Celebs Out & About: Eve, Usher, Pitbull, Mel B, Adrienne Bailon, Kris Jenner
This is the way rapper Eve dresses when she makes a run to the corner drug store. The Diva was spotted leaving Rite Aid drug store wearing Chanel and Prada. It must be nice to have the seemingly unlimited disposable income that she currently enjoys. We hope it lasts.
Celebs Out & About: Kelly Rowland
Singer Kelly Rowland was spotted entering Fountain studios in London earlier today wearing a faux fur vest, tight jeans and Burberry boots. Yesterday, the 30-year-old beauty performed on the Graham Norton Show in England. It must bite for Beyonce to know Kelly is a bigger star than she is across the pond.
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SHOCKER: Hip Hop Weekly Uncovers PROOF that Beyonce is faking her pregnancy!
Hip Hop Weekly magazine has uncovered definitive proof that singer Beyonce is faking her pregnancy! We can’t share the details with you, but Beyonce’s cousin, Beyince, may have inadvertently spilled the beans about Beyonce’s pregnancy!
Hip Hop Weekly is on newsstands now!
Willow Smith performs “Fireball” on The X Factor
Singer Willow Smith performed her current single “Fireball” during FOX’s “The X Factor” Live Elimination Show in West Hollywood, yesterday. I have nothing else…
New Music: Rihanna – U Da One
Rihanna just leaked this new track “U Da One” off her upcoming album, Talk That Talk. Normally it takes me a few listens before I begin to warm up to Rihanna’s music. But “U Da One” has a nice beat that will make you wind your hips.
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Study Finds Blacks Are More Likely to Beat Their Children
A new study shows 89 percent of black parents spank their children when compared to other races.
According to the Daily Mail, “researchers have long found corporal punishment extends to families of all ethnic groups and socio-economic backgrounds.” But the study shows African Americans are more likely to whip, paddle and spank their children, and use other methods of physical violence as disciplining tools.
The study, led by Elizabeth Gershoff, a professor and researcher on corporal punishment at the university, examined 20,000 kindergartners and their parents.
“The numbers show that 80 per cent of Hispanic parents and 79 per cent of white parents say they have spanked their children.”
But while the study showed that Whites and Hispanics spanked their children with the open hand, blacks used more violent methods against their children, such as belts and extension cords.
CNN suggests that harsh whippings are a legacy “left by the brutality of slavery”.
Others say blacks whip their children, rather than patiently communicating their expectations, because blacks are less educated.
Experts generally agree there is a fine line between a swat on the behind, and the more serious physical punishments meted out by blacks against children as young as 2.
Elizabeth Gershoff told Caller.com,
“There’s a slippery slope between hitting them with a hand and an object, and hitting them twice and hitting them 10 times. It all has negative consequences for children, and it’s too easy for spanking to get carried into abuse.”
McQueary won’t coach final Penn State game
Yesterday we asked what would become of Penn State receivers coach Mike McQueary who, in 2002, stumbled upon 57-year-old former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the team shower.
McQueary, who was 28 at the time, immediately fled the area. But instead of calling the cops, he called his daddy. They didn’t notify coach Joe Paterno about the incident until the next day.
McQueary, whose father was good friends with Paterno, was named receivers coach for Penn State a short time later — presumably in return for his silence.
On Wednesday, Joe Paterno, 84, was fired for ignoring his moral obligation to the child, and for assisting in covering up the heinous crime for 9 years.
But McQueary was allowed to keep his job even though he did nothing to stop the attack on the little boy.
Yesterday, Penn State announced McQueary will not be on the sidelines when Penn State takes on Nebraska in its final game on Saturday. School officials cited threats made against McQueary’s life as the reason.
According to TMZ, the university released a statement reading:
“Due to multiple threats made against assistant coach Mike McQueary, the university has decided it would be in the best interest of all for assistant coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday’s Nebraska game.”
But the threats weren’t made by angry parents, they were made by the same unruly students who trashed the school hours after Paterno’s firing was announced.
Does anyone at Penn State have any morals?
