Brandy drops off her profoundly anticipated ‘B7′ album

by Jonathan P-Wright | Aug 12, 2020 | Worldwide News | 2 comments

Brandy drops off her profoundly anticipated ‘B7′ album

This is one we’ve all been sitting tight for!

She’s back! Following a multi-year break from music, Brandy has ventured back on the scene with her seventh studio collection B7. Watching her experience childhood at the center of attention, we have all observed the heights she can take us to musically. 2020 has been loaded with many good and bad times as we know, however music has been the main thing keeping our rational soundness unblemished during these difficult times. Brandy could not have dropped this album at a superior time. Honestly, it is a much-needed refresher to hear her voice on wax once more, catching our attention with grace and unique style with each record.

In a recent one-on-one interview with Beats 1 Zane Lowe, the Grammy award winning, multi-platinum selling artist talked about how she needed to approach making this undertaking:

I felt like I wanted to just be as honest as possible with this new project. I wanted to approach this new project like if this was my last chance, if this was my last shot at creating music like what would this project be about? What would it sound like? Would I just bear it all? Would I just tell my story as deep as I can tell it? And I wanted to of course stay true to R&B, but at the same time, go outside of the box.

With B7 being an extremely profound and intimate album, Brandy’s conveyance is on point and greets us wholeheartedly into her space. The music project was discharged under her own label imprint Brand Nu, Inc.

Checking in at 45-minutes in total duration, the 15-track collection highlights Chance The Rapper, super producer Hit-Boy, Canadian vocalist and lyricist Daniel Caesar, her own daughter Sy’rai, R&B/hip-hop producer Darhyl “DJ” Camper, the adaptable and Grammy-selected producer Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman among others.

Listen carefully to Brandy’s most recent contribution below and be a great Samaritan by spreading this audio masterpiece.

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Sheriff takes steps to overlook 911 calls from Black Lives Matter-supporting library

by Jonathan P-Wright | Aug 12, 2020 | Worldwide News | 0 comments

Sheriff takes steps to overlook 911 calls from Black Lives Matter-supporting library

“Please do not feel the need to call 911 for help,” a Nevada sheriff wrote after a library proposed a diversity statement.

A Nevada library was constrained expel a proposed diversity explanation from its Facebook page after grievances from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The County Public Library Board of Trustees had shared its support for the Black Lives Matter development and composed an announcement censuring “all acts of violence, racism and disregard for human rights.”

“Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, please do not feel the need to call 911 for help,” local sheriff Dan Coverley responded to the proposed statement in an open letter addressed to the Library Board. “I wish you good luck with disturbances and lewd behavior, since those are just some of the recent calls my office has assisted you with in the past.”

In his letter — distributed on the police office’s site — Coverley additionally blamed Black Lives Matter protestors for causing “savagery, property harm and the [closure] of neighborhood businesses, in some cases for all time.”

“To support this movement is to support violence and to openly ask for it to happen in Douglas County,” he wrote.

Talking with the Washington Post, library executive Amy Dodson said the diversity statement was not intended to be hostile to police, but instead an empowering message of solidarity.

“It simply was meant to state our inclusivity at the library, that we are open and welcoming to everyone and we treat everyone equally,” Dodson said.

After the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office distributed Coverley’s letter, the library apparently dropped its Tuesday meeting (July 28), which had been planned to examine the diversity proclamation. As indicated by the Reno Gazette Journal, County Spokeswoman Melissa Blosser said the gathering was dropped due to the “overwhelming amount of community response.” The library later removed the diversity statement from its Facebook page.

“We had them take it down,” Blosser told the outlet. “We cannot use public owned media to propagate a political agenda.”

As per Blosser, the sheriff’s area of expertise has explained that they will keep on reacting to possible 911 calls from the library, regardless of Sheriff Coverley’s threat.

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Former Badboy artist Loon discharged from jail after just about nine years

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Former Badboy artist Loon discharged from jail after just about nine years

He was condemned to 14 years in prison for connivance to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.

On Wednesday (July 29), Loon was discharged from jail because of the Coronavirus pandemic. As indicated by the New York Post, US District Judge Terrence Boyle changed his sentence to time served, because of the way that COVID-19 was an “extraordinary and compelling” reason for his release because of his previous health issues. The judge also felt that Loon was not a threat to society.

In 2008, the previous Bad Boy rapper quit the music business and changed over to Islam. He received the name Amir Junaid Muhadith. In 2011, he was condemned to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to disperse more than one kilogram of heroin. He declined to go to trial and chose to plead guilty for his “minor position” in a drug trafficking plot in North Carolina. He kept on maintaining his innocence.

A couple of years into his sentence, Loon spoke out from prison about the result of his case. “Some individuals crossed my path who were interested at one point in the music business,” he said during a recorded phone call. “At some point, these individuals called me in regards to something that was totally away from the lifestyle and the life I was living, but the fact that I responded to these individuals placed me underneath the umbrella of conspiracy. These individuals in their very, very evil ways conducted a whole array of different crimes that destroyed a lot of lives in the state of North Carolina.”

He proceeded, “I was convicted of a felony at the age of 18 in 1993 and I was also convicted of a felony in 2006. So with the two felonies — in trying to take this case to trial and fight against the United States government and a whole list of informants who tried to give me a leadership role in a conspiracy that had nothing to do with me — I would have been looking at mandatory life in prison … no hopes of parole or anything. So based on that, I was pressured into a situation where I had to accept responsibility for this minor role. It was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make in my life.”

Following his release, he intends to launch a prisoner recovery programs. He likewise wants to create film production company and release a TV show or film about his life. Everyone is happy to see Loon free and focused!!

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Ice Cube calls for “second reproduction” to address systemic racism

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Ice Cube calls for “second reproduction” to address systemic racism

The N.W.A. co-founder wrote a powerful opinion piece article, joined by his “Contract with Black America.”

Ice Cube called for orderly change in his new The Hill opinion piece article, joined by his proposed “Contract with Black America.” As the U.S. heads into the presidential political election this fall, the N.W.A. co-founder requests that legislators address racial disparities inside the banking and financial enterprises, criminal justice system, policing, education and Hollywood and spread out a framework for reparations.

“As a writer, rapper and producer, I have called out police brutality and other injustices for decades. I have been censored, smeared, slammed and had my life threatened for my work — for speaking the truth,” Ice Cube writes in his op-ed. “The exploitation, oppression and erosion of Black people and culture has gone on too long. This country needs a second Reconstruction to address systemic inequalities, rooted in a Contract with Black America that I and others are proposing.”

The award winning rapper moved lawmakers to make genuine “systemic change” rather than just “throwing [Black people] bones.”

“We need the opportunity that comes from banking and finance reforms to help close the gap where a typical white family’s net worth is nearly ten times than that of a black family,” he writes. “Although ‘redlining’ is now illegal, black applicants are rejected for mortgages and other types of loans at more than double the rate of white applicants. When they do get approved, they must pay higher rates to borrow.”

“We need criminal justice reforms that include eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and ‘three strikes’ laws,” the article continues. “Both contribute to black Americans being 33 percent of U.S. inmates although we are 13 percent of the population. Privately run prisons should be banned and prisoner labor without consent — a form of slavery — outlawed.”

In the wake of George Floyd’s demise, Ice Cube has kept on pointing out police change, reparations, disparity inside Hollywood and different territories of unfairness. Read his full “Contract with Black America,” with written contribution from Ohio State University Professor Derrick Hamilton and The New School Professor Henry Cohen

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Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand give $2.5 million to battle Black voter suppression

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Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand give $2.5 million to battle Black voter suppression

“There is a long history of oppression against Black Americans that holds us back from full participation in American society,” Jordan said.

Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand are giving $2.5 million to battle Black voter suppression.

As indicated by an announcement discharged by the Jordan Brand on Wednesday (July 29), gifts of $1 million each will be given to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM). Also, $500,000 will be given to Black Voters Matter. The associations were picked dependent on their “ability to take action that can create impact now.”

“I’m all in with Jordan Brand, the Jordan family and our partners, who share a commitment to address the historical inequality that continues to plague Black communities in the U.S.,” said Jordan.

“There is a long history of oppression against Black Americans that holds us back from full participation in American society,” he continued. “We understand that one of the main ways we can change systemic racism is at the polls. We know it will take time for us to create the change we want to see, but we are working quickly to take action for the Black community’s voice to be heard.”

This dedication is a piece of Jordan’s $100 million promise towards social justice, financial equality and education and mindfulness which the NBA legend intends to give over the range of 10 years.

“The $100 million duty was only the beginning,” Jordan Brand president Craig Williams said. “We are moving from pledge to activity. Our underlying accomplices can legitimately affect the social and political prosperity of the Black people group. We will have a taught center around social equity, monetary equity and training, as the best ways for us to dispense with the fundamental bigotry that remaining parts in the public arena.”

The previously mentioned organizations will concentrate on territories where Black individuals are underrepresented in turnout and enrollment numbers contrasted with their general populace in those specific urban communities and states.