Usher’s Wife Accused Of Plagiarism?

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Usher’s Wife Accused Of Plagiarism?

Posted at 08/24/2009 by Staff 0 Comment

According to Jawn Murray of BVBUZZ.COM:

When Tameka Foster posted the blog entry ‘She’s Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl’ on the Huffington Post, both celebrities and regular women alike celebrated her message.

Unbeknownst to them, while they were saluting Usher Raymond’ssoon-to-be ex-wife’s essay on skin complexion, author Aisha Curry, who wrote the book ‘Pretty for a Black Girl’ (AuthorHouse/$10.49) read the piece and was outraged that her tome had been lifted and used by Foster, who allegedly passed the work off as her own.

Read Foster’s full essay here.

“My heart sank into my stomach. All the hard work, all the sleepless nights I had endured was playing back in my head as I read this article written by a woman I didn’t even know,” Curry told BV Buzz. “Why did I feel so connected to this article? Suddenly, it came to me. It was my work! It was my work, my voice, but in her words. I was frozen. Tears began rolling down my face as I read line after line after line. I couldn’t believe it. The idea that someone could gain notoriety from an issue that I first brought to the forefront is mind-boggling. People were praising her for tackling an issue that had never been exposed. Hello? I wrote the book on it and started it years ago. The only difference between her article and my book is she used ‘dark-skinned’ and I used ‘black.’”