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A few years ago, my family took a trip to Atlanta to celebrate my nephew’s graduation from college. We all stayed…

It’s been almost a week since Coming 2 America dropped on Amazon Prime Video. The movie–highly anticipated by most…

Ever since Ricky Baker caught a few 12-gauge shells to the legs and back in 1991's Boyz N The Hood—holy shit it…

This week at VSB, in dedication to and preparation for Friday’s release of Coming 2 America, we’ll be digging…

Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating…

I mean, bruh. If this ain’t one of the Blackest album covers of all time then I don’t know what is. Wilson Pickett…

I don’t need a ton of words to describe the way I feel about the cover for Public Enemy’s sophomore album, 1988's It…

Ain’t no way in the world this monthlong series would pass without a nod to one of the greatest albums ever that…

It all started over the past year when like many of us, I made a very hard turn into damn near exclusively buying…

The cover for jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock’s debut album, 1969's Black Woman, could have easily doubled as a movie…

The cover for Leon Thomas’ 1973 album, Full Circle, does not look like what it sounds like, to me at least. The…

There is no discussion about Black album covers, iconic or otherwise, that doesn’t include the string of album…

Max Roach was a famed jazz drummer and composer who has countless albums with various configurations of artists. His…

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly (all parts of it) has been think-pieced to death, so that’s not what’s going to…

I love the album cover for multi-hyphenate Dee Dee Bridgewater’s debut album, 1974's Afro Blue. Dee Dee is a…

Mary J. Blige’s My Life is a personal choice for me. For my money, her 1994 album is one of the best albums ever…

It’s possible that you’ve never heard of the London-group Shut Up and Dance. They were (are) a British…

Even though we’ve already let you know who won our 2021 Skippies, that does not mean that the party has stopped. The…

Friends, Romans, Countryfolks...this is one BlackAF album cover. The group, Mystique, signed to Curtis Mayfield’s…

2020 was a year. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Because this whole endeavor is about positivity, I won’t even…