Nicki Minaj is never given any extraordinarily challenging choreography for her performances, but she still just can’t seem to get the hang of dancing without looking like she’s calculating every last step. The curvy rapper has also been criticized in the past for what many consider to be failed attempts at shaking her butt.
Lil Kim
Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj may be wrapped up in a hip-hop feud, but the ladies are in the same boat when it comes to dancing. Lil Kim has just as much rhythm as Minaj does — and that’s not quite a compliment. In Lil Kim’s defense, however, she could have a more promising future with ballroom dancing. Despite her awkward dance moves during her own hip-hop performances, she pulled in some rather impressive scores during her run on DancingwiththeStars.
This election season, the stakes are higher than usual — and so is the pressure on newsrooms to soften their coverage, stay quiet, or just disappear. Independent reporting, the kind that answers to readers instead of advertisers or political pressure, matters more in a moment like this, not less.
For over 14 years, Atlanta Black Star has stayed independent and reader-funded. We have no corporate owner and no shareholders telling us what to cover or how to cover it. That independence is also our biggest vulnerability: nothing protects it except readers choosing to fund it directly.
Newspaper ad revenue has fallen more than 80% since 2005, and local newsrooms are closing at a rate of roughly two a week nationwide. When outlets go under in a moment like this, it's rarely the independent, reader-funded ones that get to stick around.
We know a request for support isn't why you came here. But without readers choosing to fund this work directly, the depth of reporting we can do at home and abroad shrinks along with everyone else's. If you're not in a position to give, that doesn't change how much we value you as a reader.
If you are able to, a recurring contribution does more for us than a single one-time gift, because it lets us plan the next investigation instead of just the next invoice. It takes about 30 seconds, no long form, no account. Thank you for continuing to support independent journalism and freedom of the press.
