Remy Ma And Fat Joe Get Introspective On ‘I Got Questions’

In the latest installment of I Got Questions, Remy Ma and Fat Joe reminisce about their careers and collaborations.

The highly popular interview series I Got Questions returns with a conversation between veteran rappers Remy Ma and Fat Joe. The Bronx MC’s sat down and the convo immediately got entertaining as Remy asked Joe Crack if he remembered how they met. After relating the first encounter on the set of a Jennifer Lopez video where she arrived in the company of the late Big Pun, the “Conceited” rapper also made a surprising admission.… Read more

California Will Have Its First HBCU This Upcoming School Year

The first historically Black college is headed to California this year. National College Resources (NCR) and Huston-Tillotson University partnered to bring two satellite campuses to the state.

Read more details about this historic opportunity below.

This upcoming school year will be exciting for the Sunshine State. NCR partners with Austin-based Huston-Tillotson University to establish two satellite San Diego and Los Angeles County satellite campuses.  The San Diego County Office of Education and the University of La Verne have also joined this venture in a historic move to bring the first HBCU to California.… Read more

6 Identifying Signs of Anxiety

Anxiety has a way of sneaking up on you like a thief in the night. Unlike a typical thief, this intruder has a penchant for unpredictability, making appearances that can diminish your joy, peace, and happiness on multiple occasions. Often misunderstood, anxiety is a common mental health disorder that affects millions. It presents itself as a persistent and overwhelming sense of apprehension impacting both the mind and body in various forms ranging from generalized anxiety to social anxiety, panic disorders, and specific phobias.… Read more

10 Ways To Uplift Your Spirits When You’re Having a Bad Day

By now you have probably heard the saying, “We wouldn’t appreciate the good days as much if we didn’t have the bad ones.” The jury is still out to confirm who gave this indelible gem of wisdom originally, but one thing is certain: Knowing this doesn’t make the bad days any easier.

Since tough moments are inevitable, it is important to have a healthy outlet. Turning to toxic people, behavior, or things will likely leave you feeling worse than when you started.… Read more

How Switching Your Routines Can Help Your Well-Being

Do you find yourself feeling sluggish in the mornings and wired at night? Or maybe you struggle to find focus throughout the day and are low on energy by the evening. These experiences might be due to a disconnect with your natural internal clock, known as your circadian rhythm, and it may be your sign to incorporate morning and night routines into your schedule.

Ancient wisdom traditions like Ayurveda have long recognized the importance of aligning our daily routines with nature and the body’s natural cycles.… Read more

Timbaland Executive Producing Graphic Novel ‘Neon Empire’s TV Adaptation

Timbaland is already a legendary music producer. Now, he’s ready to try his hand at television.

Deadline exclusive reports Timbaland is getting into graphic novels and television. The producer who gave us timeless records like JAY-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” and Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds album will involved with Jared Gutstadt, founder and CEO of podcast company Audio Up Media, graphic novel Neon Empire.

The website reports that Timbaland will co-produce the graphic novel’s soundtrack and will be an executive producer on the television adaptation of Neon Empire.… Read more

10 Self-Care Tips To Add To Your Everyday Life

May showers bring flowers in the form of Mental Health Awareness Month, founded to shift our mental health culture from awareness to action. The movement is powered by a growing coalition of over 1700 nonprofits, brands and agencies in over 30 countries. Read 10 self-care tips to stay sane through the madness inside.

Mental Health and action look different for everyone.

Mental Health Action Day encourages and empowers everyone to take action for themselves, their loved ones, or their community based on what works best for them.… Read more

Silence Is Not Consent: Resistance Is Required Today, Tomorrow And Forever

Across the country, we are seeing protests on college campuses around the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Young people are voicing dissent around the more than 34,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over a war they didn’t start. The young demonstrators are being arrested, demonized, and harassed for exercising their constitutional right to question what they see as injustice. While a cursory take is that the protests are about Gaza alone; they’re about democracy – a true democracy without colonization by the American empire abroad and at home.Read more

The ‘Rodney King Riots’ In Los Angeles Began On This Day In 1992

Uprisings among disenfranchised people reacting to oppressive law enforcement tactics have seemingly been a constant since the 1960s, in particular. As the saying goes, history is cyclical, and the world found itself witnessing one of the most noteworthy such rebellions following a jury finding California officers not guilty despite the video evidence of them brutalizing an unarmed Black man.

Sound familiar?

It is decidedly in that context that it should never be forgotten that the so-called “Rodney King Riots,” also known as the “Los Angeles Riots,” began this day in 1992 after four Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers were acquitted of charges in the savage beating of Rodney King.… Read more

Diddy Files Motion To Dismiss Parts of Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Lawyers for Diddy rebuked a womans lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault and filed a motion to dismiss elements of it.

Last Friday (April 26), the legal team for Diddy filed a motion in a New York court to dismiss parts of a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him, stating that  the allegations “were brought under statutes that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred.” The legal documents explicitly point to the charges of revenge porn and human trafficking that should be dismissed outright by the court as they were not in existence at the time of the allegation.… Read more