the cookout
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What Not To Bring To The Black BBQ, Virginia Woman Makes Big Money With Side Hustle, Black Woman Should Have Died But Didn’t— and More
A collection of The Root’s best posts of the week in culture
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A Memorial Day 2024 Cookout Playlist Your Whole Black Family Will Love
It’s the first cookout of the season, so you know your music has to be on point.
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CBS’ Big Brother Has Never Had a Black Winner Before. This Season, ‘The Cookout’ Took Matters Into Their Own Hands
Azah Awasum, Xavier Prather, Derek Frazier, Hannah Chaddha, Kyland Young, and Tiffany Mitchell made television history—all while putting on for the culture.
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10 Reasons Why Inviting White People to the Mythical 'Cookout' Is Stupid and Silly and Needs to Stop Forever
1. Because it’s stupid and silly. 2. Because you’re fucking goofy for thinking this is cool. 3. Because cookout meat is precious and sacred and not meant to be shared with interlopers, gentrifiers, and Travis Fucking Kelce. 4. Because the bar for what constitutes “cookout invites” is lower than Rush Limbaugh’s life expectancy. 5. Because…
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The Cookout Playlist: Music Is the Most Important Part of the Celebration (Fight Me)
When it heats up outside and the sun shines on you, making that melanin glow even more, you know it’s officially that time—cookout season. To celebrate Black Music Month, on every Friday of this month, I will be curating a playlist centered around a particular theme from black culture. The first theme: the cookout. Black…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reminds Code-Switch Critics: 'I’m From the Bronx'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has an answer for her adversaries on the right who dissed her for supposedly faking a “Southern drawl” while speaking Friday at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention in New York City, according to HuffPost. “Any kid who grew up in a distinct linguistic culture & had to learn…
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T’Challa Gets the Hang of ‘Black Jeopardy’ via Becky’s Potato Salad
The undisputed Black Panther, actor Chadwick Boseman, more than held his own as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend, although his shine was slightly dimmed by Cardi B’s pregnancy announcement. The funniest skit of the night was Boseman as the Black Panther (T’Challa) in the show’s ongoing sketch, “Black Jeopardy”—“the only game show where…
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Please Stop Inviting Everybody to the Damn Cookout
Look, I know blackness is the gift that keeps on giving. I know how awesome we are, and can understand why sweet potato pie tops pumpkin pie, that we effortlessly create and inform pop culture, and why folks set aside their good sense and pride to get next to us or be like us. And…
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Five Perfectly Practical Reasons Why Y'all Need To Stop Inviting Every Random-Ass White Person To The Cookout
Invariably, as the controversy over Bill Maher’s house nigga continues to persist, a peripheral conversation about Maher’s mythical cookout-invitee status has occurred. According to some of y’all—and by “some of y’all” I really mean “some of y’all”—Maher has done enough in his career to warrant enough of a benefit of the doubt to still score…