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By Performing at Trump’s Inauguration, Mississippi Valley State Will Fumble the Bag…And Everyone’s Respect
When we first heard the news, we thought the band was securing the bag. Nope.
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Why Kendrick Lamar and the West Coast Owned 2024
In his beef with Drake, Lamar made it about his city…not about himself.
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13 Black Christmas Specials to Stay Home and Watch During the Holidays
You may be getting older, but these seasonal movies and television shows never do.
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Conservative White Folks Have Gotten Bold Since Trump’s Re-Election, And It’s Worse Than Before…
And there’s no place to hide from them, because they’re everywhere.
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Is the Cold-Blooded UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Getting This Much Love Because He’s a White Man?
There’s just no damn way a Black man would get the same treatment.
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Hot Sauce and Chitlins: 5 Things You’ll Find At A Blackity Black Thanksgiving
If these aren’t present for your Turkey Day, it’s all wrong and you need to find somewhere else to be.
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What's Ailing Bishop Eddie Long?
I’m concerned about Bishop Eddie Long. In August of 2016, Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, went viral after video showed that he’d lost an alarming amount of weight. “People are asking, ‘Bishop, what happened to all of you?’” he said on a video posted to Facebook that has since been taken…
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The Top 10 Racists of 2016 Not Named Trump
“Sup with ya man’s?” I knew Kanye West had done something wrong. The text was from a frat brother I never hear from unless we are debating Ye’s music or behavior. “What did Ye do now?” I replied. He sent a link of Kanye walking into Trump Tower looking like Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man.…
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The Black Christmas Music Debate: If ‘Santa Baby’ Isn’t on Your List, Your List Is a Fraud
I love Christmas … but I really love Christmas music. I’m the kind of guy who will start listening to the Yuletide classics immediately after Halloween—and only if I wait that long. While I love the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “Christmas Time Is Here,” and I can appreciate Frank Sinatra’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,”…
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Frank’s Hot Sauce and 9 Other Black Thanksgiving Faux Pas That Will Earn You a Side Dish of Side Eye
I have a complicated relationship with Thanksgiving. It has historically been framed as a day, every year, when we are gluttonous to celebrate the fact that white people were saved by Native Americans. Therefore, it is only fitting that Thanksgiving, like the word “n—ga,” has become one of the blackest things in America. As with…
