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10 Things The Video For FourFiveSeconds Could Also Very Easily Be
1. An ad for Levi’s new “Naked” jeans, which would basically just be spandex with pockets and pleats. 2. The intro for a late 90’s television drama set in a high school in either Baltimore or the Bronx. This drama would have aired on Fox, it would have starred Keri Russell (as “Ms. Johnson”), Darius…
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Rooting For New England Is Like Rooting For Gout, And More Thoughts About The Super Bowl
1. The NFL football season usually ends for me when the Steelers are done playing. Whether it’s the last game of the regular season or the first game of the playoffs, when the Steelers are out, so am I. I’ll still watch a game if it happens to be on, and, depending on the game,…
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When White Liberals Attack
Doing things The Right Way — when your actions are closely aligned with what would be considered the most moral way to act — is (obviously) the right way to do things. It is often very difficult; and, in the moment, The Right Way is also often unpopular. In this context, human nature is a saboteur.…
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Kyrie Irving, Who Is Very Good At Playing Basketball, Drops Double Nickel On Damian Lillard
Kyrie Irving is very good at playing basketball. Here are the results from the last seven professional basketball games Kyrie Irving — who is very good at playing basketball — played, and how the point guards matched up against him fared. (Each game, btw, was a Cavs victory) 1/16/15 vs the LA Clippers and Chris…
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Dear Black People: It's Okay To Be Mad Selma Was Snubbed By The Academy
In the next month, you will hear, read, and possibly even talk about how Selma was largely shut out of this year’s Academy Awards. While the film was nominated for Best Picture — a category that has nine nominees and makes you wonder if Selma was placed there just so we’d shut up about it…
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This Time, Let's Not Stop Talking About Boko Haram
One of my duties for EBONY is to decide which of the day’s news stories will be published on the site. There’s only space for 10, so after sifting through the dozens of articles that populate my Facebook and Twitter feeds every morning and searching a dozen or so different news sites (The Washington Post,…
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The Cavs (Finally!) Traded Dion Waiters. I Am Ecstatic. Here's Why.
1. At the moment, Dion Waiters is not a very good NBA basketball player. This is a fact most who follow the NBA agree on. He is average to below average in pretty much every advanced metric you can name — advanced metrics were basically invented just to prove that players like Dion Waiters were…
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Pittsburgh Police Chief Says "Racism Is Bad." Some Officers Get Offended. Chief Replies "Sorry Not Sorry"
To get a better context of the environment new Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay recently entered, it would be helpful to know each of the following things: 1. Out of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country, the Pittsburgh metropolitan area is the 2nd Whitest. 2. There were 66 homicides in the city in…
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Why "Meet Me In Temecula" Is The Perfect End To This Shitty-Ass Fucking Year
1. Because “Meet Me In Temecula” is a song created by a man (@MyTweetsRealAF) who, on Christmas day, made a 35 minute drive to Temecula, California to fight someone (@SnottieDrippen) who dissed Kobe Bryant on Twitter. @Snottiedrippen didn’t show up for the fight, so naturally @MyTweetsRealAF recorded and released a diss track. 2. Because if this…
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"Anti-Police Brutality" Does Not Mean "Anti-Police"
According to published news reports, hours before Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and killed two NYPD officers, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Shaneka Thompson, in Baltimore. He also stole her iPhone. After shooting her, he boarded a Bolt Bus to New York City, and updated his Instagram account from her phone, vowing to kill cops. Minutes after following…
