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.
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.
DETROIT HIVES
To become certified beekeepers, Paule and Lindsey took two courses at Green
