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10 Reasons I’m Very Excited To Be Here About BET’s “The New Edition Story”
Tonight, the first part of BET’s three-part miniseries, “The New Edition Story,” debuts. If you don’t think I’ll be glued to my television tonight at 9pm, you’re huffing glue. It’s been a good long while since I’ve been this excited about a biopic. I still have the “New Edition –Past and Present” VHS tape and…
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10 Reasons Donald Glover Was Right About Migos’ “Bad and Boujee”
I shall not pretend to be a big fan of Migos. In fact, I’ve spent more time being confounded by their inability to disappear into the hip-hop ether than I have enjoying their trapcoctions. Also, the fact that these are some “trappers” from Gwinnett County – aka “the North, that way” aka where you move…
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Jeff Sessions’ Confirmation Hearings Were Trump's America In A Nutshell
Time permitting; I watch quite a bit of reality television. I’m partial to the Love & Hip Hop series that VH1 and Mona Scott-Young so graciously stream into my living room on Monday nights. You’ll never find me defending the shenanigans of anybody on the show; for me, it exists as a form of mindless…
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An Interview with Dr. Regina Bradley, Who Teaches A Class On Outkast
As Black folks continue to do awesome things, we will continue to highlight Black folks doing awesome things. Today is one of those days. Everybody, please turn your books to the Book of Outkast, chapter 2, verse 1, and let’s put our hands together for Dr. Regina Bradley, Ph.D. PJ: I was up on Facebook…
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Is Being A Writer One Of Your Goals This Year? Here's Some Help.
Hi! My name is Panama Jackson. You may remember me from such do-it-yourself manuals as “Fuck You IKEA, I’m Going To Target Next Time, But Since We’re Here, Let’s Put This UmLaungheffensweisen Together So I Can Put This Nespresso Machine Somewhere” and “Let’s Build A Thing: The Guide To Guiding Through The Process of Building…
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2016 Sucked For A Lot Of People. Damon Young Is Not One Of Them.
By most accounts, 2016 was balls. So many of our favorite celebrities bought the farm. Trump was elected. It was so bad that even perennial Race Draft offeree Don Lemon said that it was an awful year, prompting his bosses to cut his mic after announcing how “lit” he was while in New Orleans for…
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You Were Probably Going To See Hidden Figures Anyway, But Go See Hidden Figures.
I feel like I’m in a pretty enviable position in life. Since I was 18-years-old, I’ve been surrounded by Black people who are actively involved in STEM fields. I have several friends with STEM PhDs, including one who writes for VSB on occasion. Two of my closest friends in life are PhDs in biomedical engineering/biology…
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My TI-83 Graphing Calculator Is The Real MVP and My STEM Folks Know What I'm Talking About
In the summer of 1997, right after graduating from high school, I was offered the opportunity to participate in a pre-freshman summer program at Morehouse College (my eventual alma mater) directed at those of us entering the school as science, math, or engineering majors. It was called Center of Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering…
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Are Politics More Divisive Than Race? Survey Says…GTFOH.
Yesterday morning I read an article in the Washington Post’s “Express” mini-paper called “Political shopping lists” about how the most recent political campaign has increased divisiveness to the point of affecting people’s shopping choices as folks try to bubble inward with only similar beliefed and minded people. This article made mention of “Hamilton” (you all remember…
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An Ode To Donny Hathaway and "This Christmas"
If you know like I know you don’t want to step to this Christmas season doesn’t officially begin until the first time I play Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas”, his 1970 single (that he wrote with Nadine McKinnor) that tanked upon release but over time has become as vital to the Christmas season as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want…
