Since the death of 17 people in Paris gained worldwide attention while the alleged killing of over 2,000 people in a Northern Nigerian village hardly got any media attention or world leaders until so many days later, people have been asking questions.
In a CNN interview on why about 2000 deaths from Boko Haram attack was not supported by world leaders like the Paris terror did, CNN military analyst Spider Marks says America has all the resources to crush Boko Haram and save Nigeria from all the terror and massive massacre the country is going through but it’s not willing to do it because it has commitments in other places and black West Africa is not a Priority.
According to him, if Nigeria was a white country like Northern Africa, America would have done something about it.
Hello Afro fashionistas, please come in here and check out these gorgeous black pieces from Versace spring ready to wear collection. If I may ask, do you ladies have that black dress that you can always count on? If you haven’t, this is the chance yo get one as every fashionista that knows her worth must have one in her wardrobe. Very essential. Now, going to ankara styles, you make all of these pieces using the colourful African fabric so do not fret. You are in the right place. Just scroll down and take a look at all the pieces. You will surely find something that you like. Good luck and keep on slaying ‘Mi Ladies’.
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Amber Rose has the kind of body that can make most black men go crazy. She knows it and she likes to flaunt it to who ever cares to see. But this time around, the former stripper and ex girlfriend of rapper, Kanye West took it to another level as she shares snap shots of herself posing in a thong monokini on a balcony and leaves nothing to the imagination.
To complete her barely there look, Amber is seen wearing a pair of jewel-encrusted high heeled black sandals, a gold body chain, and oversized cat eye sunglasses. The photos were taken at the balcony of her home in Miami, Florida.
Some days ago, the 31-year-old wife of Wiz Khalifa who filed for divorce a few months ago gave a hint she was missing her estranged husband. The star shared a selfie a few days ago and posted it with the caption: “I (heart) U……. Forever.” Amber and her rapper husband have a 22-month-old son known as Sebastian.
Amber and Wiz’s marriage was just 14 months old in September 2014 when she filed for a divorce on the grounds that her 27-year-old husband cheated on her.
A Nigerian teenager known as Isaiah Ekpaloba was stabbed to death on January 9th in Wood Green, London. The 18-year-old upcoming rapper got into a fight with another man named Jaydee Dorsett. Both parties are said to have used knives on one another during the fight that took place on a Friday afternoon.
Both men were reported to have suffered from stab wounds after the fight and Isaiah took himself to the hospital for treatment. But unfortunately, he was unable to make it as he was reported to have died while undergoing treatment. His cause of death is said to be from shock, hemorrhage and a stab wound to the chest.
Jaydee, who was also taken to the hospital for treatment has now been arrested and charged with the murder of Isaiah. He’s currently on trial and claiming self defense for the stabbing incident that led to the death of Isaiah.
According to Yahoo News, the Spanish police have arrested two Cameroonian migrants and they are under their custody for the killings of about ten Nigerians. According to the allegations, the Nigerians were pushed into the stormy waters in an attempt to get into Spain after a fight between both parties.
The two arrested Cameroonians were travelling in a group of 50 sub-Saharan migrants on an inflatable boat without a motor on December 3 from Morocco to Spain. They are reported to have ran into rough weather that was blamed on the Nigerians.
“The worsening weather conditions caused unease on the boat, but the fight broke out when a Nigerian pastor started praying out of fear that it would sink,” the statement said.
“That is when the detainees blamed the bad weather on the Nigerians who were praying and used the boards that covered the bottom of the boat to assault and throw overboard the pastor and the other Nigerian passengers.”
While those pushed in the sea are estimated to be 10, the Spanish police say the survivors have no idea of the real number of people that were killed as a result of the fight because it was dark.
But when the Spanish coast guard officials found the boat on December 5 floating off the coast, there were 29 people that include a three-year-old child.
“The rest of the passengers who did not survive perished due to the rough conditions of these types of voyages,” the police statement said.
The killings of the Nigerians by the Cameroonians was discovered after police noticed the survivors were afraid of the two men from Cameroon. The police were made know of the incident by three of the surviving immigrants during interrogation.
The sum of 1,500 euros ($1,800) was discovered on one of the detained Cameroonian. According to the survivors, the money was stolen off the Nigerians that were killed.
Selma snub raises questions as the film was not nominated for an Oscar award. Selma, the most raving black movie of the moment and a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr did only manage to get two spaces on the Oscar list as the nominations were handed out today in Beverly Hills, California.
The snubbing of the film’s prominent characters like David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay has raised questions about fairness in Hollywood. Selma was directed by Ava DuVernay and produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. Since the list was released, there has been an outcry on the Internet under the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite and it was trending in the U.S. on Twitter.
While the 87th Academy Awards nominations snubbed Selma by not nominating any of its stars, there is no single black star on the Oscar nomination list. On the other hand, films like Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel took the lead with 9 nominations. This was followed by The Imitation Game that received 8 nominations. Boyhood and American Sniper got 6 nominations each, while Whiplash, Interstellar and Foxcatcher got 5 each.
Best Picture
“Birdman”
“Boyhood”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”
“The Imitation Game”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“American Sniper”
“Whiplash”
Actress in a Leading Role
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”
Marion Cotillard, “Two Days One Night”
Actor in a Leading Role
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”
Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game”
Bennett Miller, “Foxcatcher”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”
Laura Dern, “Wild”
Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”
Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
Robert Duvall, “The Judge”
Foreign Language Film
“Ida”
“Leviathan”
“Tangerines”
“Wild Tales”
“Timbuktu”
Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game”
Damien Chazelle, “Whiplash”
Anthony McCarten, “The Theory of Everything”
Jason Hall, “American Sniper”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”
Writing – Original Screenplay
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, “Birdman”
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Dan Gilroy, “Nightcrawler”
E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, “Foxcatcher”
Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman”
Roger Deakins, “Unbroken”
Robert D. Yeoman, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Dick Pope, “Mr. Turner”
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lynzewski, “Ida”
Music – Original Score
Hans Zimmer, “Interstellar”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”
Johann Johannsson, “The Theory of Everything”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Gary Yershon, “Mr Turner”
Makeup and Hairstyling
“Foxcatcher”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
Costume Design
Colleen Atwood, “Into the Woods”
Anna B. Sheppard, “Maleficent”
Milena Canonero, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Jacqueline Durran, “Mr. Turner”
Mark Bridges, “Inherent Vice”
Music – Original Song
“Glory” by Common and John Legend, “Selma”
“Lost Stars” by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood, “Begin Again”
“Everything Is Awesome” by Shawn Patterson, “The LEGO Movie”
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” by Glen Campbell, “Glenn Campbell: I’ll Be Me”
“Grateful,” “Beyond the lights”
Visual Effects
“Interstellar”
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
“Captain America: Winter Soldier”
“X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Documentary Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1”
“Joanna”
“Our Curse”
“White Earth”
“The Reaper”
Documentary Feature
“Citizenfour”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Virunga”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
Film Editing
Sandra Adair, “Boyhood”
Tom Cross, “Whiplash”
William Goldenberg, “The Imitation Game”
Joel Cox and Gary Roach, “American Sniper”
Barney Pilling, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Sound Editing
“Interstellar”
“Unbroken”
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”
Sound Mixing
Mark Weingarten, “Interstellar”
Thomas Curley, ”Whiplash”
“Unbroken”
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”
Production Design
“Into the Woods”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Interstellar”
“The Imitation Game”
“Mr. Turner”
Short Film – Live Action
“Boogaloo and Graham”
“Aya”
“Butterlamp”
“Parvenah”
“The Phone Call”
Short Film – Animated
“Feast”
“The Bigger Picture”
“A Single Life”
“The Dam Keeper”
“Me and My Moulton”
Animated Feature Film
“Big Hero 6”
“How to Train Your Dragon 2”
“The Boxtrolls”
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”
“Song of the Sea”
Here are the best ways to rock off the shoulder sweaters and look stylish and trendy. Off the shoulder attires have been a hot fashion style for a while now and it does not look like it will be going away soon. From off the shoulder sweaters to off the shoulder tops, dresses and jumpsuits, the ways stylish women are rocking and combining them are different.
You can rock off the shoulder sweaters with a pair of denim, leggings, long or short skirts, pleated, straight or pencil skirts, straight pants, palazzo pants and much more. The combinations are many and simply depends on your style, personality, body structure, and the kind of event you’re planning to go to with your outfit.
Below are photos of the best ways to rock off the shoulder sweaters. Check them all out and get some inspiration on how to style your off the shoulder sweaters.
British singer, Rita Ora is creative with her off the shoulder sweater look. She paired it with a white shirt, a pair of black cut-off pants and white pumps. You too can go creative with your own combination.
Above, @StylePanty rocks her yellow off the shoulder sweater with a long straight skirt. She completed the look with a pair of black high heeled sandals.
Another photo of Style Pantry rocking an off the shoulder sweater. This time, the black fashionista is wearing it with a pair of grey Herringbone wide leg trousers. She completed the look with a tiny red belt.
This bejewelled off the shoulder sweater works well with the black tight this fashionista is wearing.
Ready to show a lot of legs? Then you can steal this look and pair your off the shoulder sweater with some denim shorts, an ankara bum shorts or a pleated mini skirt.
Off the shoulder sweaters work well with ripped jeans as this fashionista has shown.
