culture
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My Boyfriend’s Friend Keeps Telling Me My Man Is No Good. Should I Believe Him?
My best friend’s husband is friends with my boyfriend. I called to get advice and his male point of view. He always tells me to move on, and since that’s his friend, I feel like he and my best friend know more than they’re telling me. I ask “Why?” and all he says is I…
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#PulseShooting: A Homegoing for Our (Queer) Dead
Last week I attended a church member’s funeral. Hues of black and brown formed a beautiful palette as the saints marched in their white-and-black vestments. White for the sacredness of the one to whom the service was dedicated, and black for their anguish. The preacher read Scriptures as the family processioned into the church. This…
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'Crazy Baldheads' Seek to Eliminate Dreads
Is there a causal connection between hairstyles worn by black boys and their future success, and should we strongly encourage these boys to avoid wearing dreadlocks and braids? That’s what Steve Perry, Steve Harvey and the U.S. Army seem to be arguing. Recently, they teamed up to disseminate pearls for success to an audience of…
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5 Things I Learned While Spending a Weekend by Myself With My Infant Daughter for the 1st Time
Last weekend I celebrated my first Father’s Day. It was a day of fun, food, rest, joy and, since the Cavs won (!), contentment. It was a great day. The weekend before, my wife was out of town on business, which meant I spent the entire weekend alone with my daughter for the first time.…
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A Note From ‘Team Light-Skinned’: Stop It, Already
“Team light-skinned” has been rolling off people’s tongues like layups in the last few weeks, in conversation and social media alike, mostly because two-time league MVP Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA this year and were in the finals, and maybe because Zach LaVine of the Minnesota Timberwolves won the 2016…
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10 Things You Can Say About LeBron if You Still Want to Hate Him but Have Run Out of Things to Say
So, after LeBron James returned to Cleveland and delivered a championship to a city that hasn’t seen one since the Paleolithic era, and did this while … beating the team that just completed the best regular season in NBA history; coming back from a 3-1 deficit (something that has never been done before in the…
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LeBron James Quiets the Haters and Cements His Legacy
LeBron James isn’t an Alpha, a Kappa, an Omega or a Sigma. But his tale of rising and falling and rising yet again reads like a classic Greek drama that fraternity brothers might study in college. The plot twists have been numerous and surprising. In a work of fiction, they would strain our ability to…
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Watch: LeBron Makes the Most Important Block of His Career
For a brief moment, it looked as though the Golden State Warriors were about to take the lead at a crucial point in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. With just over two minutes left in the fourth quarter, Warriors swingman Andre Iguodala rebounded a wild shot by Cavs guard Kyrie Irving. He then passed…
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5 Ways the Game of Thrones Pre-Finale Was More Satisfying Than the NBA Finals
Sunday night was a tough decision for me. Two major television events, overlapping each other; each with huge consequences that would drive social media conversation for days. Would I go to a bar with friends and yell at the TV for two-and-a-half hours watching the NBA Finals Game 7 between the Cleveland LeBrons and the…