Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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■ Kensington Palace says the head of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev.
Michael Bruce Curry, will speak at the wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle. Curry, from Chicago, will give the address — a sermon — at the event next Saturday in Windsor. He will join the dean of Windsor, the Rt. Rev. David Conner, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who will officiate at the service. Welby has baptized Markle ahead of her marriage to Harry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, who is the supreme governor of the Church of England. Curry is the first black person to serve as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, an offshoot of the Church of England in the United States. It is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
■ Khloe Kardashian has debuted baby True on Instagram with a video snippet wishing her chubby-cheeked daughter a happy first-month birthday. The tiny reveal, complete with a flower filter, came Saturday. True was born April 12. “Happy 1 month old, mama. I love you pretty girl,” Kardashian is heard saying off camera as the infant coos softly. The post was viewed nearly 8 million times in the first two hours, with more than 116,000 comments, including one from sister Kim Kardashian West calling True “The most gorgeous girl!!!” Khloe replied: “Auntie KiKi she loves you so much!!!!!” ■ Stevie Wonder has called out Kanye West for saying slavery is a choice, calling the idea
“foolishness” and likening it to Holocaust denial. Wonder brought up
West without prompting during an interview
Thursday after a show at a West Hollywood club.
“There’s been a lot of talk about what was said by Kanye,” Wonder said. “I want people to understand that the truth is the truth and a lie is a lie.” “We all know that slavery was not a choice,” he went on. “So I just think that people need to understand that if you know your history, if you know the truth, you know that’s just foolishness.” Wonder said saying that slavery is a choice is like saying the Holocaust is not real. West made the remarks May 1 in an interview with TMZ. “When you hear about slavery for 400 years, for 400 years, that sounds like a choice,” West said. He defended his statements and did not back down from them on Twitter after widespread criticism. An email to his representatives seeking a response to Wonder’s comments was not immediately returned. Wonder spoke softly, not angrily, and said he also felt sympathy for West, especially over the rapper losing his mother, who died after having cosmetic surgery in 2007. “You know he lost his mother, the horrible thing that happened,” Wonder said. “I don’t know if he had a chance to really mourn about all that.”