pop culture
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Beyonce Derangement Hyperbole Syndrome
I met a dozen or so people for brunch Sunday afternoon, a meet-up that was the brainchild of my wife and one of her friends to combine our collective love of bacon and bottomlessness to a need to do something about the disconnect in the Black professional population here instead of just talking about it.…
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Facts About Blacks: The Concert I Just Attended Edition
Here at VSB, we spend a lot of time discussing Blackness. Today will be no different. I had the pleasure of attending a concert headlined by SWV (easily one of my favorite groups of all time) and undercarded by both Erica Campbell (of Mary Mary fame) and Traci Braxton (of every other Braxton aside from…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 1: Here's What Happens To Dreams Defferred
In what can only be described as the best thing to happen to Monday nights since the introduction of Monday Night Football, the next installment in Black excellence debuted (on TV at least, it’s been available online for days) on VH1. Yes, Love & Hip Hop has returned and this time we’re coming live and…
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Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child. Or Nah?
The NFL played a whole slew of games on Sunday but the recent worst week ever that the league has experienced was at the forefront of it all. And it should be. Real issues that plague society at large are plaguing the league. The recent case of and his indictment for whippin’ his 4-year-old child’s…
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Paul George Got On Twitter This Morning. He Shouldn't Have.
Athletes are a talented bunch. But nobody has ever accused them of all being smart. Or having any real concept of common sense, decency, or consideration. Such is the case of Paul George of the Indiana Pacers. When we last spoke of Paul George, his leg was breaking every kind of which a way. Well…
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Cinema Bun Podcast Episode 12 featuring Panama Jackson – Baby Boy
For their latest episode of the Cinema Bun Podast, the podcast hosted by Berook (@ethiopianboy) and Tonja (@embracethej) where they discuss movie news and conduct movie reviews, they enlisted the “expertise” in Black movie-dom, VSB’s own Panama Jackson, to talk about what is possibly the greatest movie of all time, Baby Boy. While that statement…
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#ThatSo90s: Jodeci – Stay
There is no conversation about 90s r&b without Jodeci. Sure Boyz II Men had the great ballads and what not and henceforth, but nobody gives a shit about Boyz II Men in 2014. Jodeci, however, still reigns supreme as the blueprint for most male bad boy groups. Sure they sang songs you could play at…
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Four Questions After Watching The Ray Rice Video
[Admin Note: Around 230pm EST, it was reported that the Baltimore Ravens have cut Ray Rice from the football team.] I never played double-dutch as a kid, but I have always likened the playground game to mixing it up with my followers and those I follow on Twitter. It’s challenging, especially because as great of a…
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Proof That God Really Does Exist: Carlton Banks Is On Dancing With The Stars
Although I belong to a church, I wouldn’t call myself a “church person.” Still, I do believe in God, who always manages to quell any doubts about his existence by doing things like creating the Pacific Ocean, inventing praise dancing just so Black people can be even Blacker in church, and ALLOWING CARLTON BANKS TO…