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Exclusive: Meet YouTube 'On the Yard' for Their Virtual HBCU Homecoming; Busta Rhymes and John David Washington Added to Lineup
It’s autumn, which not only means the leaves are turning beautiful colors, but it’s the season swarms of HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) alumni typically descend upon their alma maters for homecoming shenanigans. Well, not in 2020. Due to the global pandemic, the annual event that most look forward to isn’t happening. Those of…
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How to Survive, Be Safe and Thrive at a Predominantly White Institution
I experienced many firsts when I left home for college. First car, first full-time job, first time being racially profiled and first time being called n—ger. Life comes at you fast if you’re black at a predominantly white institution. No one prepared me for the multiple assaults on my humanity that I experienced at a…
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Dear Black People: This HBCU VS PWI Battle Is Fucking Stupid
There’s been no shortage of words used to attempt to describe and encapsulate “Black Twitter,” which has been defined as everything from “a cultural identity on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community” by Wikipedia to (paraphrasing) “the digital version of what happens at the 24-hour Walmart in Huntsville, Alabama” by Panama on…
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Dear Howard Homecoming Weekend: I Hate You
It’s Howard University Homecoming this weekend, right? I think so. You’re not sure? No. I didn’t go to Howard and I don’t live in D.C., so I don’t have the Howard Homecoming dates tattooed on my chest. But you do think it’s happening this weekend. Why? Well, I do have multiple friends and followers on…
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The Most Divisive Topics In The Black Community
I’ve spent quite a lot of time being Black in my life. In fact, I’ve spent most of my life actively partaking in this endeavor. And do you know what I noticed during this time? Black folks are the most monolithic, non-monolithic people on the planet. That is probably not true, but rock with me…