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The Universal "He Fine"/"He Ain't Shit" Matrix
Twice in the last 24 hours, I’ve received a link to a video about the so-called “Universal Hot/Crazy Matrix.” The video features a guy who looks like he wants to sell you Windows 98, telling audiences “everything a young man needs to know about women.” It’s a self-developed theory based on dude’s “46 years of…
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Old "Bae" Becomes New Flavor For Whites
In this, the 2014th Year of Our Lord, on the 23rd day of the month of July, at 6:55 p.m. EST, TIME Magazine ran a story. It’s headline read: “This is What Bae Means.” Yes, stupid stories happen. Stupid headlines even more frequently. But TIME Magazine, once a premier weekly magazine (the first of its…
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Street Harassment: The Black Girl's Bat Mitzvah
Ask any Black woman you know, and she’ll probably tell you street harassment has happened to her. Ask any teenage Black girl you know, and she probably thinks it’s supposed to. Street harassment, in its own sick way, was the way I figured out I wasn’t a little girl any more. Even though, at 15…
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On Head Scarves, Bed Time, and Women's Hair
While I rep Philly to the death of me, there is a very big part of me that was born in Washington, D.C. The best parts of me come alive when I’m in the District, probably because most of the friends I love best in the world have scattered themselves somewhere between Baltimore and Alexandria. Coming…
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America's Annoying "So…What Are You?" Game
I got an issue with this. And this. I’m going to try to put my finger on why. Bear with me. So the idea that “the face of America is changing” is one that keeps popping up in reputable news outlets. This, of course, makes me wonder whose face was “the” face of America, the…
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You Know, Leaving Him Is An Option, Too
“A lot of chicks really don’t have a choice, to be honest.” “Wait, what? How do you figure that?” “I mean, I’m just coming from a place where I know so many of my friends who are still smashing chicks on the side. If every chick threw their dude in the bushes for cheating, no…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
