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A List of Things I’m Qualified to Critique, Since Apparently You’re Only Allowed to Critique Something if You’re an Expert Now

On Monday morning, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled its official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. I thought they were nice and cool and sleek and shit, but some others did not. But, then, some people were mad at the people who did not, like, “You can’t critique art if you’re not an expert on…

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Damon Young

Published

February 12, 2018
Barack and Michelle Obama’s Official Portrait Unveiling Was a Shining Moment of Black History

It may not have been completely intentional, but the unveiling of the official portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during Black History Month was certainly something to behold. It was the first black president and the first black first lady, painted and portrayed by black artists in a way that told…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

February 12, 2018
Making Black History: Meet Michael Thomas, the New Editor of the Harvard Law Review

What do they call it? Ah yes. Black excellence. As such, 27-year-old Michael Thomas of New York City’s Brooklyn borough has been named the editor of the Harvard Law Review, Vol. 132, the second black person in as many years. On Sunday, Thomas took the reins from ImeIme Umana, who last year became the first…

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Angela Helm

Published

February 3, 2018
Entertainment

Michelle Obama Finally Reveals What Was in That Tiffany & Co. Box Melania Trump Gave Her on Inauguration Day

Turns out that Ellen DeGeneres solves mysteries part time. The talk show host got forever first lady Michelle Obama to dish on the mysterious gift that Melania Trump brought with her during the administration switch on Inauguration Day. In her first TV interview since leaving the White House, Obama showed up as radiant and charismatic…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

January 31, 2018
Entertainment

Michelle Obama to Appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for Star’s 60th Birthday

We all know that a lot of good things happen on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and for the star’s latest act of bringing awesomeness to us, forever first lady Michelle Obama will be making an appearance on the show for her first TV interview since leaving the White House. According to The Hill, Aunt Shellie…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

January 29, 2018
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I Watched Netflix’s Step Sisters. It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Spoiler alert: There will be spoilers and a plot review in this write-up. Netflix’s controversial original movie Step Sisters finally debuted on Jan. 19. After it dropped, Lena Waithe hit the tweets to ask folks what they thought about it. Those opinions ranged, but it didn’t seem like anybody was ready to call for a…

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Panama Jackson

Published

January 22, 2018
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This Painting of the Obamas as Janet and Tupac From Poetic Justice Is the Blackest Thing I’ve Ever Seen This Week

When I was a kid, my dad used to make a Kool-Aid concoction he’d call “Kool-Aid wine.” It was reserved for special occasions—Thanksgivings, birthdays, Super Bowl parties, that time Cops was in Pittsburgh (and on our block!) and we invited people over to watch, etc.—and many of my favorite childhood memories are connected to it, as…

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Damon Young

Published

January 18, 2018
Entertainment

Michelle Obama’s 53-Year-Old Beach Body Is #Goals

The color white looks great on black skin, and former first lady Michelle Obama more than proved the point by recently stepping out, dressed in all white and MILFing like a mug stunting like an alluring angel in her beach ensemble. The 53-year-old mother of two put many of us to shame as she and…

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Angela Helm

Published

January 16, 2018
Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017

2017 has been, how do I put this succinctly, a fucking shit year. From the plagues of biblical proportions that this administration keeps trying to drop on us to the fact that Mother Nature is sick of the bullshit and has been trying to finally kill us all via hurricane, 2017 has not been skimpy…

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Clarkisha Kent

Published

December 27, 2017
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Apparently Donald Trump’s Feelings Will Be Hurt if the Obamas Get a Royal-Wedding Invite and He Doesn’t. Please, 2018, Make This Happen!

So we can talk about what Meghan Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry “means”—and what “means” even means in this context—and imperialism and colorism and capitalism and neoliberalism and whether the Obamas being invited to the royal wedding is something to be celebrated and the racist brooch-rocking Darth Abigails currently in the royal family, and we…

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Damon Young

Published

December 26, 2017