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Can Black People Be Gentrifiers?
While I was not born in the United States, I spent the bulk of my formative years in Harlem. I went to elementary school on the north end of Amsterdam Avenue and middle school on Convent Avenue. While my mom was still getting comfortable speaking English when I was younger, she found solace in the…
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The Three Types Of Men You Will Date, Based On The Black Guys In Captain America: Civil War
Last weekend, I dusted off my sweatpants and trekked to the movies to see the latest Marvel Cinematic Adventure. It was a good comic book movie. Great even. I normally have a hard time sitting in a dark room for over two hours without taking at least one solid nap but I am proud to…
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The 3 Types of Black Men You Can Date, as Defined by Captain America: Civil War
This past weekend, I dusted off my sweatpants and trekked to the movies to see the latest Marvel cinematic adventure, Captain America: Civil War. It was a good comic book movie—great, even. I normally have a hard time sitting in a dark room for over two hours without taking at least one solid nap, but…
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The Stages Of Getting Dragged By A 14-Year-Old (A Short Story Inspired By Beyonce’s "Lemonade")
“Intuition” It is a mild spring day in Hamilton Heights. Gypsy cabs are zooming up and down the West Side Highway. Churros are being sold as the rooster crows. At a distance, a hate-filled bodega cat languidly stretches, and cocks its tabby ear. “I think someone is talking to about me,” it says. One paw…
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Ludacris Has Ludicrous Hospitality Rider Requirements And We Need To Talk About This!
There are very few things in 2016 that take me by surprise. After all, we live in a world where our federal government can look at my paltry checking account and insist that I owe them more money than they already take out of my pay stub. However, I was legitimately taken aback to find…
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The List of Demands Ludacris Made for His 15-Minute Performance at the University of Ga. Is Pretty Ridiculous
There are very few things in 2016 that take me by surprise—after all, we live in a world where our federal government can look at my paltry checking account and insist that I owe them more money than they already take out of my pay stub. At this point, someone could tell me, “Hey, that…
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How Hotep Thinking Like Erykah Badu's Robs Black Children Of Their Childhoods
My childhood before the age of 10 had some big milestones. I moved to the US and learned English. I adopted Harlem as my hometown. I got my first self-purchased cassette—Sisqo’s underrated but absolutely flames Unleash the Dragon. I had also seen and touched and touched an adult man’s penis, on multiple occasions, by the…
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Group Dinners At Restaurants Are Never Fun, And We Need To Stop Having Them
Getting older seems to come with a fair amount of side effects—increased joint pain, indigestion, tooth sensitivity, general peevishness about being awake after 11 on a weeknight. Some of these are just general consequences of your body letting you know that you, too, are slowly decaying from years of treating it like Play-Doh. Others are just…
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Group Dinners Are Awful. Stop Having Them
Getting older seems to come with a fair amount of side effects—increased joint pain, indigestion, tooth sensitivity, general peevishness about being awake after 11 on a weeknight. Some of these are just general consequences of your body letting you know that you, too, are slowly decaying from years of treating your body like Play-Doh with…
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How "Braids," Lupita Nyong'o's Vogue Short, Captures Peak Black Woman Awesomeness
I’ve taken great pains to avoid spending extensive amounts of time on Facebook. There are not enough crispy-chicken wraps in the world to help me bounce back from the deluge of unintentionally inaccurate Black history facts, passively racist status updates from college acquaintances, and awkward selfies from my uncle’s second ex-wife. I can even feel…
