Kanye West Honors His Mother By Naming New Design Company After Her

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The name of the company is DONDA. DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas. I used to blog all the time an fit was a way to get my opinion out…Dr Dre redesigned headphones and made more impact off of one product. I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts…app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist ..doctors, scientist,teachers. DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford…I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me. We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel. ..To dream of, create, advertise and produce products driven equally by emotional want and utilitarian need.. To marry our wants and needs. This will all take time but I wanted everyones to know what I really care about… I care about people. I care about my fans..I care about people who have never heard of me… There are over 7 billion people on the planet now. The Watch the Throne tour was a small example of what a Donda Experience can be. This one of our projects to be released this year called 2016 OLYMPIC’s … It’s a semi sic-fi since 2016 is only 4 years away. We would also like’ to design the MTV awards. We’re taking everything 10 steps at a time LOL! I wanted to put this in the world in hopes that the people who can actually make a difference will stand up and reach out. We need as many amazing powerful smart talented wealthy people to be involved… Come get on board… don’t just sit there… reach out. We can collectively effect the world trough design. We need to pick up where steve jobs left off.When I said wealthy I wanted to point out there are so many billionaires in the world that can come together and help to redesign it. Help education. School systems were designed to turn people into factory workers. Schools should be designed to prep human beings for real life. Spike Jonze and I want to do a Summer school that tries new forms of cuuriculim. Math classes should teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, accounting and money management aaaaaand cut!!! …. I know this is not a very rapper thing to say but I haven’t bought a new car or piece of jewelry in about 2 years…I invest every dime back into creativity… hiring amazing creatives paying for flights, offices … etc…My area of expertise is in music, my passion is in music design film and products… my strength is connectivity…There are so many broken systems from the economy to school systems jail systems… we need experts for this…We need scientist and top world designers to directly affect governments.

Man Posts Sex Tape With 14-Year-Old Girl On Facebook

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A 20-year-old Miami man was arrested for having sex with a minor and posting the act on Facebook, the Huffington Post reports.

20-year-old Rashad Hannibal Jackson had consensual sex with the girl in the summer of 2009 when he was 17 and she was 14, according to the police report. He recorded the encounter without her consent, and stashed the video file on his computer.

Last month, telling friends he wanted to get back at the girl for some perceived slight, police say he created a fake profile and uploaded the video.

“He requested that they upload and share the ‘sextape’ because the victim had ‘dis’ him and he wanted to ‘blast’ the video throughout Facebook,” wrote an arresting officer.

Missing Boy’s Mother Told Cops She Had No Children

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The mother of a one-year old boy who’s been missing in South Carolina told police that she had no kids when she was first questioned.

The mother, 22-year old Zinah Jennings, was questioned by police about the boy’s disappearance.  At first, Jennings said she had no kids, then she said that her son was in Atlanta.  After that, she took the police to an apartment complex where she says she dropped the boy off, but had no idea of the number of the apartment where she dropped off her child.

The woman’s mother says she hasn’t seen the baby since Thanksgiving.  The mom is being charged with unlawful conduct toward a child.   Dogs are being used to search the woman’s home.

Judge Tells Terrell Owens ‘Your NFL Career is Over’

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A California judge dissed former NFL star Terrell Owens telling him that his “career is over” while talking about his inability to pay child support, according to TMZ.

Owens was in court yesterday asking a judge to lower his child support payments as he doesn’t have much income coming in.

Judge Marc Marmaro, while sympathetic to his inability to fulfill his payments, dissed the star saying his “career is over” despite mentioning former NFL star Kurt Warner who went from the Arena Football League to a Super Bowl championship. There have been numerous reports that Owens’ financial situation may get better as some NFL teams are interested in picking him up for their Super Bowl run.

Nick Cannon Hospitalized for ‘Mild Kidney Failure’

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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s holiday vacation was cut short after Nick suffered a “mild kidney failure.”

 Cannon, 31, was hospitalized while vacationing in Aspen, Colorado, with his wife and twins. Mariah shared the news with her fans on Twitter and via her website.

“Please pray for Nick as he’s fighting to recover from a mild kidney failure. #mybraveman,” tweeted the pop diva along with a photo of her lying on his bed at the hospital.

She expressed that Nick was in a lot of pain, and asked her fans for their prayers while he recovers. Read her letter below.

This is us in the hospital – role reversal; Last year it was me attached to the machines (after having dembabies) and Nick was there with me through it, and now here we are.

We’re trying to be as festive as possible under the circumstances but please keep Nick in your thoughts because this is very painful. They tried to kick me out of the hospital but here I am pon de bed with Mr. C.

We’re doing OK but we’re “straaaaaanded in Aspen”. #DramaticDivaPlace (I know, we could be in a lot worse places) but the truth is as long as we’re together, we’re OK. I’m not trying to make light out of the situation because it’s a serious moment that’s very tough on all of us so please keep us and our family in your prayers. LYM.

will.i.am Unveils IAMAUTO Car

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will.i.am is getting behind the wheel of a new business venture. The enterprising Black Eyed Peas frontman debuted his new automobile on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

 The white futuristic vehicle, which he calls IAMAUTO, was developed to create more jobs in the East Los Angeles neighborhood where he grew up.

“I’m a big technology freak and a geek and I invested my money in building my own vehicle ’cause I want to bring jobs to the ghetto that I come from,” explained will. “I invested in making a demo to start the Black Eyed Peas, now I want to invest to have a car company in the neighborhood where I come from.”

The vehicle was built using OEM parts from Chrysler and features a Beats by Dr. Dre sound system. “It’s sick, it’s really fresh,” said will, who will drop his solo album #willpower later this year.

Amber Rose Blames Kim K for Destroying Her Relationship with Kanye West

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Kim Kardashian has always insisted that she and Kanye West are just friends, but that may not be the truth after all!

In an exclusive interview with Star magazine, Kanye’s ex girlfriend, Amber Rose, revealed that the reason she and the singer split was because of the reality star’s devious cheating ways.

“Kim is one of the main reasons why me and Kanye are not together,” Amber exclusively told Star. “She’s a homewrecker!”

According to Amber, she was dating Kanye when he and Kim first hooked up — and Kim was dating NFL star Reggie Bush!

“They were both cheating,” Amber, 28, said.  “They were both cheating on me and Reggie with each other.”

Amber says it was Kim, 31, who instigated the whole affair by calling, texting and sending racy photos of herself to Kanye.

Paris Exhibition Explores History of ‘Human Zoos’

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Via Grio.com

A fascinating exhibition in Paris explores the history of so-called “human zoos,” predominately from Africa, which were the objects of curiosity and fascination in a bygone era.

On view at the famous Quai Branly Museum, it tells the story of the men, women and children, who were shipped to Europe and showcased like zoo animals in circuses, stage shows and reconstructed villages.

The practice, which involved indigenous peoples brought from Asia, Africa, Oceania and America, started in the 16th century and continued until the mid-20th century in Europe and also in the U.S., Japan and Australia.

The exhibition, entitled “Human Zoos: The Invention of Savage”, explores these “freak” shows as a mass entertainment phenomenon, which captivated an estimated 1.4 billion spectators who, between 1800 and 1958, marveled at more than 35,000 individuals throughout the world.

The exotic shows began to decline in the 1930s with changing public interest and the advent of the big screen. The last “living spectacles” were Congo villagers exhibited in Belgium in 1958.

The story, told through 600 items and film archives, shows how what started as a curiosity fed into pseudo-science in the mid-1800s, as researchers sought out physical evidence for their theories of differing races.

Report: CPS Fraud, Employee Misconduct Includes $1.13 Million in Improper Benefits

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Via Chicago Tribune

In the year leading up to the overhaul of Chicago Public Schools leadership, the school district was beset by troubling instances of fraud and employee misconduct, including $1.13 million in improper benefits paid to retired teachers, systemic abuse of the federal free lunch program at a West Side high school, and a scheme by a central office employee to use school funds to buy items he later exchanged for cash.

Those are among more than two dozen cases detailed in the annual CPS inspector general’s report released to the public Wednesday.

At a time of transition for CPS — operating under an interim chief executive, with a school board on its way out as a new mayor was on his way in – the report suggests a lack of institutional authority and control.

In some cases, employees took advantage of lax oversight in the free lunch program to enroll their children despite earning six-figure salaries. In other cases, employees were circumventing the district’s computer system to access pornographic material online or visiting dating sites, the report found.

Omar Little Arrested: Man With ‘The Wire’ Name Arrested In Baltimore

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The HBO hit “The Wire” was known for its gritty, realistic portrayal of inner city crime in Baltimore. But it never got this real.

Justin Fenton, a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, tweeted on Sunday that a man named Omar Little Jr. had been arrested on gun charges in the city. The catch? The alleged criminal shares a name with the fan favorite “Wire” stickup artist (played by Michael K. Williams) who survives by holding up other criminals for cash and other goods.

Series creator David Simon was himself a police reporter for the Sun, and based some of the show’s details on his own experiences. When Fenton reached out to him for comment, Simon insisted that the incident was a “coincidence, completely.”