Monthly Archives: May 2011

CL TOPIC: PREVIEW ‘DARK GIRLS’ DOCUMENTARY – CAN THE DARK VS. LIGHT-SKINNED ISSUE BE RESOLVED?

Unfortunately, within the black community, there has always been an oftentimes unspoken division between women of color. With its roots in the days of slavery, skin color was used to separate and determine one’s perks and advantages within the black community. Sadly this “house” versus “field Negro” mentality has been internalized by our beautiful queens of today.

In an upcoming documentary entitled Dark Girls, it explores “the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color–particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.” The Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry-directed film is set to be released in Fall/Winter 2011.

Do you think we’ll ever evolve from this light vs. dark skinned mentality?

Watch: ‘Dark Girls’ – Preview

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SPOTTED: SERENA WILLIAMS LEAVING THE HOSPTIAL IN MIAMI AFTER VISITING SEAN KINGSTON + UPDATE ON HIS STATUS

Serena Williams leaves Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital after visiting Sean Kingston on Monday (May 30) in Miami, Florida. The tennis player tweeted earlier in the day, “I am thankful that I have today. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us. I’m gonna make every day the best I can. #loveuSeankingston.”

SEAN KINGSTON STILL IN ICU + UPDATE ON FEMALE PASSENGER

More details from the accident are slowly coming via TMZ. They spoke with the Coast Guard who saved his life, as well as Sean’s female friend who was on the Jet Ski with him during the accident. Check out some snippets below:

COAST GUARD’S ACCOUNT OF THE ACCIDENT
Jonathan Rivera, a member of the Coast Guard, says he was driving his boat around Star Island on his day off … when he was called over to the accident scene by a man and a woman on a jet ski. Rivera says he noticed an empty jet ski, a woman in the water floating (she was wearing a vest and complaining her head hurt) and Kingston.

Rivera says the two people on the jet ski were trying to hold Kingston up, but they were struggling to keep his head above water. Rivera says Kingston’s size was a problem for them, as his life vest had come off.

So Rivera says he jumped in the water and noticed Kingston was “puking up blood out of his mouth.” [ READ HIS FULL ACCOUNT ]

FEMALE PASSENGER’S ACCOUNT
TMZ spoke with Cassandra Sanchez. “Both jet skis pulled out of the dock at the same time and we were going so fast we just blasted past them. When we turned a corner and crashed … they were so far behind us they didn’t even see us crash.”

Sanchez says … as Sean was racing towards the bridge, she screamed out, “We can’t fit under there! Are we going to try and go under there? Sean stop! Sean tried to turn away from the bridge at the last minute … and lost control because they were going “REALLY fast.”
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COUPLED UP: LEWIS HAMILTON & NICOLE S. ON A YACHT IN MONACO + HIS TWITTER RANT ABOUT HIS LATEST RACE

Singer/T.V. personality Nicole Scherzinger and boyfriend Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton and his brother Nic Hamilton were spotted out and about in Monte Carlo, Monaco this past weekend. The Hamilton’s are in town participating in the Grand Prix.

In related news, Lewis tweeted after he was penalized during his sixth-place finish and when asked why, he replied, apparently in jest: “Maybe it’s because I’m black. That’s what Ali G says.” He later apologized for the tweet.

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SPOTTED: LISARAYE & DAUGHTER KAI PARTYING IN PUERTO RICO + VIEW VH1′S ‘SINGLE LADIES’

LisaRaye McCoy and her daughter Kai Morae don their white at the Manhattan Lounge in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Monday evening. The actress and her model daughter partied at the closing party for her 2nd Annual “B2B – Mix Down Weekend”.

In related news, LisaRaye (along with Lauren London, Stacey Dash and Charity Shea) is currently starring in the new VH1 series Single Ladies and the two hour movie premiered Monday night (May 30). You can peep the episode below. The one hour series premiere airs June 6th, 9pm EST.

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