Snoop Dogg was a part of history when he, Dr. Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar served up real Hip-Hop at Super Bowl LVI. However, his historic moves didn’t start and end there. Before the big game, AfroTech reported that Snoop Dogg acquired his former record label Death Row Records, the label that catapulted his music career. “I am thrilled and appreciative of the opportunity to acquire the iconic and culturally significant Death Row Records brand, which has immense untapped future value,” he said in a statement to NPR. “It feels good to have ownership of the label I was part of at the beginning of my career and as one of the founding members. This is an extremely meaningful moment for me.” Then, the rap icon rocked his Death Row Chain on the Super Bowl stage in his home state ahead of the Los Angeles Rams’ championship win — marking a historic victory for not only him, but the West Coast. From headlining jam-packed arenas to all of his unique ventures, Snoop...

With the help of strangers, this Black woman will be able to fulfill her dreams of creating a safe space for other book lovers in her community. As a young girl, finding books written for girls who look like her by Black women authors was not an easy feat for Asha Grant. “When I was growing up, reading was a really huge part of how I got to understand myself,” Grant told NBC Los Angeles. “There’s a huge disservice that our entire community gets when there is an entire group of people who are missing from that narrative.” Fast-forwarding to adulthood, Grant used her passion to change this narrative by helping to provide books written by Black women for those in her community through her participation with The Free Black Women’s Library in LA. Grant would haul hundreds and hundreds of books penned by Black women around in her car. The organization eventually led to her idea of creating a bookshop catered to the same cause — providing people in her home city of Inglewood with not only...