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Rapper YFN Lucci, perhaps best known here as Reginae’s on-again, off-again boyfriend is in some serious legal trouble.
According to TMZ, he is wanted by local Atlanta law enforcement as police suspect he is responsible for shooting and killing a man.
Atlanta’s homicide unit told TMZ that they are still searching for Lucci, 29, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett on several charges including “felony murder, aggravated assault, participation in criminal street gang activity, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.”
Law enforcement believe Lucci was involved in a shooting last month in southwest Atlanta. The incident resulted in the death of one man who suffered a gunshot wound to the head and another man was injured. The second victim was shot minutes after the first.
Police believe the shootings are related to two arrests they’ve already made, including Ra’von Boyd, 23, and 17-year-old Leroy Pitts, who were arrested on felony murder charges.
The police haven’t had such luck with Lucci and are now asking the public to help find him. They are offering a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to his arrest and indictment.
This is a lot for young Reginae, 22, to think about and consider.
Lucci and Reginae began dating in 2018 and broke up in 2019.
While Reginae swore that she would not let Lucci continue to embarrass her after #CucumberGate, Lucci told Angela Yee in an interview just last month that the two were working on their relationship.
This might put a bit of a damper on their plans.
We’ll be sure to keep you posted.
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty
Rapper YFN Lucci, perhaps best known here as Reginae’s on-again, off-again boyfriend is in some serious legal trouble.
According to TMZ, he is wanted by local Atlanta law enforcement as police suspect he is responsible for shooting and killing a man.
Atlanta’s homicide unit told TMZ that they are still searching for Lucci, 29, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett on several charges including “felony murder, aggravated assault, participation in criminal street gang activity, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.”
Law enforcement believe Lucci was involved in a shooting last month in southwest Atlanta. The incident resulted in the death of one man who suffered a gunshot wound to the head and another man was injured. The second victim was shot minutes after the first.
Police believe the shootings are related to two arrests they’ve already made, including Ra’von Boyd, 23, and 17-year-old Leroy Pitts, who were arrested on felony murder charges.
The police haven’t had such luck with Lucci and are now asking the public to help find him. They are offering a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to his arrest and indictment.
This is a lot for young Reginae, 22, to think about and consider.
Lucci and Reginae began dating in 2018 and broke up in 2019.
While Reginae swore that she would not let Lucci continue to embarrass her after #CucumberGate, Lucci told Angela Yee in an interview just last month that the two were working on their relationship.
This might put a bit of a damper on their plans.
We’ll be sure to keep you posted.
Writer: Kieron Gillen / Artist: Esad Ribic / Marvel
As a relatively new comic book reader, Eternals #1 felt like a dope attempt to introduce this section of the Marvel universe to people like myself, while respecting the Jack Kirby, Neil Gaimen, and Jon Romita Jr. legacy that has been built. I was wild impressed with the ambitious groundwork that Gillen has laid for the future of this book. I’m sitting here motivated to learn names, internalize history, keep up with the well-paced story, and enjoy every page of this beautifully illustrated #1!
Eternals: They Have Always BEEN
We open up to Ikiris being reborn, like he has an infinite number of times before that. We are introduced to “The Machine” through its narration and learn that it is one of the 3 principles of all Eternals.
Protect Celestials. Protect The Machine. Correct Excess Deviation.
The way that Gillen allows us to piece together who the Eternals are and what characteristics they possess make you proud to be a comic book reader. He doesn’t hit you with a dictionary.com explanation, he describes Ikaris by saying, “He flies at the future without fear or regret. He has always been a living arrow,” which allows you to showcase your appreciation for Gillen’s attention to detail when he drops, “Arrows are nothing if not direct,” after Ikaris asks “Who else is alive?“.
This theme of rebirth permeates all throughout this issue, but the actions that were taken before these Eternals’ demise, and the consequences that are handed down as a result, are what keep you invested.
The Way of the Eternals
Veteran Eternals fans will tell you that their most powerful capability is to combine forces, somewhat akin to the Power Rangers’ Zords becoming the Megazord or the paladin’s lions becoming Voltron. While Gillen doesn’t touch on the Uni-Mind, he does unveil the law, if you will, of the Eternals. “We are of one mind” is all it takes for an eternal decision to be declared as final, and the first final decision is to free Sprite, the most troublesome Eternal.
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Zuras is Eternal Prime, the leader of all Eternals and the one who receives the blame if something goes awry. If something goes horribly wrong, the decision may be made to exclude the eternal who caused it, such as siring a creature who killed half the galaxy with the snap of a finger.
It’s an Eternal World & We’re Just Living In It
By the end of this issue, there were some key takeaways that I’m excited to see play out in the coming issues. The first was Gillen’s restrained, yet impeccable use of humor. Choosing the right moments to up the comedy, while rising to the challenge of progressing the plot from rebirth to life to death. His comparison of Deviants to Gremlins was a delight and aptly done.
Next is the highly impressive artwork. The world Esad Ribic created for these Eternals to live in is bonkers. Matt Wilson is the modern-day comic book Picasso with the colors, so you know that was going to be tight but Ribic goes hard with his vision. The scale, the scope, the grandiosity! Places sealed between molecules and cities located within echo dimensions? Nuts. Can’t wait to get more of that. The mid issue cameo was typical, yet enjoyable. I imagine we’ll be seeing some key members of the MCU as this story unfolds since it is introducing so many readers to this relaunched group of pseudo gods about to make their movie debut soon.
Lastly, purpose. Now that the Eternals have no clear cut celestial purpose, where do they go from here? In the ‘Never Die, Never Win’ edition of this book, Gillen says he wants to honor the past while pushing the Eternals into the 21st century. Safe to say he’s off to one hell of a start with Eternals #1.
9 Excess Deviations Corrected out of 10
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From today’s lens, it is hard for some to imagine the United States government tormenting anyone for just singing a song. Certainly not ‘Strange Fruit,’ her protest song against lynching. What crime could the United States government possibly find in amplifying the senseless killing of Black people, Black men specifically, for nothing more than the color of their skin? Why was any entity of the federal government outraged over a now classic American protest song with the lyric “Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze/Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees?”
The harsh truth is Jim Crow wasn’t just in the South. Racism was all over the nation and few knew that as well as Billie Holiday.As a woman born Black and poor with extremely limited options in Jim Crow America, survival, in and of itself, was a win. Becoming the iconic Lady Day, beloved by both Black and white Americans for her talent, did not shield her. No amount of fame could save her from the punishment reserved for her refusal to stop singing ‘Strange Fruit.’ Unable to outrun her demons, she had turned to drugs early to numb the pain of her rough childhood, her unfortunate choice in men and just the price of living Black and female in America. And the government, her government, used her weakness, her drug addiction, against her.
Fighting unfairly, Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry Anslinger, who founded this country’s infamous “War on Drugs,” hired Jimmy Fletcher, a Black man, to infiltrate her jazz circles and take her down. But their plan hit a major snag when Jimmy did the unthinkable and fell in love with her. It wasn’t enough to save her from a horrific death chained to a hospital bed surrounded by federal agents. Did the government kill Lady Day?
The United States vs. Billie Holiday dares to answer that question.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels, with a screenplay written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks based on the chapter “The Black Hand” on Billie Holiday in Johann Mari’s 2015 bestselling book, Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, and introducing Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day as Billie Holiday, Hulu presents The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Trevante Rhodes, from the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight, stars as Jimmy Fletcher, with Tony Award nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph from Ghost: The Musical and Dolemite Is My Name, Orange Is the New Black’s Natasha Lyonne, Mudbound’s Garrett Hedlund, and Rob Morgan, as well as Miss Lawrence, Tyler James Williams, Evan Ross, and Tone Bell.
The United States vs. Billie Holiday premieres in February.
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This inauguration will be a historic. Not only are we evicting a tyrant from the White House, it will also be the first time a Black woman has held the office of Vice President. And under normal circumstances, Black women would have showed up and showed out to be there to commemorate the occasion.
But this year is different. We’re still in the midst of a pandemic, which is disproportionately affecting Black folks.
And after Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol, the risks are even greater.
Judging by the actions of the domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol, I think it’s safe to assume that the January 6, wasn’t the only raid they had planned.
The inauguration might also be a target. Not only will Joe Biden be there, so will his supporters.
Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is encouraging people to avoid the inauguration all together, encouraging them instead, to watch the event virtually.
In a tweet, Bowser shared a graphic that read: “We are asking Americans NOT TO COME TO WASHINGTON, DC for the 59th Presidential Inauguration on January 20, and to instead participate virtually.”
Bowser shared this request in her Situational Update, where she also discussed rollout of the COVID vaccine for elderly DC residents.
Bowser’s request comes as the FBI has issued a bulletin stating that there are plans for “armed protests” (which sounds like attacks to me) at all 50 state capitals ahead of the inauguration.
ABC News reported, in response to the elevated threat, 15,000 National Guardsmen could be deployed around Biden’s inauguration day festivities.