No Images? Click here The first time Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) remembers seeing a gun in real life, it was pressed to her head. She was in her early 20s, and the man threatening her was her boyfriend.A former college freshman in Connecticut has been charged with a hate crime after she allegedly tormented a black roommate she called “Jamaican Barbie.” Police said Brochu confessed to licking Rowe’s dining utensils and smearing menstrual blood on her backpack, according to the Hartford Courant. Wth.“I love my husband, and he is my rock, but my girlfriends are my sanity,” Michelle Obama said at the Obama Foundation summit in Chicago on Wednesday. The former first lady said that all the stress, security and craziness that came with living at the White House for eight years made her need her girlfriends even more.Three-year-old Arya from Oakland transformed into a mini Waters with the help of her Aunt Sareena. “It is kind of my thing to choose and make a costume for her,” Sareena told HuffPost. “I thought about who had a great year and who she could be. Auntie Maxine popped up! She’s had so many good moments and highlights this year. I wanted her to be another amazing woman who made us proud to be us.”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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