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Spring Cleaning! Who remembers the days when your parents made this a household event during school break?

No one? Only ours? Okay, we had imagined perhaps at least one reader would be able to relate. For us it was organizing closets, cleaning windows and sweeping the carpeted stairs.

We did it throughout our entire home with the exception of the bathrooms and kitchen. Somewhere tucked away was a vacuum cleaner that failed to operate. Nonetheless, we were expected to tidy up certain areas that had been “untouched” the season before.

This brings us to this question, “What areas of your life need cleaning up because those things were unkept the year prior?” With the new year relatively still “new” and the spring season on the horizon, now is as good a time as ever to organize our professional and personal lives.

Taking on new things and getting rid of the old “clutter” to make room for what should occupy our space.

We are excited about our spring bi-monthly edition which features producer and business woman, Tracey Edmonds as our cover story.

In the interview she talks about new projects she has in developmentone of them being the upcoming BET series, Games Divas Play. She also discusses why she prefers a diverse selection of development projects when it comes to television and film.

This and much more inside the latest edition of BSM_Magazine. Welcome to spring!

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9 Jussie smollett

Alleged hoax could cause the Empire star his career and freedom

10 Gina la piana Actress on her role in the new BET series American Soul

18 Kamala harris

Could this be our new president in 2020?

34 Producer & business woman

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Tracey Edmonds talks developing new TV and film projects, Lifestyle brand AlrightNow.

30 michael kors

Spring 2019 Fashion

42 Malina moye

Lefty Guitarist releases new single and raises social awareness

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Jussie Smollett From Victim To An Arrest

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The Jussie Smollett case is proving to be a strange unfoldment of events that only seem to happen in films and novels. Smollett has now been charged with disorderly conduct by prosecutors in Chicago. The prosecutors state that Smollett filed a false police report for the purposes of staging his own assault. Smollett was arrested on Thursday, February 21.

On Tuesday, January 29th, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was allegedly attacked by two men as they yelled out racial and homophobic slurs.

Smollett, who is openly gay, was apparently heading home at 2 a.m. when the men attacked. They poured an unknown substance on him and tied a noose around his neck before fleeing. The two men were masked, says Smollett, and also yelled, “This is MAGA country” before they fled. The Chicago Police treated the attack as a possible hate crime.

After the attack, detectives reviewed surveillance footage of the area surrounding the reported time of the attack. They identified and released photos of two “potential persons of interest”, Chicago Police reported.

On Feb. 13th, Chicago Police raided the house of Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, two brothers of Nigeria descent who were allegedly part of the attack on Smollett. While the two brothers were detained by police, (after landing in Chicago on a flight from Nigeria), the police found: a black face mask hat, an Empire script, phone, receipts, a red hat and bleach in their home.

On Feb. 14th, Smollett appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ where he addressed the criticisms. He stated “It feels like if I had said it was a Muslim, a Mexican or someone black, the doubters would have supported me much more,” Smollett told ABC’s Robin Roberts, a lot more.”

The next day the two brothers were released from custody without being charged and were no longer considered potential suspects. It was only a day following that Chicago police announced they were planning to interview Smollett again. Apparently the two brothers told the Chicago police they were paid to take part in the hoax. This shifted the direction of the investigation.

On Feb. 20th Smollett was charged with a felony and a disorderly conduct charge in connection to the police report he filed.

His lawyer issued a statement:

“Like any other citizen, Mr. Smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this, one where information, both true and false, has been repeatedly leaked. Given these circumstances, we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and to mount an aggressive defense.”

The producers behind Fox’s “Empire” have decided to remove actor Jussie Smollett’s character from the final two episodes of the current season following his arrest. The decision, producers said, was made to “avoid further disruption on set.”

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