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  • Panama and Shamira Discuss Solange's "A Seat At The Table"

    Panama: So, Solange dropped an album recently that has the internet’s buzzing: A Seat At The Table. Let Facebook tell it, it’s the best, Blackest album that’s been released in quite some time. I’m not sure I’m in that camp, though I can understand why folks love it so much. But I don’t think it’s nearly…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • If Mos Def’s Black On Both Sides Came Out Today, It Might Be Considered The Blackest Album of All Time

    On September 30, Solange released her third album, A Seat At The Table, to remarkably favorable reviews. Social media lit up like the Empire State Building at Christmas with folks proclaiming how woke and Black the album is. Interspersed with interludes speaking to the Black experience from her mother, father, and Master P, the album…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Racism Explained to ‘New Blacks’ Like They're 5 Years Old

    It seems as if every other week, another black celebrity sits down in front of cameras, microphones and a cunning white interviewer with a disarming smile and nefarious means, and tries to explain to the world the delusion that he or she is living in a post-racial America where inequality and prejudice no longer exist.…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Beyonce's 10 Greatest Beyonces Of All-Time

    We first met Beyonce as Teenaged Beyonce — a member of the preternaturally talented and peculiarly attired Destiny’s Child. And now, she’s firmly ensconced into Grown-Ass Beyonce. Or, if you prefer, Capricorn Cabaret Beyonce. Or perhaps even “Who’s The Thick Aunt In The Stands With The Shades And The Cooler At Soccer Practice? She’s Fine As Hell.…

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    Damon Young

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  • Our 10 Favorite Manic Pixie Free Black Girls

    Even before it was given an actual title, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl has long been one of the most popular — and most critically debated — stock film characters. Originally coined by Nathan Rabin, it’s defined as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful…

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    Damon Young

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  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 26. Solange Knowles

    It might seem odd that Solange would appear on this list before Beyonce. After all, Beyonce is Beyonce and is loved by everyone. But people who love Beyonce don’t really love Beyonce. Because loving Beyonce is like loving oxygen or a recurring dream about a root beer float. You appreciate these things and might die without…

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    Damon Young

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  • What Solange Would Have Said About The Fight If She Were One Of Your Cousins

    Of course, anyone with any knowledge of how the Knowles/Carter cult handles things knew Solange’s public non-response would likely be her official public response to the chicken fight seen ’round the internet. And, admittedly, this is how a family is supposed to handle family business. Leave the passive-aggressive Facebook posts about family to your cousins.…

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    Damon Young

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  • VSB Presents: The #blackestname In America Tournament, Round 2 Day 2

    The hills may be alive with the sound of music, but the Blackness is flourishing in our tournament to determine the #blackestname in America. Yesterday, Damon dropped off a list of 10 things he learned and/or observed about the first round. Well I shall do the same based on the two brackets I’m shepherding through…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • VSB Presents: The #BlackestName In America Tournament, Round 1 Day 1

    Detroit. The first season of Frank’s Place. The second verse on Lift Every Voice and Sing. Frosted Flakes with added sugar. ?uestlove’s name. ?uestlove’s beard. Your auntie. Grape Kool-aid. Killah Priest. Every character Isaiah Washington has ever played. Delta Sigma Theta. Uncles named “Unc.” The list of things undeniably and unquestionably Black stretches from here to Gary,…

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    Damon Young

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