jordans
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It Must Be the Shoes: Super Heroic Can Bring Out the Hero in Every Kid
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a shoe! Rarely do the words “innovative” and “adorable” occupy the same space, but we just learned about something that is both: New children’s shoe line Super Heroic has arrived to save the day—or, in this case, save the play. Five years ago, Chicagoan Jason Mayden was a…
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Harvey J’s Henny Fried Chicken Is the Blackest Thing I’ve Ever Seen This Week (Possibly for Every Week … Ever)
If you’re on Facebook, there’s a better-than-50 percent chance that your eyes have seen the blackness glory. When the good Lord said, “Let there be a people of color with feet adorned in Jordans and homes full of TCB,” he was speaking of his plans to imbue one nigga named Harvey J—a COMPLETE wizard with…
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10 Things My Black Paranoia Saved Me From
Hi. I’m black and I’m a man. That makes me a black man (by default), and that means I’m paranoid as fuck. Like, I’m pretty sure you’re plotting against me right now, so I’m looking at you crazy. Or at least you might could be. In fact, who is you? Is you is or is…
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Rochester, NY, Teen Gives Sneakers to Peers for Start of School
Tennies, sneakers, runners. Whatever you call them, kids today are into them. And even if they’re not, everyone wants to start school in a fresh pair of kicks. A Rochester, N.Y., seventh-grader is giving back to his community by giving just those items away before the start of the school year. Zaire Downs said that…
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Can Someone Please Tell Me Why Sneakers Cost So Much Damn Money?
I try to be mindful (annoyingly mindful, according to some of my friends) not to allow nostalgia or an emotional connection to the past cloud my assessment of the present. One, because people are usually wrong about that stuff, and I enjoy not being wrong. It’s fun. But also, remembering the past in an historical sense is…
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Skinny Jeans And Jordans And…A Gray Hair? Wait…Am I Having A Mid-Life Crisis?
I first noticed the gray hair in my beard a couple months ago. It’s on the left side of my face, attached to my jawbone, a barely-detectable dot of silver amid a sea of black. People don’t see it unless I alert them to it. Even then, I’ve had it mistaken for a speck of salt.…
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On Being A Grown-Ass Man…With A Pair Of Jordans
(Damon’s latest at EBONY tells the story of how he recently bought a pair of $200 basketball sneakers he’ll never, ever, ever actually play basketball in) I’m not who you’d call a sneakerhead. I like shoes as just much as the next bougie Black man, but I’ve never been the type — at least not…