Black youth face a mental health crisis with suicide rates rising 53 percent over a decade. In Brooklyn, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health addresses this through barbers and stylists trained in Mental Health First Aid. These trusted community spaces provide safe conversations where people often suffer in silence. The Beyond the Stigma program also recruits youth peer leaders and engages community elders. Dr. Marilyn Fraser emphasizes that suicide prevention doesn't always require a therapist's office—sometimes it begins with conversations between people who already know and trust one another.

One hour after Jay-Z was supposed to be onstage Sunday night, almost half the Yankee Stadium crowd was still stuck outside the venue creating chaos. A few hundred people without tickets bum-rushed an entrance, prompting security to shut down all gates. At 10:15 PM, twenty thousand fans were lined up outside, and even A-listers like A$AP Rocky, Tyler the Creator, and Usher were locked out. Jay decided to wait rather than start late, not wanting to abandon fans still outside. Finally at midnight, they started the show, ending around 3 AM with fireworks.

Rapper Boosie Badazz paid a Washington lobbying firm six hundred thousand dollars to secure a federal pardon from President Trump after facing serious firearm charges. However, he was sentenced to supervised release and community service instead, avoiding prison time. Now Boosie is seeking arbitration to recover at least half the money, claiming the firm failed to deliver the promised pardon by the January deadline specified in their contract.

Stephen A. Smith says he is not running for president, but he is willing to debate President Donald Trump after Trump called him "dumb as a rock" on Truth Social over his criticism of Trump's appearance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.