| No Images? Click here   The Golden Globes might have left something to be desired with its nominations earlier this week, but Oprah Winfrey receiving the group’s Cecil B. DeMille Award is our favorite thing.Winfrey is the first black woman to receive the honor, and the 15th woman since the award was initially handed out in 1952.The media mogul is so deserving of this award! Long overdue!   “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts had some fitting words on Omarosa Manigault Newman’s departure from the White House during a live segment on Thursday. “She said she has a story to tell,” Roberts said. “And I’m sure she’ll be selling that story. ... Bye, Felicia.” WELP! 😂😭😂
  When the Golden Globe nominations were announced on Monday, there was one name glaringly absent: Tiffany Haddish.After the snub, Haddish’s “Girls Trip” co-star Jada Pinkett Smith slammed the the “antiquated system” in the entertainment industry that “must learn to expand its concepts of race, gender equality and inclusion.”“I’m not upset about @TiffanyHaddish or @GirlsTripMovie not getting a nom… I’m discouraged about the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press/@goldenglobes wouldn’t even WATCH the movie,” she wrote.Smh. We’re still rooting for you, Tiffany!  “Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin broke down the heroic role that black women played in Republican Roy Moore’s stunning defeat in Alabama’s special election for the Senate this week. “As a black woman, I just have two things I want to say about last night’s election,” said Ruffin. “You’re welcome!” But then, she spilled the real tea: “When you’re done thanking us, why don’t you try voting for us and putting a few of us in office so we can run this s**t!” Well said, Amber! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
 Tiffany Haddish is calling out just how rampant sexual harassment is in comedy.The “Girls Trip” breakout star opened up about her struggle fighting off predatory men in the industry in her new memoir The Last Black Unicorn. In the book, the 38-year-old talked about what she faced in her early days of doing stand-up in Los Angeles.“It seemed like everybody wanted to get in my panties. It was constant defending and battling. These men will try you every single time,” she said. “It’s like hazing. Once they figure out you’re strong and you don’t roll like that, then they start treating you like a colleague.” Sharon Reed, the journalist who clapped back at a viewer who called her the n-word, wrote an exclusive blog for HuffPost on explaining that she didn’t “have a choice” but to respond. Read an excerpt from her poignant piece below:Why do racists feel they can do this, that they can get away with this?Because they can and generally do. I really don’t think there’s anything deeper. Racists often like to spit that word, because there is hardly ever any personal consequence for doing so. Especially now. In a time when we are calling people “white nationalists” instead of what their speech and actions actually dictate. Cool story, bro, but not one rooted in any fact.Every single day, journalists of color get emails like the one I got. Most of us continue to do our jobs with excellence. You never even know. That seems like one of the reasons some people were stunned by how casually yet pointedly racist the email I got was. Stay plugged in with the stories on black life and culture that matter.Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? Subscribe here! Like what you see? Share with a friend! Want more? Check out (In)formation and Queer Voices.©2017 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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