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REMINISCE | Independence Day Edition | Saturday, July 5
AMERICA, F*CK YEAH! Come celebrate the best of the 90s hip-hop, r&b, and dancehall at REMINISCE! FREE BEFORE 11 w/RSVP ($10 otherwise) | OPEN BAR 930-1030 | NO DRESS CODE (come comfortable, for serious) RSVP: REMINISCEDC.EVENTBRITE.COM
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The Do the Right Thing Cast: Where Are They Now?
Believe it or not, it has been 25 years since we met Mookie, Sal, Da Mayor, Radio Raheem, Buggin’ Out and the crew on a blisteringly hot day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. Lee’s third feature film explored racial tension and police brutality in late-1980s New York City and earned…
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VSB Presents: The #BlackestName in America Tournament – The Elite 8
(As a note, from here on out, we’re doing all brackets in one day. Voting for the Elite 8 will end at 11am tomorrow. So get your votes in as we prepare for our Final Four tomorrow afternoon.) Never before has the term “elite” fit a group so well. The lengths for which these names…
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Hip-Hop’s Finest: 30 Great Rap Lyrics
Some MCs give us fun turns of phrases, others rap words that we live by to this day. We use lyrics to get pumped up, to remind ourselves everything is going to be OK or simply to write captions on Instagram. Lyrics, some would say, are not always what makes a song great. Some rappers…
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VSB Presents: The #blackestname in America Tournament, The Sweet 16 (Pt. 2)
In the time it takes for Beyoncé to drink some wowdamelm, at least two Sharkeishas and one Dontelmomthebabysittersdeadisha’s have been born. And like Shaq taught us one of his multi-platinum albums (!!!!), you can’t stop the reign. Black rules everything around me, but creamy crack gets the money. Dolla dolla bill y’all. It’s the Sweet…
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Chris Brown's Hoes Ain't Loyal, But Everybody Else Seems To Be
Can I be real with you all for a second? Like, can I kick it? Yes you can. Cool. I effin’ love Chris Brown’s song “Loyal”. This song has managed to worm its way into Panama’s favorite songs of all time in the history of ever list along with songs by Donny Hathaway, Keith Sweat,…
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Egypt’s Jailing of Journalists for 7-10 Years Sparks International Outcry
President El-Sissi Declares He Won’t Interfere With Ruling “Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, a day after three Al-Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison in a verdict that prompted an international outcry,” the Associated Press reported from Cairo. “The ruling, on terrorism-related charges, stunned their…
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On "Redskins", Reverse Racism, and Mascot Mockery
By now, everybody is completely aware of the controversy surrounding the Washington, DC, NFL team and it’s name, Redskins. Daniel Snyder, the owner of said team, has not only refused to budge on changing the name but he went so far as to slap the face of nearly any Native American who has a problem…
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World Cup 2014: Soccer Rules Everything Around Me!
I’m an avid soccer fan. Well, let me rephrase. I’m a fan of playing soccer and watching every four years when the World Cup comes around. I grew up in Germany and the first sport I was introduced to athletically was soccer. I was pretty good too. Turns out I could run around for hours with…
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What Was Freedom Summer?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 85: Why was the summer…