Hello Everyone..... watch for many more posts coming up and a little of this and that.

Oh and what are YOU CRAVING right now?  I want something sweet or soup.
Not kidding.

Why not celebrate ALL skin colors not just dark-and brown skinned women? Why all the seperating?

 (what would happen if someone wrote a song or a book about WHITE skin? Oh that's right, it would be called racist.)

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Like her parents, Blue Ivy now an award-winning songwriter

MESFIN FEKADU 8 hours ago

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2016 file photo, Blue Ivy, daughter of Beyonce, arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. At just 7, Blue Ivy Carter is an award-winning songwriter. Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter won the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award at the Soul Train Awards on Sunday, Nov 17, 2019, for co-writing her mom’s hit “Brown Skin Girl,” a song celebrating dark- and brown-skinned women. Ivy gives a vocal performance that opens and closes the song, which also features Wizkid and Saint Jhn.(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — At just 7, Blue Ivy Carter is an award-winning songwriter.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter won the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award at Sunday’s Soul Train Awards for co-writing her mom’s hit “Brown Skin Girl,” a song celebrating dark- and brown-skinned women.

Ivy Carter gives a vocal performance that opens and closes the song, which also features Wizkid and Saint Jhn.
The Carters weren’t at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas to accept the honor named after the legendary Motown songwriting duo Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Ivy Carter shares the win with Beyoncé, Jay-Z, St. Jhn and several other co-writers.
This week could get even better for Ivy Carter: Grammy nominations will be revealed Wednesday and “Brown Skin Girl” could earn the young star her first Grammy nomination (Beyoncé has won 23 Grammys and Jay-Z has 22).
“Brown Skin Girl” — which features Beyoncé namedropping Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland and singing lyrics like, “I love everything about you, from your nappy curls to every single curve” — was also nominated for best collaboration at the Soul Train Awards. Most of the top winners didn’t attend the show, and only three of the 12 awards were handed out during the live telecast: best female R&B/soul artist (H.E.R.), best new artist (Summer Walker) and best gospel/international award (Kirk Franklin).
Chris Brown and Drake’s “No Guidance” — which has spent the last five months, and counting, in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart — was the big winner, picking up song of the year, best dance performance and best collaboration. Lizzo won album/mixtape of the year for “Cuz I Love You” and video of the year for “Juice.”
The awards show, which aired on BET and was hosted by actresses Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell, also gave special honors to gospel music icon Yolanda Adams and Songwriter Hall of Famers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, who have worked with Janet Jackson throughout her career and have also crafted No. 1 hits for George Michael, Usher, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men.

Meghan Markle and Hillary Clinton Secretly Spent the Afternoon Together at Frogmore Cottage.....................................pass it around

Meghan Markle and Hillary Clinton Secretly Spent the Afternoon Together at Frogmore Cottage

Joelle Goldstein  ,People Fri, Nov 15 12:07 AM CST

Meghan Markle had a special guest drop by her Windsor home this week.

On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Frogmore Cottage and met Meghan, 38, for the very first time after being secretly invited to the London residence by the Duchess of Sussex, The Daily Mail reports.

A source confirmed to the outlet that the women shared a hug before spending the afternoon together, where they hit it off and even discussed a letter Meghan wrote to Clinton when she was 11 demanding to remove a “sexist” dishwasher soap advertisement.

“Both women have a lot of admiration for each other and it was a very sweet, warm meeting,” the source said. “They are mutual fangirls!”

Prince Harry and the royal couple’s seven-month-old son Archie also joined the ladies, with Clinton, 72, reportedly getting in some cuddles with the infant, while she chatted about her own grandson, Jasper, who made his arrival in July.

News of their meeting comes a few days after Clinton raved about Meghan while discussing the relentless attacks she’s been receiving from the British tabloids on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“Oh my God, I want to hug her!” Clinton told host Emma Barnett on Tuesday. “I feel as a mother I just want to put my arms around her. I want to tell her to hang in there, don’t let those bad guys get you down. Keep going, do what you think is right.”

The 2016 Presidential candidate — who is on a publicity tour for The Book of Gutsy Women, co-authored by daughter Chelsea, 39 — added that Meghan should be given a break because all she’s done is fall in love and look to raise a family.

“She has made her own way in the world,” Clinton told the BBC. “Then she falls in love, and he falls in love with her, and everybody should be celebrating that because it is a true love story. You can just look at them and see that.”

Clinton added, “You know, it’s not easy. And there are some techniques that can be learned along the way, some humor, some deflection, whatever, which I’m sure she will come to. But it is tough what she is going through. And I think she deserves a lot better.”

Having been in the spotlight for decades, Clinton knows better than most what it’s like to have every aspect of your personal life raked over in public.

In Meghan’s case, the grandmother of three said she believes the criticism has been driven by a combination of sexism and racism, which she called “heartbreaking and wrong.”

“It takes some getting used to having your every move scrutinized and analyzed and, frankly, things made up about,” Clinton said. “I really wish her and her husband the very best because they are struggling to have a life of meaning and integrity in their own terms — and that’s hard enough if you’re just walking around in today’s world, but if you’re on that big a platform it’s really difficult.”

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Clinton added: “You know, people don’t choose who they fall in love with — they fall in love. And she is an amazing young woman. She has an incredible life story. She has stood up for herself.”

The former Secretary of State also echoed her sentiments in an interview with The Sunday Times last month, noting that “the way she’s been treated [by the British media] is inexplicable.”

“If the explanation is that she’s biracial, then shame on everybody,” she added, noting that she personally believed the Duchess of Sussex’s race is “certainly part of it.”

A group of us laughed so hard...... keep an open mind and listen to the whole thing.

keep an open mind

U.S.

Michelle Obama Recalls 'White Flight' of Her Childhood on Chicago's South Side: 'Y'all Were Running from Us'

Sandra Sobieraj Westfall,People 2 hours 10 minutes ago

Home on the South Side of Chicago on Tuesday, Michelle Obama likened her childhood experience in the 1970s to what immigrant families face in American neighborhoods today.

The former first lady, 55, recalled at the Obama Foundation Summit how her parents — whom she called “magical” for how they instilled her and older brother Craig Robinson with confidence in their own intelligence — moved to a white neighborhood for better schools when she was little.

The city’s South Side was then home to “a million Craigs, Michelles and Baracks,” Obama said: young black children eager to play and learn and grow.

“We were doing everything we were supposed to do — and better,” she said in an on-stage conversation with Robinson. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”

“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she said.

“Because we’re no different from the immigrant families that are moving in today. … But because we can so easily wash over who we really were — because of the color of our skin, because of the texture of our hair — that’s what divides countries, the artificial things.”

Obama says she grew up feeling “a sense of injustice.”

“You know this when you’re young,” she said. “You know when people are running from you.”


 

 

She remembered school days and playing outside with friends named Rachel and Susan. “There were no gang fights, no territorial battles. Yet, one by one, they packed their bags and they ran from us.

You could feel people disinvesting in you. You could feel it in the schools—”
Added Robinson, “You could feel it in the parks.”

He remembered hours playing basketball at their neighborhood park. “After every game I had to run home and yell up at the window to my mom, ‘I’m alive!’ and then run back to the next game. But each year, you’d find more and more bottles, more glass broken … people didn’t care about where we went to play.”

The summit, held on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, brought students and community activists — from 41 countries and the Obama Foundation’s various leadership and education programs — with thought leaders, artists and cultural leaders including Charles Barkley, Ava DuVernay, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Billy Porter. The day of discussion focused on the theme “Places Reveal our Purpose.”



In the opening session, Obama and her brother looked through family photos and spoke about their roots and the values they learned at their parents’ kitchen table. As if to underscore how far their journey carried them, Obama struggled with one photo to name the room in the White House that was pictured.

A staff member called out that it was the executive mansion’s Old Family Dining Room.
“Family dining room! Lord, that was a long time ago,” Obama replied.

Then, recalling that the photo was taken on Inauguration Day 2013, when husband Barack Obama was sworn-in for his second term as president, Mrs. Obama made clear (once again, in the face of repeated speculation she would someday run for office) that she is done with politics: “The last election. Thank you, Jesus!”

In the free-wheeling and informal conversation, Robinson teased his sister, who spent the year on a global book tour for her bestselling memoir, Becoming. “Everybody knows our business now thanks to that book you wrote,” he said.

“I grew up my whole life as Craig’s sister,” Mrs. Obama countered. “Now the tables have turned! He can’t even get through an airport without someone saying you look like—”
“I can’t go anywhere with this face,” Robinson interrupted. “And then they tell me, ‘Remember in Chapter 6—.’ ”


President Obama, 58, who was closing the daylong summit, said at Monday night dinner for summit attendees that he and the former first lady knew from the start that Chicago’s South Side was the right place for their post-White House foundation — and eventual presidential library.

“It was natural for Michelle and I to say, ‘Well, we should do it in this place,’ where I became a man and where Michelle grew up, and where our children were born.”




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Documentory about Africa turned out to be Meghan complaining about having to be a wife a mom and have a job all at once. How the hell have the rest of us women done it?

What a whiner.


The palace needs to do something, she is an embarrassment.

And to make things worse, it makes the Queen and Charles look afraid of her.

No longer a strong Royal family...

How embarrassing for the people in the UK giving their hard earned money for THIS.

Not a good look for the Palace..... time to step in Queen

This is NOT how a royal acts. Harry is not the big strong prince and his wife is embarrassing all of you.

Six weeks off for what? She got back from four MONTH maternity leave when most women get six weeks.

What does she need a vacation from? She doesn't do anything but TRAVEL.


Thank God for Kate and William. (and of course Prince Charles and Camilla)

Six weeks for her mental health? What the heck can stress someone that has staff to do everything FOR you? What a whiner.