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VSB Presents: The #Blackest Name In America Tournament – And The Winner Is…
VA’SHAUNDYA KARLETTE NELSON aka SHAUNIE O’NEAL *cues up The Commodores “Three Times A Lady”* I’d like to commend Va’Shaundya for daring to do the undareable. For being all she could be. For doing all she could do. For excellence in the field of Blackness. #blackexcellence as it were. For she is our 2014 winner of the…
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VSB Presents: The #BlackestName In America Tournament – CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND
It’s all come down to this. Fight night. The big kahuna. Walla wall bing bang. It’s the moment of truth where Blackness has come ’round the bend. It’s time to put the kids to bed and determine, who has the #blackestname in America. Is it, the queen of WTFificence, Va’Shaundya Karlette Nelson aka Shaunie O’Neal,…
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VSB Presents: The #BlackestName In America Tournament – THE FINAL FOUR
(Voting for this round will continue over the weekend, ending on Sunday at midnight. The Championship Round will take place Monday – just like March Madness. We’re going to ask Future to recreate a ratchet version of “One Shining Moment.” No we’re not.) As we near the finale of our sacred tournament to determine the…
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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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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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VSB Presents: The #Blackestname In America Tournament, The Sweet 16 (Pt. 1)
We started at the bottom, and now we’re here. And by “we started at the bottom, and now we’re here” I mean “we started with 64 of the loveliest examples of Blackness nirvana, and now we’re down to 16.“ Yup. 16. These are the 16 Blackest names in America. Which is an honor in its…
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VSB Presents: The #blackestname In America Tournament, Round 2 Day 2
The hills may be alive with the sound of music, but the Blackness is flourishing in our tournament to determine the #blackestname in America. Yesterday, Damon dropped off a list of 10 things he learned and/or observed about the first round. Well I shall do the same based on the two brackets I’m shepherding through…
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VSB Presents: The #Blackestname In America Tournament, Round 2, Day 1
10 observations from the last few days (from Twitter): 1. Nothing has ever been or will ever be Blacker than the email thread where we nominated names. That was prime Blackness. Blackness nirvana. 2. The athletes’ bracket was the hardest to narrow down. Could have had an entire bracket just for SEC football players at…
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VSB Presents: The #Blackestname in America Tournament, Round 1 Day 2
[If you haven’t done so already, download and print out the bracket to play along and see how well you do!] Welcome to day 2 of VSB’s Blackest Name in America tournament!! *handclaps and loud applause* When I see some of the names of the people in our beloved tournament here, the hook from the…
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VSB Presents: The #BlackestName In America Tournament, Round 1 Day 1
Detroit. The first season of Frank’s Place. The second verse on Lift Every Voice and Sing. Frosted Flakes with added sugar. ?uestlove’s name. ?uestlove’s beard. Your auntie. Grape Kool-aid. Killah Priest. Every character Isaiah Washington has ever played. Delta Sigma Theta. Uncles named “Unc.” The list of things undeniably and unquestionably Black stretches from here to Gary,…