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Remember When Diddy Hosted an Event that Ended in Nine Deaths?
The 1991 Harlem stampede is getting new shine in light of Diddy's recent legal troubles.
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The Music Industry’s Utter Disrespect of Black Women Feels Like Constant White Noise
There is a phenomenon that occurs when you’re going about your day and can’t get a particular song out of your head. We refer to that song as an “earworm.” Well, a constant buzzing in the back of my head has recently gotten louder and louder: I refer to this song as an ear parasite—specifically,…
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Like Father, Like Daughter: 20 Years After His Death, Biggie’s Legacy Launches a Clothing Line
T’yanna Wallace was only 3 years old when her father, Christopher—the rapper the world recognized as the Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls—was brutally killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. I was 22 and a college senior, living across the street from his mother, Voletta Wallace, on St. James Place in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Clinton…
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Black, Hamptonian and Ain’t With the Shits
When I was in high school, the laws in my small, white Virginian hometown were simple: Jesus is the reason for every season: Christmas, football, deer and killa. Platinum FUBU is the Gucci of country-Negro couture. Black politics are just like good white folks like ’em: respectable, self-deprecating and don’t hold white people accountable for…