Category: Money
How Did Facebook Blew It?
A months long investigation uncovered concerns that Cambridge Analytica may have used improperly obtained academic data to craft its psychometric profiles. In early...
Could Marijuana Aid in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery?
Marijuana may be useful in combating alcoholism and curbing cocaine cravings. A recent study published in Neuropsychopharmacology found that a substance found in...
LL Cool J to Launch New Classic Hip-Hop SiriusXM Channel
LL Cool J wants to make old-school hip-hop music relevant for listeners today with a new SiriusXM channel. The two-time Grammy-winning rapper told The Associated Press...
Hip Hop stars are taking their reputations to Wall Street and Sand Hill road
Unlike their rock star brethren, who’ve historically been disinterested in dabbling with startups, quite a few hip hop artists have amassed good-sized...
Here’s How Oklahoma’s Black Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding ‘Black Wall Street
Over 300 black-owned businesses once thrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District aka, ‘Black Wall Street.” In 1921, Greenwood was burned to the ground in the...
Pending-home sales tumble to a 3-year low as housing ‘crisis’ worsens
The numbers: Pending-home sales fell 4.7% to 104.6 in January, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. That’s the lowest reading since October 2014, and...
‘Black Panther’ Obliterates Movie Box Office Records and Old Hollywood Myths
The Disney-Marvel movie “Black Panther,” which finds the superheroic T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returning to his remote African kingdom to assume the throne,...
‘Black Panther’ Composer Infuses Score With Trove of African Sounds
After being assigned to score a film with a far-flung backdrop, most composers would do a little research to try to add the appropriate atmosphere. Ludwig Göransson,...
Stock Market Defeat Wipes $114 Billion From The Fortunes of The World’s Richest
A plunge in U.S. stocks Monday cut the fortunes of the world’s 500 richest people by $114 billion as the optimism over tax cuts that fueled January’s gains gave way...
Birdman Is Facing a $12M foreclosure on His Miami Beach mansion and office building
According to The Blast, Birdman will need to find a new place to play backyard beach volleyball on a private white sand beach because he was just ordered by a judge to...
