criticism
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Kanye West’s 2024 Presidental Campaign Is Already Off to a Bad Start
Patrick Krason, Ye’s campaign treasurer, has resigned and things only get messier from there.
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Netflix Faces Criminal Charges Over Cuties Film After Texas Grand Jury Indicts Company for ‘Promoting…Lewd Material of Children’
A Texas Grand jury indicted Netflix Tuesday over the French film Cuties, charging the streaming company with “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child.” As CNN reports, the indictment was initiated by criminal district attorney Lucas Babin and presented before a Tyler County grand jury. In its indictment, the grand jury said the film…
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Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice Has Fighting Words For Snoop Dogg Over Gayle King’s Kobe Bryant Controversy
Oh what a tangled web we weave. Snoop Dogg’s blistering criticism of Gayle King’s controversial interview with WNBA pioneer Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant’s legacy has grown into a drawn-out battle within the black community. President Obama’s former national security adviser Susan Rice tore into the chart-topping rap legend, firing off a warning to him…
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If You Want to Protect Black Art, Protect Black Critique
I will never forget the day my skin thickened. I was a baby-faced undergrad student sitting in a circle of my literary peers, awaiting my academic doom, also known as the “writing workshop.” My heart raced with an urgent fury and my stomach twisted into a knot only an Eagle Scout could untie. There I…
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Criticism Is A Great Thing You Analog Motherfuckers
Out of the hundreds of perplexing and entertaining responses I received when writing about Dave Chappelle on VSB last week and then again at GQ this week — tweets, comments, and emails ranging from “you’re a coon” and “y’all must’ve been bought by NBC or Home Depot or something” to remarkably descriptive suggestions for different…