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“He’s a conman and racist” Michael Cohen called his former boss, President Donald Trump.

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In sworn testimony before Congress yesterday, Michael Cohen former attorney dubbed “Donald Trump’s fixer” called his former boss, President Trump, a conman and racist.

To back up his claims that the President is a racist, Cohen recalled a statement Trump made about Black Chicago residents.

“While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only Black people could live that way,” Cohen said in a prepared statement before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

“And he told me that Black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid,” Cohen added. “And yet I continued to work for him.”

Cohen recalled other incidents in his prepared statement.

“Mr. Trump is a racist,” he said. “The country has seen Mr. Trump court white supremacists and bigots. You have heard him call poorer countries ‘shitholes.’ In private, he is even worse.

“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a Black person that wasn’t a ‘shithole,'” Cohen said. “This was when Barack Obama was president of the United States.”

House Republicans attacked Cohen who was convicted last year of lying to Congress about a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen testified on Wednesday that he lied to protect Mr. Trump.

Wednesday was day 2 of three consecutive days of congressional appearances for Cohen. The disbarred former lawyer will appear before the House Intelligence Committee where he will speak in private on Thursday.

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Legendary Artist ‘Dionne Warwick’ Tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah”

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Five (5) time Grammy award winning music legend and recent recipient of Grammy’s highest honors – the Lifetime Achievement award, Ms. Dionne Warwick.

She is ranked among the 41 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era, based on Billboard’s Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. Recent recipient of the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In celebration of Black History Month we honor Ms. Warwick on her lifetime achievements.

Join host Tracy L. Bell at 6:30 p.m. EST tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah” as she’ll sit down in our studios with the legendary artist Dionne Warwick to discuss her new CD and greatest accomplishments.

We hope to meet you on the air!!

Please note: Ms. Warwick’s publicist has stressed, that all questions in this interview remain strictly to her new CD and lifetime achievement. 

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Billy Porter wore a tuxedo gown to the 2019 Oscars – and raised eyebrows

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Actor Billy Porter sparked praise and outrage when he wore a black crushed velvet tuxedo gown designed by Christian Siriano to the 2019 Oscar Awards in Hollywood on Sunday. Twitter users were in a frenzy, expressing praise and admiration for the openly homosexual actor who stars in “Pose” on FX Network.

Porter was accompanied to the Oscars by his life partner Adam Porter-Smith.

Vogue magazine explained:

“The custom creation by designer Christian Siriano included a sharply tailored tuxedo jacket overtop a full-skirted strapless velvet gown. A play on masculinity and femininity, the look challenged the rigid Hollywood dress code and was boundary-pushing in all the right ways.”

“What is masculinity?” Porter said in an interview with Vogue on the red carpet. “What does that mean? Women show up every day in pants, but the minute a man wears a dress, the seas part.”

Many Black men took to social media to voice their outrage over what they perceive as the left’s ongoing campaign to emasculate Black men via the media.

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Jussie Smollett Arrested & In Police Custody, Fox Considering Suspension

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Jussie Smollett has been arrested after just a few hours on the run. Chicago Police tweeted early Thursday that the Empire actor was taken into custody without incident.

Earlier Wednesday, Chicago police officially classified Smollett, 36, as a suspect in a criminal investigation for paying two men to help him stage a racial, homophobic attack in Chicago on Jan. 29.

The men, brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo told investigators Smollett was upset because a threatening letter he sent to himself didn’t get the reaction he expected.

Variety reports exclusively that Empire producers are considering suspending actor Jussie Smollett after he was charged on Wednesday in Chicago with a Class 4 felony for filing a false police report.

Producers are considering whether to suspend the troubled actor whose scenes were drastically cut from the remaining 9 episodes of the 2nd half of season 5.

A Cook County grand jury heard testimony from Abel Osundairo, 27, and his brother Ola Osundairo, 25, on Wednesday. Their lawyer Gloria Schmidt said the brothers testified before the grand jury for 2.5 hours. She said they were not offered immunity in exchange for their testimonies.

The brothers were arrested last Wednesday and released 2 days later without charges. They told police Smollett paid them $3,500 to stage the attack as Trump supporters, then leave the country. They were promised an additional $500 when they returned from Nigeria.

Osundairo brothers

In the still video above, the men are seen at a checkout counter purchasing supplies including a red hat, gloves and black ski masks a day before the alleged attack. Smollett, 36, told police two white men wearing red hats attacked him outside his high-rise apartment building in Chicago on Jan. 29.

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Is he worth submitting to?! Tonight on “Conversations of A Sistah”

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Submission is about support. Women have not been called to submit to all men, even a fiance.

If a man is being honest and trustworthy, she will honor and respect that man regardless of their status.

Our mentors used to tell us “you are single until you get married” and submission only comes when you get married. So until you get married, there’s huge bits and pieces of yourself which shouldn’t be given away for the simple reason you are single!

What is submission anyway? And how should we submit in our relationships?

Join the conversation at 6:30 p.m. EST with host Tracy L. Bell for her commentary “when is it OK to submit in a relationship?” on “Conversations Of A Sistah“

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