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Babies Aren’t Birth Control; Finding Day Care Is Birth Control
There really is no way to prepare for a baby. Not necessarily the baby itself, but the impending change to your life once you become a parent. It’s one of the few instances in life when you may think you know, but you truly have no idea. See, even though they know, show and care…
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Why Spike Lee and Don Lemon Should Do a Traveling Tour Together
Oh, Spike. Everybody is currently aware that in a few weeks, Spike Lee’s latest foray into black hypertension, Chi-raq, will be released. The trailer hit the Internet with a bang and had the e-streets and the real streets talking. Some folks are already offended by the movie because of the implied depiction of Chicago. Others think…
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Women of Bennett College, Don’t Give Up on Morehouse
Over the past week, some simmering tensions have reached a fever pitch, ignited by an article written by Bennett College alumna Aziza Jackson that calls for the end of the brother-sister relationship between Morehouse College and Bennett College because Morehouse sucks. While Jackson takes out most of her frustrations on her fellow “brothers” from Morehouse, she…
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Empire, the Thrill Is Gone
Empire is a huge show. Season 1’s success caught everybody by surprise, including the people who created the show, and you cannot convince me otherwise. I even claimed, hyperbolically, that Empire was the best show on television for a number of paradoxical reasons. Each week, last season, the viewership grew, and for good reason. With…
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A Letter to a Friend About Becoming a Parent
Dear Homie, If my math is correct, you’re set to become a father next month. Congratulations. There are few times in the life of a person more exciting (and nerve-racking) than the birth of your first child! As your friend and brother, I couldn’t be happier for you and the wife on this life-changing event.…
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A Man’s Take on Being Mary Jane
I remember when Being Mary Jane first hit the BET lineup. I didn’t love the show, but I also didn’t dislike it. I largely watched the show because of black Twitter and the tremendous shade tossed the way of Pauletta Patterson, aka Mary Jane Paul. Mary Jane was one of those women who never saw a bad…
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Why Listening to Adele’s ‘Hello’ Will Ruin Your Life in a Good Way
Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard and saw Adele’s new video for her first single off the upcoming November release 25, entitled “Hello.” She’s coming for you. She’s coming for me. She’s coming for us all. Adele saw that Taylor Swift was set to gross (on average) $1 million a day this year and…
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Review: The Game’s The Documentary 2 Is the Album I Wish Kendrick Lamar Had Released
If you’re a hip-hop fan, then you are as familiar with the trajectory of the Game as any other artist out there. Game hit the scene in 2005 with his debut album, The Documentary, which is easy to call a classic for its incredible beats and top-shelf lyricism and the effect of the 50 Cent/G-Unit juggernaut…
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Why I Feel Some Kind of Way About the Pope Meeting Kim Davis
I’m not a Catholic. I have a few rosaries, but mostly because rappers kept wearing them in videos as they referenced Jesus while pouring champagne over some woman’s head at the club, which is the stupidest thing ever. Champagne is not cheap at the club. Especially not the kind they’re pouring on models in the…
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Review: New Fetty Wap Album Might as Well Be a Long Remix of ‘Trap Queen’
I am a hip-hop head and could sometimes be considered a backpacker a few Tuesdays a month, but I’m far from being a purist. I don’t hate all of this new “rap” the way that people who swear by Black Moon on Facebook do. I listen to Rich Homie Quan and laugh at Young Thug with the…
