The other morning, I woke up with Dobie Gray singing “Drift Away” swirling around in my head, and tears in my eyes. “Day after day I’m more confused, yet I look for the light in the pouring rain…Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul, I want to get lost in your Rock ‘n’ Roll and drift away.” I stumbled upon the song on YouTube and started to listen along, playing it through a couple of times.

Full Name: Jeffrey Atkins Profession: Rapper Biography: Ja Rule is an American rapper known for his many singles between 1999 and 2005, including Between Me and You (2000), Always on Time (2001), and Mesmerize (2002). During this period he collaborated with Christina Milan, Jennifer Lopez, and Ashanti. Rule's albums have also been successful, with Rule 3:36 (2000) and Pain Is Love (2001) both topping the Billboard 200 album charts. He has been nominated for two American Music Awards and four Grammy Awards.

Getty Images for Disney Jack Whitehall says he didn’t know that his character McGregor in “Jungle Cruise” was gay when he originally auditioned for the film. “When I first read the script, there was only a like a couple of sides,” the British actor told me at the movie’s premiere at Disneyland.

Just when MiniDV digital-tape camcorders are becoming fairly commonplace, the terrain changes again. You probably know a little about DVD camcorders, but did you know some manufacturers have decided to do away with discs and tapes altogether? Last year JVC introduced the first Everio hard-disk camcorder. Expensive and holding a paltry 4GB hard disk, the first Everio wasn’t much of a threat to the mainstream. This year, the price went down and the size of the hard drive shot through the roof.

The racial gap in homeownership in the U.S. is wider now than it was back when it was legal to refuse to sell a house to a family because they were Black. The difference is that in the ’60s, it was people who were turning minority families away; now it’s systems. “Our credit-scoring systems, our risk-based pricing systems, our automated underwriting systems, and many of the systems that we use in the housing and financial-services space are inequitable,” says Lisa Rice, 61, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA).