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14 Black Holidays We Wish Were Real That Are Not Juneteenth, Kwanzaa or MLK Day

Here are 14 new black holidays that deserve your pomp and circumstance.

By

Danielle Young

Published

June 19, 2018
#Resist: Music Professor Plays Black National Anthem From Bell Tower Before Richard Spencer’s Fla. Speech

As white nationalist troglodyte Richard Spencer prepared to take the stage for his University of Florida speech Thursday, James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (aka the black national anthem) rang throughout campus. Laura Ellis, a music professor at the university, went up 11 flights of stairs into the school’s carillon tower on Thursday…

By

Angela Helm

Published

October 22, 2017
Very Smart Brothas

The 10 Blackest Songs Of All-Time

On Monday, we learned that Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and D’Angelo’s Black Messiah — two albums so Black they should have come with a barbershop poster and a pic of Margaretta Forten — were nominated for Grammys. The recognition of this unambiguously Black art in such an unambiguously non-Black space should not have been a surprise.…

By

Damon Young

Published

December 9, 2015
Very Smart Brothas

Key & Peele Take The Blackness Challenge With VSB

Last week, Damon and Panama gave Key & Peele part one of the Blackness Challenge, which tested their Blackness by taking them through the Blackest Name in America tournament. This week features part two of the challenge, a clip that prominently features Kool-Aid, Black church ladies, semantics, and “motherfucking shark movies.” Key & Peele airs…

By

VSB Staff

Published

October 1, 2014