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Now, That Was a National Championship Game! Roll Tide!
I’m pretty sure most folks couldn’t have cared less about last night’s football contest between the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide and the University of Georgia’s Bulldogs to determine the 2018 collegiate National Championship. For one, both teams are in the Southeastern Conference, and if you think the SEC is overrated, this title game only…
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Dear People Who Don’t Wash Your Hands After Using the Bathroom: WTF Is Wrong With You? I Hate You
Today, on this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord 2018, I went to utilize the restroom in this public workspace that has been made available to me. Upon entering this bathroom, I noticed two gentlemen at stalls relieving themselves. I assume that’s what they were doing. They could have been drawing…
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Jimmy Jackson From Waterbury, Conn., ‘Packing That Thing, Too’ and Being Clapback-Ready Is the Blackest Thing I’ve Ever Seen This Week
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Probably not. And you probably never wanted to. So let me ask another question: Have you ever been in a situation and thought of the perfect thing to say … too late? You see, some of us out there miss our opportunities in life.…
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I Wanted to Do a Good Deed. I Talked Myself Out of It Because I Thought of All the Ways It Might Get Me Killed
Last night, while heading to drop my daughter off at her mother’s house after her martial arts class, I noticed that the lights on a car in her mother’s neighborhood were blinking on and off. It was fairly windy, so maybe a gust had set off the car alarm, though no sound was coming from…
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10 Black-Ass Things That Were Awesome About the 1st 2 Episodes of Grown-ish
Last night, the Yara Shahidi-led vehicle Grown-ish debuted. For those not in the know, it’s a spinoff from hit ABC show Black-ish that focuses on Shahidi’s character, Zoey, and her journey from super-sheltered private school student to college freshman in this millennial world. Comparisons to A Different World will undoubtedly exist, but fuck that shit.…
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10 Reasons I’m Most Likely Going to Watch Netflix’s Step Sisters
On Jan. 19, Netflix is going to set Twitter afire with the release of its original film Step Sisters. I remember when Drumline: A New Beat (effectively Drumline 2) came out on VH1 (and was terrible), black folks had a field day tearing it to shreds. But this shit right here? This shit right here,…
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If You’re Reading This, Thank You for Everything (and Also for Reading This)
On a macro level and, I think, by most objective measures, 2017 was a fairly shitty year. I don’t have the time or disposition to run down everything that went wrong, but in a nutshell: Our president sucks, Congress sucks, our white electorate sucks, white people keep white-folkin’, we lost a bevy of great people…
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10 Songs That You Just Gotta Listen to All the Way Through to Hear the Musical Magic
In 2016, Netflix released a documentary titled The Art of Organized Noize about Atlanta’s legendary Organized Noize Productions. The trio, consisting of Patrick “Sleepy” Brown, Rico Wade and Ray Murray, is responsible for creating the sound that put Atlanta on the national hip-hop map through iconic groups Outkast and Goodie Mob. While discussing how older…
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10 New Year’s Resolutions Everybody Sucks at Keeping That Have Nothing to Do With Losing Weight
New Year’s resolutions are fun. They’re also notoriously hard to sustain, and ultimately we only come up with them because other people do and we hate it when we’re at dinner and going around the table and we don’t have shit to say. So here are things many of us say that we know aren’t…
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5 Videos That Really Should Be Better, Like SZA’s ‘The Weekend’
Last week, SZA dropped a video for “The Weekend” (see below at your own risk of boredom), one of the standout tracks from her standout album, CTRL. This video is basura. It’s four straight minutes of bad art. I call it bad art because the Solange Knowles-helmed video was clearly created to be artsy and…
