“There’s a kind of cultural matrix where the music of African Americans has a certain kind of code of [living] with death at the door. If you want to trivialize that you’re going to say you’re going to party like it’s 1999.” (from 2013)

It has more to do with how the brain is wired than a lack of discipline.

Russell Simmons gives tips for defending the plant-based diet that some people love to hate.

Statues, monuments, mass performances, and more from the capital city of North Korea

Economists note two setbacks to our hardworking culture: less of a social life, and possibly worse health conditions. (from 2014)

Dating isn’t dead, it has just evolved.

The castle is styled on typical French medieval chateau-fort, modeled on designs from the 13th century, and is being built using techniques and materials available to masons and builders 800 years ago.

The earliest Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans date back to the 17th century.

An excerpt from a documentary on LGBTQ Syrians who are advocating for better representation

"Rock wasn’t art, it was product, designed to transfix through its brute effect on human physiology." (from 2015)

The earliest recorded use of the word “weekend” occurred in 1879 in an English magazine called Notes and Queries. (from 2014)

Will paranoia reduce misbehavior, or will humans be humans and maintain our blithe and blundering ways?

To be classified as a weekend warrior, one must stuff the recommended weekly exercise requirement of 150 minutes or more into one or two days rather than spreading it out evenly over the week. (from 2014)

“Long before Trump was a player on the political scene, long before he was a Republican, these people existed and these problems existed.”

According to 2015 report, which surveyed nearly 56,000 adults who earned bachelor’s degrees between 1940 and 2015, 55 percent of black HBCU graduates say their college prepared them well for life after graduation, compared to 29 percent of non-HBCU college graduates.