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Melania Trump Says Her Husband Isn't Hitler. Which Totally Makes Me Think He's Actually Hitler
There’s a brunch party I plan on attending Saturday. There will be people there. Many of whom I will know. Some I will not. Some of these some will (probably) introduce themselves to me. And some I might introduce myself to. The start of those conversations will probably look something like this: “Hey, are you…
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Five Thoughts On The Launch Of ESPN's The Undefeated
1. All — literally every single one — of the Black people I know who happen to work in media in some capacity people have anticipated the launch of The Undefeated, the long-awaited ESPN-backed site intersecting race, sports, and culture. Some excitedly. Some cynically. (Some both.) But the level of interest — which, for various reasons, vacillates…
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Here Is the Darth Becky Mount Rushmore
It’s been a few weeks since Beyoncé turned the entire Internet into a collection of underqualified Easy Rawlinses—theorizing, guessing, hypothesizing and attempting to deduce the identity of Becky With the Good Hair. (The verdict? Maybe it was Rachel Ray. Maybe it was a MacGuffin. And maybe it was just Beyoncé’s new way of saying Sasha…
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A Leaked Email Exchange Between Drake And The Beard He Just Cut Off
Our crack source team has been able to find multiple leaked email conversations between celebrities such as Drake, Kanye, Drake, Meek Mill, President Obama, and Drake. They outdid themselves this time, though, by finding a conversation Drake recently had with the beard he just cut off. A condensed version of the conversation is below: From: [email protected]:…
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Great Hashtags For All The Guys Who Weren't Able To Participate On #BigGuyTwitter Day
It’s Thursday, which means Black America is finally recovering from all of the thirst induced (and thirst exposed) Tuesday when #BigGuyTwitter — a celebration of unusually tall and large men — led to widespread digital dehydration. (And, just in case the parchedness hadn’t fully permeated, #BigGuyTwitter eventually led to #BigDickTwitter — which I will not…
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George Zimmerman Reminds Us (Again) That Nothing Has Killed Him, Yet
Every several months or so, George Zimmerman, a congealed collection of the pus escaping from a surgically lanced rectum boil, reminds us that he’s still not dead. He has become especially good at this; at inching his way to the recesses of our collective consciousness. And then, right when he’s on the precipice of abject irrelevance, of…
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There's A Video Called "Hoteps Hoteppin" And You Should Watch It Right Now
Why? Well because the first 90 seconds is a great (and hilarious) answer for anyone who asks “What exactly is a hotep? I don’t get it.” And because it was created by Radha Blank, who goes by RadhaMUSprime, writes for Empire, and actually has things like “she’s a GhostFace-meets-Moms-Mabley mash up” and “You can expect…
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On Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Very Real Danger Of "Writing While Black"
I wouldn’t dare compare my level of popularity to the very real (and much scarier) fame Ta-Nehisi Coates possesses. But when reading his “On Homecomings” yesterday — where he lamented that he was forced to back out of buying his dream house in Brooklyn because of safety concerns stemming from his address being widely publicized — two recent…
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4 Beloved Contemporary Classics That Would Be Hated if They Came Out Today
I was late to the Love Jones train. Now, being late to things isn’t something that’s particularly uncommon with me. I think I was the last person on earth without a cellphone (didn’t get one until 2002), I started binge-watching Game of Thrones last spring, and I didn’t realize the Weeknd was just one person…
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An Investigation On Why Good Sex Sometimes Sounds Exactly Like Mac And Cheese Being Stirred
It is an indisputable fact that sex, when its good, often sounds eerily similar to a serving spoon stirring a pot of macaroni and cheese. This is something I first noticed over a decade ago while running an afterschool program and taking a trip to the kitchen where the daily meal was prepared. And seeing it…
