Soul Train’s Don Cornelius Accused of Kidnapping and Sexual Abuse Claims In ‘Secrets of Playboy’ A&E Docuseries

Soul Train’s Don Cornelius Accused of Kidnapping and Sexual Abuse Claims In ‘Secrets of Playboy’ A&E Docuseries


A recent documentary claims that  Don Cornelius, the late host and creator of the popular syndicated television show Soul Train, sexually assaulted two young women several decades ago.

According to People, the Soul Train host allegedly kidnapped and sexually abused two Playboy bunnies in a tale told by former Playboy “bunny mother” P.J. Masten on a recent episode of the A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

The series explores the dark side of Playboy magazine, its famous mansion, and its founder, Hugh Hefner, as told by the women who worked with and for Hefner and his friends.

In this latest episode, Masten stated Cornelius was a Playboy VIP and familiar with the women there. She recounted a story, several decades ago, at a Hollywood dance bar, where Cornelius allegedly saw two new Playboy recruits who were sisters. She recalled that he reportedly invited the pair to join him in the VIP section of the bar. Later, he allegedly requested that the “baby bunnies” go back to his house with him, where he said he was throwing a party.

According to Masten, “These two young girls got in his Rolls-Royce, went up to his house, and we didn’t hear from them for three days. We couldn’t figure out where they were.”

After not hearing from the sisters for three days, one of the women reached out to a bunny mother at the Playboy Mansion. She allegedly said that she and her sister had been held captive at Cornelius’ house, and she was finally able to break away. According to Masten, Playboy’s head of security, Joe Piastro went to Cornelius’ house to pick the women up and discovered they were “bloodied, battered [and] drugged,” Masten said.

She said the sisters stated they were locked in different rooms at Cornelius’ mansion.

“They were tied up and bound,” Masten alleged. “There were wooden objects that they were sodomized with and [one sister] could hear [the] other sister being brutalized. It was horrible, horrible.”

Cornelius’ son, Tony Cornelius, responded and spoke to People, saying Masten’s account is an “unbelievable story without real proof” and “salaciousness.”

Cornelius died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound 10 years ago on Feb. 1, 2012, after experiencing seizures for 15 years and suffering “extreme pain,” according to his son.

300 Entertainment Initiates Film and Content Division — First Project Features NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace

300 Entertainment Initiates Film and Content Division — First Project Features NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace


300 Entertainment, owned and operated by longtime industry executive Kevin Liles, has expanded as it launches a film and content division, 300 Studios.

Kevin Liles
Kevin Liles (Image: Instagram)

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 300 Studios will be run by Liles, the chairman and CEO of 300 Entertainment and Elektra Music Group. He has hired former Viacom executive Kelly G. Griffin who was brought on as head of creative strategy, and Nolan Baynes will be the general manager of 300 Studios.

“I have dedicated my career to telling the story of our culture and investing in the artists and creatives who have shaped it around the world. With 300 Studios, I look forward to incubating, developing, and producing content for all formats that tell the important and inspired stories from the next generation of cultural innovators,” Liles said in a written statement.

The first project from 300 Studios is RACE: Bubba Wallace, a Netflix docuseries about the only full-time Black race car driver in the NASCAR Cup Series, Bubba Wallace. The documentary follows Wallace as he competes on Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin’s 23XI racing team. The race car driver will also speak out about racial injustice.

300 Studios currently has approximately 20 works in production. The projects range from independent movies and music lifestyle series to episodic TV content and podcasts.

300 Entertainment has a roster of artists, including Megan Thee Stallion, who received Best New Artist honors at this year’s Grammy Awards, Young Thug, and his label Young Stoner Life, Gunna, Fetty Wap, Highly Suspect, Mary J. Blige, and many other artists.

This announcement comes on the heels of recent news that Warner Music Group (WMG) acquired 300 Entertainment, co-founded by Liles and Lyor Cohen.

300 Entertainment was founded nearly 10 years ago in 2012 by Liles and Cohen and fellow co-founders Roger Gold and Todd Moscowitz. According to sources, Financial Times reported that the company was sold to Warner Music Group for more than $400 million. Cohen, who currently works at YouTube, said: “300 is a way of life and is in very good hands.”

Democratic Rep. Removed From Committee After Allegedly Intimidating Black Man With Racial Slurs

Democratic Rep. Removed From Committee After Allegedly Intimidating Black Man With Racial Slurs


New Hampshire Rep. Nicole Klein-Knight (D-Manchester) was removed from the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Monday after other Democratic leaders denounced her for allegedly using a racial slur around a Black man—even when asked to stop.

A group of Black, brown, and Indigenous community organizers came together condemning Klein-Knight’s “increasingly dangerous” behavior and asking for her removal, CBS Boston reports.

The letter points out an alleged recent encounter with a young Black male organizer who Klein-Knight accosted after he testified on a bill during a State House meeting earlier this month.

Klein-Knight is said to have repeatedly used the racial slur to make her point and continued to use it even after the young man asked her to stop. At one point, Klein-Knight called security on the organizer.

“Her habitual aggression and disregard is tearing apart the progressive community in NH, endangering BIPOC organizers’ lives and livelihoods and cannot be ignored any longer,” the group wrote in the letter.

The young man has since filed an ethics complaint against Klein-Knight with Statehouse officials, Alissandra Rodriguez-Murray of the New Hampshire Youth Movement said.

“She refused to engage with any of us and has blocked us on all social media platforms, called us antisemitic and bigoted, and tried to have many of us fired from our jobs,” Rodriguez-Murray said in a statement.

Democratic leader Renny Cushing and deputy leader David Cote were among the House Democrats who asked Republican Speaker of the House Sherman Packard to remove Klein-Knight from the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, WMUR reports.

“I think the biggest thing is making sure that this type of behavior is not allowed to take place in the State House, no matter what your party is, especially when that behavior is happening not just with other state representatives, but also constituents,” Rodriguez-Murray said.

Black History Month Salute: Take a Look at the Lives of a Few Real Life Black ‘Rosie the Riveters’


Rosie the Riveter is an American cultural icon of World War II.

The image represents the women who rolled up their sleeves and got to work in factories and shipyards during the war.

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But the imagery has long overshadowed the Black women who replaced the many Black men who fought in the war.

Rosie the Riveter: Library of Congress

The Washington Post reports that around 600,000 “Black Rosies” served in offices, shipyards, and factory jobs during the second world war despite hardly getting any recognition. Eight of the Black Rosies are highlighted in historian and retired Drexel University writing instructor Gregory Cooke’s documentary, “Invisible Warriors — African American Women in World War II.

The documentary shares the stories of 97-year-old Susan King, 99-year-old Ruth Wilson, and six other senior women who were valuable forces in the war. King earned $58 a week putting together small parts for planes. She went to a class with a friend after learning about a plant in Baltimore that was training women to be riveters.

“Oftentimes, people don’t consider Black women as part of World War II,” King said. “The focus is always on the men of the war. We get lost in the shuffle.”

King praised the documentary for “showing how we helped in the home front in building ships, planes, and bullets, and gave our time.”

Last month, Frank McDougald viewed the film at D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library with his mom Hilda, 101, who aided in the wartime effort but never talked about her contributions afterward.

“My mom came here to work,” McDougald said. “She never talked about being a Rosie.”

Wilson left her home in New Jersey to work at a shipyard. After the war, she spent 30 years working at a coat factory.

“I thought it was fantastic,” Wilson said of the film. “Nobody had ever done that before that I knew of, so I thought it was really nice to let people know what part Black women played in World War II.”

The film highlights the Black Rosies’ jobs before the war, with many serving as sharecroppers, nannies, or cooks and maids. But during the war, they were able to take on higher-paying jobs due to the labor shortage.

Cooke was inspired to make the film to highlight the Black Rosie’s significant contributions to World War II and to remind them of their value. The historian says the women were “so marginalized that often they had no idea of what a big role they’d played.”

“To them, it was just a good job,” he said.

Last September, Wilson returned to her old worksite at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where she was presented with a photo of the ship she worked on, ABC 6 reports. Cooke also unveiled a portrait by artist Regina Cooke showing Rosie the Riveter as a Black woman, with Wilson being the face of the campaign.

“I feel so appreciated,” she said.

Black Businesses Are Being Knocked Hard By Lingering Supply Chain Crisis

Black Businesses Are Being Knocked Hard By Lingering Supply Chain Crisis


From car dealers to beauty supply stores to restaurants, many Black businesses are being struck hard by ongoing supply chain issues that have carried over into 2022.

Intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and other headwinds, these challenges weigh heavy on how those businesses function, generate revenue, and even plan how to buy what they sell customers.

A few of the supply chain effects have directly affected consumers, coming by way of a lack of products and increased prices. Those forces have worsened existing difficulties Black businesses already face, including boosting market share, gaining capital access, and often having limited funds to deal with developing or unforeseen events.

The supply chain problems that stunned 2021 and remained this year create adversity.

A new survey by Goldman Sachs shows that nearly 70% of small businesses are convinced those hurdles have negatively impacted their bottom line. And some 66% of companies being hit report suppliers are focusing on larger businesses over small ones because the former place bigger quantity orders.

Broad Range of Black Business Hurt By Supply Chain Problems 

Fueled by the pandemic, reports show too that the food service industry—including food service companies—is being impacted. Some of those businesses make up the largest segment of companies on the latest Top 100 BE list. Supply-chain snags are reportedly expected to be a burden this year and even farther for various manufacturers pertaining to such matters as purchasing and capital spending.

Dr. Kenneth Harris, president and CEO of the National Business League, says Black-owned businesses in the hotel, restaurant, retail, and professional services industries find themselves managing significant labor shortages and supply chain disruptions.

He says coupled with the severe devastation of COVID-19, they too are struggling with closing or are one or two paychecks away from shutting down permanently. The NBL calls itself America’s oldest and largest trade group for Black businesses. “In order for local economies to recover, Black and small businesses must have solutions within the supply chain.”

Auto Dealers “Reinventing” Themselves Amid The Challenges 

And the auto industry, one of America’s largest business sectors, is feeling the sting.

Among the biggest challenges that the supply-chain bottleneck is causing Black auto dealers is the lack of access to new cars, says Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD). It is the nation’s largest minority dealership group representing more than 1,200 dealers, out of which 265 are Black dealers. Overall, there are roughly 18,000 dealers across the country.

Lester said the supply-chain deficit is being fueled largely by the global semiconductor, or computer chip, shortage along with the pandemic. He says those forces are pushing down the inventory for new cars. “Those issues are forcing dealers to go into a reinvention mode and sell more used cars than they typically would this time of year.” In general,  most automakers have delayed or even stopped production lines, as microchips are part of a vehicle’s electronic circuitry like mobile phones and other devices.

Lester explained dealers are still getting 2021 models due to the chip shortage and manufacturers being behind on auto production though consumer demand for buying vehicles is up.

He said the lower new car production is a reason many dealerships’ lots nationwide are empty. Indeed, reports indicate computer chip shortages disrupted the auto industry in 2021, slowing production, trimming inventory, and boosting prices. That trend is present this year. Yet, Lester says people are still buying cars because they trust them more than public transportation given COVID.

“It’s an interesting time now as used car valuations have increased more than ever before,” Lester says.

Black Beauty Supply Stores Among Those Feeling Supply Chain Adversity  

A huge market for Black Americans, the haircare and cosmetic business is being impacted hard.

Sam Ennon, the founder and CEO of the Black-Owned Beauty Supply Association, known as BOBSA, said supply-chain bottlenecks have “really impacted” his business, a trend that has lingered for about a year. He says his organization has helped open around 1,000 Black-owned beauty supply stores nationwide over the last 20 years. He estimates the Black haircare and cosmetic industry is a $ $9 billion business across the United States and nationally.

Buying bundles and braiding hair from China manufacturers, Ennon says before COVID-19 and the emerging supply-chain issues, it would typically only take about 25 days to receive a shipment by ocean. Now, he says it takes about 60 days to get those same shipments.

To help get products to beauty salons faster, Ennon says he is often forced to pay about $1,100 to have the product shipped by air compared with around $650 by vessel before. He added products shipped by vessel could sit in a port for 25 days or more because of a lack of available truck drivers to pick them up.

He said supply-chain bottlenecks are resulting in higher prices for Black beauty supply stores and salons and their customers. He says a bundled hair package, which can account for 20% of products such as hair extensions and wigs a store sells, now cost retailers about $50 to $80 each, versus about $95 previously.

He also said supply-chain problems are pushing up costs for skincare and other beauty products that U.S. consumers pay for at Black-owned stores and those owned by other ethnic groups.

“All of this has certainly affected us but we’re hoping it will loosen up soon,” Ennon said.

Buying Surplus Products When Possible Amid Uncertainty Of Availability  

Antonio Curry, owner of Crown One Beauty Supply in Queen Creek, Arizona near Phoenix, said he sees that many items, including hair edge control, braiding gel, and human hair bundles, are out of stock with his vendors. He explained the inability to get certain items directly impacts what he can sell to customers. He added some customers are understanding and buy a comparative product that is in stock, and others choose to continue their search elsewhere.

He opened his business last August after seeing a void in the Black community where his store is located, providing residents human hair bundles, braiding hair, and wigs.

As a beauty supply store owner, he says you must have multiple sources to purchase your products. He says you cannot depend on one source, which has become more critical with the supply-chain challenges. He says product shortages have negatively affected his revenue but did not elaborate.

He says customers know what products work for them and many are hesitant to change. “When they come to your store and their favorite products are not available, you run the risk of an opportunity being missed to accommodate your customer. That is never good for business.”

Curry says another challenge is when ordering products, you consistently see prices from the vendors inching upward. At some point, he says that increase impacts the customer because it eventually means you may have to raise prices.

The supply chain issues have caused Curry to be more strategic on what type of products he buys. “When certain items our customers love become available, we try to order a surplus because we don’t know when the product will be available again.”

Black Parents Group Organizes Against Book Bans in Texas School District

Black Parents Group Organizes Against Book Bans in Texas School District


The determined mothers of the Texas-based Round Rock Black Parents Association are speaking out against the multiple attempts of book bans in their kids’ schools.

In Texas, a proposed state law seeks to remove the requirement to teach “the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong,” according to The Texas Tribune. What began as a debate over critical race studies and books about the history of racist ideas in the United States has now led to an effort to ban books, including African American classics.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi is one of the books the association has fought to remain part of the school curriculum. The young adult novel serves as a remix of Kendi’s award-winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

“History books are written with the idea of a student in mind, but not the idea of an actual young person themselves,” Reynolds said in a March 2020 NPR interview. The book sets out to give young people access, and for Kendi, it allows students to “really understand this nation’s history.”

One of the ambitious efforts led by the association was the formation of ACT Anti-racists Coming Together to discuss the importance of diverse literature at a local school board meeting.

“Taking away that book would have completely whitewashed history, and that’s not what we are for,” Ashley Walker, one of more than 400 members of the Round Rock Black Parents Association, told NBC News.

Additionally, thousands of community members and educators signed a petition that would call the attention of the district’s board of trustees to eventually keep the book on school shelves.

The fight doesn’t stop, despite the board’s decision. Eager to educate their kids about the truth of Black history, Walker said parents bought the book for their children prior to the final decision.

“In case the book did get banned, we still had people who were going out supporting this book, and showing that we are truly about learning the full story,” she said.

Former Miami Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores Sues NFL For Discrimination


Former Miami Dolphins head coach, Brian Flores, who was recently let go by the team has filed a lawsuit against the National Football League alleging discrimination.

According to NFL.com, Flores, who is Black has sued the NFL and three teams, the Miami Dolphins, the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants, alleging discrimination based on his firing from Miami and pertaining to the interview process he went through with Denver and New York.

The 58-page lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court as it is pursuing class-action status. The suit is seeking unspecified damages from the league, the three teams named, and unidentified individuals.

Over three years at the helm of the team, Flores led the Dolphins to a 24-25 record and although Miami went 9-8 in their second straight winning season, the team did not make the playoffs. This was the first time the Dolphins had back-to-back winning seasons in almost 20 years, dating back to 2003.

The lawsuit Flores filed alleges that the NFL discriminated against Flores and other Black coaches for racial reasons, and he claims teams denied them positions as general managers, head coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators and quarterbacks coaches.

“God has gifted me with a special talent to coach the game of football, but the need for change is bigger than my personal goals. In making the decision to file the class action complaint today, I understand that I may be risking coaching the game that I love and that has done so much for my family and me. My sincere hope is that by standing up against systemic racism in the NFL, others will join me to ensure that positive change is made for generations to come,” Flores said in a written statement.

Flores Lays Out Damning Claims In Discrimination Suit

Flores contends that Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross told him he would pay the former coach $100,000 for every loss during his first season so the club could “tank”  in its efforts to obtain the top pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.

He also states that Ross also pressured him to recruit a well-known quarterback, identified by NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport as Tom Brady. Flores, knowing that was a violation of the league’s tampering rules refused, and he alleges that he “was ostracized and ultimately he was fired.”

The Dolphins responded to the explosive suit.

“We are aware of the lawsuit through the media reports that came out this afternoon,” the Dolphins said in a statement.

“We vehemently deny any allegations of racial discrimination and are proud of the diversity and inclusion throughout our organization. The implication that we acted in a manner inconsistent with the integrity of the game is incorrect. We will be withholding further comment on the lawsuit at this time.”

After losing his Miami head coaching job, several teams requested to interview Flores for their head-coach openings. In the lawsuit, Flores alleges the New York Giants, engaged in a “sham interview” process with Flores for their vacancy.

The suit alleges that Patriots head coach Bill Belichick “mistakenly disclosed” to the former coach in a text message on Jan. 24, three days before Flores’ interview with the Giants, that the team was going to hire Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, who is white. Two days after Flores’ interview, the Giants announced they hired Daboll.

Flores claims he was only interviewed to satisfy the “Rooney rule” which stipulates that an NFL team has to interview at least Black people for an open head coach position.

Outrage at ‘The View’: Co-Host Whoopi Goldberg Suspended Over Controversial Holocaust Comments

Outrage at ‘The View’: Co-Host Whoopi Goldberg Suspended Over Controversial Holocaust Comments


Iconic The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg is under fire for controversial remarks made on Monday claiming that the Holocaust had nothing to do with race during a heated “Hot Topics” segment.

ABC News president Kimberly Godwin immediately took action following a barrage of backlash from the Jewish community and many others who called out The Color Purple star for her seemingly misinformed take on the horrific history of the genocide of European Jews during World War II between 1941 and 1945.

Whoopi has since apologized for saying the Holocaust was not about race after learning it was, in fact, about exterminating the entire Jewish race.

However, ABC took immediate action to suspend Whoopi for two weeks.

“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” Godwin said on Tuesday evening in a note to staff.

“While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.”

She continued: “The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities.”

Godwin further added: “These decisions are never easy, but necessary.”

And she explained Whoopi’s comments “do not align” with the values or culture of ABC News.

Godwin further stated that it was important to put a pause on the situation to allow Whoopi to connect with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and have an “an educational conversation,” which she did on Tuesday’s show following the problematic comments on Monday.

“I appreciate their conversation and his acknowledgment of Whoopi’s efforts,” Godwin concluded.

“People are really upset and don’t understand why it took two days,” an ABC executive told The Daily Beast.

However, multiple sources report that The View co-hosts Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, and Ana Navarro are incensed over the network’s decision to suspend Whoopi for two weeks.

“I love Whoopi Goldberg. I love The View,” Navarro said on Tuesday evening, according to reports.

“This was an incredibly unfortunate incident. Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community. She is not an antisemite. Period. I am sad. And I have nothing else to say.”

The EGOT found herself drowning in hot water when she invoked misinformation during a roundtable discussion on Monday’s show.

The “Hot Topics” segment centered around the controversial, Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, and the Tennessee school board’s decision to ban the book over profanity and nudity, which the co-hosts argued was taken out of context.

Whoopi chimed in, adding the Holocaust was not “about race” and held close to her beliefs when her co-hosts tried to redirect her with facts about Adolf Hitler’s goal to dominate through white supremacy by way of killing a whole human race.

“It’s about man’s inhumanity to man,” Whoopi declared, adding that the Holocaust was about “two white groups of people.”

Sadly, Whoopi majorly missed the mark on this one.

Experience The Powerful Benefits Of Yoga With This YogaWorks Subscription

Experience The Powerful Benefits Of Yoga With This YogaWorks Subscription


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Body of Missing Houston Man Found One Month Later in Dallas

Body of Missing Houston Man Found One Month Later in Dallas


The body of 25-year-old Taylour Young was found inside the trunk of his car over one month after he was reported missing.

On Monday, Houston police confirmed that Young’s body was located at an impound lot in Dallas on Jan. 19, Click 2 Houston reported. His body was in an advanced state of decomposition.

Young’s girlfriend reported him missing on December 9 after he didn’t come home. The Sam Houston State University alumnus was working as an accountant and hadn’t returned from his lunch break.

“He sent me a text message about 11:30. It was a picture of his dog with the antlers on his head,” Young’s mother, Tiffany Robinson, said.

Robinson used an app to track his phone and located it in the bushes near a bank. Young’s car was also missing, prompting family and friends to get involved in his search.

Robinson said it was unlike her son to not communicate his whereabouts. He was last seen running errands while on his break, ABC 13 reported. Using the hashtag #BringTaylourHome on social media, Young’s family built a support group to find him.

Dallas police say the vehicle Young was found in was towed from a business parking lot in Dallas on Jan. 10. On Jan. 19, officials at the impound lot contacted police, who made the gruesome discovery.

An investigation into his death is still ongoing as his family and loved ones mourn his loss.

“He had no enemies. Everybody loved him. He didn’t owe anybody money. He had no addictions. He didn’t do drugs. It just makes absolutely no sense at all,” Young’s friend Christian Gorgy said.

Robinson shared a statement on Facebook about her son’s body being found after his “disappearance.”

“I want to share my worldly loss as well. I lost my son, my baby, my friend; and will raise his love, his dog Gigi… During Taylours [sic] family time of mourning, I ask that you continue to lift us up in prayer,” Robinson said.

“Be mindful and respectful of our privacy and the fact that the investigation is still ongoing.”

Speaking with People, Robinson shared stories of how loved Young was in his local community.

“He is so loved. I’ve had his coworkers tell me funny stories. I didn’t know Taylour would go to Whole Foods and play bingo with senior citizens, but a colleague of his told me that. I thought that was so funny and just the perfect example of the nice boy he is.”

Young was also working to get promoted at his job, and his managers spoke highly of him.

“The HR director at his job told me, ‘He is one of my highest performers. He’s consistent,'” Robinson shared.

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