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Four Reasons Why Melanin Illustrated Is The Blackest And Best Thing That Ever Happened This Week
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…
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A Question About Friendships, Obligations, And Moderate Levels Of Aintshitness
We’ve all heard the story before. Boy meets Girl at 13th annual Delta Sigma Theta kickball cookout and soft-boiled egg eating contest; an event where all the proceeds go towards finding a cure for clit gout. Because #allclitsmatter. Girl is intrigued by Boy’s use of “disabuse” and “Caucasian motherfuckers” in the same sentence, and Girl favors Richelle…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 17. Pretending To Be "Ratchet"
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. What is known, though, is that ratchet has come to…