1. Because I keep trying to find ways to articulate the myriad shades of beautiful and banging-ass brown found in this photo shoot — done in Costa Rica by 28 members of the Florida A&M chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, where they celebrated the 10 year anniversary of them crossing in 2007 — and I keep coming back to food.…

We've all heard the story before.

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.