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TrumPutin on Trumpcare: You Want to Know What Sucks? Obamacare
As a candidate, Vladimir TrumPutin swore that he was going to make a 100-day contract with the American public. He swore that he was going to “drain the swamp” and repeal and replace Obamacare. At this point, TrumPutin is the divorced dad who swears he’s coming to pick up the kids on his weekends, and…
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President TrumPutin’s Latest Interview With the Associated Press Is Disturbing
Look, let’s be honest; we don’t expect much from this president. As long as he can keep his wooden blocks off the floor, not watch the adult channels when Papa Bannon isn’t home and doesn’t pee all over the toilet seat, we will all collectively pat him on the head and send him on his…
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So, About That Old Interview in Which Prince Mentioned Gay Marriage …
Like many fans, I remember exactly where I was when I found out Prince had died. I was near the end of a lunch meeting when my phone started moving as if it were possessed by a Bedroom Kandi product. The same thing happened to the person I was meeting with. Given how both our…
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Unique Views, Episode 36: A Gentler, Kinder Mike Tyson
The saying goes that it’s better not to meet your heroes, and Danielle Young, aka Patti LaDanielle, has met me, and we see how that has worked out. Clearly, I was her podcast hero because my voice is a cross between a soft beach breeze and Idris Elba’s face. I hate to admit it, but…
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VSB Talks To Underground Directors Anthony Hemingway and Salli Richardson Whitfield
Black stories told by black people. A novel concept, I know. But here we are all the way in 2017, our year in the lawd Beyonce, and the idea that the folk best-equipped to tell the empowering, perfervid, often-complicated stories of the real-world and fictionalized experiences of black people would be other black people is…
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TrumPutin’s Time Interview Confirms He’s Batshit Crazy
On Thursday, Time magazine released an interview with President Vladimir TrumPutin, and even as the walls are closing in around his pathetic presidency, he continued to double down on all his batshit-crazy claims. He continues to selectively choose which media reports he agrees with—mostly those stories that are kind to his reign as dictator in…
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Joi-Marie McKenzie, Author of 'The Engagement Game', Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love
If you don’t know, you gon’ learn today. Joi-Marie McKenzie is the homie. Her website, TheFabEmpire.com is integral to anybody trying to navigate the goings on of Washington, DC, Baltimore, NYC, Atlanta, etc., especially during Washington, DC’s annual Black prom, the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. Joi-Marie let’s you know the low down on…
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Dave Chappelle Talks Comeback and Key & Peele Gripe
As of 12 a.m. Tuesday, Netflix had released the first of its three Dave Chappelle comedy series, which have marked the comedian’s comeback to television. But on Monday, the Washington, D.C.-raised comic spoke about the break he took from his career, as well as his issues with Key & Peele. “I was in this very…
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The Jake Tapper Interview That Crushed Kellyanne Conway’s Soul
Either top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is becoming a kinder and gentler version of herself or CNN’s Jake Tapper just handed Conway her hat. Appearing on the news channel that President Donald Trump officially considers “fake news,” Conway apologized and expressed remorse for citing a phony massacre and acknowledged that not all mainstream media…
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Brooke Obie Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love
After a not-really-all-that-brief-at-all hiatus, The Writing Ass Chick We Love series returns with the homie Brooke Obie. We’ve known each other since we worked together at EBONY.com, and I’ve read and admired your work in the past. But, in preparing for this feature, I visited your personal site (brookeobie.com) for the first time, and read your…