Damon Young

8/27/21

Why Steve Harvey Should Be the Next <i>Jeopardy!</i> Host

Why Steve Harvey Should Be the Next Jeopardy! Host

He's the host America deserves and the one we need right now.

7/20/21

Yup, I Used To Believe That Georgetown University Was An HBCU. Here's Why

The basketball team was so Black that it made the university Black by osmosis

4/30/21

I'll Be Around

This month makes 10 years from the weekend I drove from Pittsburgh to D.C. for a party to celebrate both the…

4/28/21

15 Things the Pandemic Taught Me About Being an Introvert

1. No one gives a shit

4/26/21

Yeah, I Can Watch This Clip of Daniel Kaluuya and His Famous Bruvs Celebrating His Oscar Win Forever

One of the everlasting values of Saturday Night Live is that it recreates a dynamic that really only exists one…

4/19/21

Diddy Ruins Everything, Everybody

“Whoa” was a bulldozer of a track—a concussive and relentless four minutes that felt like you’d just been injected…

4/7/21

Hubert Davis Was So Close to Having a Forgettable Press Conference

The first 38 minutes of Hubert Davis’ introductory press conference as the new men’s basketball head coach at the…

3/31/21

Christians With Ashy Souls Believe That God Is Ashy, Too

While watching and admiring Lil Nas X’s mastery of Twitter over the past week, I’m reminded a bit of John Wick.…

3/24/21

I'm Not Really Into Hyperbole or Whatever but Usher's 'U Don't Have to Call' Is the Best Song Ever Made

Earlier this week, Panama Jackson refreshed and reshared a 2017 piece declaring Mark Morrison’s “Return of The Mack”…

3/17/21

Whiteness Is a Pandemic

I don’t have much to add here today that hasn’t already been said.

3/16/21

The Beard You Grow When You’re Fine With a Dollop of Racism but Not '<i>Everyone</i>, <i>Even My Barber, Knows You're Racist Now</i>' Racism

The Beard You Grow When You’re Fine With a Dollop of Racism but Not 'Everyone, Even My Barber, Knows You're Racist Now' Racism

20 Questions after watching The Bachelor finale last night while the Nets and Knicks game was on commercial breaks:

3/12/21

It Doesn't Feel Like It's Been a Year

So I was soft-hedging off my man because I knew that the ball-hander would be coming off the screen looking to pass,…

3/10/21

A List of All the Biases That Prevent Me From Considering Drake One of the Greatest Rappers Ever (Which He, Unfortunately, Is)

1. He reminds me of hotel shampoo so much that I’ve just started calling him Hotel Shampoo.

3/3/21

Did Queen Aoleon Joffer and Cleo McDowell Eventually Bone?

In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations,…

3/3/21

Creighton's Greg McDermott Told His Team to 'Stay on the Plantation' Like That's a Normal Thing People Say and I Can't Stop Laughing About It

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL…

3/1/21

The Fits of <i>Coming to America's</i> Darryl Jenks, Ranked From 'He Looks Warm' to 'WTF Is That?'

The Fits of Coming to America's Darryl Jenks, Ranked From 'He Looks Warm' to 'WTF Is That?'

In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations,…

2/25/21

28 Days of Black Joy: My Lush, Opulent, and Juicy Pandemic Beard

Can you be attracted to your own beard? Not the face it covers. Just the beard. My face is fine, I guess. It’s a…

2/19/21

The Best Example of the Sneaky Evil of Copaganda? The 'Redemption' of Reginald VelJohnson's Kid-Killing Cop in <i>Die Hard</i>

The Best Example of the Sneaky Evil of Copaganda? The 'Redemption' of Reginald VelJohnson's Kid-Killing Cop in Die Hard

When watching any television show or movie depicting police officers, it’s not hard to see why this sort of copaganda

2/18/21

After Throwing His Wife, His Dad, His State, His Country, His Name, and His Nuts Under the Bus, Ted Cruz Throws His Daughters There, Too

Has there ever been a man, real or fictional, as pathetic as Ted Cruz? That was not a rhetorical question. I’m…

2/17/21

Rush Limbaugh Died Today. Here Are Some More Sneakers I Own.

So I’d never heard of the Bergdorf Goodman store until Pusha T made a reference to it in “Higher”—which, all things…

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