Saturday, March 31, 2018

APRIL REIGN'S #OscarsSoWhite IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING BLACK WOMEN TO THE BIG SCREEN


I don't know if you've noticed, but there are a lot more black women on the big screen lately. Little black girls are getting to see themselves and the black women they'll grow into as smart, courageous, independent, loving, and beautiful. 

And we probably have April Reign to thank for this...at least in part

"...April Reign was watching the Oscar nominations announcement on TV with her family. Struck by the lack of ethnic diversity among those whose names were called, Reign – a journalist in New York – took to Twitter to voice her disapproval. The hashtag she coined – #OscarsSoWhite – caught on immediately.The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite resurfaced again, a year later, when not one person of color was nominated. "

April Reign
On television, Shonda Rhimes and Mara Brock Akil have already broken glass ceilings and got the black girl magic ball rolling with GIRLFRIENDS, SCANDAL, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER,  and BEING MARY JANE. It isn't long before Issa Rae, Michaela Coel, and Ava DuVernay produce INSECURE, CHEWING GUM, and QUEEN SUGAR and follow in their black female footsteps.
But it's APRIL REIGN who deserves some credit for what starts happening on the big screen
Spring ahead a year or so after the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag protest does its thing two years running and GIRLS TRIP out does the incredibly over-hyped DUNKIRK theater per theater at one point according to Box Office Mojo stats. 
HIDDEN FIGURES was likely already on its way to getting made, and the racism in he movie was muted due to having a white male director. But the black female stars did get some recognition in the wake of  #OscarsSoWhite protests initiated by April Reign.
There is even a changing of the guard at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It embarked "on an unprecedented, years-long push to fill its ranks with new members who are different than the older white men tasked with the bulk of Oscar voting in the past...."
http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/how-new-oscar-voters-are-changing-the-way-the-academy-thinks.html
The movie MOONLIGHT, a coming of age story for a gay black man, wins Best Picture at the academy awards -- the award ceremony a disaster because the white folks are so sure that white business as usual is going to continue, LA LA LAND is erroneously given the award at first. 
BLACK PANTHER stops being a rumor and becomes a reality. 
And Ava DuVernay is able to do the unheard of. She is able to make a big budget movie, a 100 million dollar film called A WRINKLE IN TIME, where a little black girl is the star . 
Whenever you start to doubt if protest works, think of April Reign. Whenever the going gets really, really tough and you start to doubt #BLACKLIVESMATTER do not doubt that protest works even when it works slowly. A decade or so back, unarmed black people died at the hands of police and nobody but people on the block knew about it. 
Now the whole world knows when certain black men die. Black women? Most of our deaths at the hands of police are still ignored, but last week an 11 year old girl named Naomi Wadler once again added black women back to #BlackLivesMatter movement, originally created by Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors. 
Protest works. It may not work alone. It may not work quickly. But protest is always the beginning of the end of this pocket of white supremacy over here or that pocket of white supremacy over there. And sometimes the beginning is just a hashtag like #BlackLivesMatter or #OscarsSoWhite.

I can't tell you how important it is for little black girls to see themselves at the movies and on television, to see themselves as smart, courageous, magic, and beautiful. I can't even explain how important it is to simply see themselves as not-erased. But April Reign understood how important the erasure of black people at the movies is. And I'm grateful she spoke up.


Friday, March 30, 2018

FOX NEWS HOST LOSES ADVERTISERS AFTER MOCKING MASS SHOOTING SURVIVOR

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 A number of advertisers have abandoned Fox News host Laura Ingraham's weeknight show after she alleged that Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor David Hogg was bitter over being rejected for admission by multiple universities.
Those companies pulling their ads include TripAdvisor, Expedia, Hulu, Johnson & Johnson, Wayfair, Nestlé and Nutrish. A spokesman for TripAdvisor said the company doesn't "condone the inappropriate comments made by this broadcaster. In our view, these statements focused on a high school student, cross the line of decency. "
Hogg called for these advertisers to stop supporting her show via social media. And they started withdrawing hours later. Ingram apologized, but only after advertisers started pulling ads from her show. Hogg has not accepted the apology due to its timing.

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

IT NEVER HAPPENED

Joe Heller, hellertoon.com 

Joe Heller, hellertoon.com

PROTESTS CONTINUE OVER POLICE MURDER OF STEPHON CLARK

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  • In the wake of Stephon Clark’s shooting in his grandmother’s yard by police officers, it’s now been determined that officers yelled, “Gun!” before they started shooting. But Clark was unarmed, and police only found a cellphone next to him. [Associated Press / Don Thompson and Kathleen Ronayne]
  • Police have maintained they were in the area investigating reports of broken car windows, but Clark was in the backyard of family members. [Vox / German Lopez]
  • There are a lot of questions in the wake of Clark’s shooting last week, like why police officers muted their body cameras in the middle of the incident. [NBC News / Jon Schuppe]
  • The California Attorney General’s office has joined the investigation...
Read More:  https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2018/3/28/17174292/vox-sentences-stephon-clark-protests 
CLARK'S FUNERAL IS TODAY

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

STUDY FINDS 60% OF BLACK WOMEN KILLED BY POLICE ARE UNARMED

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Black people, especially women,
are more likely to have been unarmed
when killed by police than non-blacks,
according to a new study of nationwide data.



This risk also appears to increase in police departments 
with a greater presence of non-white officers, report the researchers.*

A key finding of the study is that nearly 60 percent of black women killed by police were unarmed at the time of the interaction.

The study is the first in a series of reports from the ongoing Fatal Interactions with Police (FIPS) research project, which includes contributions from public health and biostatistics

Read More
https://www.futurity.org/police-killings-unarmed-black-women-1675912-2/

A LINK TO THE STUDY (Washington University In St Louis)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

DECYNTHIA CLEMENTS: THE LATEST MENTALLY ILL BLACK WOMAN MURDERED BY POLICE



There's a 18 minute video. You watch the entire thing if you want, or the last two minutes. 

The police officers discuss this woman they've chased in a slow car chase.  They know Decynthia is mentally ill, suffers from hallucinations. Even if they hadn't been informed, they can see something is not right with her head. 

In the video, they talk about using rubber bullets, tasers, etc to avoid killing her. Yet when she gets out of a car that she has set on fire while still sitting in it, at least one of them has a gun with real bullets trained on her. 

"GET OUT OF THE CAR!"

Half a second after DeCynthia Clements gets out of car, one of them shoots her in the head....because she's got a knife that isn't anywhere near to cutting any one of them.


This is what happens when white supremacists, some of whom don't know they are white supremacists, cannot see black people as human beings in need of help. 
"As a female officer approaches, Jensen explains: “Yeah, I shot her. … She had a couple knives in her hands, approached us with the knives, yelling and screaming.


“Oh, I’m good. I mean, I don’t know what else we were going to do there,” Jensen tells another cop who asks him how he is doing. “I’m not happy. It absolutely sucks, but ... I was stuck, you know?” "
https://www.theroot.com/video-shows-cop-killing-decynthia-clements-after-discus-1824074800

May the officer that shot her, burn in hell. And may he burn soon.


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LINDA BROWN OR BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION DIES AT 75

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Brown was 9 years old in 1951 when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School, then an all-white school near her Topeka home. When the school blocked her enrollment her father sued the Topeka Board of Education. Four similar cases were combined with Brown's complaint and presented to the Supreme Court as Oliver L. Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.



While her name will forever be a part of American civil rights history, her contributions to the community after the case are part of her legacy, too, longtime friend Carolyn Campbell said....

Read More: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/us/linda-brown-dies/index.html

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Monday, March 26, 2018

WHITE MALE ANGER IS STEEPED IN A LIE

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    Ijeoma Oluo wrote
I’m reading an email from a white man. 
It is about 15 paragraphs of poorly written vitriol, telling me in far too many words about how wrong I am. About everything. I’m wrong about feminism. It’s unnecessary. And by the way, the wage gap doesn’t exist. I’m even more wrong about racism. There is no more racism. It’s been over a very long time and maybe if people like me would just get over the past we’d be motivated to get off of our asses and get real jobs. 
As proof of how wrong I am, he’s included links to youtube videos made by other white men saying pretty much the exact same thing as him. He has also inserted a few graphs. He consistently calls me “Ms. Oluo” and reiterates a few times that he “means no disrespect” but it is clear from his insistence that I read all of his horrible paragraphs and that I “learn a little more” about “my people” that he means every bit of disrespect his poorly phrased sentences are capable of conveying and more.
He suggests that I try being “less angry” as if it is not anger that propelled him through a google search of my name, to my website, to my contact page, then to his email, and then through the writing of a billion paragraphs complete with charts and footnotes. He says “less angry” as if I am not currently adding his email into a file with countless other long-winded missives, dismissals and violent threats from white men who decided to take the time out of their day to let me know in sometimes very disturbing ways that they need me to be “less angry.”
...But white male anger is steeped in a lie.
It is fighting for what they were never going to have. For the promises that were never going to be fulfilled. White men are the only people allowed to fully believe in the American dream and perhaps that is the cruelest thing to have ever been done to them and the world that has to suffer their anger as they refuse to let go of a fantasy that we were never allowed to imagine ourselves in.

White men who shoot up schools and workplaces are not murderous monsters, or mindless thugs. They are “lovesick” or “misunderstood” or “tragic.” Hundreds of thousands of words are dedicated to finding the reasons why someone with so much promise could have fallen so far.
But how much promise was there really?
How much promise is there in a life where you are told that all you have to do is exist in order to inherit a kingdom.  How much promise is there in a life where your mediocrity is constantly applauded and every hero looks like you and every love interest is a supermodel, but at the end of the day you will be working in a cubicle with everyone else and your only consolation is that you will be making $1.50 an hour more than the women and people of color in your office...

Kearran Giovanni Lands Lead in NBC Hitchcockian Drama SUSPICION

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Kearran Giovanni (famous for MAJOR CRIMES will play opposite Derek Luke)
 Created/written by Goldberg based on the book by Joseph Finder and directed by Brad Anderson, Suspicion is described as a Hitchcockian thriller about how far one man will go to save the people he loves. 
After Danny Goldman (Derek Luke
) accepts a handshake loan from his new friend and millionaire neighbor, he gets a visit from the FBI and learns that the decision is one he will regret for the rest of his life. 
Coerced to work as an informant for the FBI to earn back his freedom, Danny is forced to infiltrate a world of violence and corruption while trying to protect his family.
Giovanni will play Lucy Fletcher. A psychotherapist, Lucy is beyond thrilled to marry Danny (Luke). She’s also eager to take on more motherly duties should Ellie need it, and develop her friendship with Celina Canter (Ryan).
~DEADLINE
READ MORE:  
http://deadline.com/2018/03/major-crimes-kearran-giovanni-lands-lead-nbc-drama-pilot-suspicion-1202351915/

NINA SIMONE'S FACE


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Ta-Nehisi Coates said
When I was a kid, I knew what the worst parts of me were—my hair and my mouth. My hair was nappy. My lips were big. Nearly every kid around me knew something similar of themselves because nearly every one of us had some sort of physical defect—dark skin, nappy hair, broad nose, full lips—that opened us up to ridicule from one another. That each of these “defects” were representative of all the Africa that ran through us was never lost on anyone.“Africa” was an insult—African bush-boogie, African bootie-scratcher etc. Ethiopian famine jokes were all the rage back then. 
Did we want to be white? I don’t think so. We didn’t want to look like Rob Lowe or Madonna. 
We hated and mocked Michael Jackson’s aesthetic changes as viciously as we mocked each other. What we wanted was to be on the right end of the paper bag tests. We wanted hazel eyes. We wanted wavy hair. I had neither hazel eyes nor wavy hair. But I also didn’t suffer in the same way that I saw other kids around me suffer. I was not dark-skinned. And, more importantly, I was not a girl.
Even back then I somehow knew that it was a boy’s prerogative to be handsome or not in a way that it wasn’t a girl’s prerogative to be pretty or not. Boys had so many other ways of scaling the social ladder—humor, a killer jump-shot, or a reputation for violence—that were unavailable to girls.
As I got older, I understood that this wasn’t merely a mark of West Baltimore, but of something grander. Biggie’s “One More Chance” was an ode to this distinctly masculine advantage:
Heartthrob never, black and ugly as ever
However, I stay Coogi down to the socks
Rings and watch filled with rocks
And my jam knocks...
Never has “however” been used to greater effect. 
There was no “however” for a girl deemed “black and ugly.” There were no female analogues to Biggie. “However” was a bright line dividing the limited social rights of women from the relatively expansive social rights of men. 
I played a lot of Nina Simone in college. I play a lot of Nina Simone now. But I have always known that Nina Simone means something more to the black women around me than she does to me. 
Furthermore, I have always known that Nina Simone means something much more to a specific kind of black woman than she ever can for me. Simone was in possession of nearly every feature that we denigrated as children. And yet somehow she willed herself into a goddess...

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/ 


And yet, Zoe Saldana, defender of using black face and a nose prosthetic has no idea what she means to all black women, much less dark-skinned black women 

Sunday, March 25, 2018

BLACK PANTHER MAKES IT RAIN MONEY AND BECOMES THE NUMBER ONE SUPERHERO MOVIE

Domestically speaking, Black Panther is now the number one Super Hero Movie of all time. 






It is #5 biggest movie of all time (unadjusted dollars) but TITANTIC shouldn't be on this top five list since it was re-released twice, years apart, adding 57 million dollars to the 600 million dollars it made the first time it was released. TITANIC made the money it made over time, but Black Panther, by comparison, has only been out six weeks. If BLACK PANTHER is re-released in a decade too, it will be shown to be the more popular, stronger movie again.

On the worldwide scale, Black Panther is also expected to pass Iron Man 3's $1.2 billion total this weekend to place third among superhero films behind The Avengers ($1.5 billion) and Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.4 billion) on the global all-time list.
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/black-panther-becomes-highest-grossing-superhero-film-ever-w518348 

I really do not think we can over-estimate how important it was that a casual feminism was laced through-out the movie as well as the decision to not hire actresses using the paper bag test.

I've never seen black women so excited about a movie. Ever.  And whoever makes the next WONDER WOMAN needs to take a few pointers because Nakia, Okoye, and Shuri all rolled up into one is who Wonder Woman's character should have been more like. 



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Saturday, March 24, 2018

11 YEAR OLD NAOMI WADLER HONORS BLACK WOMEN WHOSE STORIES NEVER MAKE THE NEWS

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 “For far too long, these black girls and women have been just numbers. I am here to say never again for those girls too...
I represent the African-American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls full of potential,” the preteen said in her speech to a massive crowd in Washington, D.C."


The fifth grader was chosen to speak at the march after she organized a walkout at her elementary school on March 14 to protest gun violence and honor the lives of those lost in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Parkland, Florida. She also honored Courtlin Arrington a 17-year-old high school senior from Alabama who was shot and killed in school, just weeks after the Florida shooting.
Naomi told a local Virginia news station that she thinks “it’s completely unacceptable that we are not exercising our rights to be safe at school.”





IN CHICAGO WE DON'T HAVE RANDOM MASS SHOOTINGS, WE HAVE DAILY SHOOTINGS

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Keshon Newman, a student at Perspectives charter schools, said his step brother, 16-year-old Randle Young, was shot and killed two years ago near their home in West Englewood....
“He was being a normal teenager. On that day he was walking his girlfriend to the bus stop, and he was caught in a random gun shootout,” Newman said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “He was a loving brother and friend to all. He was our protector, and now his life has ended due to this senseless gun violence.”
Flanked by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of last month’s deadly school shooting; former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was wounded in a shooting in Arizona in 2011; and Florida Congressman Ted Deutch and Senator Bill Nelson, Newman said gun violence in Chicago “has become a tragic way of life which shouldn’t be the normal.”
“We don’t have random mass shootings, we have daily shootings; which we pray every day for our safety to and from school, and for our neighborhood. I want everyone here to know the reality of Chicago. Just since January 1, 466 people have been shot, and 88 of that 466 were killed,” he said. “We must stop letting this become the normal in Chicago. In this moment, the youth voice is rising across the country, and especially in Chicago. Our voices are loud, our voices are clear, and our voices are about to change history.”
READ MORE:  
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/03/23/gun-control-march-for-our-lives-chicago-teen/
IN THE MEANTIME, NATIONWIDE...



More than 150,000 students in the U.S. have experienced a shooting on campus since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, according to a Washington Post analysis. 

Lebrun and a few other students from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, helped coordinate lodging for teens who are coming to D.C. for the march but might have trouble finding or affording a hotel room. 

Teens are expected to travel to Washington from all over the country, and some area restaurants are offering free or discounted meals to student activists. More than 100 GoFundMe campaigns have sprung up to organize bus trips to marches in major cities, according to a spokesperson for the crowdfunding platform.

Read More: 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/march-for-our-lives_us_5ab50789e4b008c9e5f69921

I've heard reports that students are marching in the U.K. and Australia too 

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Friday, March 23, 2018

FEMINIST GLOSSARY FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T TAKE GENDER STUDIES

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Feminism: Belief in and desire for equality between the sexes. As Merriam-Webster noted last month: "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities." It encompasses social, political and economic equality. Of course, a lot of people tweak the definition to make it their own. Feminist activist bell hooks calls it "a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." 



Patriarchy: A hierarchical-structured society in which men hold more power. 
Sexism: The idea that women are inferior to men. 
Misogyny: Hatred of women. 
Misandry: Hatred of men. 
Benevolent sexism: Less obvious. Kind of seems like a compliment, even though it's rooted in men's feelings of superiority. It's when men say women are worthy of their protection (off the sinking boat first) or that they're more nurturing than men (therefore should raise children). It's restrictive. 
Internalized sexism: When the belief in women's inferiority becomes part of a woman's own worldview and self-concept.
Commodity feminism: A variety of feminism that co-opts the movement's ideals for profit. Ivanka Trump has been accused of peddling this brand of feminism, using her #WomenWhoWork campaign to sell her eponymous lifestyle brand. 
Equity feminism (conservative feminism): Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, is a champion of what she calls "equity feminism." In her view, "equity feminism" is focused on legal equality between men and women, while "gender feminism" focuses on disempowering women by portraying them as perpetual victims of the patriarchy. In the words of President Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway: “I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances, and that’s really to me what conservative feminism, if you will, is all about.”
Read More: 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/16/feminism-glossary-lexicon-language/99120600/

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

MADAM C J WALKER AS PROTOFEMINIST ENTREPENUER

Life was hard on Sarah Breedlove from an early age. Her parents died when she was a child. She wound up marrying young. And her husband died by the time she was 20.
When Sarah Breedlove took her children and moved to St. Louis Missouri, the middle class women in the church she attended helped her to see herself as more than a washer woman. She learned philanthropy and entrepreneurship, both, from these church women. And she started her first charity drive at this black church
When a scalp condition caused her to lose her hair she became ashamed of her appearance.
She started her hair company by finding a solution for her own scalp condition. Later, when asked how she started her hair care business she would say that she prayed for a solution and a big African man appeared to her in a dream. She wound up ordering ingredients from Africa and used them to create a a shampoo and an ointment. With her own scalp healed and her hair began growing as it never had before she became a walking advertisement for product she was making in her own home.
Eventually she was selling her product door to door.
In 1906 she married Charles Joseph Walker and Ms. C J Walker was born. Mr. Walker would help her with advertising the business. They would travel door to door together, selling her products and demonstrating the products. They would eventually divorce when Madam Walker wanted to expand the business and Mr. Walker did not.



Madam Walker would eventually open a beauty school and then a factory. She hired black women to be "Walker Agents." Forty to fifty years after slavery, there were few job opportunities for black women other than that of domestic, with a few lucky women able to become teachers and nurses. But thousands of black women gained economic independence working for Madam C J Walker.


As her company grew, she encouraged the black women that worked for her to stand for racial equality and the equality of women.  She wanted her Walker Agents to show themselves not just as professionals but as people who give back to the community. During her 1917 Convention for Walker Agents, Madam Walker gave prizes to women that sold the most product and got the most clients but also to women who gave the most to charity


At their Beauty Salons the walker agents would talk to clients about what black women could do to help their churches, their schools in their communities. (I'm reading a book right now that talks black women like these making the black church strong enough, connected to one another enough to make it good base for The Modern Civil Rights Movement a few decades later.



By 1910 The Walker Company had employed some 5000 black female agents around the world, and averaged revenues of about $1000 dollars a day, seven days a week...Upon her death in 1919, her will stipulated that two-thirds of her fortune go to various charities and that her company always be controlled by a woman



Contributor to the Black Women's Club Movement, Madam Walker was also a part of black suffrage and also the anti-lynching movement. She was a signer on the letter to President Woodrow Wilson, demanding that he make lynching a federal crime. She seems to have counted Ida B Wells, the original anti-lynching activist, as a friend and also contributed money to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign.


She became famous nationwide when she contributed $1000 to the building fund of a YMCA for young black boys.  And it sounds like she may have built something in Indianapolis that sounds like one of the first malls, the Madam Walker Theater Center....




Madam C. J. Walker

Naturalista


Employer Of Black Women

Philanthropist


Political Activist


First Woman in the United States, of any color, to become a self-made millionaire  







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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

AS THE WHITE HOUSE TURNS: PORN STARS AND RETIRED PLAY BOY BUNNIES

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The American public might be about to learn a lot more about President Trump’s history with women — in court. 
Porn Star Stormy Daniels,       The Orange Chump,      Retired Playboy Bunny Karen McDougal

Karen McDougal, a fitness expert and former Playboy model, filed suit on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking the right to speak publicly about an alleged affair between her and Trump. She’s the second woman to file such a suit. Adult film actress Stormy Daniels sued Trump earlier this month. 
Also on Tuesday, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that a defamation suit filed against Trump by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, could move forward. Zervos says that Trump sexually assaulted her in 2007. 
As part of Zervos’s suit, her lawyers have subpoenaed all Trump campaign documents dealing with “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.” The Trump team had sought to block the suit; now that it’s moving forward, they might actually be forced to produce those documents, if they exist.
Read More:https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/20/17144160/karen-mcdougal-playboy-model-donald-trump-summer-zervos-lawsuit

DID  AGENT EVIL ORANGE HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX WHILE CHEATING?
Porn star Stormy Daniels is currently suing to void a nondisclosure agreement she and Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, signed in the run-up to the 2016 election regarding an alleged sexual encounter between Daniels and Trump — Daniels has previously alleged Cohen paid her off to cover up her claims. In May 2011, Danielstook a lie detector test, which was requested by InTouch magazine's publisher (Daniels had given an interview to the magazine on the subject) to determine if her allegations regarding having sex with Trump in 2006 are truthful.

As shown in the test report, licensed polygraph examiner Ron Slay asked Daniels three questions regarding her alleged affair with Trump: "Around July 2006, did you have vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump?," "Around July 2006, did you have unprotected sex with Donald Trump?," and "Did Trump say you would get on The Apprentice?"
Daniels answered "yes" to all three questions.
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