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The Lie Everyone Tells You About Having a Pregnant Wife
“If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie.” —Slim Charles One of the best things about The Wire is that, even almost a decade after the last episode aired, you can still incorporate lines from the show to describe everyday situations. Order cream of chicken with wild rice at Panera Bread, and it comes…
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A Hater’s Guide to Hating Drake and Hating the ‘Hotline Bling’ Video
Who is Drake? Drake is a Jewish-Canadian Instagram model who’s known for dating Serena Williams and other women so thick that everyone else in the room is so uncomfortable. He also records and releases songs about Toronto and Spanx, apparently. One question in and you’re hating already! Why couldn’t you just say, “Drake is a…
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Anthony Mackie: The Unlikeliest Hotep
I should know better. I know that movies and television shows are movies and television shows and contain actors who are acting and not being themselves. Again, I know this. I know Joe Morton isn’t really the sociopathic head of a shadowy government agency. I know Kimberly Elise has an emotion other than “depressingly distraught.” And I know that Michael Beach is…
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A List of People Not Responsible for Damaging the Legacy of Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show
Yesterday Ebony magazine debuted the cover of its November issue. It features a picture of the Huxtables from The Cosby Show behind shattered glass, with the glass’s most prominent crack directly over Bill Cosby’s face. Naturally, this explosive cover sparked another round of conversation about “the Cosby legacy”—something The Root’s Senior Writer Kirsten West Savali examined in a…
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I Just Saw The November Cover Of EBONY Magazine, And…Well…Holy Shit
It was October of 2011. I was in New York City do to a shoot for a story in Essence Magazine. While walking to Essence, I happened to randomly bump into Jamilah Lemieux in the street. Which, considering that New York City has 21 billion people and I happened to literally walk right into one of…
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White Privilege Explained: ‘Bacon-Jalapeño Mac and Cheese’ Lover Luke Gatti Says He’s Sorry
Who is Luke Gatti? Luke Gatti is a 19-year-old student at the University of Connecticut. Do you know anything else about him? He’s quite possibly the biggest bacon-jalapeño mac and cheese enthusiast in the country. You do not love anything—your kids, your parents, your spouse, Serge Ibaka, etc.—more than Luke Gatti loves bacon-jalapeño mac and…
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How to Celebrate Columbus Day Like Columbus
Columbus Day—our annual recognition for and celebration of the man who discovered our amazing country—is finally here today. And I couldn’t be happier. Because no other holiday—not Christmas, not Thanksgiving, not even Arbor Day—is as fun to celebrate. Because while you probably can’t celebrate Easter like Jesus, you can actually celebrate Columbus Day like Christopher…
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Raven-Symoné Doesn’t Like Black-Sounding Names? How Ironic
“That’s ironic” is up there with “No, really. I’m 6 feet tall” and “Men are intimidated by me” on the short list of “Unintentionally inaccurate and misleading things people often say.” Because what’s often labeled irony is really just happenstance or coincidence. If two different exes happen to see you out while you’re on a…
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10 Drake Songs Matt Barnes Was Probably Playing While Driving to Fight Derek Fisher
Two thoughts immediately came to mind as I was reading about how Matt Barnes drove 95 miles to confront and fight Derek Fisher for hanging out with Barnes’ estranged wife, Gloria Govan. First: On the list of the “bout it”-est light-skinned black men of all time, considering Barnes’ history, he has to be No. 1…
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Cosmopolitan Was Right: The Kardashians Are The "First Family" America Deserves
“Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.” Of course, this is the iconic line from Commissioner Gordon at the end of The Dark Knight, as the Batman raced away on the Bat Bike, running from the police and also probably trying to catch the Wendy’s drive-thru before it…
