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Bad Poetry, Blogs, Open Mics and Nightclubs: A Story About My Writing Journey on Pass The Peas With Panama Jackson
You know, I think I’ve told the story of how Very Smart Brothas came to be a million times at this point. In fact, Damon and I have done it so much I’m fairly certain I know exactly what he’s going to say before he says it. But what neither of us has spent a…
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An Inter-Generational Convo about Hip-Hop and JCole on Pass The Peas with Panama Jackson
When J. Cole released his latest musical offering, The Off-Season, on May 14, 2021, I knew I wasn’t going to love it. And as most self-fulfilling prophecies work, I didn’t. I maintained my similar stance of being bored with most of Cole’s music. But like any curiously dapper chap in the roaring 2020’s, I do…
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PageTurners: May I Interest You in Some New Releases?
The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same. Walter Dean Myers first published Monster in 1999; over twenty years later, the profound themes centered around the criminality of Black boyhood and coping with trauma continue to plague young Black men across the country. The story follows Steve Harmon, a 16-year-old boy…
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Talking VerySmartBrothas, White Teen Movies vs. Black Teen Movies, Jay-Z & Nas and More With Damon Young on Pass The Peas
Last week was a bit of a blur for everybody in the Very Smart Brothas universe. Damon and I wrote posts about his departure, some tears may or may not have been shed, the word verklempt made an appearance and Brick killed a guy. Either way, we’re in a new phase of this whole VSB…
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New Edition Verzuz Jodeci? Michael Harriot Joins The Pass The Peas Podcast to Debate What Could Be a Legendary Battle
When I recently wrote that legendary 90s R&B group Jodeci was unbeatable in a Verzuz battle, I truly didn’t think it was controversial or even much of a debate. I thought, like I do with most of my thoughts, that I was just writing down that which was obvious…but not written down. I was getting…
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Oklahoma Senator Makes Sex Joke About VP Kamala Harris Then Defends It, Saying 'People Seem Not to Be Able to Take a Joke'
Here’s the thing: Conservatives aren’t funny. There’s a reason there are virtually no right-leaning comedy films, late-night shows or stand-up comedians outside of a handful. Republicans will say it’s because of liberal media bias, but this is America; if there was a demand for Klan-ish comedy there would be a supply—they just don’t understand how…
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Surprise, Surprise: Facebook Groups for Elite Military Members Become Platforms for Racism, QAnon-sense and Election Fraud Propaganda
It should surprise absolutely no one that some elite members of the U.S. armed forces are QAnon-following MAGAts who are gullible enough to buy into ex-y’all’s-president’s “stop the steal” propaganda and racist enough to believe that Black Lives Matter is an evil that should be punished. It’s also not surprising that these military veterans had…