| No Images? Click here   Former first lady Michelle Obama is embracing the role the Internet endearingly assigned to her as the “forever first lady.”“I know you have everything it takes to succeed,” Obama told around 8,000 high school students attending the 2018 College Signing Day at Temple University in Philadelphia.“I know that you are me, and if I can be standing here as your forever first lady, then you can do anything you put your mind to,” she added.Current occupants of the White House may not appreciate the moniker that Obama used for herself ― which folks online and the event’s host Nick Cannon have previously called her ― but the students greeted her quip with rapturous applause. In case you missed it
 What's trending Closed mouths don't get fed.So, when Temple University student Sylvia Wilson found out “Black Panther” star Michael B. Jordan was filming “Creed 2” on her Philadelphia campus, she cheekily direct-messaged him on Instagram, asking if she could buy him a smoothie in exchange for a photograph.To Wilson’s astonishment, Jordan actually responded to the Tuesday message — and ended up briefly hanging out with Wilson and her friends. Wilson later shared a few photographs of the encounter to Twitter.Yup, we're jealous. On April 26, the hip-hop world watched as singer and businesswoman Kelis finally shared her story about the dissolution of the marriage to one of the most conscious and notable rappers of our time, Nas. She spoke of the physical abuse she suffered at the hands of the man that was my personal barometer for what I considered hip-hop. I had to remind myself to breathe as she spoke. Through her interview, I was being reintroduced to Nas, the rapper I’d fallen in love with. My thoughts swirled and landed on the first time I heard Nas rap about his divorce from Kelis. In the song “Bye Baby” from his album “Life is Good,” Nas never mentioned physical abuse, but he noted her distrust of him and he shared a few lines about the money he spent on her. He ended the song by rapping: “Next go round I hope I pick the truest type, and watch me do it all again — it’s a beautiful life. Goodbye.” These words hold new meaning for me now. The idea that a woman can endure so much ― abuse, infidelity, cruelty ― and still not be considered “true” is an infuriating and endless cycle of manipulation that traps women in one-sided love affairs with men who will always demand more of them, but who will never be satisfied. Commitment, dependability and loyalty in relationships are important and necessary. But the often-rapped ideology that devotion must come up-front, with no questions asked and no expectation of reciprocation, is dangerous.
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