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Denzel Washington’s NAACP Speech Will Go Down in History
Denzel Washington is bigger than an actor. He is a leader. He is an inspiration. He is a voice for those who need one.
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It’s a scary time for most people in this country right now. Bigger than the need to see more minorities on television and in film, people are downright scared over the future of their most basic rights.
How do we get through it?
Well, for one, with speeches and support from people like Washington, who inspire us and continue to encourage us to get up and fight.
He won Best Actor for his role in Fences at the NAACP Awards last night and instead of talking about himself, his role and the other cliché lines we get from these award shows, Washington chose to speak about everyone else.
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“August Wilson is one of the greatest playwrights in the history of American, or World, theater. It is a privilege, an honor, a responsibility, a duty and a joy to bring his brilliance to the screen. I am particularly proud and happy about the young filmmakers, actors, singers, writers, producers that are coming up behind my generation. In particular, Barry Jenkins. Young people understand. This young man made 10, 15, 20 short films before he got the opportunity to make Moonlight. So never give up. Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish. It’s not easy. If it was easy, there’d be no Kerry Washington. If it was easy, there’d be no Taraji P. Henson. If it were easy, there’d be no Octavia Spencer. But not only that, if it were easy, there’d be no Viola Davis.”
He added, “Keep working. Keep striving. Never give up. Fall down seven times, get up eight… Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So keep moving, keep growing, keep learning. See you at work.”
I’m taping this speech on my refrigerator and every time I feel down, I’ll be referring to Denzel. Here’s to standing up no matter the struggle.
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Watch Washignton’s speech below.
denzel washington naacp award speech
denzel washington naacp award speech
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Dear Body-Shamers: Our Daughters Are Perfect, and So Are We
Claire is sitting at her white wooden table in her playroom. A small chair is pulled up to its edge, her light-pink teapot and matching cups are lined up in front of her. She wears a pastel striped T-shirt with a ruffled edge on each shoulder and nothing else but a diaper. The curls at the back of her head are still wet from her bath earlier that morning and her bangs are pinned back with a purple bow hair clip.
I wish she knew how perfect she is.
I sit in a chair opposite her and marvel at her complete unawareness of her body and the things she might someday think about it. The things someone else might someday think about it.
Her small, dimpled legs hang over the side of the chair and her rounded belly pokes out from under her shirt. I think about my 15-year-old self standing in the bathroom mirror, lamenting my too-soft tummy. I chipped away at my flaws with an eating disorder that left me counting calories on a small piece of paper I hid inside my dresser drawer. One day, my cousin put his hand around my wrist. “You’re so skinny!” He had no idea that what he meant as an insult felt like validation.
I lean forward and kiss Claire’s cheek. “I love you so much,” I tell her. I think about each and every picture I discarded from my 20s because of my “fat face” or “chubby cheeks.”
A couple of months after I had Claire, I called my mom and told her I was sorry for ever criticizing my body. “I would just never, ever want Claire to feel the way I did about my body,” I said through tears. “That had to hurt you so much… you thought I was perfect, didn’t you?”
I find myself constantly saying to Claire, “I love your little body.”
I love the way she takes a bite of food and says, “Mmmmmmm,” while rubbing her belly. “More” she says, over and over again.
I adore the way she sits in the bath and the rolls on her inner thighs meet. The way she pulls her “piggies” in toward her face and kisses them, hugs them close. The way she walks up to me and kisses my leg, wraps her arms around it and says, “Ooooh!” which is the sound she makes when she really, really loves something.
I want her to always see food as nourishment and her body as something to be valued and other people’s bodies as something to be loved. For herself, not me. Not the boy she someday crushes on. Not the girlfriends whose golden hair or athletic legs she might someday covet. Not the beautiful women in magazines. Not the people who write things on the internet about women.
To Twitter user Angry Hippy, who wrote, “Y’all find this attractive? lmaaoo,” in response to a photo of three United States Olympic female gymnasts in bikinis at the beach: I hope my daughter is one of the people who looks at that photo and aspires to achieve her goals as they have theirs.
To Reed Emerson, who tweeted, “Selena Gomez is trash and fat”: I hope my daughter shakes her head in disgust.
To model Dani Mathers, who posted an Instagram photo of an unsuspecting woman in the shower at the gym. “If I can’t unsee this, then you can’t either!” she wrote. I hope Claire reads that and mourns for the everyday woman who was simply trying to rinse off after a workout.
And to Nathan, who during the Super Bowl on Sunday tweeted to all 35 of his followers, “Tried to enjoy @LadyGaga’s performance, was distracted by the flab on her stomach swinging around”: I hope my daughter feels a stirring in her belly as if he had written it about her.
Because he has. That’s the thing about these women –– we are all these women. My 13-year-old self is Selena Gomez. It is Christmas Day and I stand in my bedroom crying. Every single pair of pants my parents bought me wouldn’t button. Fat, fat, fat.
My sister is the athlete in the photograph, strong and confident. Unwavering. A lean muscle runs down the side of her leg as she hits her running stride around the track. Y’all find this attractive?
My mother is the woman at the gym, trying to find fitness again after she had a hysterectomy and slipped into early menopause, her body shifting in a way that left it feeling heavy and borrowed. I can’t unsee this.
And my daughter? As I watch her, now standing at her play kitchen and making me some broccoli, I see her belly peeking out over her dinosaur-print diaper with “RAWR!” splashed between T-Rex graphics. Flab on her stomach swinging around.
I sneak up behind her and wrap my arms around her. Knowing I only have a few seconds before she wriggles free, I squeeze hard and silently hope her response to the only person she will ever have to answer to, herself, will be exactly like Gaga’s:
Be you, and be relentlessly you.
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Having Game of Thrones Withdrawal? This New Beer Might Help
While we’re all waiting for the seventh season of HBO mega-hit Game of Thrones to premiere (no date has been officially announced, leaving everyone eagerly guessing), we will at least have a beer to help us pass the time later this spring. HBO has again partnered with Brewery Ommegang to create the eighth Game of Thrones-themed beer: Bend the Knee Golden Ale.
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Bend the Knee, a Belgian-style beer, will be available both on draft and in a series of three collectible 750-milliliter bottles, and (of course) all the bottles will be finished in matte black. For series aficionados, which we assume you must be if you’re collecting bottles of themed GoT beer, each bottle will be adorned with one of the three Great House sigils: Stark, Targaryen, or Lannister.
The beer is reported to be brewed with “pils malt and flaked oats and hopped with Saaz, Bravo and Styrian Golding hops” and will have a 9 percent alcohol content, which sounds pretty solid. It’ll retail for $11 a pop, which isn’t cheap for a single bottle of beer – then again, if you’re saving those bottles as collectibles, maybe it’s worth it.
9 Pantsuits You Can Buy at Nordstrom Right Now
So, today, this happened:
Trump Nordstrom tweet
Trump Nordstrom tweet
Yes, that’s correct: There’s Trump getting involved, as usual, in something that is a) none of his business; b) totally inappropriate since he’s, you know, the president; c) probably a lot less important than a few other issues floating around in this country right now; and d) a U.S.-based company that creates plenty of jobs and revenue right here in our own backyard – the very thing Trump has touted as being up there with cleanliness and godliness.
Of course, Twitter erupted immediately, as it does literally every single time he posts a tweet – including one choice tweet from Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, tagging the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Yeah, I’ll say.
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Then Nordstrom shares plummeted briefly, as a direct result of Trump’s tweet, CNBC reported. #Appropriate. Though shares declined more than 1 percent just after the tweet, people came to their senses and they quickly turned positive, up 3 percent during afternoon trading. Perhaps a bunch of Trump-haters snapped up Nordstrom stock. Who knows.
Cupcakes and Cashmere Hanna jumpsuit: $130
The New York Times reported today that it saw an employee memo sent from TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, to both stores, which asked stockists to avoid featuring anything that came to the discount shops with Ivanka Trump’s label and to toss signs for the brand, tout de suite. “Effective immediately, please remove all Ivanka Trump merchandise from features and mix into” the common racks, avoiding any special displays, the note read. “All Ivanka Trump signs should be discarded.” TJX confirmed the memo to theTimes.
Vince Camuto Jumpsuit: $89
In reference to the tweet, National Retail Federation CEO Matt Shay said on a call with reporters, “We’re living in a world with a different kind of a chief executive in the White House,” CNBC reported. Once again, for the cheap seats: I’ll say. “We’re learning, all of us, how to work in that environment,” he said. Very diplomatic.
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So what are you waiting for? #GrabYourWallets and support a major company that took a stand against Ivanka Trump, her father and their shady business practices.
Halogen suit jacket & pants: jacket, $129; pants $79
T Tahari jacket & straight-leg pants: jacket, $98; pants, $78
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Boss jacket & trousers outfit with accessories: jacket, $595; pants $325
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Keshia Knight Pulliam Takes On Racial Profiling – in the Maternity Ward
We’ve been consistently impressed with the grace with which Rudy Huxtable – sorry, Keshia Knight Pulliam – has been handling single motherhood. Pulliam had a baby girl recently – Ella Grace, her first child. But she revealed on her podcast, Kandidly Keshia, that her postpartum experience on the maternity ward included a very unpleasant dose of racial profiling.
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The actress shared with fans the deeply uncomfortable tale of the hospital’s lactation specialist, who insisted that Pulliam should read up on welfare services for low-income mothers, including the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) food supplement program. Pulliam said she appreciated the offer, but the lactation specialist refused to believe her when she told her politely that she did not need those services and had perfectly good insurance, thankyouverymuch.
“This old little white lady, I think she may have voted for Trump, but bless her heart,” Pulliam told her fans on the podcast. “She says, ‘Yes, and we have some great programs that you may want to take advantage of that you may need – WIC is a great program; I don’t know if you have insurance.’ WIC is welfare. So I guess she saw this little black girl with the little baby by herself, and on the door… I guess she saw ‘Miss Brown’ [staff had put up a fake last name to prevent paparazzi invasion] and was like, ‘She probably needs some WIC.'”
Pulliam continued, “That’s when I stopped her – I said, ‘Ma’am, I have excellent insurance but thank you.'”
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Even worse? The white lactation specialist didn’t even want to touch Pulliam to assist her with breastfeeding. We are pretty much speechless.
“Lactation specialists… literally will, like, guide your boob, show you how to hold it, put it in the baby’s mouth. This lady was not trying to touch my little brown booby,” said Pulliam. “I was like, Mom, it’s OK. This lady, she doesn’t know any better, because if she knew better, she’d do better!”
We love Pulliam’s attitude, but we hate that this was part of her postpartum experience. Eventually, Pulliam’s doula insisted that another lactation specialist be sent to help. Still, Pulliam’s takeaway was awesome and majorly evolved: “It wouldn’t be me without the funny stories.”
Not so sure about the funny quotient of this story, Keshia. We totally salute the graceful way you handled it. But we’re not laughing, not one bit.
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Now We Know Why Cats Really Have Whiskers
My Grandma Hazel had a cat named Molly, whom she adored. In fact, it’s probably safe to say she was obsessed with Molly. So when Molly started stumbling around and acting disoriented, my grandma understandably proceeded to panic and take her BFF (best feline friend, natch) straight to the vet.
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Fortunately, it was not a worst-case scenario – i.e., some rare and aggressive cancer – that was causing Molly’s problems. Rather, the root of the issue was something none of us expected: her whiskers.
Sure, we all knew they didn’t simply exist for decoration. But to be honest, we hadn’t really ever paused to ask, “Why do cats have whiskers?” Well, in case you’re as curious as a cat about this query, here’s the 411 on your feline’s facial hair.
For starters, cats’ whiskers, or vibrissae, are extremely sensitive sensory tools. According to Live Science, these tactile hairs are jam-packed with nerves, which help make cats aware of their surroundings.
To put it in context, it’s kind of like having fingers growing out of your face – they allow you to size up objects, people and places simply through touch, even at night. Since a cat’s whiskers are roughly as long the cat is wide, cats often use their whiskers to gauge whether or not they can squeeze into a space.
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Another way cats use their whiskers? When hunting (or when trying to avoid being hunted). Because cats’ whiskers are so sensitive, they can detect changes in air currents. This helps them both pinpoint prey and avoid approaching potential predators.
Whiskers are also an excellent barometer for your cat’s moods. That’s right; your feline friend might be trying to tell you something, and you’re simply not picking up the visual clues. This includes taut whiskers when your cat feels threatened, relaxed whiskers when your cat is feeling calm and forward-pushed whiskers when your cat is excited or alert.
So what did whiskers have to do with the condition of my grandma’s cat? Upon further inspection, the veterinarian discovered that Molly had somehow singed the whiskers off one side of her face. Because cat whiskers are so sensitive, damaged whiskers can wreak havoc on your pet’s nervous system. The cat will not be able to receive the navigation signals it normally receives from its whiskers, which can lead to everything from disorientation to stumbling and more. Furthermore, it can cause your cat pain to lose its whiskers, so it’s best to practice a hands-off approach.
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Besides, why would you ever want to mess with your cat’s built-in sensory system anyway? It’s what he or she uses to glean information about the world around them. And hey, that includes you! You can thank your cat’s whiskers for helping to interpret you favorably and helping your cat to feel safe enough around you to form your formidable bond.
Climate changes may lead to more poisonous mercury in plankton
Global warming is expected to increase runoff and input of organic matter to aquatic ecosystems in large regions of the Northern hemisphere including the Baltic Sea. Research performed in Sweden is now indicating a sevenfold increase in poisonous methylmercury in zooplankton as a consequence. This increase is due to an altered structure of the aquatic food web. The study has been published in the journal Science Advances.
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