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Princeton University has announced Nicholas Johnson, a student who majored in operations research and financial engineering, as the school’s first black valedictorian in its 274-year history. Johnson is also pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing. Johnson, a Montreal native, will spend the summer interning at the D.E. Shaw Group […]
The Chronic, Dr. Dre‘s celebrated 1992 debut studio album, is being archived in the Library of Congress. Wednesday, the National Recording Registry announced Dre’s classic as being among the latest musical releases to be considered “worthy of preservation” due to their importance of a cultural, historical, or aesthetic nature. “The National Recording Registry is the evolving […]
Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician known for her essential work on the nation’s first mission to space and the first landing on the moon, has died at age 101. Johnson was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, also the title of a nonfiction book. “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss […]
Hip-Hop Evolution may just be the best running docuseries on the history of rap, featuring candid interviews with the architects, innovators, and icons of the genre. It also happens to be made by a group of Canadians. Rapper/broadcaster Shad, director Darby Wheeler, and writer Rodrigo Bascuñán have had quite a wild few years, snagging a Peabody Award, an International Emmy […]
The state of New York announced Thursday that Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed off on a $3.7 million grant to be put towards the construction of the Universal Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx, CNN reports. The funds contributed to the museum are part of the state’s package of economic and community development funding. The Universal Hip Hop Museum is temporarily located at the Bronx […]
Rihanna has now spent more than 200 weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart with her last studio record, 2016’s ANTI. As Chart Data and Rihanna fans on Twitter pointed out, she is the first black woman in the chart’s 61-year history to reach the milestone. Additionally, she was ranked the seventh most-streamed female artist on Spotify […]
Launching stateside exclusively at a new SoHo temporary residency, Virgil Abloh is bringing fans a new performance-inspired tech line that fuses two distinctly different yet wholly complementary eras of Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton 2054 aims to bring together the present era with that of 1854, i.e. the founding year of the brand, with a 13-piece […]
One of UFC 239‘s main card fights ended in record-breaking fashion as Jorge Masvidal earned the fasted knockout in UFC history. Immediately after the match began, it was over. Masvidal unleashed a vicious flying knee that hit his opponent Ben Askren directly in the temple. Askren crumbled to the severity of the blow and Masvidal was awarded the knockout and victory. Along with […]
Michael B. Jordan has been anointed one of Hollywood’s A-List actors after starring in blockbusters like Black Panther and Creed. Before the box office smashes, Jordan showed his big screen potential in 2013’s Fruitvale Station. Jordan’s portrayal of Oscar Grant III moved audiences, but it also almost stunted his growth as an actor. Jordan explained […]
Ahead of the debut of Rihanna‘s historic LVMH-partnered Fenty line, the recent Guava Island star is offering fans an early glimpse. Monday, T Magazine dropped a Jeremy O. Harris x Rihanna interview, complete with a first look at the impending line. “I never just wanted to put my name on something and sell my license,” […]
