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Watch: Ex-NBA Player Jason Terry Attempt the #ChocoChallenge and Yes, It Ended in Tears
The #ChocoChallenge is the latest social media stunt in which someone tries to eat something really fucking hot that’s most likely going to burn their goddamn intestines and might even possibly send them to the hospital. It’s basically the one chip challenge, but in chocolate form. The good thing about this challenge (yes, there is…
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Antoinette ‘Toni’ Harris, Woman in Super Bowl Ad, Makes Sports History by Earning Football Scholarship
Antoinette “Toni” Harris starred in a Toyota ad that played during the Super Bowl. The commercial was an ode to Harris’ perseverance to become a football player despite all odds, including cancer. On Tuesday that hard work paid off as Harris announced that she would be singing a letter of intent to play college football…
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28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB, Day 28: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
Publisher Synopsis: From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America. For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of…
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28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB | Day 27: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones
Publisher Synopsis (via B&N): Musician, composer, producer, arranger and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment—including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the…
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Janet Jackson—Ms. Jackson, If You’re Nasty—Has Announced a Vegas Residency
It’s time for y’all to take control of those savings and form a line behind the velvet rope, because Janet Thee Jackson just announced a Las Vegas residency. Janet, Ms. Jackson, if you’re nasty, says her residency, titled Metamorphosis, will be a celebration of her journey and the 30th anniversary of Rhythm Nation. Metamorphosis is…
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A List of Things Personally Threatened By Billy Porter's Red Carpet Gown
1. My sexuality (of course) 2. My blackness 3. My black male-ness 4. My fashion sense 5. My understanding of how gowns work 6. My relationship with my dad 7. My feelings about carpets 8. My feelings about the color red 9. My feelings about when things like “carpets” and “red” are in close proximity…
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28 Days of Literary Blackness With VSB | Day 26: Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Publisher Synopsis: Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous—from two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks, to the young girl contemplating how best to notify her Facebook friends of her impending suicide—while others are devastatingly poignant—a new mother and funeral singer…