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Hip-hop is having a party. For the uninitiated, 2023 marks a year-long 50th birthday celebration for the genre. Celebrations and commemorations abound just about everywhere—even at unlikely places, like the Vice President’s mansion. This year affords us a unique opportunity to look back on a half-century of development, and to pause and consider the impact of the Black Caribbean artists who democratized broadcast, blended old genres to forge new ones, and, ultimately, helped to lay the foundation for the global phenomenon we know as hip-hop culture.

Many things have changed since Jahurul Mohammed first came to Qatar eight years ago. For one, the colossal Al Bayt Stadium, which hosted the2022 World Cup opening ceremony, didn’t exist, and the only thing other than sand dunes in its vicinity 30 miles north of Doha was a famous wedding hall. “None of this was here,” says Mohammed, a taxi driver from Bangladesh, sweeping his hand across the dazzling cityscape of concrete and neon beyond his windshield.

In a day and age when it seems there is little we share, there is one tortuous rite of passage nearly two million teenagers in America a year endure. The SATs. Despite the misery, it’s not uncommon for many to subject themselves to the exam a second time in the hope of improving their score. I took the SATs, twice. That would be unremarkable but for one thing: 36 years passed between the two.

November 6, 2014 2:11 PM EST He’s not a businessman. He’s a business, man. Oh wait, actually he’s also a businessman. Jay-Z has bought the Armand de Brignac champagne business for an undisclosed amount. The champagne is known as “Ace of Spades,” and is produced by eight people in the French town of Chigny-les-Roses, the BBC reports. It was featured in at least one Jay-Z music video and sells for $300 per bottle.

The former Big Brother Naija reality TV star took to her Instagram page on Sunday, November 4, 2018, where she posted a series of steamy hot photos. Khloe is seen dressed in a black bikini with black wings! "I used to draw an angel when I was young. Imagining that she was flying so high. A little girl with wings same as hers. Following the angel everywhere. The little girl keeps on flying.

TIME April 8, 1929 12:00 AM GMT-5 In three Illinois insane asylums 37 women and 35 men paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots. All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic. Into the thighs of those 72 dements, to check another investigator’s work (Dr. Harry Caesar Solomon of Boston), Dr. Alex S. Hershfield of Chicago and five associates injected Spirochaeta morsusmuris. That is a spirillum that lives in the blood of rats and mice.

The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Tony McDade have once again brought the urgent need for racial justice to the forefront of conversation in America. Wide-scale protests against racism and police brutality as well as civic unrest have made it impossible for the nation (and the world) to ignore the consequences of a long history of racism and racist violence. As many people confront hard truths that black Americans have faced daily in this country, the need for education about the history of the long and ongoing fight for racial justice is critical.

The command’s Spokesman, ASP Musa Mohammed said on Wednesday in Yenagoa that some youths killed the student over his alleged refusal to pay ₦500 levy to climb a sand dump in Amassoma. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the deceased was a student at the Social Science Education department of NDU and a native of Obrigbene in Ekeremor Local Council of the state. The sand dump serves as a relaxation spot for most youths in the area.

Oladips recently appeared as a guest on the Naija 102.7FM radio station to explain what really happened, stressing that he did not mean to cause any harm. "To Nigerians and my core followers, I would never play with people's emotions like that, I was actually sick sick. It was never a prank and I am really sorry for the false alarm and the distress. I take full responsibility.