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The signed plastic crown from the 1997 "K. O.N.Y." (King of New York) portrait session, along with several other iconic pieces of hip-hop history, are officially going on sale, courtesy of Sotheby's first-ever hip-hop auction. The full lineup includes Salt-N-Pepa's Push It jackets, a collection of 22 love letters that Tupac Shakur wrote to his high school sweetheart, and a DJ Ross One art installation titled "The Wall of Boom," which features 32 vintage boomboxes that work as a functioning sound system. In addition to physical artifacts, the auction will also offer unique hip-hop experiences to bid on, such as a virtual wine tasting with Big Daddy Kane or a private writing lesson and studio session with The God MC Rakim Allah. Since the auction is meant to celebrate hip-hop's history and cultural impact, a portion of the proceeds that Sotheby's makes will be donated to Building Beats — a non-profit organization that offers DJ programs to low-income youth in New York — along two Queens Public Library Foundation programs coordinated by music video director and DJ, Ralph McDaniels.

"I'm quitting because I can no longer stomach contributing to an organization that is profiting off hate in the U. S. and globally," wrote Ashok Chandwaney in the letter obtained by the Washington Post. "[T]he absence of them in the company's approach to hate has eroded my faith in this company's will to remove it from the platform," wrote Chandwaney. Every day 'the looting starts, the shooting starts' stays up is a day that we choose to minimize regulatory risk at the expense of the safety of Black, Indigenous, and people of color," wrote Chandwaney. It seems that Facebook hasn’t found the business value to be had in aggressively pursuing the existing credible strategies to remove hate from the platform..." Chandwaney's resignation letter concluded that since pressure from Facebook's employees, consultants, customers, and society at large hasn't compelled it to act swiftly against hate, the only thing that might would be government intervention.

While, it's hard to argue that the sudden resurrection of Emperor Sheev Palpatine aka Darth Sidious — and his status as the galaxy's #1 evil zombie granddad — felt awkwardly shoehorned in. Now Daisy Ridley just revealed to Josh Gad, Wednesday's guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live, that actually, Rey Nobody-Palpatine-Skywalker was one point Rey Kenobi. Gad — who Ridley invited for a set visit with a stern warning that watching her shoot that day would spoil the movie's biggest twist — asked her if she always knew that Rey was Palpatine's granddaughter. Josh Gad has as good an idea as anyone how this was all supposed to fit together.

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