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Underrated Moment in Black History: When Bobby & Whitney Set The Bar for Black Love
After “who made the potato salad” and “what had happened was”, Black love is one of the most ubiquitous topics of discussion within 21st century Negronia. Over the years, there have been many couples that come to mind that have embodied the concept – Cliff and Claire Huxtable, Denzel and Pauletta, Cam and Juju, Oscar…
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Underrated Moments in Black History: When Bobby and Whitney Set the Bar for Black Love
After “Who made the potato salad?” and “What had happened was,” black love is one of the most ubiquitous topics of discussion within 21st-century Negronia. Over the years, there have been many couples who come to mind that have embodied the concept—Cliff and Clair Huxtable, Denzel and Pauletta Washington, Cam’ron and JuJu, Oscar and Trudy…
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12 Things I Want And Need To Happen On Super Bowl Sunday
The 50th Super Bowl is happening Sunday. Some of the world’s best athletes will come together to risk life, limb, and terminal brain injury so that we can scream and point at them with our buffalo sauce covered fingers. As a Giants fan, I’ve had no skin in the game for quite some time. But,…
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Underrated Moments In Black History: Angela Bassett Slaps A White Woman
Happy Black History Month everyone! I hope your edges are extra laid and your chicken extra crispy. More often than not, I find that Black History Month tends to turn into “explain standard historical references to white people who just never bothered to do their googles.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m learning things about Black…
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Underrated Moments in Black History: Angela Bassett Slaps a White Woman
Happy Black History Month, everyone! I hope your edges are extra laid and your chicken extra crispy. More often than not, I find that Black History Month tends to turn into “Explain standard historical references to white people who just never bothered to do their Googles.” Don’t get me wrong; I’m learning things about black…
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The Tragic Mulattos Of The Real Housewives Of Potomac
The first time I heard the of “Jack and Jill” was in high school. A Black girl l knew — let’s call her Toni — was living her BEST life. Her dad had an MBA from Harvard and was on the board of a bank. She got accepted Early Decision to Harvard. They owned their…
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The Real Housewives of Potomac and the Tragic-Mulatto Syndrome
The first time I heard the term “Jack and Jill” was in high school. A black girl l knew—let’s call her Toni—was living her best life. Her dad had an MBA from Harvard and was on the board of a bank. She got accepted early to Harvard. They owned their place in New York City.…
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20 People, Places, And Things Still Somehow Less Petty Than Janet Hubert
Early Monday morning, Jada Pinkett Smith logged onto Facebook to tell the world that we should all boycott the Oscars because the Academy didn’t see it for Will Smith’s interpretation of an Igbo accent. That same MLK day, “Blacktress” Janet Hubert popped open her MacBook, picked her favorite filter on photobooth, poured some of her…
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22 People, Places and Things Less Petty Than Janet Hubert
Early Monday morning, Jada Pinkett Smith logged on to Facebook to tell the world that we should all boycott the Oscars because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn’t see it for Will Smith’s interpretation of an Igbo accent. That same MLK Day, “blacktress” Janet Hubert (aka the original Aunt Viv) popped open her laptop, picked…
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Six Things I Hope President Obama Says At Tonight's SOTU Address
Tonight will be President Obama’s final State Of The Union address, a culmination of eight years of the most powerful* man in America (and arguably the world) being a Black man from Hawaii. It still hasn’t fully sunk in that I have lived to see a Black man be elected and re-elected. I still remember…
