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What A Time For Cultural Appropriation To Be Alive
Much as it pains me to admit aloud, maybe there’s something to all those stupid-ass memes that your “woke” Facebook friends like to share that compare real-life “ignored” atrocities to the asinine shit that makes Buzzfeed headlines. That Blake Lively’s delusional Instagram post dominated an entire Wednesday lends credence to their gripes. Even I couldn’t…
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7 Irksome Ways Your Beloved Elders Fuck Up the English Language
If you’re a young person well-versed in blackness, you’re bound to be creative with the English language. But thanks to the Internet, this creativity has become less regional and maddeningly uniform. So a black dude could trek from New York to the Atlanta University Center in his Timbs and not be clowned for saying how…
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Things Your Bitch Ass Better Not Do At A Memorial Day Cookout Today
1. Bring your bad-ass, Zika virus adjacent-ass kids and expect that since there are other adults around, you don’t have to watch them Maybe it takes a village to raise a child, but the village aint responsible for your neglectful-ass allowing your pinheaded seven-year-olds to slapbox by the flame pit. If being a parent is…
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10 Randomly Specific Things Specific To Blackness That Always Tickle The Hell Out Of Me
1. How Black men tend to happily and matter-of-factly greet and address each other by making random nouns that have no business being pronouns pronouns Of course, words like “dude” and “man” (“What up, man?”) are universal. But only another Black man will hit you with a “What up, money?” Or maybe a “What’s good,…
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20 Things I've Tried Really, Really, Really, Really Hard To Care About But Just Can't
1. Comic books (Not movies based on comic books, because I care about those. Or even hearing the news that one of my favorite writers is penning a comic book series, because I care about that too. Just not the actual comic book.) 1.5. Everything that was just said about comic books could also be said…
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The Root 100 2016: Time to Nominate Your Choices
We are looking for the exciting, innovative, creative, passionate leaders in the African-American community who have caught your attention in the past year. In a few months, we will announce The Root 100 for 2016 and celebrate the 25- to 45-year-olds who exemplify excellence in the fields of social justice, politics, entertainment, business, the arts,…
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Great Hashtags For All The Guys Who Weren't Able To Participate On #BigGuyTwitter Day
It’s Thursday, which means Black America is finally recovering from all of the thirst induced (and thirst exposed) Tuesday when #BigGuyTwitter — a celebration of unusually tall and large men — led to widespread digital dehydration. (And, just in case the parchedness hadn’t fully permeated, #BigGuyTwitter eventually led to #BigDickTwitter — which I will not…
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Where Are More of the Wealthiest Africans Calling Home?
If you were a wealthy African, where would you live? According to the Africa 2016 Wealth Report, Johannesburg is no longer where it’s at. The report examined the performance of millionaires between 2007 and the end of 2015—defining “millionaires” or “high-net-worth individuals” as those people with net assets of $1 million U.S. Here are the…
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Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison” Is The Most 90s Song Of All Time!
I didn’t set out this morning with the intention of yelling fire in a crowded theater. I didn’t. I was just minding my own business like I always do having thoughts of things I think about. Well, one particular thought stood out from the rest, dope as can be…and well, it went all the way…
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15 Truly Underrated Hip-Hop Albums
Since I had to conceal the “Parental Advisory” sticker to convince my mama to purchase my very first compact disc – Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s E. 1999 Eternal – from Blockbuster Music back in 1995, I’ve accumulated somewhere just south of 1,000 retail CDs. After 21 years of collecting so much music, I’ve forgotten about certain albums…
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