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It’s Valentine’s Day so it only makes sense to include an album cover for an album about that good lovin’. Marvin…

Have you ever seen an album cover that had you at hello? For me, that album cover would be Preston Love’s Preston…

You know this album. I know this album. Your neighbor knows this album. Everybody knows this album by the Queen of…

I cannot stress to you how much I love this album cover for the Kay Gee’s 1974 album, Keep On Bumpin’ & Masterplan…

Last week, The Root dropped our nominations for the second annual The Blackest Awards, or more simply, the 2021…

To be Black (especially in America) is to know the Brothers Johnson. They had several No. 1 singles on the R&B…

You may know Amii Stewart because she had a monster disco song in 1979, “Knock On Wood.” The song made it all the…

I’ll bet if that if I didn’t tell you that this album cover was for an album by a Ghanaian artist in 1969, I’d bet…

I mean, I don’t even have to say it, but do you see this cover?? Look at all that animated Blackness permeating that…

The album cover for Queen Latifah’s sophomore album, Nature Of A Sista’, is a much better take on the album cover…

I love Betty Davis. Her string of albums in the early to mid ’70s—any of which could have easily been included in…

Black Ivory—the trio of vocalists from Harlem, N.Y.—is a group that had me at hello. Made up of multihyphenate,…

Easily doubling as both one of my favorite album covers of all time and one of the worst album covers of all time,…

Way back yonder—in late 2018—I co-founded a book club with the owners of MahoganyBooks, Derrick and Ramunda Young.…

If you listen to Black music and disco (or either/or, really) you know A Taste of Honey. They had a monster hit with…

Guess who’s back in the *CENSORED* house with some new awards for the African American crowd!!!?? If you said, it’s…

It’s February again, and you know what that means—it’s Black History Month. Well, here at VSB, we like to celebrate…

My first experience with the Nike Air Foamposite One, released in 1997—we called them Penny Hardaways or Penny’s,…

On January 8, 2021, powerhouse singer/songwriter Jazmine Sullivan released her fourth project—at a little over 32…

I’m an HBCU (historically Black college or university) enthusiast. There was a time in my life that whenever I went…