Showing posts with label HEALTH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HEALTH. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Photos: Black transgender woman attacked & shot dead by a group of men in Philadelphia

Photos: Black transgender woman attacked & shot dead by a group of men in Philadelphia

Kiesha Jenkins, 22, was ambushed by a group of men moments after she exited a car around 2.30 am, on Tuesday, October 6. The men began to beat her and then shot her twice in the back, police said. Jenkins was rushed to the hospital where she later died.

Police are still on the hunt for the suspects, although they say it's too soon to determine whether or not the incident was a hate crime or possible robbery.


 "Kiesha was shot in the back around 2:30 am in North Philadelphia," a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Police Department confirmed. "She was known to the LGBTQ community as a transgender individual," the spokeswoman said.

Police are treating the case as a homicide - not a hate crime - though that could change as the investigation continues, she added.

According to Huffington Post, at least 18 other transgender women have reportedly been killed in the US this year -- and at least 16 of those victims, including Jenkins, were women of colour.
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Beyoncé posts video of Nigerian fan dancing to Kush's Let's Live Together

Beyoncé posts video of Nigerian fan dancing to Kush's Let's Live Together

A few months ago, you all saw the inspiring and cute video...and now Beyoncé has just put it up on her Facebook page, having seen it on the FB page of her "Flawless" partner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Even before this, the video already had reached almost half a million views…and it has got over 20,000 likes on Beyoncé’s page so far…!


The little dancer girl's name is Teya Onyemelukwe and she is the niece of Chinaku Onyemelukwe, who produced the "Lets Live Together" song by KUSH featuring Flavour, Morell and Chimamanda, and who also directed the video. He filmed Teya dancing to LLT and everyone loved it so much that they put her in the video for LLT, and also did this short 1 minute "Teya" video clip.

It’s has a positive message of peace that we really need in Nigeria today. Go to Beyoncé's FB http://ift.tt/xDUVIh and check it out!
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Photo of the day!

Photo of the day!

Senate president Bukola Saraki and Ahmed Lawan (the man APC wanted to be Senate president) shake hands at the National Assembly complex today!
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Photos: Zahra Buhari visits IDP camp

Photos: Zahra Buhari visits IDP camp

President Buhari's daughter, Zahra visited an IDP camp where she met with the cooks in the camp and also dished food to some of the IDP children. She shared these photos and wrote "So, today we went to the IDP camp to have lunch with the kids, more than excited. Met the cooks too". Another photo after the cut...




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Nicki Minaj covers New York Times mag, talks Drake/Meek Mill beef

Nicki Minaj covers New York Times mag, talks Drake/Meek Mill beef

Ncki Minaj covers the front page of the latest New York Times magazine. During her interview she talked about how her dad abused her and her mom, addressed the beef  between Drake and Meek Mill, her beef with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift. Read it after the cut...

On Miley Cyrus:
"The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls. You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad. If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that."

On Drake/Meek:
"They’re men, grown-ass men. It’s between them." How does it make you feel, I ask? "I hate it. It doesn’t make me feel good. You don’t ever want to choose sides between people you love. It’s ridiculous. I just want it to be over."
This leads into the interview's termination, with Grigoriadis asking, "Is there a part of you that thrives on drama, or is it no, just pain and unpleasantness—" and Nicki replying, "That’s disrespectful. Why would a grown-ass woman thrive off drama." She continued, "What do the four men you just named have to do with me thriving off drama? Why would you even say that? That’s so peculiar. Four grown-ass men are having issues between themselves, and you’re asking me do I thrive off drama." It didn't stop there, "Women blame women for things that have nothing to do with them. I really want to know why — as a matter of fact, I don’t. Can we move on, do you have anything else to ask? To put down a woman for something that men do, as if they’re children and I’m responsible, has nothing to do with you asking stupid questions, because you know that’s not just a stupid question."

On her abusive father
  “I would always hear him yelling and cursing, always. And it made me feel it was the way to interact, because that’s how I saw him interacting. When I was younger, I thought that the only reason my mother didn’t leave my father was for financial reasons. From early on in my life, I looked at a woman not having her money as the biggest curse. Now that I’m an adult, I realize that women stay whether a man’s rich or poor. It’s just a weakness.”

On people getting plastic surgery
People are posting pictures of working out, and then there’s a change in their body and they say it’s because they were working out! Ah-hahahaha. Back in the day, in hip-hop, the thick girl was glorified. Now the rappers are dating skinny white women. So it’s almost like, ‘Wait a minute, who’s going to tell the thick black girls that they’re sexy and fly, too?’

Read the rest here
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Photos: Traffic lockdown as VP Osinbajo visits Lagos

Photos: Traffic lockdown as VP Osinbajo visits Lagos

VP Yemi Osinbajo is currently attending a function at Oriental Hotel along Ozumba Mbadiwe in Victoria Island and this has caused a traffic lockdown along that route. See more pics after the cut...




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