Check out a new fan-made video for ISSA's "Reach the Starz" single on The Skanner's You Tube Channel. The Senagalese-born, Portland State grad released the "Reach the Starz" mixtape in 2010, featuring a remix of Rihanna's "Rude Boy."

Serge Severe is releasing a free mixtape "Severe Over Premier Mixtape" mixed by DJ Wels of Style Molestors and Animal Farm.

From creating his seminal Def Jam Recordings to writing his New York Times best-seller "Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success," Russell is recognized globally for his influence and entrepreneurial approach to both business and philanthropy. Here, he talks about his new book, "Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All," a how-to tome which champions meditation over materialism as the path to true wealth.

In "The Rage of a Privileged Class," Ellis Cose carefully chronicled the assortment of frustrations experienced by educated Blacks upon entering the corporate world. In "12 Angry Men," a dozen brothers are allowed to give full vent to their feelings about another indignity ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Promising to usher in a new era in 3-D entertainment, Nintendo says its glasses-free handheld 3DS will go on sale on March 27 in the U.S. for $250. That's the same price that the revolutionary Wii console cost when it went on sale in 2006.

On Jan. 8, the Portland Art Museum opened "Safety in Numbers? Images of African American Identity and Community." Drawn from the Museum's collection and private lenders, the exhibition features approximately 50 prints, drawings, and photographs exploring the ways in which isolation, community, and the search for identity affected African Americans during the 20th century.

Throughout the year, Bill Foster keeps an eye out for the best films about music. Now in its 28th year, the NorthWest Film Center's Reel Music Festival is a showcase for 25 to 30 of some of the world's most interesting, most underappreciated films about musicians, performances and the world around them.

Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative public intellectual dedicated to democracy ... Here, he discusses his participation in "America's Next Chapter," a forum hosted by Tavis Smiley where a panel of luminaries will wrestle with the question, "How do we make America as good as its promise?"

U.S. District of Oregon Judge Robert E. Jones  sentenced rapper Kenny Mack to more than seven years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

DETROIT (AP) -- Aretha Franklin says the undisclosed ailment that led the Grammy Award-winning singer to have surgery in Detroit has been resolved. But she's not saying what was wrong.