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The Black Mainstream: Black Television Theme Songs
What show had the best theme song? Which one had the worst? And why is Michael Harriot trolling us all?
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Ya Know, I Never Thought Arsenio Hall Dissed De La Soul on The Arsenio Hall Show
A comment made by the famous talk-show host set off a whole campaign on a GOAT hip-hop album, De La Soul Is Dead
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The Black Mainstream: Black Famous
Who is the most Black famous person you can think of? Wait…what even is Black famous?
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The Black Mainstream: Black Hair
There is no conversation about Blackness without a conversation about Black hair.
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Welcome to The Black Mainstream
A week of Black celebration dedicated to parts of our culture that are for us, by us and about us. In essence, another Black experience.
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I'm Happy That Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates Are Going to Howard. Now, Howard Folks Get to Be More Insufferable. Yay
From one ‘elite’ HBCU graduate to a legion of others up in Washington, DC…congratulations.
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11 Thoughts, Prayers and Concerns About the Verzuz 'Battle' Between OG Bobby Brown and OG Keith Sweat
The two R&B legends went head-to-head and it was as entertaining as expected, often in unexpected ways.
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'Wanna Battle You'll Be Baffled at the Stuff Stated': In Tribute to Gift of Gab, One of My Favorite Hip-Hop Lyricists Ever
Gift of Gab, the rapping half of West Coast hip-hop group Blackalicious, died on June 18 at the age of 50.
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'I'm Still Spending Money from '88': 9 Thoughts About Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, One of the Best Albums of All Time on Its 25th Birthday
On June 25, 1996, Jay-Z released his debut album Reasonable Doubt and launched a legendary hip-hop career.
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Did You Realize That You Were a Champion In Our Eyes?
For the ‘A Song For My Father’ Father’s Day Series, Panama shares about learning more of his father and his father’s life through Kanye West’s “Champion”