“It’s probably the most hallowed record out there, as far as I’m concerned, but it’s now in the hands of somebody else,” said Aaron, who retired in 1976. “My hope today…is the achievement of this record will inspire others to chase their own dreams.”

Aaron congratulates Barry Bonds:

Aaron – born Henry Louis Aaron in Mobile, AL – knows plenty about dreams. He quit high school in 1951 to play for the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro League. He started in the major league’s in 1954. He broke Babe Ruth’s record in 1974.

“I thought, we’ve come along way baby,” Aaron said in an interview regarding breaking’s Ruth’s record, “From Mobile, Ala., to breaking the most prestigious record in baseball. I feel very proud of myself like I had shown everybody that I could play major league baseball.”

Breaking Ruth’s record not only showed the world that Aaron could play major league baseball, but it was another signpost of what would become African-Americans’ domination of professional sports.

Aaron on breaking Ruth’s record:

A few notable achievements:
• Aaron made the All-Star team every year from 1955 until 1975.
• Won three Gold Glove Awards.
• Won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1957

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CAKED-ON BASE
Painting layers of foundation, tinted moisturizer, concealer, and powder on your face will rub off on your collar…and his. Stick with a lightweight foundation, remove any obvious makeup with a damp sponge, and dab concealer just over blemishes or redness.

A SLOPPY SHAVE
Nothing says “I’ve given up” as succinctly as leg stubble. Shave at night for the most precise finish (your legs swell as you sleep, so you’ll miss hairs if you shave in the morning) and use a new blade. Doing so will also help you avoid those annoying red razor bumps.

STICKY LIP GLOSS
There are lip glosses that moisturize with a subtle sheen, and there are those that are so sticky they could glue together broken glass.

STIFF HAIR
No man is going to be able to run his fingers through your hair if it’s knotted in a bun, pulled into a twist, or otherwise high-maintenance-looking. Go for a more approachable hairstyle, like easy waves, half up, or a pretty ponytail.

SMOKY-EYE OVERLOAD
It starts off innocently enough: It’s just you, an eye-shadow palette, and a mirror. But things can get ugly fast when heavy, dark shadows are piled on top of each other. Create a subtle, sexy smoky eye by slightly smudging black eyeliner along the rims of your eyes.

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I recently read the article entitled, “He says he’s unhappy, but I can’t let him go, he’s my world.”

I’m struggling with what I fear is a similar issue. My boyfriend of two years says he loves me and wants to marry me and have children, but every time we discuss marriage he brings up problems and says he’s not happy. Finally, I put my foot down and gave the ultimatum, “now or never.” He chose never.

After discussing his choice he recanted and decided we should go to couples counseling. He is a good man and we are happy as long as we don’t discuss marriage. But, I want to be married and have another child! I have a son from a previous marriage and he treats my son like his own, worse my son is completely attached to him and when we temporarily broke things off my young son was in tears for days. We do have our problems, but everyone does. I don’t want to walk away because we have formed a family. I love him and he’s the only father my son knows, however I feel like I’m cheating myself out of the things I really want in life.

I’m too damn old to be somebody’s girlfriend! And my eggs are getting old too! I truly love him, but how do I know that he will EVER be ready to make a lifelong commitment. His longest relationship before me was 6 months and he is well over thirty years old. Do some men just never settle down? – Waiting To Be Married

Dear Ms. Waiting To Be Married,

Uhm, ma’am, if you read my response to the other advice article, and you say that you have a similar issue, then what is the problem? I’m failing to understand. Here we go with this damn madness, again! Chile, the tales of the desperate nagging girlfriend who thinks she is wifey material, but keep selling herself short by bending over backwards for a man, and spreading her legs, and making a home for him while he incessantly lets her know that he doesn’t want to get married and he’s unhappy in the relationship. And, her dumbass refuses to listen to him or hear what he’s saying because she is caught up in what she wants to hear and have in her life. Therefore, she’s that chicken running around the coup bawking up a storm. LMBAO!

Ugh! I swear you women have got to be the dumbest birds at the zoo dating these men with these issues and emotional baggage who don’t want to commit to you, and then they tell you that they don’t want to be married, and that they are not happy. WHY ARE YOU STICKING AROUND? WHAT ARE YOU HOPING WILL HAPPEN? You think he will wake up one day and recognize the great and awesome woman you are after all the time, money, energy, and resources you’ve invested in him? Yet, he’s not investing in you or the relationship. And, on top of it all, you move in together, play house, act like a family (all within a year’s time), and then you expect him to marry you when you are already acting like a married couple? What more is there to look forward to if you are giving him the milk, the cow, the land, and the damn farm?!?! You are damn hand maiden and don’t even know it.

Look here, sweetheart. Number one: The man has told you that he is not happy. Whatever issues or challenges he has that he is dealing with YOU CANNOT FIX THEM! He needs therapy and a psychiatrist to help him get to the root of his problems. Stop trying to be the girlfriend, woman, sex partner, maid, cook, therapist, and psychoanalyst. You cannot do it all!!!! That is not your job, so please stop trying to be all things for him. Ole dumbass with no damn degree of sense of educational training. You can’t make him happy if he is not happy. And, if someone is unhappy and don’t love themselves, please, please, please understand that you cannot fix them, or make them love you if they don’t love themselves.

Number two: When you put your foot down and gave the ultimatum of “now or never,” and he said, “never.” Chile, I would have packed all his –ish and put his MoFo ass outside with his –ish and told him, “Well, take your never narrow ass on and live in never neverland.”

Number three: Throughout your letter you keep stressing how YOU want to be married. YOU want more children. YOU want and want and want and want. Well, what about his needs? What does he want? It’s obvious you two are on separate pages in different books, and in different genres. You reading fairy tale books and he is reading science fiction. LMBAO! Get on the same damn page and start listening to one another.

I’m going to wrap this up and be done with you because it’s obvious you’re living in your own world and you want what you want without any regard to the bigger picture and seeing how forcing a man to be with you and marry you will ultimately lead to an even more dysfunctional and disastrous relationship. You said you feel as if you’re cheating yourself out of what you really want in life. You are absolutely correct. One hundred percent right. So, if you feel that you’re cheating yourself then why are you still there? Why are you waiting on a man who has made it abundantly clear that he doesn’t want to be married, his longest relationship prior to you was 6 months, he’s unhappy, and quite frankly you’ve made it comfortable for him to be where he is. If you’re too damn old to be someone’s girlfriend, and your eggs are getting old, then why are you still someone’s girlfriend? And, you’re eggs are about to rot, sweetheart. So, ponder those questions for a while and when you get the answers, hopefully you’ll be living with your son in your own place and working on healing yourself and moving on with your life. – Straight From Your Gay Best Friend

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Didn’t get enough of the red hot men from Red Tails? Here’s more of our sit-down with the cast as they talk about the performances of their peers in the film, what’s impactful about the film and what they all have coming up in 2012.

How do you feel about the performances of your peers?
Elijah Kelley: We’re portraying historical people. These gentlemen were amazing. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard have graced a stage that not many African Americans have graced, ever and that’s the Academy Awards. Cuba as a recipient and Terrence as a nominee. Being in the company of those men—they’re living legends. They’re writing and rewriting history that no one thought would ever happen. For that to be tangible and feel feasible gives me hope for the things I want to do in this profession.
Ne-Yo: It’s safe to say I’m the novice here. They hate when I say that, but it’s true. Towards the beginning of the movie when we’re finding out that we may get shut down, Cuba has this really powerful monologue. Anthony made him do this monologue like 12 times. Every time he did it, it was different from the time before. It blew my damn mind! The same group of words, but every time he did it, it was a different emotion. That’s the definition of acting. I will take these words and make you feel differently every time I deliver them to you. Each time, you’re going to feel them. That’s the level I aspire to get to. Having him on set, Terrence on set and these guys that are in the same age bracket as me, doing the amazing things they do made me want to step it up to be a part of this film..
Cuba Gooding Jr.: When I started acting in the 90’s, everyone was fighting to get in to one movie. Please don’t think I’m ragging on the Wayans Brothers, but the only thing we could fight for was I’m Gonna Get You Sucka. A lot of us were from Shakespeare, but we were trying to get a role in that movie because that’s what they were greenlighting and people were getting paychecks for. They’d go for the hottest rapper or something. Look at these men now on-screen [motions to Ne-Yo, Elijah and Tristan]—they say they look up to us!

What’s impactful about Red Tails today?
Nate Parker: It’s important that we know for an identity standpoint, who we are and what we come from, as America and as a black community. People with knowledge of self is like a tree without roots. In our community, so many of our young people have no roots. They’re not bearing fruit because they don’t know who they are. With a story like this that tells this triumph and of these men of excellence that maximize their capacity, is something we can take in the community and say, “This is you and this is you now!” We limit ourselves when we say that was then, why do they need to know? We are our past. It’s the fabric of who we are. If we’re miseducated about who we were, then we’re going to go forward with a perverted idea of who we are and we’re stuck wondering why we’re not progressing. Stories like this are important because we can go back and say, “How did they deal with adversity then?” One of the sayings we had was, “Through adversity to the stars.” We said it to ourselves all the time because it reminded us of what we have to go through to get to excellence. There’s no one without the other—no future without the past.

There’s so much controversy from a movie like The Help that showed domestics….
David Oyelowo: You make the point brilliantly there—why the movie needs to be made. Those were maids, we were fighter pilots. They’re downtrodden and these guys were triumphant. They helped save the world, literally. That’s a story that very rarely has been told cinematically. That’s why this is a beautiful counterbalance to that film that had its own merit.

What’s next for all of you?
Elijah Kelley: I’ll be playing Cuba Gooding Jr. in the Cuba Gooding Jr. story. [laughs] I did a small indie film that will probably be in Sundance next year called The Boys of Abu Ghraib and it’s about this group of soldiers that go over to Afghanistan during our recent war and try to relieve some of the insurgents that have been wrongly accused. It’s based on a true story. I started out in Hairspray, singing and dancing, epically inspired by these guys so I’ll wet my foot in music next.
Cuba Gooding Jr.: Wet my foot? [laughs]
Elijah Kelley: That’s what my granddad used to say! [laughs] My thing is this—in film, if you’ve followed my career, there’s been a gap since Hairspray. I don’t settle for mediocrity.  I did a film that spoke volumes on all levels and I waited for another one to do the same thing. I want to transfer that energy into my music. I think it would be nothing less than presentable at base. If it becomes more than that, then I’m ecstatic.

Ne-Yo: I’m putting together a brand new album as we speak. The running title is The Cracks in Mr. Perfect. It speaks on the perfection that is imperfection. It’s about the more human side of Ne-Yo. No Ne-Yo the celebrity or even Ne-Yo the singer/songwriter, but Ne-Yo the man and the things we deal with as men and human beings. Sometimes as a celebrity, you’re expected to be perfect. You’re not allowed to have a bad day or not want to deal with people. The one day you decide to do that, you’re an asshole. We’re human beings. Everyone is entitled to not feel like it one day. This album expresses that celebrity, whatever, artist, whatever, human being first. I’m not perfect nor am I trying to be. That’s relatable to everybody. Look for the record around April or May. I also have a few artists coming out on my own label. I’m doing something most labels don’t do anymore—grooming, artist development. Look out for Loren Allred and Ravaughn Brown—two females I’ve been working on right now. One is pop and one is R&B. Outside of entertainment, I have a hat line I put out that was just picked up by Saks Fifth Avenue, called Francis Ellargo. The hats are unisex, but I’m a guy, so they’re guys hats. They’re fedoras right now. Also, I am the official Chief Creative Executive for Malibu Red, which is a new drink from Malibu. It’s Malibu rum and Silver tequila.
Cuba Gooding Jr.: I’ve just got another movie coming out—Crew Nine. That’s all I got. [laughs] It’s the true story about a women’s prison in the 1990’s and in this program, they allowed women prisoners to come out and fight fires. They did great things—doctors, lawyers and what not after they’d been in prison. I organize the program and help these women. It’s a theme—me being blessed to work with a younger generation. Wait until you see these young black and Spanish women—22-25 year old and they give performances in this piece that will blow you away. It’s a feature film, not in the theaters, but on ABC and the Hallmark Channel on Mother’s Day—April 27^th.
Tristan Wilds: As you guys know, I’m still doing 90210, four seasons, hopefully a fifth. I also just released an EP on my personal blog called Remember Remember. It’s on meetmack.tumblr.com.  Right now, I’m working on an album, looking up to my big brothers [Ne-Yo and Elijah] for inspiration and help. It’s going to be great.

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