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Why Thirsty White Women Like Leah McSweeney Are A Menace To Society, Explained
Who is Leah McSweeney? Leah McSweeney is apparently a person who exists on Earth. I assume she possesses functional limbs, a measure of sentience, and perhaps even a social security number, but I could be wrong. Why is she in the news today? During an episode of her Improper Etiquette podcast, McSweeney accused Michael Che of…
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How The Fuck Do We Stop Trump From Being "Normalized" When Literally EVERYTHING He Says And Does Is Absurd?
For the past year or so — and particularly over the past three months — the idea that we (normal people) need to do everything within our power to prevent Donald Trump from being normalized has been a consistent theme. As normal people, it is our duty to remain steadfast and to not allow the…
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Brooke Obie Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love
After a not-really-all-that-brief-at-all hiatus, The Writing Ass Chick We Love series returns with the homie Brooke Obie. We’ve known each other since we worked together at EBONY.com, and I’ve read and admired your work in the past. But, in preparing for this feature, I visited your personal site (brookeobie.com) for the first time, and read your…
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This Embrace Between Brian Tyree Henry and Keith Stanfield Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Between Moonlight’s win and Tracee Ellis Ross going Peak Tracee Ellis Ross with her win and her speech and her joy and her dress (and her dress and her dress and her dress) and Issa Rae not winning (yet) but reminding us that we probably should get used to seeing her at these types of…
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Everything Makes Sense If You Accept That White People Just Want Everyone And Everything Dead
Although the best and most memorable part of The Usual Suspects occurs in the last five minutes, when Agent Kujan puts the pieces on the bulletin board together and slowly realizes that Verbal Kint is in fact Keyser Soze, my favorite part comes a half hour or so before that scene. Dean Keaton and the…
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Rebecca Ferguson's Blatant Trolling Of Donald Trump Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Unless some unforeseen and arbitrarily specific and fortuitous calamity happens between now and January 20th, rendering him unable to hold office, Donald Trump will officially be President of the United States. Typing those words out, seeing them on the page, repeating that sentence aloud, and thinking about what those words put together in that sequence…
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Dr. Umar Johnson And The Hotep Civil War, Explained
Ok, so I’ve seen you reference “Hoteps” before — with quizzes, video content, and even the way you conjugate certain verbs — but I don’t think I’ve ever quite seen a clear definition or explanation on what makes a hotep a hotep. Would you mind providing one? No problem! In this context, Hotep refers to…
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Black Man Who Wants To Be Dominican Dates Puerto Rican Who Wants To Be Black
I was away from my computer for much of the day on a journey that took me to quite a few places, including The Container Store. Which although I’d never actually been there until today, has always fascinated me. I first heard about it in a Bill Burr stand-up routine over a decade ago, in…
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Donald Glover's Atlanta Was A Love Letter To Black People, And The Year's Best And Most Important Show
Three moments from Atlanta keep coming back to me when attempting to gather and articulate my thoughts about this show. 1. Black Justin Bieber pitted against Paper Boi in the celebrity basketball game, calling for the ball and unsuccessfully trying to get his teammate’s attention with “Nigga! Nigga!” And then, fed up that he’s being ignored, breaking…
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Is Mike Tomlin A Great Coach? A (Very, Very, Very, Very) Quick Survey
Last week, concussion-ridden jack-o-lantern with curious sentience Terry Bradshaw stated that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was a “nice” coach and “great cheerleader” but not a great coach. This, of course, is the same Tomlin who’s amassed a 102–57 record in his 10 years with the Steelers, is the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl,…
