Songs, Movies & Moments: November 2024

A Look at Entertainment

by T.J. Moore –

Hip-Hop icons Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah recently became the first rappers to receive the National Medal of Arts.

Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott become first rappers to receive National Medal Of Arts.

The ceremony, held last month, marked a historic moment for rap culture and the two women who have impacted rap music and even film.

The two legends were among 39 recipients honored with the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government.

Elliott took to Twitter/X to share the moment and her gratitude, writing, “I am HUMBLY GRATEFUL! Crying tears of JOY! Thinking of the days I wasn’t so strong. But through FAITH & PRAYER I kept going.”

Despite their share of public drama during the past few weeks, rapper Cardi B is ready to wipe the slate clean and continue her relationship with Offset as co-parents.

Offset dares Cardi B’s New Young Man; Cardi cheating for months.

Cardi filed for divorce in August, and it hasn’t been a smooth split. The feuding reached a peak when Offset accused Cardi of cheating on him while pregnant.  The “Up” rapper responded viciously on social media. One month after giving birth to her third child, Cardi went on Twitter/X to talk to her fans about wanting to balance fun, work, and her friendship with her ex.

“I feel like two weeks ago, there was a lot of beef,” she said. “I feel like things are calming down right now. I don’t want to have a beef with anybody that I love. I want peace and I want friendship. I just want a healthy co-parenting relationship.”

NBA analyst Michelle Beadle has fans heated after accidentally using a racial slur live on air.

Sports reporter Michelle Beadle accidentally used the N-word while talking about the Nuggets

Beadle accidentally let it slip while talking about Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr.’s comments about the team in reference to a recent game the team played against the Miami Heat.

“Michael Porter Jr. recently said, ‘Aww, I don’t like this, that if the n…’” Beadle said, accidentally mispronouncing the Nuggets team name. Beadle caught herself immediately and stopped in shock while her co-hosts looked on equally as surprised.

On her Instagram Stories, Beadle shared a short clip of her Run It Back cohosts’ reaction during the broadcast, but with the original audio replaced by the Curb Your Enthusiasm them song.

“The moment you say ‘Nuggets’ incorrectly on television and your entire career flashes… while your cohosts die,” the sports reporter wrote over the footage, “Broadcasting students: slow down and enunciate.”

In the early morning of MSNBC’s 2024 election coverage, Joy Reid points out the obvious: “white women voters did not show up for Vice President Kamala Harris.”

‘Y’all voted with David Duke’: Joy on 55% of Latino men voting ‘to make deportations happen.’

The anchor’s comments came as North Carolina was projected to vote for Donald Trump.

Reid told her colleagues, “We have to be blunt about why. Black voters came through for Kamala Harris,” Reid said. “White women voters did not.”

She continued, “You have a state where you have a six-week or 12-week abortion ban. A state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a heavy push to get women to focus on not electing the person who was responsible for taking those rights away. That message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris—a fellow woman.”