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For Chloe x Halle, Being on Grown-ish Is the Best and Smartest Marketing of Their Music Ever
Grown-ish is an awesome television show set against the backdrop of a fictitious California University. We get to follow the life of Zoey Johnson (everybody’s fave, Yara Shahidi) after she graduated from high school (and Black-ish) as she learns to navigate life and love as an almost adult. The show addresses everything from social media…
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Regina King Was Awesome in Seven Seconds; Seven Seconds Was Not As Awesome as Regina King
****SPOILER ALERT: THIS WRITE-UP WILL HAVE SPOILERS.**** Netflix’s original show Seven Seconds is the second television show that I watched purely because of the reactions on my social media timelines, with the first being This Is Us. I knew Regina King was in it and she’s a national treasure, but I had no idea what…
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Church Overflow Rooms: Do You Hate Them or Nah?
Another Easter, another trip to the overflow room at church. What’s the overflow room at church? It’s the room you are herded into when you don’t get there early enough to sit in the main sanctuary with the rest of the saints. Some churches, like mine, have several. Let me start by saying I don’t…
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Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Breakfast Club Interview Is Why Young People Need Mentors
For an entire hour yesterday, I watched The Breakfast Club interview with Daniel Hernandez, better known to folks under 35 25 as Tekashi or Tekashi 6ix9ine or, officially, per his recent Day69 album release, as 6ix9ine. He’s the current self-proclaimed king of New York, something that used to matter back when niggas would pull your…
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Why Do Some of You Suck So Much at Parking?
Every day I get reminders about the inadequacies of public driving instruction in this country. It never fails. I’ll come home, preparing to park my behemoth Suburban along my street—I have on-street parking—and some individual for whom parking in a neighborly way is more inconvenient than economical will put a tiny-ass car smack in the…
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8 Things Parents With Little Kids Are Up On That Other People Don’t Talk About at Brunch
To have children is to wade into a world of acceptable and appropriate programming and household items. Long gone are the days of blasting 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny” at 9 a.m. to get the blood flowing. Nope, now it’s tossing a kid an iPad and praying they’ll sit there quietly for at least…
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Kanye West Was Right. Also, Rick Santorum Is an Idiot
Rick Santorum is an idiot. The former senator from Pennsylvania and potential GOP presidential nominee is making Kanye West, who we’ve all thought has lost several sets of marbles throughout his life, look like a high prophet. Back in 2015, Kanye West received the VMA Vanguard Award from MTV and went on an 11-minute speech…
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What to Write About When You Can’t Think of Anything to Write About
Are you a writer without anything to write about? It happens, homie. Some days, you just don’t have anything. You’ve scoured the deepest recesses of your mind and skimmed through all of your favorite news outlets, but nothing tickles your fancy, and you need your fancy tickled to work. You’ve gotten to the point where…
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If You Could Be in a Black Stage Play, What Would You Call It?
If you are related to black people, there’s a better-than-100 percent chance that somebody in your family has gone to at least one chitlin circuit play (but more likely several). My parents have been to multiple Tyler Perry plays, something I’m sad to say that I’ve never had the pleasure (?) of doing myself. The…
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LeBron James Has a Biomechanist. Do You Have One? I Don’t
LeBron James is a freak of nature. Sure, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s (I’m not ashamed to admit I had to look up how to spell his name, gave up trying to get it right, and copied and pasted it) nickname is the Freak, but LeBron James? Bruh. It makes no sense that he’s able to play at…
