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Are You Enjoying This NFL Season? Ya Know, if You’re Watching It
In total, I’ve watched maybe six downs of NFL football this season. I haven’t actively been boycotting; somehow, the NFL just doesn’t seem as enticing to me as it used to, so I’ve made no effort to watch any of it. And I was an NFL stan. It’s my favorite sport to watch. Of all…
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10 Current Artists I Don’t Ever Want to Hear Sing the 1st Verse of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ (Since That’s the Only Verse Y’all Know … Shit, Me Too)
Before we get going, let me be very clear: I’m a fan of every artist I’m including on this list. With that being said, c’mon, son. Also, I don’t believe that you have to be a “church-strong” singer to be considered a good singer. Being able to use your voice is just as important as…
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Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope Is 20. It’s Still Dope AF
On Oct. 7, 1997, Janet Jackson’s sixth studio album and her fourth STRAIGHT BANGER in a row (following Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and Janet.), The Velvet Rope, was released to the masses. That means it is fixin’ to turn 20 years old. I remember going to Tower Records on Peachtree Road in the Buckhead section of…
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10 Black Things I Did While Watching Last Night’s Super-Black Season 4 Premiere of Black-ish
After last night, the ABC show Black-ish should change its name to Black-AF. Kenya Barris and crew decided that they wanted the crown for blackest prime-time television episode of all time (appropriately titled “Juneteenth”) and basically created a live-action version of a super-black episode of Family Guy complete with musical numbers, the Roots and the…
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What the Hell Happened to The Breaks?
As a hip-hop head who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, I pretty much consume all things related to the time period. If there’s a documentary about hip-hop, I’m watching it. I devoured Netflix’s bank-busting The Get Down and loved the first half so much that I implored everybody to get down with The…
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I Played 2-Hand Touch Football This Weekend. I’m Probably Not Doing That Shit Again
On Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, I engaged in a lighthearted game of two-on-two touch football with a couple of my closest friends and the 11-year-old son of one of them. We played to a tie (we were playing to 2). One of my friends is in phenomenal shape; he’s contemplating competing in USA Track &…
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Dear College Choice, Who Is You and Why Come Your HBCU Rankings Don’t Make No Damn Sense?
Dear College Choice, Hi. What the fuck, B? I was recently made privy to your “Best Historically Black Colleges & Universities for 2017” list. I do not know when you dropped this list. Real talk, it doesn’t matter, but I have some very real questions about your rankings. Basically, how in the holy hell did…
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A Prayer for My Emotions as This Is Us Embarks on Its 2nd Season
Let us bow our heads in prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, so luminescent and full of zinc and other elements available only in theory via the periodic table of elements, I come to you in supplication, oh Lord. Tonight, Father God, the second season of This Is Us begins on your network, NBC, as all network…
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It’s Funny How 1 Title Can Fuck Up the Game: Thoughts on the Response to Damon’s Piece About Black Men
1. I didn’t love the title, either. The substance of the piece itself was perfectly fine—to argue and debate that would be stupid (more on this later). It’s no different from conversations many of us have in any number of spaces we congregate when sober, perhaps not wrapped up in as neat a bow as…
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The Saga of My Stolen Car: Shenanigans Ensue
The story of my stolen car doesn’t begin two weeks ago, when it was actually stolen. Like most stories, it’s much deeper than that. That’s what she said. Ahem. The story of my stolen car really begins back in August of 2012, a few months after I made the biggest purchase of my life: my…
