Archive for August 23rd, 2009

Meet Michelle McCain, wife of comedian/actor Mike Epps. Michelle met Mike on the movie set of “The Fighting Temptations” in 2003. In July 2006, Mike married Michelle McCain. Michelle is currently an actress. Her films include: The Teenage Kevorkian (2005),and The Fighting Temptations(2003).

In February 2008, Mike Epps was asked to take a paternity test by a Georgia woman who claims he is the father of her 4-month-old baby. The Georgia woman’s lawyer, Randy Kessler, told TMZ.com,”We are not asking for the moon, we are just asking him to take a paternity test,” “Once the tests are completed and paternity is confirmed, hopefully, Mr. Epps will do the right thing and begin to provide for his child.” Kessler also said that the only reason his client went public with the suit is because her repeated phone calls and emails to Epps and his attorneys were ignored.

At this time, Michelle and Mike have no children together.

News Of The World reports:

“A LITTLE girl grins with glee as she holds a golly over a fire while a jeering BNP politician finds the doll guilty of BEING BLACK during a vile mock trial and execution. The baying crowd cheers when the toy – dubbed Winston – is condemned and dropped on to the flames to “die”. Goading on the assembled adults and kids the politician, a local council candidate, yells out these chilling words: “Let’s get a real one, in the town we’ll find one or two.” Shout out to Nadim.”

What is a Golliwog?

The “Golliwogg” (later “Golliwog”) is a character of children’s literature created by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th century, inspired by a blackface minstrel doll which Upton found as a child in her aunt’s attic in Hampstead, North London. The character, depicted in the books as a type of rag doll, was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children’s toy. The toy was known as a “golliwog”, and had great popularity in North America, Britain, Europe and Australasia, into the 1960s. While home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. For this reason, in the period following World War II, the golliwog was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy.

The image of the doll has become the subject of heated debate. One aspect of the debate in its favor argues that it should be preserved and passed on as a cherished cultural artifact and childhood tradition, while opponents argue it should be retired as a relic of an earlier time when racism against those of African descent was blatant.

The word “golliwog” has from the 1950s onward been used as a term of racial abuse directed at black people. This has reduced the popularity and sale of golliwogs as toys. Manufacturers who have used golliwogs as a motif have either withdrawn them as an icon, or changed the name. There has been wide press coverage of incidents in which the term “golliwog” has been applied to a well-known personality. The association with the also-abusive “wog” has resulted in many extant Golliwogs not being referred to as such, or being simply “Golly”.

Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) currently serves as CEO of Xerox Corporation, named to that position in June 2009. Ursula is the first African-American woman to head a S&P 100 company.She previously served as president of the company’s Business Group Operations, corporate senior vice president, and president.

Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She subsequently held several positions in engineering, including product development and planning. In June 1991 she became the executive assistant to Paul Allaire, then Xerox chairman and chief executive officer.

From 1992 through 2000, Burns led several business teams, including the office color and fax business, office network copying business and the departmental business unit. In May 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, and most recently, president of the Document Systems and Solutions Group.

Burns received a bachelor of science degree from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU)  in 1980 and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in 1981. She serves on professional and community boards, including American Express, Boston Scientific, FIRST, National Association of Manufacturers, University of Rochester, the MIT Corporation, the Rochester Business Alliance and the RUMP Group.

Burns married her husband, Lloyd Bean,  in October 1988. She resides in Rochester, New York, New York City, and Bermuda. She has a daughter and a stepson.

Is Nene Leakes and NFL star Charles Grant getting their groove on? Well, ATL Housewife “Kim” exposes NeNe secret relationship live on air. Peep the video below.