Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Van Jones Shuts down Paris Dennard on Trump and Jay Z
Van Jones Shuts Down Paris Dennard When He Tries To Defend Trump Attacking Jay Z
So deep in that sunken place.
Paris Dennard‘s televisions fails have only continued in 2018. In 2017, Keith Boykin, Cornel West, A. Scott Bolden and many more dragged him all over CNN. Now it’s Van Jones’ turn.
In case you missed it, Jay Z appeared on the premiere of Van Jones’ CNN show. In responding to Donald Trump, he calmly denounced the “sh*thole” comments about Haiti and the entire continent of Africa, “After the anger it’s really hurtful because he’s like looking down on a whole population of people, and you’re so misinformed because these places have beautiful people. This is the leader of the free world speaking like this.” He also said, “You don’t take care of the problem. You don’t take the trash out. You keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable. As those things grow, you create a superbug. Then now we have Donald Trump, the superbug.”
Of course Trump had to respond, he said on Twitter:
Paris Dennard and Van Jones discussed Trump and Jay on CNN — Paris’ logic was bizarre, “First of all, I think that Van should give the president the grace to mature and to change in this role that he is in right now, like he’s given Jay Z. The Jay Z album that we have today is not the Jay Z album that he put out in the past, which a lot of people point to — there’s been evolution.”
What the hell? Jay Z is a 48-year-old rapper and Trump is a 71-year-old man who should not be doing on-the-job training in his role as POTUS. Watch Van’s response below, which begins around the six-minute mark.
Black Bee workers in Detroit
Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots Into Bee Farms
“Work hard, stay bumble” is their nonprofit motto.
A pair of Detroit natives have decided to combat neighborhood blight in a pretty
sweet way — by transforming abandoned vacant lots in their city into honeybee
farms.
Detroit Hives, a nonprofit organization founded by Timothy Paule and Nicole
Lindsey in 2017, purchases vacant properties and remodels them into fully
functioning bee farms.
“These properties are left abandoned and serve as a dumping ground in most
cases,” Paule told HuffPost. “The area can be a breeding ground for
environmental hazards, which creates a stigma around the city.”
Paule, a photographer, and Lindsey, a staff member for the health care provider
Henry Ford OptimEyes, had been dating for some time before launching the nonprofit. Paule attributes their inspiration to a cold that he just couldn’t get rid of.
“I went to the local market that I normally go to, and he suggested that I try some
local honey for my cough,” Paule said. “He said you consume local honey because
it has medicinal properties.”
After he started to feel better, the couple also began to think about how urban
blight contributed to allergies through overgrown ragweeds in abandoned areas.
They put producing local honey and erasing urban blight together, and Detroit
Hives was born.
To become certified beekeepers, Paule and Lindsey took two courses at Green
Toe Gardens and Keep Growing Detroit. The duo bought their first vacant space
on Detroit’s East Side for $340 with the help of the Detroit Land Bank Authority,
an agency that works to redevelop abandoned properties.
“The land bank offers a community partnership program for nonprofits and faith-
based organizations to purchase structures or vacant land from the land bank to
put back to productive use,” Darnell Adams, director of inventory at the land bank,
told HuffPost. “We encourage them to bring their visions and their proposals to the
land bank so that we can give them access to land to implement them.”
Currently, Detroit Hives owns just the one farm, but they’re looking to expand in
2018.
Besides raising honeybees, the nonprofit aims to spread awareness about bees by hosting public tours of the farm ― they encourage community members to
schedule an appointment ― and by traveling to schools in the Detroit area to
speak with students.
“It was a little hard at first because most high-schoolers are afraid of bees or
they really don’t care,” Paule said. “So I had to find a unique way to introduce
bees to them. One thing they found intriguing is how each honeybee had a
unique job.”
And of course, Detroit Hives sells honey to the public and to local vendors that use
it to create products such as handcrafted beer and sauces. They’ve even created
Bee Moji, an emoji sticker app.
While you’d think people would be concerned about thousands of bees in the area,
the local community loves the bee farm, according to Paule and Lindsey.
“The neighbors love it. They say they wish we were there 10, 20 years ago,”
Lindsey said. “That area has always been a place where people dump trash, so
when we came there, we gave that area a sense of purpose. The neighbors keep
an eye on the area to make sure that people aren’t dumping anymore.”
Detroit Hives’ tagline is “Work Hard, Stay Bumble,” fitting for a city that knows all
about perseverance.
“We’re hustlers, innovators and thinkers,” Paule said. “Bees work really hard, and
they’re humble. In Detroit, you have to work hard and be humble. It’ll take you far.”
African Royalty at Black Panther Premiere
‘Black Panther’ Premiere Gloriously Celebrates African Royalty
“The Black Panther premiere really put fashion shows to shame,” one fan
said.
The Hollywood premiere for the long-awaited “Black Panther″ movie had a dress
code that told guests “royal attire requested” and, damn, they delivered.
On Monday night, actors, actresses, and other attendees gathered to celebrate
African culture and rock truly stunning outfits in every color of the rainbow.
The Marvel film follows a black superhero, T’Challa, who faces danger when
he returns home and becomes king of the African nation Wakanda after his
father dies.
At the technicolor premiere, the star, Chadwick Boseman, donned a black
and gold silk dress shirt. Lupita Nyong’o, who plays Nakia, wore a gorgeous
purple gown with a gold harness.
“I was hoping for this,” “Black Panther” costume designer Ruth E. Carter said on
the purple carpet.
“All of the award shows I was watching on TV, I was like, ‘Oh, you wait until ‘Black Panther’ red carpet rolls around. It’s a celebration.”
Carter added: “How best to get the party started than to, on premiere night, have
the cast, have the crew, have the directors and everybody participate in this
explosion of patterns and African prints? Everyone can join in the fun!“