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  • Damon At The Schomburg In Harlem, VSB In NYC, And "WingChick"

    Couple things going on in the VSB world that we wanted to let you all know about: 1. Tonight, Damon will be at The Schomburg Center in Harlem for a reading of The Meaning of Michelle, where he’ll be joined on stage by Veronica Chambers (the anthology’s editor), Rebecca Carroll, and Caroline Clark. We’ll read excerpts…

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    January 19, 2017
  • REMINISCE Ugly Sweater Party + Toy Drive | Saturday, December 10th | DC

    REMINISCE UGLY SWEATER PARTY AND TOY DRIVE Saturday, December 10th Big Chief – 2002 Fenwick Street, NE 10pm-3am | FREE BEFORE 11pm w/ RSVP RSVP: reminiscedc.eventbrite.com It’s the return out of the best 90s party in DC and also our Ugly Sweater Christmas Party and Toy Drive. The cast and crew is assembled. We’ve got crowd pleaser…

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    December 6, 2016
  • 2016 Presidential Debate II Open Thread

    Spit your game, talk your sh*t.

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    October 9, 2016
  • 2016 Presidential Debate I Open Thread

    Have your own debate while the Clinton and Trump duke it out.

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    September 26, 2016
  • 2016 Rio Olympics Day 11 Open Thread

    More gymnasts and tracksters and other Olympic things are happening today.

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    August 16, 2016
  • 2016 Rio Olympics Weekend 1 Open Thread

    We got track, we got gymnastics AT THE SAME DAMN TIME. We got swimming we got golf AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!!

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    August 14, 2016
  • 2016 Rio Olympics Day 7 Open Thread

    USWNT went down. THAT’S AGAINST THE LAWS OF PHYSICS. But there’s more! There’s fencing and more swimming!

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    August 12, 2016
  • Check Out "Worth A Thousand" (A TIFFxInstagram Short From Tonja Renee Stidhum)

    Along with being the homie and a VSB extended family member, Tonja Renee Stidhum (who you might know as “Cheekie”) is also a talented filmmaker. (And a full length mirror selfie taker!) Below is Worth A Thousand, her entry the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, a new digital shorts competition which “invites aspiring and established filmmakers from…

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    August 5, 2016
  • How Safe Do You Feel In America?

    America is not a safe place for the Black American. It’s an obvious but sad truth, one every Mike Brown (and every Eric Garner, and every John Crawford, and every Oscar Grant, and…), every news story about weekend violence in whichever city you’re from, and every memory of how your life is impacted by a…

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    August 11, 2014
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