supported an earlier version of the amendment, which passed in the state Senate. But when the legislation moved to the state House, the bail bonds industry tried to kill it with a campaign of aggressive lobbying and political contributions.
House members watered down the amendment's protections for the poor and added language stating that defendants must be determined not to be a flight risk to be exempt from the bail requirements. Reformers worry that the definition of what makes someone a “flight risk” is vague and could be used broadly against groups like immigrants or defendants who have previously failed to appear in court.
“Particularly when it concerns a constitutional change, the instruction has to be absolutely crystal clear, and this ballot measure language is anything but,” said Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico. “We think the bail bond industry ultimately corrupted the original language in a way that opens up loopholes for the same worrisome situation to continue into the future.”
Lawmakers also introduced a process by which indigent defendants “may file a motion with the court requesting relief from the requirement to post bond.” Requiring poor defendants to file a motion to prove their poverty could mean they still end up waiting in jail, reformers argue.
Still, both chambers passed this revised version of the amendment, and voters will consider it on Nov. 8. Although there's no public polling on the initiative, most observers ― including those who oppose it ― expect it to pass.
Reformers' trepidation is understandable, said Daniels. Even though he was one of the most vocal proponents of the amendment, he's unhappy that the approved version doesn't take a stronger stance against cash bail. But the document's ambiguity is advantageous, the judge argues, because his court will create the rules and mechanisms that ultimately determine how the constitutional changes are implemented.
When it comes to determining who has the ability to pay bail, for example, Daniels said the process could be conducted during the initial hearing to set bail. This would mean poor defendants wouldn't have to sit in jail before filing a motion.
“As inartful as that language ended up being at the end of our amendment, the functional effect of it was to give us everything, everything that had been in our original proposal,” said Daniels. “I fully expect a couple of years from now that [bail reform groups] will be inviting me to some banquet to tell me, 'We were wrong, you were right.'”
Although Daniels is confident that he and his colleagues will use the amendment to aggressively overhaul money bail practices, bail reformers aren't giving him the benefit of the doubt.
“Is it possible that a great rule is created? Sure,” said Coyte. “But our organization cannot rely on a rule we haven't seen yet to make a decision on whether we oppose the amendment or not.”
The very reasons the bonding industry is in favor of this is why we would be against it.
Matthew Coyte, New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Groups like the NMCDLA and ACLU favor more sweeping alternatives to the cash bail system in which judicial officers make release decisions based on formal risk assessments conducted by pretrial experts. These holistic reviews take into account a defendant's likelihood to jump bail or get re-arrested before trial, and provide judges with an objective analysis to consider when setting non-financial conditions of release.
A system like this is in place in Washington D.C., where it's paired with a robust pretrial services program that monitors defendants who require supervision while awaiting trial. Between 85 and 90 percent of people arrested in the nation's capital are released without financial conditions. Around 90 percent of defendants show up for their court dates and 91 percent make it through their trials without getting re-arrested.
But changes of this magnitude would require a more forceful campaign against the commercial bail bonds companies that profit from the current system.
And the bail bonds industry, which handles about $14 billion in bonds nationwide each year and brings in $2 billion in revenue, doesn't seem too interested in changing. Bail bondsmen claim they save the government costs that would be incurred if someone were to skip out on a court-administered bond, because companies put up private capital to bail out their clients. And because bail bonds companies assume responsibility for ensuring that their clients appear in court, they argue it saves the state the trouble of having to hunt down anyone who absconds.
“Many of the people who are pushing the idea of amending the constitution are saying that people are in jail because they're too poor and it's really not true,” said Gerald Madrid, president of the Bail Bond Association of New Mexico.
“Many people are in jail because they are poor in relationships,” he added. “They have already burned Grandma and Mom and Dad and everybody down the line they've already taken advantage of. The family is glad they're in jail in many of the cases because these people are abusive. They have drug problems, they're stealing, they're drinking and that's why they're in jail, more than they don't have money.”
Despite this vastly different view of the criminal justice system and the factors that keep people behind bars, the Bail Bond Association of New Mexico has come out in support of Constitutional Amendment 1.
Reformers say this only proves their concerns are valid.
“The very reasons the bonding industry is in favor of this is why we would be against it,” said Coyte.
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