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Brittney Griner's life has been filled with epic highs and lows.

As is the Spirit.Ed way, Sunday (May 5) is Cinco de Mayo and we've got a collection of cocktails to help with celebrations.

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Well, that was fast. After immediately responding to Drake’s “Family Matters” on Friday night with “meet the grahams,” Kendrick Lamar strikes again with another diss track. Saturday night, the Compton rapper kept his foot squarely on Drizzy’s neck with “Not Like Us.” This go-round, Kendrick expounds on his previous claims and running social media rumors […]

Summer music festival season has suffered its first casualty: Lovers & Friends. Late Friday night or early Saturday morning, depending on where you were, fans were disappointed to learn that Usher’s music festival would not be held in Las Vegas this year. The R&B extravaganza got the axe just hours before it was to kick […]

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If you’ve checked your social media at any point in the last 12 hours, surely your timeline is in shambles regarding the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef. And last night, both rappers took their insults to new lows by exposing each other’s alleged truths. It began when Drake released “Family Matters” alongside a music video […]

For the 150th Kentucky Derby, Spirit.Ed and CASSIUS has a roundup of cocktails mae for taking in the first leg of the Triple Crown.

Last Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the 20-year sentence for child porn and child sex trafficking handed down to disgraced singer and songwriter R. Kelly.  Two days before that happened, Benzino, for some inexplicable reason, decided to solidify himself as a protector of sexual predators and a person who is the absolute worst at […]

Uber competitive NBA players can always get chippy, but the intensity of the playoffs takes things to another level. And one player who’s not afraid to let his emotions fuel his game is Patrick Beverley. He let his Milwaukee Bucks losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Indiana Pacers push him over […]

The Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef is still going strong and the Compton rapper is the latest to respond. He dropped “euphoria” on streaming services last week, but his latest retort, titled “6:16 in LA,” has been purely posted on social media. The title’s name comes from Drake’s time stamp records that are often named […]

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Kendrick Lamar — “6:16 in LA” Kendrick Lamar doubled down on his “euphoria” diss with “6:16 in LA.” Released on social media, the track is a brief follow-up that offers more taunts and details about the ongoing feud. “Are you finally ready to play ‘Have you ever?’ Let’s see / Have you ever thought that […]

As HBCUs continue to get the respect (and funding) they deserve, the schools are still hitting many first-time milestones. That now includes Xavier University of Louisiana which has just inked an agreement with Ochsner Health to establish a medical school. The number of HBCUs with medical schools has been slowly growing, making Xavier only the […]