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Malcolm X’s assassination is one of the most devastating losses that the civil rights era took alongside his often-compared colleague Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is one of the most significant deaths in American history and the discourse on how and why it happened persists to the this day. Who set in motion the events that led to X’s public execution at the Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965? Brotha Malcolm’s family believes they have a good idea of who should receive the blame.

According to USA Today, ubiquitous civil rights attorney Ben Crump has announced a $100 million lawsuit against several United States government, FBI, CIA, and NYPD that accuses them of conspiring not only on X’s death but also the subsequent decades-long coverup. Crump stood alongside Malcolm’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, at a press conference held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York.

“It is not lost on us that justice has been delayed in this matter, and on this momentous occasion, we stand ready to lay out our complaint very soundly,” Crump said. “The government fingerprints are all over the assassination of Malcolm X. And finally, we believe we have the evidence to prove it.”

Two of the men who were ultimately convicted of the murder, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, were exonerated in 2021. Both men maintained that they were innocent during their over twenty year prison stint.

That same year, former and now-deceased NYPD officer Raymond Wood wrote a letter in which he confessed that he was ordered to coerce members of Malcolm’s security team into crimes so that they would be arrested and thus unable to attend the event at the Audubon.

“It was my assignment to draw the two men into a felonious federal crime so that they could be arrested by the FBI and kept away from managing Malcolm X’s door security on Feb. 21, 1965,” Wood wrote. “At that time, I was not aware that Malcolm X was the target.”

It’s a dirty game and someone needs to uncover the truth. Hopefully, attorney Crump and his associates have all the evidence they need to do so.

The biggest names in Hollywood made their way to the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles for GQ’s western-themed Men of the Year Party on Thursday, Nov. 15

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The red carpet at the GQ Men of the Year Party featured what GQ describes as the “culture-pioneering cover stars” of their annual Men of the Year. This year, Entertainer of the Year went to Dwayne Johnson, Comedian of the Year to John Mulaney, and Designer of the Year to Pharrell Williams.

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Other honorees include Shaboozey, who performed his hit “Tipsy (A Bar Song)” for attendees at the fancy shindig.

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The party was western-themed, a choice that GQ editor-in-chief Will Welch explained to Variety. 

“It starts with country dominance,” he told Variety. “I grew up listening to country music — Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, stuff like that – but we’ve also seen country just take over, the charts, all this hip hop fusion of country, people like Post Malone kind of going country, Beyoncé going country with Cowboy Carter and of course another big moment was Pharrell doing a big cowboy collection for Louis Vuitton. It seems like a moment.”

Welch continued: “Then we were talking about that this is the 29th Men of the Year and you have to keep reinventing yourself and reinventing things so we had this idea of the [party’s] livestream and we thought American rodeo and creating a state fair atmosphere,” Welch continued. “Once we had that idea click in, the rest was easy.”

When you hear ‘American rodeo,’ you’re like, ‘I want to go to that,’” he added. “Dressing up in a rodeo western way, everybody could do it. It’s incredible how many people tonight are on theme.”

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Check out some photos of more attendees at the party down on the flip.

Despite exiting the Real Housewives Of Atlanta, Kenya Moore is making it clear that she’s still employed by Bravo and could potentially return to your television screens.

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As previously reported, the #RHOA star appeared on Tamron Hall Thursday and took accountability for the heated confrontation with season 16 newcomer Brit Eady that led to her exit. According to Kenya, she was protecting not only herself but her daughter by exposing “distasteful” photos of Eady at the opening of her Kenya Moore Hair Spa.

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Kenya expounded on that further in her sit-down with Tamron, first noting that she was not fired from The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

“I was never fired,” said Kenya matter-of-factly. “There were a lot of headlines… ‘Kenya was fired. She was fired,’ and they were not true.”

She also clarified that she remains under contract with Bravo and still receives paychecks from the network.

She went on to tell the host that tensions with Eady escalated during season 16 filming when things “took a dark turn” due to Eady allegedly threatening her.

“There was a young lady who was new, and she just was poking the bear,” Moore said. “Everybody knows the saying: ‘Don’t come for me unless I send for you.’ During taping, the young lady escalated to the point where mics were torn off, there was screaming, obscenities, and threats directed at me,” said Kenya who alleged that Brit said “You don’t know who I am.”

Feeling unprotected by the production team, who she believes ignored her like a “Black Karen,” conducting online research about Eady and presenting explicit material she found during a taping session.

“I found some information with a few clicks and people helping me. I didn’t get things sent to me; I found them,” she explained. “I showed one receipt during taping, knowing the network would likely blur it out. I found a lot but I only showed one.”

“Were you building a moment?” Tamron asked. “Were you trying to have a Kenya moment, and this backfired?” 

“I don’t think it’s a Kenya moment, I live my truth. My moment is my life. I don’t need to create a moment,” said Kenya.

While Moore insisted her intent was self-protection, she admitted that it was an incorrect move.

“If I could do it all over again…” started Kenya. “I believe the photos were very distasteful, and I elevated the situation, I’ve elevated situations before—and I’ve taken full accountability for the things that I’ve done. I am sorry for what I’ve done,” she said.

“I didn’t have to take it that far but when I felt threatened, I’ve never had a child and be in this situation before. So that’s why I escalated it to the point where I was protecting not only myself but my child,” she added through tears.

Kenya also denied that her actions were revenge porn and noted that she’s indeed still employed by Bravo.

Hit the flip for her comments.