Perhaps you noticed that your bottomless brunch spot was a bit less crowded than usual Sunday afternoon, and all of the bottles of room-temperature water placed on tables were left untouched. And then, when attending Trap Pumpkin Carving class last night, you looked around and saw you were the only one there!

Although Black skin and student loans they'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever pay off ensure that Bougie Black People are, in fact, authentically Black, sometimes BBP get self-conscious about how Black they're seen by other people. While they don't doubt their own Blackness, they're aware that the perception of…

Last weekend, I attended a birthday party for a friend. Which, all things considered, may have been the bougiest birthday party I've ever been at. Consider the following:

Bougie Black People are always doing things. In college, while the rest of their classmates were doing things like "listening to Sisqo" and "fucking on twin beds," Bougie Black People spent the bulk of their time "writing spoken word poetry they'd never perform" and "vacillating between 'hating White people' and…

You probably know Jesse Williams as one of the guys on one of those Shonda Rhimes shows that airs before another Shonda Rhimes show. Or perhaps as the racially ambiguous guy who really, really, really, really digs Ciroc.

When I first saw these engagement photos of friend of VSB (and awesome writer) Brandelyn Castine and her fiancee — captured by J.A. Washington — two thoughts came to mind:

Last weekend, Pittsburgh tricked us into thinking winter was over by giving us consecutive 70 degree days. This included a spectacular 78 degree day on Saturday; the memory of which makes the 29 degree morning we're currently experiencing particularly cruel. Fuck you, Pittsburgh.

1. You first met each of the last three people you've dated at game nights.

It's well-established that Bougie Black People (BBP) are alcoholics who invented things like "the day party" and "the Scandal watch party" and "the Congressional Black Caucus" just so they'd have more opportunities to drink. But, to truly understand BBP, you need to understand their drink of choice, and why their…

The first thing you notice when watching Black-ish is how cute everything and everyone is. The voiceovers are cute. The kids are cute. Anthony Anderson ("Andre") and Tracee Ellis Ross ("Rainbow") are cute. Laurence Fishburne's cuddly non-cuddlyness is cute. The interactions they all have with the kids are cute. The…

You might remember the late 80s and early 90s as a forgettable period of time where Republicans ran the White House, t-shirts had shoulder pads, and everyone cool got AIDS. This is because you're not a Bougie Black Person. Bougie Black People hold this period especially dear, as many of their favorite memories…

Aside from the memory of that time last year when they were retweeted by Shonda Rhimes, there's nothing that will more bring joy to a Bougie Black Person's spirit than creating personalized business cards, receiving those personalized business cards in the mail, and handing out those personalized business cards to…

No one quite knows exactly where ratchet stems from. Some say it's an evolved, colloquial form of "wretched." Others trace the etymology to Lil Boosie's "Do Tha Ratchet", which would help to explain why the justified incarceration of a shitty rapper upset so much of the south.

After a couple months of requests and pre-orders, we decided to bring back both the Bougie Black Girl and the I Love Bougie Black Girls t-shirt campaigns.

Bougie Black People (BBP) are alcoholics. Obviously, they are highly-functioning alcoholics. They hold government jobs, they have good credit, and they even buy special garbage cans just for recycling. But don't let their professional demeanors fool you. The only difference between them and your regular Black drunk…