Hip-hop has always criticized America's education system. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of FameThe richest men in hip-hop never finished college.
Jay-Z – who is regarded as hip-hop’s first billionaire – never graduated from high school.
Kanye West – who is considered hip-hop’s second billionaire &n...
It’s been 10 years since Chief Keef became an internet famous rapper with the song 'Bang.'Johnny Nunez/WireImage via Getty ImagesBefore he was arrested in December 2011, Chief Keef was a 16-year-old budding rap star. He’d released a song, “Bang,” which had more than 400,000 views on YouTube, along with a mixtape that...
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French officer Alfred Dreyfus spent five years as a prisoner on Devil's Island, off the coast of South America.Roger Viollet Collection via Getty ImagesIn October 2021, a new museum opened in Paris, dedicated to the famous “Dreyfus affair.”
Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish captain in the French army who was court-martialed and convicted of...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has left many nurses feeling burned out, and its long-term effects on the profession are unknown.JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty ImagesNurses stepped up to the challenge of caring for patients during the pandemic, and over 1,150 of us have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. As cases and deaths surge, nurses continue working in a...
The pandemic has made the affordable housing crisis a lot worse, in part by increasing the rate of evictions. AP Photo/Jeff RobersonEven before 2020, the U.S. faced an acute housing affordability crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic made it a whole lot worse after millions of people who lost their jobs fell behind on rent. While eviction bans forestalled...
At least 13 former Trump administration officials, including Jared Kushner and Kayleigh McEnany, pictured here, violated the Hatch Act, according to a new federal investigation released Nov. 9, 2021.AP Photo/Alex BrandonThirteen top officials of the Trump administration violated the federal law known as the Hatch Act, which prohibits political...
¿Están estas personas interactuando en algún mundo virtual?Lucrezia Carnelos/UnsplashEl metaverso es una red de entornos virtuales siempre activos en los que muchas personas pueden interactuar entre sí y con objetos digitales mientras operan representaciones virtuales, o avatares, de sí mismos. Piense en una...
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Shopping bags are getting heavier – on your wallet.AP Photo/Mark LennihanConsumer prices soared in October 2021 and are now up 6.2% from a year earlier – higher than most economists’ estimates and the fastest increase in more than three decades. At this point, that may be no surprise to most Americans, who are seeing higher...
New research in fruit flies elucidates how the genes that direct animal body shape work.Vaclav Hykes/EyeEm via Getty ImagesWhy do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we share 99% of our DNA with chimps, our faces and bodies look quite different from each other.
While human body shape and appearance have clearly changed during...
Will anodyne reporting from the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics play into China's propaganda efforts? Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesOn the morning of Aug. 14, 1936, two NBC employees met for breakfast at a café in Berlin. Max Jordan and Bill Slater were discussing the Olympic Games they were broadcasting back to the United States – and...