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Either Tom Arnold Is Selling Us Wolf Tickets or Donald Trump Is in a World of Trouble

Will Tom Arnold finally get us those pee-pee tapes of Donald Trump that allegedly exist? The ones of him in a Moscow hotel with Russian sex workers? Or tapes of him allegedly using the n-word during The Apprentice? Well, Arnold told CNN that he plans on spending this weekend with Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

June 23, 2018
After Meeting With One of the World’s Worst Dictators, Trump Declares the Press America’s Biggest Enemy

So now that the president of the United States is all “Go, best friend, that’s my best friend” with the tyrannical leader of North Korea, he somehow believes that the press is America’s biggest enemy. In an angry tweet Wednesday, Donald Trump declared that CNN and NBC were the purveyors of “fake news,” all claims…

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Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

June 13, 2018
Culture

White Producers Threw W. Kamau Bell to the KKK on Day 1, so He Got Rid of Them

W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America became infamous for its first episode, “The New KKK,” in 2016. In the series opener, Bell attends a cross-burning ceremony and interviews hooded Klansmen. At the end of the cross burning, Bell poignantly states, “I actually feel lucky. Unlike most of the black people in this country who…

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Ashley Velez

Published

May 4, 2018
Don Lemon Helped Me Come Out to My Mother and It Changed My Life Forever

Love for a black gay man is a scary endeavor, even radical, in a country where racism isn’t such a throwback, its reverberations leaving only harmful residue in communities of color. And when you consider the pervasive homophobia in a heteronormative and patriarchal society, living in your truth as both African American and queer almost…

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Gerren Keith Gaynor

Published

April 3, 2018
Very Smart Brothas

There’s a Time and Place for Professional Pseudonyms, and It’s When I’m Securing the Bag

My name is not Panama Jackson. I mean, it’s my name, but it’s not my name, ya know. It’s a pseudonym—a nickname created through some happenstance while I was trying to write and stay gainfully employed. Because of what I do for a living, Panama Jackson has significantly overtaken my real name in terms of…

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Panama Jackson

Published

March 9, 2018
Jay-Z Called Your President a ‘Superbug,’ and Trump Responded With Black Unemployment Figures

President Donald Trump didn’t have much to say to rapper Eminem, who has been excoriating him on wax (wait—do people even say “wax” anymore?) who has been ethering him in the cloud for a minute, but, again, Trump hasn’t responded. But perhaps because it is rumored that the current POTUS only watches television, he did…

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Angela Helm

Published

January 28, 2018
Culture, Media

Masekela ‘Placed Me on the Front Row of African History and Culture’

U.S. Photojournalist Was South African’s Biographer Obama-Farrakhan Photo Published for First Time Blacks, Latinos Cite CNN for Objectivity on Cable A ‘Best Actor’ Surprised by Lack of Black Reporters 2 Win $100,000 Each for Freelance Reporting ESPN The Magazine Focuses on the Black Athlete Black Journalist Accuses Progressive Outlet Short Takes It is unlikely that…

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Richard Prince

Published

January 26, 2018
Very Smart Brothas

Who Is Angela Rye? Her BET Specials May Let Us Know Exactly That

I met Angela Rye on Nov. 7, 2012. I was part of a group that put together an election night party at the Washington Post headquarters building in Washington, D.C., so we could all (hopefully) watch President Barack Obama be re-elected. Up to that point, I’d only heard of her. Black, young, college-educated, professional D.C.…

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Panama Jackson

Published

January 24, 2018
Culture, Media

Furor Over Pittsburgh Paper’s ‘Cover’ for Trump on Race

‘Everyone in Pittsburgh Is Equally Revolted’ HuffPost Ends Its Write-for-Free Contributor Pages Get ‘Out,’ Trump Tells CNN’s Acosta ‘Un-Presidential,’ ‘Un-American,’ Reporters Say Trump Falsely Claims Gains Among Blacks Figures Manipulated Against Muslims, Report Says El Salvador’s Mass Graves: S—holes Made-in-U.S.A. No Discipline for Suburban Chicago Cops Who Shoot Story of Serena’s Delivery Becomes Wake-Up Call…

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Richard Prince

Published

January 19, 2018
Very Smart Brothas

Are You Listening to the Atlanta Monster Podcast? You Should Be

For many of us with ties to the city of Atlanta, the name Wayne Williams evokes memories. While I was too young and too far away at the time to be directly affected by the Atlanta Child Murders—a name given to the rash of murders of black children from many of Atlanta’s impoverished communities from…

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Panama Jackson

Published

January 16, 2018