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Culture Society 2024

Black History Month we’re back and better!

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This Day in Hip Hop

This day in 2010, Nicki Minaj releases her Debut Album “Pink Friday”.

After signing to Birdman and Cash Money Nicki Minaj went straight to working on her debut album. Pink Friday debuted selling 375,000 copies in the first week which is second all time for a female hip hop artist.

With Pink Friday and Nicki’s success it propelled female rap to what we see today. A true trailblazer and trend setter.

💿 No. 2 on Billboard 200
💿 3X Platinum

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Today in History 📍

Omega Psi Phi was founded inside the science building of Howard university

Notable Alumni: Jesse Jackson, Langston Hughes and Michael Jordan

Happy Founders Day 🎊

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Drake X J Cole

Drake and J Cole will be touring together in 2024, here are the city’s they will be attending

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13 year old lighting up his future one candle at a time

Meet the owner of Smell of Love Candles, Alejandro Buxton.

Alejandro gained inspiration to start his candle company from seeing how much his mom loved candles but constantly threw them out because of headaches and his asthma. By the end of 2022 Alejandro sold over 16,000 of his candles.

Recently Alejandro was invited to the Drew Barrymore show and was gifted $10,000 by her and Daymond John. Alejandro will put the money towards candle supplies and underfunded classrooms.

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Legendary Sample

Did you know @jermainedupri sampled Luther Vandross “If Only For one Night” for Bow Wow’s and Omarion’s “Let me Hold You”?

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This Day in Television 📺

This Day in 1969, Sesame Street premiered on television.

Sesame Street was the first children’s show on television to have a program that used educational goals for its content.

Sesame Street main focus was to reach low-income children and prepare them for school and life.

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ThrowBack Thursday

👤 @Tyrese
🎶 Sweet Lady

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Throwback Thursday

👤 Aaliyah
🎶 Rock The Boat

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This day in Films 🎥

Today in 1998, the Film “Belly” was released to theaters starring DMX, Nas, Method man alongside Taral Hicks and T-Boz. This Film was also the directing debut for music video director Hype Williams

“Belly” Did fairly well grossing $9.6 million even with the negative reception and controversies behind the film.

Belly was an instrumental film for black culture and black people in film.

Is this one of the greatest black films ever?

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Tupac gets street named after Him

To commemorate the legendary rapper 27 years after his death, the City of Oakland renamed MacArthur Blvd, “Tupac Shakur Way”.

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Who Doesn’t love a good hbcu marching band

Southern University- “Still Fly” 🔥

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This Day in Rap📍

This day in 2018 Takeoff Released his debut solo album “The Last Rocket”

💿 Peaked at No. 4 on Billboard
💿 “Last Memory” and “Casper” made it on the top 100

R.I.P Takeoff 🚀

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This Day in Sports History 📍

This day in 1994, The Bulls retires Michael Jordans “23” after his first retirement.

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Sean Paul 🔥🔥

Sean Paul X From The Block live in Jamaica 🇯🇲 🔥

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Keith Lee is for the people

Keith’s restaurant tour hasn’t been the best in Atlanta but this restaurant experience made it worth it

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Rihanna continues to break records 🔥

Rihanna breaks the Guinness World Record with the most watched most watched Super Bowl Halftime show of all time with ove 120 million viewers breaking the record Katy Perry set in 2015.

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FLAVOR FLAV

Flavor Flave opens the Milwaukee Bucks game with the National Anthem

H/T: @Phil_Lewis_

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Class Act 🏀

After receiving the game ball from his performances after the Bucks first game, Giannis returned it to Head Coach Adrian Griffin for his first win as a head coach

H/T: @ClutchPoints Via:@Bucks

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Black Women in Tech 🔥

Kayla B. Sits down with @SymoneBeez and talks about how she clears over $300K in enterprise tech sales working for Microsoft