  On Monday, Drake released a few brand new tracks on Apple Music, but there’s one in particular that’s catching attention for all the wrong reasons. On the track, titled “Two Birds One Stone,” Drake disses fellow rapper Kid Cudi because of his struggle with mental illness. Drake’s diss is disappointing, but it isn’t terribly surprising. He’s a beloved rapper who is known for being unabashedly sensitive in his music, but even he has succumbed to the stigma of surrounding depression in the black community. His diss track is just another reminder of why the #YouGoodMan hashtag was created: Mental illness is still largely seen as a weakness and not a disease. It’s a stigma that results in black men like Kid Cudi keeping their struggles to themselves and worse, failing to get the help they need to get better.   Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn are taking heat for starring in a parody video of Beyoncé’s “Formation.” The video premiered on Tidal Friday, and featured Schumer, Hawn, Joan Cusack and Wanda Sykes recreating the iconic video from the set of the duo’s upcoming mother-daughter comedy movie. Schumer also tweeted the video, with the caption, “OK ladies watch us get in formation.” The video, above, was apparently intended as a lighthearted parody, and it has been praised by some outlets for Hawn and Schumer’s “impressive” dance moves. However, there were quite a few black women on Twitter who did not find it funny. Activist and writer Feminista Jones called out Schumer and Hawn for parodying a song ostensibly about blackness and black womanhood, and started the#AmySchumerGottaGoParty. The hashtag soon began trending on Saturday night, with many people joining the party without even knowing about the parody video.   WASHINGTON — A photograph of Donald Trump, Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks that the founder of Trump’s “diversity coalition” hailed as evidence the Republican nominee won an “NAACP medal” for “helping America’s inner cities” was actually taken at an awards ceremony organized by a business associate with an ethnic grievance. The NAACP has not awarded any medals to Trump for “helping America’s inner cities,” the group told HuffPost. Nor have any other civil rights groups, according to Trump’s biographers.   After a day care teacher asked Tionna Harris to use less coconut oil in her 3-year-old daughter’s hair, a reporter asked how she felt about the teacher’s request. Harris summed up her view of the situation in three words: “Discriminative, stereotypical, racist.” On Oct. 10, Norris posted a letter on Facebook that she received from a teacher at Raggedy Anne Learning Center in Illinois, a day care her daughter Amia attended. In the letter, which has gotten more than 12,000 reactions and 5,000 shares as of Monday, the teacher suggested that Norris use less coconut oil in Amia’s hair. “The children were complaining that her hair ‘stinks,’” the letter reads. “If you have to apply this daily - please do so lightly, so the kid’s don’t tease her.” In response to the letter, Norris wrote in her Facebook post, “Y’all gone feel that black girl magic. Sincerely, unapologetically black mom.”  We love feedback! Dear reader, we love hearing from you and take every comment and review seriously. If you have 30 seconds to spare, please tap the button below and share your opinion on this newsletter with us.  Follow HuffPost on Facebook and Twitter
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Monday, October 24, 2016
No, Trump Did Not Win An NAACP Medal
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